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Ableton Move - I know it's been a bit controversial, but check it out.
So I just wanted to give my thoughts on the Ableton Move here. I was seeing numerous conversations around it during the hype phase and when it came out.
Many people saw it when it came out and said "oh hey it's 4 tracks, it's too basic, etc." I think that's not entirely incorrect, but at the same time I think those comments are a bit misguided. It's true it only has 4 tracks. It's true that sound design is somewhat limited. It's also true that its workflow is somewhat basic. This last one though is frankly one of its best features.
Let's say I've got an idea bouncing around in my head for a track. I could fire up something like an MPC or Ableton Live and start recording it. I need to go in, pick out the instruments I want, set my tempo, maybe set my key, etc...there's a bit of pre-work that needs to be done, and then I can record.
On the Move, I turn it on, pick an empty set, maybe pick a key and just start noodling. If I use capture, I just noodle around, push capture - done. Well
Well I feel silly that I never responded to this. I picked up the Woovebox almost immediately after it came out. For the price and features it offers, it's just absolutely insane. And with the updates it's received since then, it's just become that much better.
Easy recommendation all around!
Full disclosure: Haven't read the article yet.
Working in corporate IT, this most likely is targeted toward enterprise customers who either take a long time to roll out OS upgrades or can't due to technical limitations within their environment. In those cases, paying the cost of extended support is more palatable to troubleshooting or rushing mass OS upgrades. This is a fairly common practice with enterprise software vendors.
Edit: Okay, just skimmed it. Looks like this is actually a new program for non-enterprise consumers, which is interesting. First I've heard of that.
Agreed, I think this is what is being suggested.
Organelle patch ideas?
Howdy!
So I recently got a hold of a Criter and Guitari Organelle M and just got myself set up to write up custom patches on it, and I'm looking for inspiration on a simple patch to make on it.
For those that don't know what an Organelle is, the synopsis is that it's a Raspberry Pi-based musical computer that you can custom program your own patches on. These patches can be anything from synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, effects...really whatever you want to make musically.
Anyway, I'm just about done working through some tutorials to get a better handle on how that all works, and I'm interested in potentially simple patch ideas to build. Anyone have any thoughts on a simple synth concept or something like that I should try to make?
I am just now starting through Fallout 4. I’ve had it in my library for a while but never got around to it.
I’m not sure that this is a “game” idea so much, but I’ve had this idea I haven’t been able to wrap my head around the implementation of.
Think a digital audio workstation such as Ableton Live or Logic, but gamified. Complete various musical objectives to pass levels, have a creative mode for just making music and maybe even a multiplayer mode for collaborative or competitive music making.
My SO just had something similar pop up yesterday. She was running into weird errors on her Chromebook, so I had her change her user agent to Chrome on Windows. Everything magically worked. Hmm…
The Tracker is a hardware groovebox using the old school tracker workflow. Not for everyone, but it’s a nice piece of gear for making music without a computer.
Just a quick FYI - Polyend is currently running a pretty good sale on the OG Tracker
I'm not affiliated in any way with Polyend, but on Polyend's official Reverb (and I think some resellers as well) they're selling new Trackers for $359/€399. If you have any plans to buy one, now would be a pretty good time. I just pulled the trigger on one myself.
Per the email from them, the sale goes until September 4th or while supplies last. Also I confirmed as I was typing this, but that price does seem to be reflected with at least Sweetwater and Zzounds. Can't speak for others yet.
Apologies in advance for the novel!
I'm a little late to the party here, but here is my story. Nothing too glamorous, and admittedly I'm still very much an amateur.
In high school, I wanted to be in band. Always loved music, loved listening to it and wanted to make it. Unfortunately I came from a pretty poor household and we couldn't afford an instrument.
Five years ago (wow, it's already been five years?!) I decided "hey I'm making decent money now, maybe it's time to learn to play something." So I went to my local music store knowing NOTHING about how to actually play an instrument. But I decided to walk around and see if something called out to me.
I walk by the keyboards section, which is having a pretty slow day, and one of the guys there is just rocking out on this Korg Minilogue. It sounded phenomenal, and I just knew the synthesizer was for me. Admittedly up until that point, if you happened to ask me what a synthesizer was, I would have just said something like "it's a fancy electric piano." Yeah...real informed decision there. But I left with a lighter wallet and a brand new synthesizer.
Well, having a synthesizer is nice, but it's not conducive to making a full song, especially if you know little about making music, but at this point I am just devouring all of the synth YouTube content I can find, and stumble onto the wonderful world of grooveboxes.
