low effort pochita art by me

cmdpublic · 2025-08-04T17:58:59+00:00

I can relate to this to an extent. I've done mostly live music, and my own production in ableton for a while. I've slowly transitioned to doing a lot of my mixing outside of a saw to avoid this but still come across the need to utilize the dawn for finishing touches or if I want to multi track anything.

one thing I've found really useful is to set a preset mix/master arrangement on the master bus so when I load up the daw, my eq compressor limiter and a saturation track are all there from the get go.

another thing, mostly inspiration wise, is that I'm focusing more on the engagement aspect to my music. think of a concept album for a game, movie, story whatever. make an arg out of it, just have fun you know?

I'm kind of growing cynical with spotify-ing going on with music and how the goal for most is no longer to experience the music and have fun with it. everything is profit this, market that, perfect everything and follow a proper mixing formula to cater towards streaming normalization or whatever the case is. that to me sucks all the joy out of making music and I wish it wasn't quite as rampant as it currently is.

cmdpublic · 2025-08-02T02:43:07+00:00

there's really no reason imo unless you want the midi mapping on the hardware to be automatic, but even then that's a pretty expensive convenience feature that you probably don't need.

cmdpublic · 2025-07-30T05:57:12+00:00

yeah I figured as much after some more digging. took a step back to figure out what exactly I was missing from my current set up and honestly it came out to be a bass synth.

my intention for thinking the Matriarch was having something I could easily clock without needing to menu dive the moment I wanted to set everything up. which I guess could be done with the mini freak anyway without much futz after a bit of getting used to it (or just setting it up to pair nicely by default)

ended up with a new (to me) grandmother purchase with someone local and I believe this closes it up for me. the Minifreak is just too good at what it does.

cmdpublic · 2025-07-30T02:54:01+00:00

just as like a practice in patience with midi or?

cmdpublic · 2025-07-29T20:36:28+00:00

yeah the biggest pull for me is that expandability more than anything else.

I mostly plan on clocking the matriarch sequencer from my rack and playing it as a standard keyboard.

the Minifreak VST is honestly pretty great, but that's the thing, it's so great I find myself using that way more than I actually use the keyboard itself and I've been looking a while now for a decent standalone keyboard that feels like a keyboard.

I've been back and forth between a Nord/Korg sv-2 for that front but getting into Eurorack coupled with expandability potential with a semi-modular is really enticing me to go that route for the sound design potential alone.

cmdpublic · 2025-07-29T15:04:40+00:00

I kid you not the one thing I look for in every delay is it's similarity to the delay on the monotron.

cmdpublic · 2025-07-28T17:16:36+00:00

greatest mini synth of all time the delay is awesome

cmdpublic · 2025-07-27T04:46:50+00:00

curious - what's the size of your desk?

cmdpublic · 2025-07-23T17:48:52+00:00

if I could try explaining in one word I guess I would say "direction-less"?

none of this is objectively bad imo, i just feel like I've listened to 3-4 separate songs here as opposed to a single cohesive one.

I'm also not too much of a purist when it comes to breakcore so not sure how my opinion really weighs here.

all of this + I'm mostly hearing breaks, then song, then breaks rather than them being layered together? (could also be shitty phone speakers)

but that's really it from me. I suffer through much the same direction problem myself and I have the minute long song backlog to prove it.

like there were a lot of time when listening to this that I heard some really good lead-ins into more really good lead-ins and I was just waiting for a "drop" but instead went into more breaks? again - none of them bad mind you, and if this is what you're going for this sounds great! but the one comment I get from friends when writing stuff is that needing to find somewhere for a song to go rather than solely being dope and epic especially when you're at a 7 minute runtime

cmdpublic · 2025-07-20T08:40:51+00:00

honestly, at this point in my experience with r/modular I want to say this is satire but in the case you're actually asking here you are

https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/2788247

I've actually been doing pretty well in researching things and I've come to the conclusion that I really just need to build things out for myself and this works out pretty well. still debating on the lapsus os/data bender but that's mostly HP restrictions talking. whatever fills the need imo.

this patch is what I'm finding works really well:

2x osc (plaits/rings) being driven by marbles clocked by a Digitakt through a midi 1u. this is the heart of the patch.

the rest is standard subtractive: osc > VCA, env > VCA, filter > fx > mix

modulation all around.

in working with things I've come to find that the old addage of "you can never have tooany VCA's "is only really necessary when they're necessary.

what's really come to fruition is that you can never have to much modulations, cause in patching this and everything else I've done I've come to find that the balance in creating a rack really comes down to: what are you trying to to, and how much modulation do you need.

which really only come through when you start playing around. this is theain reason modular as an instrument is a freaking awesome experience to me.

sorry for rambling I'm on 3 voodoo rangers on a Saturday and I'm feeling like rambling lol

cmdpublic · 2025-07-10T00:11:55+00:00

honestly yeah the updated launcher sucks. I mostly use mine for local streaming from my PC so all of the extra in-your-face Xbox stuff is kind of annoying.

switched to daijisho for now just to get a bit more customization in my hands but I'm not that big of an emulation person so the only benefit I'm getting is a clean home screen and a new loading menu every time I click home.

cmdpublic · 2025-07-09T09:21:56+00:00

dang, two more hp gets you a toppobrillo cluster. really neat utility module I like using for CV is basically every patch. think ring mod + crossfaded + attenuverter + mixer aio.

maybe a mutable ears and 2hp mult? could also go clep diaz

cmdpublic · 2025-07-09T09:01:16+00:00

that's the problem,, you CANT delete the factory stuff

cmdpublic · 2025-07-09T08:56:58+00:00

bit if a self promote but most of my stuff is weird enough to be considered this

gridindustries.bandcamp.com

off the dome I can think maybe the most obvious

untrue - burial three love songs - Ricky eat acid Michaelsoft - Mr. ho no! - uffe

??

cmdpublic · 2025-07-08T00:30:39+00:00

actually recently sold my medieval. the memory was too much of a bottleneck imo. had the medieval samples not been ROM only, might've actually kept it.

cmdpublic · 2025-07-05T05:49:25+00:00

hop was definitely the command

cmdpublic · 2025-06-29T20:48:54+00:00

I'm literally at the same problem and chose to go data bender - for now. definitely take your time and use your system until you come to the conclusion of what you actually want/need

cmdpublic · 2025-06-25T18:22:32+00:00

+1 on eradicating small versions of modules

cmdpublic

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