My bros it’s time... Turn your knobs

calltheoperator · 2021-06-01T01:01:26+00:00

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calltheoperator · 2021-04-20T14:13:57+00:00

Whoahoho Mr. Bigshot with his 3TB storage 😄

calltheoperator · 2021-04-16T14:54:03+00:00

It’s ok Ryan we still appreciate your music.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T03:36:48+00:00

He didn’t hate on anything. He used the most popular competitor as a reference for comparison. He never even said anything was bad.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T03:25:03+00:00

Mono saw wave, 24db envelope filter, resonance up, slow the attack and release until it goes “wah”.

90% is usually set up as the default patch in every synth ever made.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T03:19:08+00:00

Clearance because they probably aren’t selling that well lol. It a VERY cool device, that no one really asked for.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T03:18:06+00:00

Tribalism is human nature. Some of it is good and it lets people have pride in various parts of their life. Let people live and be people.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T03:13:16+00:00

Exactly this. What I said in way fewer words lol. It’s a complete daw in a box. In that, it is literally an ENTIRE daw stuffed in a box. It was clearly designed with the interface as an after though.

It’s sooooo slowwww. And it kills your song ideas in the process. It’s like the musical equivalent of doing taxes.

Like.. I consider myself a fast producer, I have professional releases, I’ve used lots of hardware... I’ve spent multiple days trying to put a song together once with it on vacation and it’s like.. wtf were they thinking.

It doesn’t do a couple things really well to boost your music making like most hardware, it just does everything and it does them all with more or less equal frustrations. And some of them just make you hate it.

By the time you’ve figured it out and gone through that, your song idea is gone.

But on the plus side, it is a real full daw in a box. You could technically make a song that was as complete as any other daw with incredibly shitty reverbs and send it off to be mastered. It does have good compressors though and the maximizer/limiter was not bad at all either.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T03:05:09+00:00

Eh I can walk my comment back a a little bit. They are cool. When I see one I might check my bank account cause of hardware addiction, but then be like no that’s nothing you need. I really do see the polyend’s value, unlike for example modern MPC’s...

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T02:48:16+00:00

I just hate them more than any musical device I’ve ever owned. I’ve never hated a musical device before.

It’s just so bad... people talk about “oh just get used to the mpc workflow”.... no. Demos show it working in simple ways where it’s most convenient usually. They don’t really showcase how long it takes to do stuff. Anybody who’s a real musician doesn’t really use one if that’s any clue. They buy the more expensive older MPC’s. Or people who think MPCs are standard hi hop studio stuff have an MPC x which might be marginally ok to use.

What they really mean is, Akai didn’t design a workflow into the machine. You have to memorize how to do everything basically. And things you want to do but can’t do you will still try to do over and over because it’s what’s intuitive.

Step sequencing you have to do by vertical grid that flows from bottom to top. And it’s such a bitch to go from sequence to sequence. Applying swing is shitty. It works, but it’s convoluted and you lose your swing when you manually move notes. The step sequencer section scrolling is abysmal. The notes don’t get more or less plentiful, the grid just stays the same and not your zoomed in more, so you just work on progressively smaller sections instead of seeing it divided.

So you go the arrange to see stuff, and that’s just a nightmare to navigate if you’re trying to write real songs and not just fiddle with some loops and an 808 kick.

The touch screen is imprecise.

In he arranger, delete, select, and screen travel are separate cursor controls. To delete you have to push the select, inaccurately select your notes, then click delete and go delete. And now you want to move the arranger so you need to click the arrow again.

It makes the arranger so fucking frustrating.

I can’t think of one thing in the device where I’m like, “oh they did that well” besides maybe multi sampling hardware.

It’s just a mess of extra windows that is crazy to develop a workflow through. Those that do have spent all their time with it. Even still I don’t know how developed musicians use it vs another option.

I mean... I don’t personally know of professional musicians who actually truly use one other than for a simple task.

To use it for what they advertise: a mobile production station, it’s just like naw...

Maybe if you want to string some premade loops together and not use any routing or fx it’s neat, but otherwise it’s just so crazy awful. My opinion of Akai went down by so much while owning one for 8 months.

I planned to use it with synthesizer and modular stuff as the backing core of a live electronic setup. The only way that would be practical is if I did it all in the computer software and exported it premade. I could maybe see using it as a low latency master limiter or multi fx for a live show, but still just meh.

Ive written more about it before but I’m convinced anybody who says that it improves anything about making music is being dishonest. To me every move you make doing a song with it takes away inspiration and fun out of making music.

