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sol


Making electronic music

1 2021-02-13 07:57

Is anyone here into it? I bought my first synth (a groovebox actually), I didn't want to spend too much and I wanted to have fun right away, so after some research I went with a Novation Circuit.

What hardware/software do you use and what kind of music do you make?

2 2021-02-13 10:26

I tried making breakcore with LMMS, but quickly gave up after I realized that rearranging the amen break is not enough to make a good track.

3 2021-02-14 06:42

https://sdiy.info/wiki/List_of_open-source_music_hardware_projects

4 2021-02-15 20:21

If musique concrète type pieces are your thing, there's no better choice today than CDP imo. https://composersdesktop.com

5 2021-02-16 16:35

>>4
For sound design there's snd whose extension language is s7 Scheme https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/

6 2021-02-20 01:06

electronic music sucks it's all done on a computer and there is no musicianship involved. why don't you just learn to play an instrument, bitch.

7 2021-02-20 02:01

All you need is an Amiga 500 and Stereo Master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs

8 2021-02-20 03:16 *

>>6
i rate this (edge (ten))

9 2021-02-20 05:49

>>6
And why don't you send me a postcard instead of using a computer to tell me this?
I like electronic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUDKu3BL7c

10 2021-02-20 09:55

>>10
What the fuck is this list, where's Jungle? Gabber? Hardtek?

11 2021-02-20 11:22

>>10
Aren't the two last ones subgenres of Hardcore?

12 2021-02-20 12:04 *

>>11
The list has at least 14 subgenres of hardcore on it.

13 2021-02-20 12:56

Music Production on Guix System

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/music-production-on-guix-system/

14 2021-02-20 22:56

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impromptu_(programming_environment)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMusic
http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Music_Notation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html

15 2021-02-20 23:42

MIDI programming in scheme: supported by an Emacs environment
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1890703.1890704
https://sci-hub.se/10.1145/1890703.1890704

Algorithmic Composition: A Gentle Introduction to Music Composition Using Common LISP and Common Music
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/spobooks/bbv9810.0001.001/--algorithmic-composition-a-gentle-introduction-to-music

16 2021-02-22 01:58

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language
http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/information/ansimtech.txt
https://man.openbsd.org/spkr.4

17 2021-02-22 08:18

stochastic Markov beats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvnHzsNJ92k

18 2021-03-09 02:00

bytebeat music
https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/

19 2021-03-17 10:59

I dabble with some stuff every now and then in Bitwig, though my current output is decent at best, so I think I just need to bunker for a year or two and iterate until I'll be able to make something I'm proud of.
https://infinitecloudscapes.bandcamp.com/
https://xiilabel.bandcamp.com/album/virtual-cyberia-experience

20 2021-03-17 15:27

>>19
Don't worry about being bunkered for another year or two.

21 2021-03-22 14:33

https://functional-art.org

22 2021-04-20 08:28

https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/

23 2021-04-23 19:53

it's better than most of the similarly generated total garbage you'll hear on the radio. i think this is a fine thing, really, and another futuristic tool for the betterment of the human experience.

24 2021-04-23 22:51

I used to write with a DAW. I would love to have a little volcabass, but I hear the behringer 303 is a better buy.

25 2021-04-27 20:21

volca bass

speaking of cute lil hardware, i would love to get my hands on something like an op-1 or his foss counterpart otto

26 2021-04-28 00:54

they are cute, but it's kind of a weird little thing to express the secrets of your soul with. What's the big deal with wanting hardware anyway?

27 2021-04-28 02:37

What's the quietest instrument hand-made with paper or (plastic) waste? I want to play it in my bath.

28 2021-04-28 14:10

i guess one of those wax paper+comb kazoos? Sing to me the song of your people.

29 2021-04-28 23:07

This wasn't bad by any measure. It's not pumpin' house music all night long, but it's cool in a dreamy indy outer space sort of way. b+

30 2021-04-28 23:09

sez who? Have you seen bong ra's fucking mansion?

