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Music-making Troubles: Analog Synth, Digital Drum Machine
 

offline vamason from Zigomatic v17 (United States) on 2003-07-23 15:04 [#00791230]
Points: 132 Status: Regular



I've got a Sequential Pro-One Synth and an Alesis HR-16.
How the hell do I make the timing the same... I spent an
hour doing it by ear and failed. Any suggestions? Keep in
mind I'm very low on funds. Thanks.


 

offline Spacecadet on 2003-07-23 15:19 [#00791241]
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you need to get a midi retro fit or a CV to midi converter,
analogue equipment uses CV (control voltage) and digital
equipment uses musical instrument digital interface (midi)


 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-07-23 16:03 [#00791272]
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Why jack away money in the first place on a Sequential and
Alesis HR-16 when you can use the PC environment? All that
hardware is history. Simple answer is don't waste your time
and money on it.


 

offline Asche XL on 2003-07-23 16:21 [#00791284]
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Why waste your money on anything that's not food, shelter or
water???


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2003-07-23 16:21 [#00791285]
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or just improvise as much live as you can manage and record
it. then digitally cut loops out of your recordings. i
assume it has some kind of audio out. then if you ever gig,
learn those parts or add accompanying parts and perform them
live. don't get too addicted to your sequencer. it will
eat your music's soul.


 

offline Clic on 2003-07-23 16:39 [#00791326]
Points: 5232 Status: Regular | Followup to promo: #00791272



I make almost all of my music with hardware. It's not
history, you just have to come at it in a different way. It
definitely adds a human feel to it. I think pointing and
clicking your way to a finished song gets kind of boring,
and sometimes isn't as fulfilling.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-07-23 17:01 [#00791354]
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burn it start over


 

offline Loogie from Oxford (United Kingdom) on 2003-07-23 17:13 [#00791365]
Points: 1371 Status: Lurker



long live knob twiddling


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2003-07-23 17:20 [#00791369]
Points: 10965 Status: Regular | Followup to Loogie: #00791365



i heard knob twiddling prevents cancer.


 

offline vamason from Zigomatic v17 (United States) on 2003-07-23 17:27 [#00791375]
Points: 132 Status: Regular



i definitely prefer knob-twiddling.. more fun and the pro
one kicks ass! i think the timing problem is the pro one...
the timing matches for a minute then only slightly
changes... i can alwaps claim that the timing is off on
purpose to show man's imperfection :)


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-07-23 17:30 [#00791379]
Points: 650 Status: Regular | Followup to promo: #00791272



Analogue synths still piss on software from a great height,
especially for bass sounds and FX...
I would kill for a Pro One!
I use my PC a lot these days, but my analogue synths are
still infinitely more important to my music than any
software could ever be.
Seems like everyone's going mad on analog synths again
nowadays, there was this ultra-hyped PC thing going on a few
years ago - But I think people have realised there's still
quite a few things hardware does much better: compression,
reverb, bass, EQ... pretty important things... and some
people just get along much better with it.
I get on best mixing it 50:50


 


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