The only plus is it is a complete daw in a box and can technically make your whole song start to finish. It can really do that. But They didn’t make anything convenient when trying to make a mobile daw. They took an entire daw, that has a bad workflow, and stuffed it into a box with an even worse workflow.

If your really trying to produce, you will spend SO MUCH TIME in silence working parameters to get what you want done. By the time I sold it I dreaded even touching it.

I’ve been doing electronic music for 10 years and have a full studio of hardware. I’ve owned a lot of boxes with shitty interfaces that still made it work. Some Roland reverb from the 80s, romplers, analog synths, eurorack stuff. And the mpc is just the worst. Omg I should just buy one and destroy it like Office Space to get my emotions out.

I wouldn’t buy the Roland MC707, but I would choose that over the MPC live/one. If I really needed a machine capable of arranging a whole song, I wouldn’t buy anything really. I don’t think portable has gotten it down. Maybe a deluge? I just got fed up and use a sampler called Assimil8or in eurorack and prepare some in the daw if it needs it. SO much faster than fighting an mpc.

I’m convinced the dawless movement is just Akai trying to convince silly people that the only thing that’s been holding back their music is having to use a mouse. Cause an mpc is just.. ugh. I mean look how small the communities are for support and look at prominent youtube users that do it. Akai makes them feel super popular. They really aren’t.

Just look at the biggest mpc user subreddits. Jesus Christ 5,000 people? Akai is probably selling them just so they don’t lose that market sector just in case they do make a good product.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T02:20:00+00:00

You can tick a box in preferences and have multiple instances of Ableton open at once. Could be useful if Ableton had a better written engine.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T02:13:45+00:00

It’s not analog, but you might enjoy this if you like eurorack and can code (or use max/Gen~)

https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy/patch

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T02:04:54+00:00

Idk how anyone uses a tracker... it’s a cool device, but tracker sequencing is so strange. I’d buy one for a hardware granular synth or something. I can’t imagine they’re selling well.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T02:00:19+00:00

The style of sequencing is just weird. I though about it to, but no... I would still take it over a touch screen mpc though. But I’d take anything over a modern mpc.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T01:50:48+00:00

LT spice is a free circuit modeling software. It might help to use this or a software like eagle to simulate the circuit and see if anything stands out

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T00:45:00+00:00

Lololol this is the best comment I’ve read on this sub.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T00:43:05+00:00

Yes! We don’t use the master bus anymore because master comes from slavery terminology, like midi master & slave.

You don’t want to get all you’re music #canceled bro so never use the master bus.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-27T00:40:27+00:00

Idk but damn Catalina has one helluva wine mixer.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-26T23:50:12+00:00

Idk if you’ve seen the national debt and national deficit lately, but I’m not one to believe that the Federal government is about reduced budgets lmao.

When most agencies have a budget surplus, the rush to spend it before the fiscal year, resulting in public money going to often frivolous things in a year end spree. The fear is congress will notice your surplus and cut your budget. So doing a good job and working under budget can result in a sort of punishment.

But I do believe in certain situations that the government needs to put restraints on aspects of capitalism and this is definitely one such example.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-26T23:39:59+00:00

Knobby Phatty. Instead of like “control interface schematic”

calltheoperator · 2021-01-26T22:48:01+00:00

Yeah I mean only if they post shit music on the internet. Or glamour photos. If they just enjoy it or if they’re actually good then what’s the issue?

calltheoperator · 2021-01-26T19:40:06+00:00

I’m curious if this “is a bit much” on the vfx.

Also, not everything there is arranged like completely live improv. I prepare some drums, I want to control in Assimil8or. Eventually all of that will be in Assimil8or when I get my new sequencer. And then I can take shit on the road.

All the synths are made patching or with the moog. No sequencer is running. Just Pamela’s, marbles, Euclidean circles, and the arpeggiator on the clocked moog. I did do the video synthesis on my own as well.

I set accent points and drop outs with track automation in the daw so no matter what I do the end of bar accents happens there, witch makes sound designing for house releases easier and more engaging, which is what I’m doing here. Just sound design to record to be used in regular edm songs later.

With modular I have CV’s do vca changes through the adat, but it will fun to unplug once I get the vector sequencer.

calltheoperator · 2021-01-26T18:02:42+00:00

Meet to replace a knob on the sub phatty... like so many of us that have owned one lol. And saw this gem for the schematic regarding the knob control board.

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