We are the music makers - producers?

Prefer the second one EB. There's a lot to work with.

Apone: On point as ever.

I'm taking some time off work. Hope I spend as much time playing as I do fiddling: My MD got a screen change...I hated the og red screen:

My ableton updated and deactivated itself. #cries

Before you go looking down on me for not having a purchased version. I just wanted to have the same daw on my pc as mac. I already have logic, but I cant get a Mac OS to run on my PC laptop even with a VM. Very frustrating as id just started to get to grips with it.

In other news I just received my AKAI mpkmini2. Its great, much more fun than expected. Although the keys are very stiff.

@MultiGrooves cheers! was it a big job to replace the screen? I would be terrified!

Loop in Berlin was good - highlights being listening session with patten, keynote speech by Robert Henke (monolake) and lecture with Young Guru - too much to see and do really. Push 2 and Live 9.5 revealed at the end......was a bit Apple though......standing ovation for the CEO by the inner circle all sitting at the front - maybe a little bit NLP going on

finally finished this track

https://soundcloud.com/jay-sonic/127-bpm-a-minor-ffwd-v2-master-3/s-go0aQ

TBH I'm a bit annoyed with myself. Getting it off was troublesome and there was some damage to the circuit board but I wasn't sure whether it was superficial or line damage. (All because there a pinned plastic platform the screen was mounted on, which in turn mounts to the circuit board. I couldn't seem to find on maplin, leading me to believe - against my instinct- maybe I needed to keep it and take the impossible route of desoldering the screen, which is where the board damage came from.)

I eventually found the mounts sold separately and took the whole off the board. Then I mounted the new screen which lit but there was no info and rather than finish and solder it down I shit it and sent it off thinking if it was fucked soldering the new one down would make things worse. Turns out I was doing it fine all along...if only I just took the last step. £117 all in. Meh...it looks ace now.

little snowy Sat session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-O0-xqKAnE&feature=youtu.be

Nice. How is the TR-8? Have you added the extra kits? I'm thinking of getting one because as much as I like this plugin , programming drums with a mouse is balls.

yeah 707 and 727 are very good too! TR-8 is brilliant, wasn't too sure at first but love it now - I use it sending MIDI clips to it from Ableton Live with Push.

I need to go and have a play with one, I suppose. I recently picked up a cheap zaquencer modded behringer controller that turns it into a sequencer and a friend of a friend is selling a Vermona drm1, so that's another option.

To add to the baked beans damping, a pair of harmonically sympathetic monitor toppers:

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ha! mine do that - old setup

Haha!

iphone on the knee thing tidied up in Logic.

https://elvers.bandcamp.com/track/lullaby-no-3

Lightning deal (£71) on Beyerdynamic DT990 PRO headphones for a couple of hours, which might interest people:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0011UB9CQ/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item

^ they any good? I could use a production set. Using HD25 at the moment but they do pump the bass

Oh back up to £100. Might get some ATH M50 X

I've always used the Hd25s (single band) for djing but I was concerned about the audio range [or lack of] as well as the bass heavy bias for playing with the drum machine. I bought a pair of the Sennheiser HD600s on ebay last week. Did the mod and am glad to know they aren't as hungry as other models like the HD800 so my equipment can power them without the need for esoteric amps.

Thanks, ordered at the sale price. Easy decision as I already have DT770s, which I can now relegate (back) to spotify duties at work. I find these really comfy to wear. Interesting to compare the two models.

I tried a friend's DT880s recently and was very impressed so I'm hoping these live up to it. Can't really go wrong for 70 gems though!

Oh and yes the earpads are amazingly comfortable.

I have DT880s. They're great.

nice little tune Apone!

anyone have any experience using a SubPac?

I've been toying with idea of one for ages and $75 off just now

So much lust for this:

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What does it do? I have postponed my modular experiments till post-wedding but I'm building things in my head!

That said, it's hard to find modular demos which show something usable in a conventional sense and aren't just semi-random bleeps and bloops.

^ farts in space. expensive farts in space. I get the slight gear fetishism of modular, and the randomness, but for musicality.....

my mate has a £15K upwards Buchla.....he still doesn't know what 99% of it does...screw that!

I like physicality of my MS20, after years of mouse clicking with software and menu diving in modelling hardware it's refreshing to see what's going on at a [long] glance. I want a modular to approximate some of the more esoteric hardware of the last 50 years - there's no way I'll ever get my hands on an EMS synthi, for example!

I'm mostly into the Euclidean generator. You have a number of steps before it repeats. You tell it how many beats to play within the number of steps. Euclidean's mathematical paper states that it will spread those beats as evenly as is possible. Used on mainly on drums it gives a very ethnic sound.

If you have several track each with different measures and fills you have sounds that constantly evolve and sound fresh.

The box in question does much more.

This is a great verbal explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwigqSwYNaQ

Just stumbled across this box. Sounds/looks really impressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN_EiyDymCc

Dramatic_Hammer
That said, it's hard to find modular demos which show something usable in a conventional sense and aren't just semi-random bleeps and bloops.

EB
^ farts in space. expensive farts in space. I get the slight gear fetishism of modular, and the randomness, but for musicality.....

I agree. Firstly I hate menu diving. If you're buying modular (which ever format frac/5U/5M/Euro) just to make a traditional...say, trumpet sound then you're making a big mistake as a digital synth can do that piss easy and for much less dough.

However modular not only encourages you to fiddle with knobs and plugs, you're forced. Theres something appealing about not being able to save patches. Make it, use it, sample it, move on.
It makes sense if you're about experimentation. The best are those that have a foot in both worlds.

Don Buchla is the absolute daddy of instruments. Your mate must be MINTED. It is mad seeing how many manufacturers have jumped onto Euro...When I got my first bits early 2000s, you could count the number of manufacturers on one hand. Now....I can't keep up. Even Roland are on it. Korg will be next ::taps nose::

What marks the above modular out is that all of the main features across all 4 of its channels are accessible by hand as well as having a screen (which is essential to see exactly what is going on IMO). None of the others euclid boxes are as dedicated and require doing it blind or all via 1 knob.

https://youtu.be/QpLPBW8JfhM

https://youtu.be/_HsiztgvuXw

More Euclid:
https://vimeo.com/33225395