31 2021-04-30 18:45

>>26
Well, after 2 years of COVID work, I want to enjoy my hobby away from the computer. Having a physical thing helps tremendously.

32 2021-04-30 20:23

Have you read any of the shadow wolf e-zines? They talk a lot about hardware. I sort of want to spring for an 808 clone and a 303 clone, but times is tough!

33 2021-05-02 21:37

>>32
Holy shit, how have I managed to never hear about this?
It looks soo cooool

34 2021-05-16 11:30

>>28
Thanks. Seems too loud

35 2021-05-16 16:19

>>22
This is pretty neat. I wonder if something similar would be possible for dub.

36 2021-07-01 03:11

Find a nice beat; repeat it as the basis of your e-music.

37 2021-07-03 17:54

2>> there's no accouting for taste. Have you checked out the amen packs available at dogsonacid.com? Free and tasty, some people are stupid with their eq. I like the TC amen a whole lot.

38 2021-07-03 17:55

24>> volcabass is three osc, but after a friend recommended the behringer, I jumped in. No regrets, it will be a joy in my life for many years to come.

39 2021-07-03 17:58

I did actually get around to getting an rd-8 and a 303 clone. Time to revive a dead genre.

40 2021-07-04 11:35

>>39
Acid music is immortal.

41 2021-07-04 19:31

Hardcore will never die.

42 2021-07-04 23:16

House music is world renowned it's the universal sound it will always be around.

43 2021-07-12 22:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI

44 2021-07-13 11:01

>>40 >>41
Folk music is the internal monologue of culture.

45 2021-07-13 15:40

computers are accessible to anyone now. electronic music is the music of the people, particularly poorly produced punk junk.

46 2021-07-14 01:06

>>45
Ad platforms are accessible, but real computers are not.
Sure people are churning out garbage with garage band but good FM music is still pretty niche.

47 2021-07-21 01:13

Scheme for Max was ported to Puredata

https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd
https://puredata.info/

48 2021-07-21 22:04

I got a virus ti used and the things bubbling out of that mf are pretty sick. Here is to years of tech step influenced boom bap.

49 2021-07-22 13:42

https://ufile.io/i7r87gvj
Real Textboard Dark Ambient Christian E-grind

50 2021-07-22 13:43

as above so below
https://www.file.io/download/mr7dT0w1vZSL

51 2021-07-23 06:28

>>49,50
Nice but aren't there better sites to share your files?

52 2021-07-23 14:25

>>51 i don't know of them

53 2021-07-29 12:20

https://opusmodus.com/
https://github.com/byulparan/cl-collider
https://github.com/defaultxr/cl-patterns
https://cac-t-u-s.github.io/
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/Emily-howell.htm

54 2021-07-29 12:30

https://iainctduncan.github.io/learn-scheme-for-max/

55 2021-07-29 13:00

>>53 >>54

Wow, that's an amazing rabbithole. I'm thinking myself that the future of music is a generative experience, with another fifty years of refinement it could have a real impact on the human experience.

56 2021-07-30 01:25

>>55
I hate musicians. I hate DJs. They are the center of attention in parties, that's why they're such assholes. I want them replaced with a computer feeling the mood of the audience and generating music accordingly. Thus the music and the lighting would be created by the movement of the dancers only. No more hierarchy, anybody could impulse a new rythm on the dance floor. That's the future of dyonisian mysteries rave parties. Fuck human DJs.

57 2021-07-30 02:48

eleusian mystery rave parties

58 2021-07-30 23:17

new anonymous music

made using hardware and software.

dream of just banging out live acid house for hours.

punk rock star collider.

https://mega.nz/file/5KRwQBjb#dG_IK9SMqfNRnqI9_sEJaHEKyv9E3jiAEYYOBItpUAA

59 2021-08-02 17:00

I have a little Beringer 606 and honestly, you can't do a lot with it, but for what it is, you know anon, it's a happy part of my life.

60 2021-08-06 19:57

Where is the music from your groovebox anon? Let's anonymously collaborate.

