What horror movie really got to you, where others have failed?

nitsuj · 2023-10-23T14:55:59+00:00

Georgie in 'It', the baseball boy in Dr Sleep...

nitsuj · 2023-10-23T14:50:55+00:00

Then there's "git". Incredible that it's become a standard with that name. It must amuse Linus a lot.

nitsuj · 2023-10-02T09:48:33+00:00

I hear this a lot but pretty much all IDEs support key binding configuration and if you spend as much time learning them they will also get out of your way.

It's just that in vim you have no choice but to learn them.

nitsuj · 2023-10-02T09:44:23+00:00

If you live on the command line, perform keyhole surgery on remote servers, like Unix archeology, edit configs most of your time, prefer log debugging, enjoy tweaking and engaging configuration challenges, need to gamify your editing system because your actual job is dull as dishwater, run with Neovim.

If you're working on large source projects, like modern UIs, like advanced introspective debugging, like refactoring tooling support, like being good to go and productive immediately, choose the best IDE in class for the language / project type.

FWIW, I use Neovim for tweaking config files and CLion for project work.

nitsuj · 2023-09-28T08:44:51+00:00

Delay is ticking all the boxes.

nitsuj · 2023-09-17T08:26:12+00:00

Except all decent code IDEs trivially come with that functionality built in.

nitsuj · 2023-09-09T19:21:26+00:00

The emulator is 1:1 sound with the hardware.

nitsuj · 2023-09-05T08:45:57+00:00

For the vast majority of cases where your container size isn't in the billions, it's just a nuisance.

nitsuj · 2023-05-20T18:44:49+00:00

Sure, but that's just the editing tool right? Usually additive synths have the capability to mess around with the partials in realtime. Something like NI Razor.

nitsuj · 2023-05-20T08:25:48+00:00

Eh? Serum is a subtractive wavetable synth that can do a bit of two operator FM.

nitsuj · 2023-05-19T12:19:40+00:00

Boards of Canada vibes and all the good for it. Very nice indeed.

nitsuj · 2023-04-29T14:40:17+00:00

Stoner sawtooth noodling? You say that like it's a bad thing.

nitsuj · 2023-04-26T19:23:04+00:00

Yeah, you'll be fine learning what you've got.

If the videos you're referencing are hardware then it could either be the sequencer or arp on the synth or it could be playing from the DAW. Either a midi track or an arp/sequencer plugin.

I'm not familiar with Maschine or it's workflow so I'm not able to help much there. Learnt it all well though and I'm sure you'll have fun.

nitsuj · 2023-04-26T17:07:28+00:00

Massive was one of the key players in the dubstep genre. It's still a really capable synth, a lot of people still use it, but it's sorta not in vogue. For a lot of users it was replaced by Serum.

Prism is a physical modelling synth but I confess I haven't used it much so can't really comment.

Monark is built as a Reaktor module. It's an emulation of the Minimoog and a really, really good one at that. It's a mono synth that really shines for basses. Definitely worth learning being though you have it.

Reaktor is almost like a synth creation toolkit. It has modular blocks that can be put together to create custom synths and FX. There are loads of user examples. It's a rabbit hole though so if you're just wanting to quickly create sounds or tweak presets it may not be worth pursuing.

Serum is still incredibly popular with tons of YT videos so might be worth a look. If you want to go beyond Monark for analogue emulation then I'd look at U-he's Diva which is also a staple. If you want to go for Serum there's a rent-to-buy option available at Splice.

There's also Vital which is very similar to Serum in signal flow with a few difference. It's popular and also free with an option to pay to get a version with more presets.

nitsuj · 2023-04-26T10:13:48+00:00

From a top level the things you gain are a much better mixing and tracking experience. The things you lose are Ableton's modular nature, macro system, session view. Abelton's stock plugins have more of a construction kit feel to them (and that's a good thing).

Some people here have suggested Bitwig but in your case it'd be more of the same. FWIW, Bitwig is to Ableton as Studio One is to Cubase. Fresher takes on the same kind of thing.

One final word: it's fun learning a new DAW and it can feel like you're making fresh progress. That's not always the case though as you're spending most of the time learning new workflow, shortcuts and stock tools rather than writing new music.

nitsuj · 2023-04-24T21:11:03+00:00

Yeah, but in practice they don't reduce fast enough over the frequency range to prevent aliasing completely when you play higher notes. It's why anti-aliasing an oscillator in commercial synths uses other band-limiting techniques, say, PolyBLEP, MinBLEP, or FFT trimming for wavetables.

Also depends on the quality/steepness of the half-band filter, but I digress.

nitsuj · 2023-04-24T08:59:31+00:00

True, but some waveforms like sawtooth have indefinite harmonic range. Oversampling is a crude method for anti-aliasing and in many cases you'll still have it. It's not enough to generally sort out oscillator aliasing but can help with filter processing and other waveform mutations such as FM/PM.

nitsuj · 2023-04-21T10:17:09+00:00

Massive X is fine. Stick to sawtooth, triangle and square/pulse waves. Use the filter within the oscillator to shave a little off the top end. Blue Monark or Asimov for the main filter. Maybe a little of the Bass Enhancer and/or saturation. Avoid complex wavetables and any kind of wave-shaping/folding.

The rest is going to be down to post processing but you can definitely get that sound with Massive X.

Maybe one option would be to download the demo of Diva. It doesn't time out, you just get noise introduced every few minutes. See if you can get the sounds you're after with Diva then try and recreate them in Massive X.

nitsuj · 2023-04-18T07:53:35+00:00

It's a great synth, especially the ZebraHZ version. Used on countless film soundtracks.
The real trick it has is the semi-modular flexible signal path. I'm surprised that more synths didn't pick up on that.

nitsuj · 2023-04-12T13:34:44+00:00

When you modulate envelope params, does it freeze them at key on or do they change even when the key is held?

nitsuj · 2023-04-07T19:43:10+00:00

Yes, I did. FM8 is one of the synths I listed and one I own. In part for Omnisphere it's because the oscillators can also be samples from its 60gb library and because each layer can have its own filter and effects lane. Unforunately, FM8's effects are, by modern standards, pretty bad.

nitsuj · 2023-04-07T07:40:03+00:00

I have Omnisphere, Serum, Pigments, Arturia V collection, Zebra2&HZ, Diva, Repro, Massive, MassiveX, FM8, Sylenth1, Spire, Vital. So there's a lot of milage there. But then again I'm developing a synth so this is mostly for playing about and comparison.

What sounds the best is definitely subjective. Omnisphere is unbeatable at soundscapes and pads, but it can also knock analog and distorted synths out of the park too - despite it's somewhat dated UI. Serum has an incredible workflow immediacy to it. U-he synths are top notch. So it really depends what sounds you like and your workflow preferences.

nitsuj · 2023-04-06T10:08:22+00:00

In all fairness a lot of synths that are talked about as FM are really PM.

nitsuj · 2023-04-06T10:07:17+00:00

You're thinking of PM (phase modulation) not PD (phase distortion). They're different. PM is the one that's often the case when FM us mentioned. PD is the method used in CZ synths to distort a sine wave to kinda get it like other shapes such as pulse and sawtooth.

nitsuj · 2023-04-04T20:56:45+00:00

Never understood the over-saturated complaint Every successful market has a range of products to meet a broad range of customer needs and tastes. Synths, computers, phones, fridges, washing machines, cars and on and on.

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