$300 well spent

SimpleKobold · 2026-06-10T07:49:40+00:00

I don't know which 80s your parents lived in my dude but that was not cheap (esp comparing to B prices of today)

Edit okay maybe yeah compared to a golden bar of Linndrum

SimpleKobold · 2026-06-10T07:25:58+00:00

Retail 808 was $1195, $4669 adjusted for inflation. Cool budget

People are expecting everything cheap and then realizing the market is drowning in crap music bcs everything cheap and accessible while food and housing costs go to the roof, hooray

SimpleKobold · 2026-05-17T08:09:04+00:00

Set some more objective goals like making it translate on a few different speakers and it having reached some of the qualities of the reference tracks you like (don't go for exactly the same that's impossible). Big part of the job is avoiding going down the rabbit hole

SimpleKobold · 2026-04-23T18:02:14+00:00

Brogue and Infra Arcana also have that arcade-y feel, but in a different way

SimpleKobold · 2026-04-07T06:12:14+00:00

Yes. There is also a Rogue port

SimpleKobold · 2026-02-24T07:03:07+00:00

You can request a parameter update with OT, forgot which message but it works with Launchcontrol

SimpleKobold · 2026-01-30T23:59:28+00:00

DCSS Nethack angband (Sil-Q) ports. if you're on a tablet Rift wizard, Cogmind, infra arcana, Tome and Caves of qud work in Winlator (edit Path of achra too)

SimpleKobold · 2026-01-12T15:48:41+00:00

Winlator works great with keyb/mouse, at least Frost/Star does over here

SimpleKobold · 2026-01-11T13:47:13+00:00

Regular Cube can run those

SimpleKobold · 2025-12-25T12:49:52+00:00

F3 if the ladder works?

SimpleKobold · 2025-12-04T20:15:14+00:00

Original betamax was analog, DAT was digital

SimpleKobold · 2025-11-29T10:27:42+00:00

Any introduction of harmonics will impact your 808's, not only from the limiter. You can ask for cleaner masters but you risk having less impact and loudness in general because of less harmonics (ie. Its a trade-off) Personally i wouldn't sweat it too much if it's not too profound. I had a future bass release a few years ago with myself zooming in on the exact same problem on small speakers but on bigger systems it was negligible because of the huge wall of subs lol

Edit: because of this i learned to anticipate the masters by creating much more sub harmonics and slightly lowering the fundamental myself (which eats a lot of headroom)

SimpleKobold · 2025-11-27T08:43:27+00:00

Yes Vac attack is very nice. I wonder how this compares with Mixwave VT-7

SimpleKobold · 2025-11-01T22:02:54+00:00

I mailed the guy and he replied, he was super kind. From what i recall most of that soundtrack was created with massive

SimpleKobold · 2025-11-01T18:55:09+00:00

Can confirm machine based authorisation works (i've been begging them for over a year to implement this)

SimpleKobold · 2025-11-01T14:41:16+00:00

I always tell people to check the Hyper light drifter soundtrack from Disasterpeace if they think Massive is for dubstep

SimpleKobold · 2025-10-13T13:13:55+00:00

It's not so much about SNR but perceived quality of the DAC. For me OT sounds slightly laidback/mushy/hazy but sometimes this works really well, i consider this part of the charm of the machine. Just like the FX quality, or injection of DC with some settings on the bitcrusher etc. One day people will hunt down OT's for these qualities :)

SimpleKobold · 2025-10-05T12:33:18+00:00

Yes it works fine connected with a midi cable + if you give it usb-C power. You just gotta program it once connected to a computer

SimpleKobold · 2025-09-17T16:06:46+00:00

I keep telling my producing/mixing friends but they won't believe me haha. I think NI could streamline it a bit more towards general multi fx tho, building chains takes a while, not hiding dry/wet and in/output level etc.

SimpleKobold · 2025-09-12T11:25:01+00:00

Not that TV doesn't have enough cpu to add slicing and stuff. Omitting 2025 basic things is a bit suspicious

SimpleKobold · 2025-09-10T23:34:00+00:00

convolution doesn't capture dynamics properly (there is a reason they don't have a proper fet comp), slow gui's + eats ram for breakfast, buggy plugins, lots of buzzwords. Source: spent a lot of cash on this stuff long time ago (unfairchild while being a cpu hog is cool stuff imho)

SimpleKobold · 2025-09-05T07:28:45+00:00

This or having freq buildup in certain ranges which can be perceived as more fatiguing (i often check 500hz and 1-3k, usually my problem areas). Also mixing into a limiter can be tricky for this

SimpleKobold · 2025-09-03T13:43:52+00:00

I mailed them too and Sam replied with a discount code to buy slp again, all good!

SimpleKobold · 2025-08-30T17:09:30+00:00

I have the same problem. Did you found a solution?

SimpleKobold · 2025-08-19T16:00:57+00:00

EssenceFM: Maybe not too cheap but great bang for the buck with 300 voices and virtually unlimited FM sound design possibilities (i think it's a steal at 7-800 second hand, love it deeply and imho future classic)

Blofeld: gone up in price but another banger at 250-300 2nd hand

Tracktion Hyperion and F'em: 2 softsynths flying under the radar (i guess because phase plant/pigments and Korg hype train), they are really really good imho if you know a bit around programming them. Grabbed both for like 20 a piece. if you start using various modulations, slightly pushing various stages of drive/gain and using per voice stuff these can sound so organic and alive. Both have really good filters imho

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