61 2021-08-11 14:58

https://mega.nz/file/tSoCHYKA#dFOesMJ1iwqhuGFH8rbIay_W4e3zYabzKTWdQFfv3GA

hardware, except for daw'd arrangement and samples

62 2021-08-11 18:40

https://mega.nz/file/5bJkVBQZ#PRQdbQxSgrx7ZKVJOLX77hddqB79RKhNawAsPUNRpOE
now with more hihat

63 2021-08-21 22:35

i've been listening to VIPTRONICS and honestly, some of that is just like really good for independant electronica.

64 2021-08-21 22:37

https://viptronic.org/albums/Authentic%20Viptronic%20Triptych/12%20Fascist%20Bagel%20Regime.mp3

this stood out to me. the arps are fun, and the uk bass sounds are clear and distinct.

65 2021-08-22 03:21

https://archive.org/details/old-school-sample-cds-collection-01

massive collection of classic 90's sample cd's

66 2021-08-22 05:15

Billie sampled Australia’s Crosswalk Buttons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbNFRbqwfg

67 2021-08-22 06:06

That's dope.

68 2021-08-30 16:08

https://kaleidoplasm.bandcamp.com/track/bacteriophage
created with hardware+daw
turned out pretty decent

69 2021-09-03 08:35

September by Earth, Wind & Fire
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1jrdlzohb6lgh87/When_the_Rune_Sparkles_in_September.m4a/file

70 2021-09-03 23:11

Boy, that's odd.

71 2021-09-05 02:43

🎵 🎸 🎷🎶 🎻

72 2021-09-05 22:48

>>69
It's a mash-up!

73 2021-09-05 23:58

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

74 2021-09-07 14:11

https://www.dogsonacid.com/threads/the-most-insane-sample-pack-thread-post-your-samples.776384/

anon i heard u like samples bro

75 2021-09-08 06:03

>>74
All I need is the amen break.

76 2021-09-08 19:53

>>75 favorite amen smashers?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tO3MC6f_uHk&feature=share this one is very good, but not really perfect enough to say it's my favorite... The one I like best is some old breakbeat science vinyl that I lost the title of in my memory long ago when my records were stolen.

77 2021-09-08 21:17

>>76
This is a classic that I really like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQcNLTDz-A

But I also love shit like this: https://files.catbox.moe/z27lmi.mp3

78 2021-09-09 00:36

>>77 you're not kidding about the first link. When jungle has that effortless flow, where it sounds like music and not something somebody sat down and banged out at a mac, it's really magical. it sets a stage.

79 2021-09-09 00:38

>>77 also, i like breakcore/leftfield bass music. E-grind is fertile loam, but also just barely music at all, more like a statement that is incidentally almost-music-music turned music accidentally. And I love to hate that.

80 2021-09-10 13:27

Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool: https://sonic-pi.net

81 2021-09-19 01:30

it's a saturday night all alone, with only an mpc to keep me company, and honestly, it's not a bad feeling at all spending a little timed with a loved one.

here is to computer love.

82 2021-09-22 18:08 *

How do you make love to your computer, >>81? With a dongle?

83 2021-09-24 01:26

https://kaleidoplasm.bandcamp.com/track/mariposas
looking for wholly positive feedback on the new slam

84 2021-10-07 15:16

https://samples.kb6.de/

6 gigs of classic drum machine samples, free

85 2021-10-07 16:33

>>83
I like the beat!

86 2021-10-09 05:58

it's been a long week, anon, but tonight I managed to get my rd6 sampled, and it sounds so much better than I thought it would, I am just pleased as punch and pie. There is a little bit of artifact, but man, it really makes it have character. It's not any 606, but my own little red rd6, and although the samples aren't going to do me a lot of good jammin' acid, they will fill a hole in my soul when it comes time to write a tune.

did you know flat beat was written with a 606? Just beautiful, and a good feeling to finish all this manual reading regarding these machines. Now I can get on with my reading list and just use them as reference for a while, which will be good for my brain I am hoping. Thank you, brothers, sisters, for consuming the sweetbreads of my text tonight.

