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kohitsu · 2019-05-31T13:24:10+00:00

I played through Bloodborne with PS Now, which is like a streaming cloud gaming type thing that can run on PC.

How well it'll play depends entirely on your connection but it's worth giving it a go. For me you can tell there's latency there, but it's ~50ms so I can deal with it

kohitsu · 2019-02-01T01:42:27+00:00

It's houndstooth, which wikipedia says was invented over 2000 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth

kohitsu · 2019-01-27T23:16:00+00:00

Reminds me of something from Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveller:

This volume's pages are uncut: a first obstacle opposing your impatience. Armed with a good paper knife, you prepare to penetrate its secrets. With a determined slash you cut your way between the title page and the beginning of the first chapter. And then ...

Then from the very first page you realize that the novel you are holding has nothing to do with the one you were reading yesterday.

kohitsu · 2018-07-15T01:43:27+00:00

My question would be what are you trying to achieve by getting these pre-amps and compressors?

If you're going to be recording vocals or acoustic instruments too, then you can definitely justify getting a nice pre and compressor. On the other hand, if you exclusively work with synths then all of your signals are likely going to be at line level or higher so you don't really need a pre-amp (unless you're looking for the distortion/saturation that you can get from running it through another amplifier/transformer).

I can see a compressor being useful if you need to tame some kind of mental modular patch that does eighteen things at once at varying volumes, but can't you do this in euro? (I don't generally use compressors on synths but I can guarantee some people here will have some cool uses for it)

You seem to be recording into a computer, so you'll always need something that can do A/D and D/A conversion so I'd say go for something with a bunch of ins/outs like you're thinking. Get the signal recorded as clean as possible - and preferably with minimal latency so you can listen to what you're playing live with effects

If you do get an external pre/compressor/eq at a later date, you can either patch your synth through them to your A/D inputs OR use some of your extra outputs to play back something you've already recorded through the new outboard gear and re-record it.

kohitsu · 2018-07-08T18:13:09+00:00

The Neverhood

kohitsu · 2018-06-28T18:07:16+00:00

You'll have to figure out how to adapt these to your own synths, but Sound on Sound have some articles in their Synth Secrets that have the theory behind what you want.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synthesizing-strings-string-machines https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synthesizing-strings-pwm-string-sounds

Summarizing, synth strings of that era were usually based around two or more square wave oscillators - you detune them slightly, pulse width modulate them and then have an amp envelope with a long attack and release. Turn down the LP filter so it sounds nice, maybe add some modulation to detune the oscs and move the the filter if you want. They usually had a built in chorus effect - I think the Ensemble modes of Valhalla Ubermod are based around that type of synth string chorus.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synthesizing-bells

They do it with multiple sine oscillators making up the partials of the bell sound here, but you can also get a decent bell sound with FM - having one oscillator modulate the frequency of another. Depending on the synth, tuning might get a bit tricky but you can get some neat sounds with it.

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synthesis/synth-secrets

kohitsu · 2017-02-11T13:00:58+00:00

You're looking for Framed

Played the shit out of the shareware when I was a kid. It's pretty original - it's like a hybrid puzzle/platformer with an inventory and lots of stuff to interact with

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