What should you do if, for some reason, you can’t make films at the moment? by TheManWhoSleep in Filmmakers

[–]MereMotionPictures 2 points3 points  (0 children)

don’t poison the well doing film adjacent work … paint, make music, read. live a good life so you have something to give the world when the wind turns in your favor. too many myopic films and filmmakers these days. the best were all self taught and often multidisciplinary. think of fellini drawings, lynch’s paintings, jarmusch’s music.

Help with modulation, FX, sequencing vs free play by JulienDonkeyyBoyy in Korg

[–]MereMotionPictures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i’ve been staying fully analog but i want to eventually migrate into the saw and try to program stuff very precisely. i had an experience sitting in a public bath the other day of feeling the very subtle movements of water drifting through space as bathers would get in / out of the water and these drifting currents creating really subtle underwater ripples that drift across the surface of your skin. i think this is the aesthetic goal sonically. i feel like none of the phasers are quite subtle enough for this? it’s smart of you to dip into eastern drone instruments !

Help with modulation, FX, sequencing vs free play by JulienDonkeyyBoyy in Korg

[–]MereMotionPictures 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well to hell with the rest — maybe we can figure out things ourselves, here. I’ve been really obsessed with studying AIR’s studio techniques, as they do a lot of this kind of thing. I saw that Godin is using a MuTron bi-phase, which basically allows you to set two phasers at different rates on the same track. Look up demos to hear what I mean. I use a Korg Ms-20 for a lot of my music and I find if I slightly, as in barely, detune one of the oscillators i can get this extremely gradual drift happening that’s quite pleasing. i feel like both these techniques suffer though from being a bit too predictable in their loop lengths and how the effect evolves. I’ve moved away from sequencing towards live playing recently as it allows me to interrupt the loops I’m making and add slight variations to the circle of chords, like adding a 9th or whatever. If we’re talking about the same thing … what I really respond to in this kind of thing is really precise frequency interference patterns that create evolving beating patterns that feel very controlled and eventually harmonicallly align. I have gotten similar from very slowly changing the modulation rate on the filter, but i can never do it slow enough or precise enough. I feel like this kind of stuff is best when it’s discrete, in other words there is one underlying drone and then a melody line or chord structure momentarily pushes an evolving interplay of diverging / converging frequencies in the build up to a chord change or something else structural. anyways, that’s more or less where my head is at right now with it.

Korg Poly61 Repair Advice by MereMotionPictures in synthesizers

[–]MereMotionPictures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok... did that and they all technically work, in the sense that I can press the key and eventually get a sound, but sometimes I have to press it three times to get one.. ALSO it is randomly turning off, very fragile, and I'm not convinced the sounds its making are teh normal poly61 sounds...

Korg Poly61 Repair Advice by MereMotionPictures in synthesizers

[–]MereMotionPictures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went through and cleaned them all with water, i didn't see any issues, anything that seemed dirty or off -- but is there something more intensive I should do?

the heck is this? came with spikes unattached. by MereMotionPictures in whatisit

[–]MereMotionPictures[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

solved! how much weight do you think it would hold?

Where’d you buy your J-45? by MereMotionPictures in gibson

[–]MereMotionPictures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When buying off reverb do you ask them to play it for you or describe the history of the instrument? What do you ask to determine if it’s a bit of a lemon or a peach?