"Wow, I can make full songs on a little box that I can just take with me? Sign me up!" Now, in case you don't know, my background is in tech. As such this scratched two itches for me, which are my love of music and my equally strong love of gadgets and gizmos. I may or may not occasionally be referred to as the little mermaid by my friends.
So I went down that rabbit hole. Mind you, at this point I still BARELY know anything about actually making music, and do I really have to learn about chords and scales? Where's the fun in that. So I took the "more dollars than sense" approach and tried to supplement my lack of skill with more gear. Spoiler alert: it didn't work.
Eventually I decided "I've got way too much gear and nothing to really show for it, and that needs to change." I went through all my gear and decided "this fills a practical use case, and this does not," and sold anything in the latter category. It was a huge relief.
Around that time I also ended up signing up for a couple online courses on music production, like Andrew Huang's on that site that used to be called Monthly. It wasn't bad...helped me get a better idea of how to think about music production overall, and I finally forced myself to put out my first track. It wasn't particularly good, and I've only officially released one song since then, but I'm still slightly proud of it.
Since then I've only ever officially released one other track and have worked on others off and on. I have no visions of making a career out of it, but I enjoy having fun and just noodling something out. Maybe I'll release more, maybe not, but at the end of the day I'm at a point where I enjoy what I'm doing with it all.
In regard to what made it all click for me - I naturally fell into the technical aspects of it (like how MIDI works, how to use a mixer, etc), due to the fact that I troubleshoot tech for a living and that felt like an extension. As for the more musical parts, I think what really did it for me was learning that musical inspiration is exactly that - inspiration. It doesn't have to follow a specific formula. You can start from complete randomness, and if you like it, great. If you don't, you can always build up from there or start again.
I’m lucky in that my employer went the opposite direction. Downsizing our local office and just letting us all be 100% remote. We’re a geographically distributed group so it doesn’t make sense to enforce office requirements.
Wait. I can automate my meetings too? I dig it.
Yeah, I was reading some posts about that. Fortunately I had work so I happened to not be online when all that was going on. Extremely unfortunate, but you do what you gotta do. Hopefully the assholes that did that get the boot and worse.
Quick update on this - after further back and forth with Rode, they're having me RMA it. Hopefully the replacement unit works more reliably.
I'm jealous about the M8. I've been interested in getting one but haven't quite pulled the trigger on getting one yet. Just ordered the Tracker Mini though so we'll see how it goes!
Rodecaster Duo periodic audio dropouts on PC?
Apologies, this isn't necessarily podcasting but rather podcasting-adjacent, so I figured I would ask it here.
I have a Rodecaster Duo that is connected on USB port 1 to my Windows 11 PC. I've also been working with Rode on this, but so far their troubleshooting steps haven't panned out and figured I'd run it by the community as well.
So what happens is every now and then the Rodecaster just drops all audio from my PC, and any mic input stops as well. At a bare minimum I have to restart all affected programs before it will resolve, and often I have to completely reboot. It's basically as if it disconnected for a fraction of a second.
The Rodecaster is plugged in to its own power supply, firmware is up to date, ASIO driver is installed, I've tried swapping out the USB cable and plugging in to a different port, I've tried factory resetting it...no dice.
My Mac Mini is plugged in to USB port 2 and has never had any issues like this. I also don't have any other issues like this with o
Apartment friendly acoustic treatment options?
Howdy!
I've got a question that isn't explicitly music production oriented, but it seemed the most relevant. All my music is completely vocals-lacking so I've always shunned a mic, but now I'm working on a series of tutorial videos. Given the target audience is musicians, I want to get the audio right, and that includes my talking.
I was dabbling in mics and I've landed on the Rode Procaster as overall it seems to offer the best sound for my purposes and seemed to play the best with my room acoustics so far. My problem now though is that I do still get a little (tiny, maybe imperceptibly to everyone but me) echo in my recordings, and I know that is easier to clean up before it gets into the recording.
The room I'm in is an apartment bedroom (well technically it's set up as an office, but I digress) about 10'x10' in dimensions. I have desks and a bookshelf in there, but otherwise the walls are fairly bare. Given it's an apartment I can't really glue stuff to the walls.
What would b
Huh, that’s not a bad price for WAF + CDN. Can’t say I’ve heard of them, but if they get the job done then awesome! Good on you for trying to prevent DDoSing before it starts.
I recognize the irony of this, but sometimes I like to fall asleep to the No Sleep podcast.
Howdy!
First off, phenomenal work on the app so far. I’m absolutely enjoying it. It’s a tossup for me between this and Memmy as being the best Lemmy mobile app.
If I may make a request though, could we get the ability to report posts and comments?
Your partner has an impressive bank account.
