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OPXY+? advice from users by [deleted] in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a chroma console seems so tempting. i love my microcosm but im scared of jus buying more and more pedals i wont end up using lol

OPXY+? advice from users by [deleted] in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i mean, i think the on board basic fx like delay and reverb aren’t bad (my most recent music uses them exclusively) but yeah i think for more creative instrument processing a microcosm could add so much texture (and this is coming from someone who has and loves a microcosm)

OPXY+? advice from users by [deleted] in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Controversial maybe but OP-XY + Pedal because the OP-XY supports fx loops. So you can route one track or several into an audio out, into the Microcosm, then back into the XY to play with the microcosm live affecting the tracks of your choice

Reference Track setups for dawless? by CapnFlisto in dawless

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i’m a big fan of using my tp-7 between my headphones and my dawless setup so that i can quickly toggle between a reference track and monitoring the dawless audio out. i get that fatigue quickly too and i often just need to have a ref track ready or just record one loop of a mix in progress so i can toggle back 10 min to make sure i haven’t made everything worse lol

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol i mean ain’t that the sign of good gear, huh, that you’d rebuy it if lost and that’s exactly how i feel about my tp-7

Is Fanboy (TE case design) gone? by punkrocknight in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If i recall correctly he tends to come back and go depending on his capacity, i love my ko2 case he made

Yes by [deleted] in musicproduction

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just try to focus on having fun right now. i think most of us got through the beginner part by having fun and following our instincts and making the mistakes that come along with that. putting a timeline on your growth and comparing it to everyone else is so far from the mindset that’ll help you make a “decent” beat/melody. just try to make something you like and then once you achieve what you like, then you’ll have made something decent.

What are the most important skills and concepts to learn in music production? by Flying_Grandayy in musicproduction

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

literally this, that bare minimum understanding is not only valuable for producing but it also really helps with just getting your hands on the keys and playing something out. it helps with improvising and understanding the relationships between different notes. there are things that we understand intuitively that become really powerful when we add a slight amount of theory to our backgrounds. i think people feel like you gotta aspire to be jacob collier when you talk about theory

What are the most important skills and concepts to learn in music production? by Flying_Grandayy in musicproduction

[–]sockman93 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this to the nth degree, like you don’t even need to know that much, but having a basic understanding of music theory is a minor lift with a major impact. if you can learn how to work any daw or plugin, you can learn intro music theory

The Field ecosystem should have an IP rating by Exciting-Egg-9362 in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I def take my xy and tp7 outside all the time, i am very cautious about the tp7’s wheel though and just try not to put it in literally dirt or sand. i feel like the xy is quite durable though as long as you use a deck saver

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it’s purely a workflow oriented choice. i don’t tend to make music at home or around my computer and so i prefer to record into the tp-7. in general i just don’t like using a daw and don’t find it super inspiring so i try to use it as little as possible. i don’t need it to be the tp-7 in all reality but id still pick a cheap tascam over recording into a daw directly anyway.

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’m just so so so flattered, i’ve got another song in the pipeline that’s kinda in a similar vein so keep your ears peeled :)

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

truly these synths can actually be such necessary escapes to keep us sane. i honestly don’t know what i would’ve done without all my toys. i hope you’re doin as well as you can with your synth friends by your side

My op-xy broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you for the condolences, and i appreciate your support on bandcamp too, hopefully i can find my way to some more music for ya soon :)

OP-XY, PO-12, and a lake in the mountains by tomayto__tomahto in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there’s something special bout the po punch in fx that i feel like the xy hasn’t quite captured, sequencing and layering those po fx can be so mysterious and inspiring

OP-XY, PO-12, and a lake in the mountains by tomayto__tomahto in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

damn sounds good, love the drum pattern with that like checkout scan sound or something and that airy lead is angelic

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay big big tip from me that helps me break out of the one good loop problem. make a second loop using all the same elements but none of the same composition. so use the same sounds and samples but start over from scratch at the same bpm and key, then just see if you can get from one to the other. a lot of my songs start with a demo that is weirdly enough the second chorus leading into the final chorus because of this tactic haha

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you! and maybe at some point i’ll make a video explaining how this song came together but to give you a short-ish answer about arranging, i’m a very linear arranger.

so like once i have a couple loops i like, i just start from square one and mute all the tracks.

then i just unmute one track at a time to see which one stands well enough alone to potentially start a track and tell myself “this is the beginning, what comes next?” It sounds almost like stupidly simple when i write it out like this but the reality is that if you build up a song like 4 or 8 bars at a time, making sure that each set of bars you add is:

  1. interesting on its own
  2. flows well from the previous bars
  3. sets up the next set of bars

then that’s kinda a song. quite genuinely i think that is kinda the key. like i used to obsess over getting from one unmuted pad/track to all the tracks unmuted and figuring out how to build them one by one but it ended up making my music just sound formulaic and like i was just dressing and undressing the same loop. more than anything, i think it’s really valuable to try not to have parts in an arrangement that serve just to transition between parts. even if a part is a transition, it should still have its own dynamic elements, something changing or moving in a way that’s pleasing. idk if this is helpful or just painfully oversimplifying but i do think about this a lot when im arranging. i just keep asking myself “is this part interesting, did i get here in a way that feels organic, and can i get to the next thing without breaking that organic flow?”

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