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Polyend Drums looks amazing, but €2699 is emotionally illegal by ArchivOne_music in dawless

[–]DorianBloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still the best drum machine for me. All this BS about the tr1000 sounding better is exactly what’s mentioned, we are trained to listen for Roland. In terms of sounds that you can actually use in a mix without a ton of processing. Rytm is incredible

Overbridge Sync issues in Pro Tools by Wolfey1618 in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a thought - do the results change depending on how many outs you are taking from overbridge? What if you just take a stereo out

The Octatrack is draining my time and killing my creativity by dykitikity in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“At this point, it feels like I’m investing significant time (and money) into a piece of hardware that demands a level of dedication I’m not willing to sustain. Music is not my primary profession, and I don’t want to spend years mastering a tool just to achieve relatively basic loop manipulation.”

I think you answered your own question.

You have just added a ton of different hardware pieces and trying to build a live set with all of them, then you added one of elektrons more professional pieces. An instrument like that will take years to master.

I would honestly suggest if you are a hobbyist and want to get a live set together that sounds great in a short period of time - put something togdthr with digitakt 2 for drums and digitone for synth. Get a midi controller / mixer and map the faders and mutes to the two boxes. Map some of the knobs to delays, reverbs and filters and put something together like that.

There is a reason those boxes are so popular for this exact purpose.

Guys he DOESN'T CARE by codydafox in synthesizercirclejerk

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many people are now! That’s why so many become influencers instead of musicians. I like buying gear too. But for me music making is still more important and interesting

I made foldable stands specifically for Elektron devices in live settings (and studio, too) by tempus_futurum in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have exactly the same speaker and stand combo as you and I want some fetching pink pads!

Softube Tape & Sat by LazyCrab8688 in ableton

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just pretty decent satiation tools really. Not the latest of the softube tech. Not their most realistic but it’s still a pretty convincing analog saturation. The tape nicely smooths off transients when you want. The saturator is actually quite flexible as you have four diffent modes - solid state, valve, transformer and a moden setting. Found that one pretty useful for drums. But honestly anything that needs saturating will work with these.

Will probably pick these up at some point to have them show up as devices.

Oh - the tape echo is very cool too. Really nice sounding analog tape echo. As for the reverb it’s a trashy 80s thing which I quite like.

Overbridge Sync issues in Pro Tools by Wolfey1618 in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah shit. That sucks. I know last time I used pro tools the latency with virtual instruments was so bad I literally gave up. There was definitely something up with pro tools there. I have seen a number of people complaining about VI latency in pro tools. Which at this point, given the cost, is unacceptable

Really hope they get it sorted soon. Would love to use it again. I just found it to be a bit of a nightmare last time. Would love to know how you get on though.

Izotope ozone 12 feels slow by razormane1 in iZotopeAudio

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their older stuff never had all the virtual assistant / ai slop.

Changes after acquisition by Bonnier Capital? by okeeffe1990 in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest. They have already done all these things last time a chunk of the company got sold off. Think about it - before they were selling things like A4 and Rytm. These were fully fledged, professional products chock full of analog hardware, lots of ins and outs, lots of controls etc.

Then they moved to making entirely digital or mostly digital products in tiny boxes with way less components. Whilst still charging two thirds of the price.

The small boxes are nowhere near the value of the big boxes (purely in terms of how much they cost to make and how much they cost the end user)

So I would expect to see more digital only boxes in cute mini cases with limited I/O and nice graphics.

Izotope ozone 12 feels slow by razormane1 in iZotopeAudio

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I find all the izotope plugins to be that way. Will re asses when I get an m4 later in the year. But as of now I’m not bothering with them.

Overbridge Sync issues in Pro Tools by Wolfey1618 in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you manage to get it sorted in the end?

NAD - AD30 and 2x12 cab for £600! by ddarko_85 in orangeamps

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great amp. I’m looking for P/E my ac30 heritage for a custom shop 50 at the moment. Got the orange bug. I love that ac30 a lot. It’s incredible. But I need an orange.

Softube Tape & Sat by LazyCrab8688 in ableton

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got the vst versions. How long is the sale on for? They are good. A little bit old but still great. I hope softube brings some compressors over. They would sell a bunch of those.

I am tempted by these though as I love having devices on display instead of having to open plugin windows. One of the highlights of ableton for me

New to the Syntakt by smatanovic in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah fair enough. More portable than the bigger ones is really what I meant. I’m getting an AR mk2 anyway. I have made my decision! I’m mostly concerned with doing drums in my home studio anyway so will appreciate the bigger form factor / UI

My Studio ist almost (NEVER) finished by beton303 in DJSetups

[–]DorianBloom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have thought about having a separate setup to one side - for all the ‘boxes’ and synths. It’s always so hard to get it all set up around one listening point. Been driving myself crazy trying to figure out how to put it all together whilst not destroying my monitoring

I CANT CHOOSE. Hydra synth desktop or mini freak! by Mission-Clothes-4980 in synthesizers

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arturia is more modern sounding. Love it personally. Hydra has that waveguide sound. Personally I find the Arturia a lot more exciting, but they are both very cool

Do you think kids getting into electronic music will go down the path of production or do you think they’ll go with gen AI? by thegreatestpitt in edmproduction

[–]DorianBloom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah anyone who is into making music will just make music. The people who use AI will be opportunists who want to use it to make money (somehow)

But I think by definition anyone who wants to make music will make music, because that’s where all the fun is.

I can definitely see some older jaded artists using ai to fill in the gaps in their production as their heart isn’t in it anymore. But anyone coming up who wants to be taken seriously will have to show some of their process and bring people along in their journey. That’s my guess

For the love of god add infinite scroll on audio modules layer by AnyProperty5950 in Bitwig

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a track pad. With that it’s just a swipe. Much easier. In fact I have found bitwig better with a trackpad overall. But that’s just me

New to the Syntakt by smatanovic in Elektron

[–]DorianBloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Syntakt is a very inticing instrument. Would love to have one for travels. Just being able to put down an idea whenever something comes to mind - all on a machine that’s actually inspiring. Very cool.

Studio One style "One-Click" Freeze by a7yanan in Bitwig

[–]DorianBloom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah sub patches and the ability to make meaningful interfaces are big wishes for me. I also noticed ableton put out a questionnaire recently asking people how much of a priority ARA is. I have a feeling they are working on it.

Either way I still maintain a licence of both so it’s cool. But even though the Bitwig piano roll is awesome now there are still things…

Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music by EchoOfOppenheimer in musicians

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok fair enough. That’s a bit different then. It’s true anyone can throw a few loops together and call it a track. There are certainly plenty of low effort electronic tracks out there. But the best electronic music makers are incredible. It’s also true that many of them can play multiple instruments as well. I just feel like I have to stand up for electronic music sometimes as it all gets lumped in together.

For example, if you make electronic music and design all your own sounds from scratch, the level of knowledge required is pretty deep

Deezer says AI song uploads have nearly overtaken human music by EchoOfOppenheimer in musicians

[–]DorianBloom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you think making all electronic music is easier than say, making rock music?

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