This is why I personally am looking forward to fully self-driving cars. We’re a long way off, but when self-driving cars can completely replace the human element, I think the world will be a much safer place.
Howdy Lemmy! Meet Eevee and Link.
Or don't. You do you. But they are both sweet and affectionate and would love to snuggle you and eat your food.
Eevee is the kitten, and is my SO's snuggle buddy. Link is the big guy and is my tiny furry overlord, who dictates my snuggle schedule and bed time.
PS: I know cats in boxes and bags are in right now, but meh.
Anyone got any tips for knocking a migraine when medicine doesn’t seem to be enough?
Hey there!
So I’ve had a migraine that has been going for a couple days now. Nothing entirely new, but it’s frustrating. Dark room, low noise, tried sleeping it off, taken multiple medications for it including my Ubrelvy which normally knocks it. It took the edge off, but now I’m going on day 3 with the migraine with no perceivable end in sight.
Anyone got any tips that normally helps them to knock their migraine that’s worth considering? Normally I don’t care too much as I’ve put up with them for years, but this one has me all nauseous which makes it that much more miserable.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Sorry for not seeing the responses on this sooner. I went back to bed afterward and mostly stayed in bed and holy crap the responses blew up. I also called my neurologist and told them about it much like some of the advise that others have mentioned, and they started me on a round of prednisone to help. Fingers crossed it gets rid of it. Seems to be helping, but only time will tell.
I know this isn't strictly music production related, but it might be a good way to share what we make with the rest of the fediverse. If people don't think this belongs here, let me know and I can delete the cross-post.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2650755
We Distribute is bringing in a new feature - The Mixtape! We create playlists of songs that broadcast through Radio Free Fedi, and share it with the wider fediverse. It's an opportunity for people to discover music by Fedizens, and help support artists on the network.
Our first playlist is themed around hot summer vibes.
Considering getting a Waldorf Streichfett. Is there anything else I should consider as well that you recommend?
So I am an absolute sucker for that synthy stringy goodness, and a Streichfett is really sounding like it will scratch that itch for me. Before I pull the trigger on one though, is there anything else that I should consider too? I'm hoping to keep with a smaller footprint but I'm happy to consider all options.
Very early song that could use some feedback
So this is a very early song that popped into my head that right now I'm simply calling "Forest Night Theme" because it makes me think of a child walking through a forest alone at night. Calm and peaceful, but also with a slight apprehension as to what else could be lurking in the forest.
Anything you all think it might absolutely benefit from, or anything that just should be dramatically changed? I know in its current state it's rather boring since most of the parts are static...planning on spicing things up once I have a good skeleton to hang everything else off of.
For those with grooveboxes and such, what do you have?
I'm a fan of grooveboxes and other do-it-all gear. It gets me away from the computer and lets me focus on just making music, and typically there's some kind of limitation to force creativity.
Here's what I've got.
- Roland Verselab MV-1
- Akai Force
- Synthstrom Deluge
- Sonicware SmplTrek
- Roland SH-4d (though I technically use this one solely as a synth module, but still)
Bonus points if you've got tracks you want to share! Like I made this track on a Maschine+ and then mixed in post in Logic. https://soundcloud.com/ndguardian/dreams-of-loss
iOS Lemmy client - looks promising
testflight.apple.com TestFlight - Apple
Using TestFlight is a great way to help developers test beta versions of their apps.
@Beto - feel free to remove this if you feel like it doesn't belong.
Also full disclosure, I am in no way affiliated with this app other than I just discovered it.
Anyway I was looking around for mobile Lemmy clients since mobile is how I always interacted with Reddit. Seems like it's slim pickings for now for fairly obvious reasons, but I stumbled onto Mlem. It's pretty bare bones at the moment, but it seems to have the core feature set. It also looks pretty nice. If you're on iOS and are looking for a mobile Lemmy client, it may be worthwhile to check it out.
Intro?
Well, guess it's time to introduce myself. I'm ndguardian, a tech guy by day, (very amateur) music producer by night and gamer the rest of the time. Based out of the midwest US. On that note, technically wouldn't I be more mideast? Definitely more on the eastern half of the US, but whatever.
I don't really have a formal music background...I was in show choir in high school, then as of a few years ago decided to get into synthesizers and grooveboxes. I don't release a ton of stuff, though technically I do have two tracks on Soundcloud. I'll link that at the end in case you care to check it out.
I like to think I have a fairly mixed taste in music, with my preferences ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Hans Zimmer. As for my music production preferences though, I tend to steer more toward ambient and soundtrack-esque music.
Anyway, feel free to hit me up if you have questions or just want to chat.
My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ndguardian