I think one of the things that helped keep r/synthesizers active was the automatic creation of weekly threads like “Friday Hangout”, where you could leave casual thoughts that might not feel worthy of a top-level post. So, why not try something similar here?
Consider this a trial run. If people like it, maybe we’ll make it a weekly thing. I welcome suggestions for a better title.
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Maybe I should call this a “Weekly” discussion instead of a specific day of the week. It always felt odd to me to post in the “Friday hangout” after Friday, but I know some people did.
I would +1 this idea. It feels specific to a day when it’s titled that way to me too.
I like the idea of this weekly thread for general discussion. Would we want to do a similar post each week (maybe month depending on interest) for users to post whatever they might be working on? Interesting sounds, cool beats, full songs, whatever. I think it would be cool to have a focus on what these various boxes and dials do and why we all like them so much.
Quick one… Really itching to get a push 3 for couch jamming and taking to practices. I’m really getting tired of lugging multiple synthesizers or laptop accessories.
That price tag though, oof
I’ve found that standalone is hard to justify. Yeah the idea is fun but this has been my experience:
- The push 3 is heavy and warm. Playing it on my lap isn’t comfortable. (Though we’re going through a heat wave at the moment so that might contribute to that dislike)
- I’ve brought it to a friend a few times, but that bag I used would have easily fit a laptop.
MPE is a lot of fun though and actually unlocks so many new tricks. My slides have never sounded this “natural” compared to a programmed slide.
@ChappIO Yeah, I’ve heard that the push is heavy and gets hot. I think for #2, my use case is not having to bring all of the necessary accessories that I would with a laptop - Get to ditch the audio interface, keyboard if I want to really pair down etc. But then, the battery life isn’t nearly as good. Lots of things to weigh…
I recently joined a game development team that is in need of tons of different types of music. Level tracks, OST, action tunes.
Any tips on managing such a big project would be greatly appreciated. I haven’t done this before and am very much a hobbyist musician. I mainly use Ableton Live.
Make sure level tracks easily loop and provide the correct atmosphere to the game. They should be unobstrusive and leave the frequencies for SFX available.
Make sure SFX integrate in the bgm.
Anyone got a sampletrek? Think this unit is a bit of underrated as a central recording and song composition device. I mean it looks a bit funny but the clips and global tracks and the slicing seems pretty good. Sure switching to an MPC one is not far off but it seems even the small monitor is something that I like.
I’ve been on the fence multiple times. It seams really appealing.
Especially used once at around 340 are really attractive right now to get the dawless setup going. Electribe 2 is a bit annoying to sample long phrases. I stopped myself by just saying BItwig is totally fine for this with the akai apc mini.
Yeah but while I like the idea of dawless, after all this time (and money) spent on it I still don’t have any decent music. That’s all from 99% daw 😕 so I guess it’s just not for me.
I do all of the song structure and stuff in DAW and made most tracks that ended up on a album in it. However I prefer jammng on hardware as I already stare at that screen all day :D Also the limitation lets me focus on one or two machines. DAW is distraction hell for me.