87 2021-10-09 06:00

it's been a long week, anon, but tonight I managed to get my rd6 sampled, and it sounds so much better than I thought it would, I am just pleased as punch and pie. There is a little bit of artifact, but man, it really makes it have character. It's not any 606, but my own little red rd6, and although the samples aren't going to do me a lot of good jammin' acid, they will fill a hole in my soul when it comes time to write a tune.

did you know flat beat was written with a 606? Just beautiful, and a good feeling to finish all this manual reading regarding these machines. Now I can get on with my reading list and just use them as reference for a while, which will be good for my brain I am hoping. Thank you, brothers, sisters, for consuming the sweetbreads of my text tonight.

88 2021-10-31 23:41

freeware eurorack emulator
https://vcvrack.com/

89 2021-11-11 23:03

doof doof doof doof doof doof doof untz

90 2022-01-22 04:29

https://www.youtube.com/c/Mittsies/videos

91 2022-01-23 18:02

weird/neat

92 2022-01-26 03:08

>>91
EM is always like that

93 2022-01-26 03:11

"I'd treat you right."

94 2022-01-31 22:22

We almost had a full album
>>49,50,61
Files are lost
>>58,62,68,69,83

95 2022-01-31 22:24

soltronics vol. I

96 2022-02-05 23:23

https://kaleidoplasm.bandcamp.com/track/pyramid-scheme

97 2022-02-06 07:20

>>96
TB-303 ?

98 2022-02-06 17:52

Yes! With izotope trash 2 that I picked up for free, thank goodness, and also with a little sumpin' sumpin' for the phonemes.

well, it's the behringer clone. close. I need to send it somewhere, the connection has noise. I guess it gives it... character? The new devilfish mod looks fire, but I'm trying to wait on anything like that. Secondhad market is probably looking good for those in a year or two.

99 2022-02-06 21:22

I like Mittsies

100 2022-02-06 21:47

no, the shit is tight

101 2022-02-19 22:44

https://mynewmicrophone.com/what-is-a-vca-compressor-how-does-it-work/

102 2022-02-19 22:56

from doa
"Does the fucking Wobble distort basses are only for Dubstep and DNB ?

Hi,

Current value,
Audio
DLR
Black sun empire
The beast Dillinja for the older

Etc...

I sum up :

You put it in techno ?????!!!!

Playing with the enveloppes is enough ?

Combining with basic subs 'clean' ?!!!

I'm on fire don't have time. :)"

103 2022-03-08 10:03

Mittsies & Matthias - Tandem (FULL ALBUM)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qLX0DQvrtcY

104 2022-03-08 12:24

I like the funkot beat

105 2022-03-08 16:54

Play that funkot musique white boi

106 2022-03-22 21:19

>>105 Dance like you want to win

107 2022-04-14 14:21

https://discordier.github.io/sam/

108 2022-04-17 17:38

>>20
Well, I did it anyway. Judge the output for yourself.
https://infinitecloudscapes.bandcamp.com/album/exvironments-05

109 2022-04-17 19:24

>>108
I really feel the first one.

110 2022-04-17 20:54

>>108
That was a pleasant album. The last one was pretty melancholic, I'm glad that I listened it first.

111 2022-04-17 23:40

https://kaleidoplasm.bandcamp.com/track/thanks-for-stealing-my-bike-jerk
updated with panning, extended microtuned breakcore phrase, nasty sub distortion, more ugly nasty compression, pitch shifting, bitcrushed synths, and 15% more pith.

112 2022-04-18 04:38

unecessary bump taste the pain

113 2022-04-18 11:12

>>109
>>110
Seems like it worked then!
See you in 2 more years, I guess :)

114 2022-04-18 23:15

>>108 Really gorgeous little gems, lots of tuned up atmospherics with coherent textured percussion. I never heard a single flaw. It's interesting how music can express some things so well that words can hardly capture, if at all.

115 2022-04-23 12:26

>>114
You made my day dude <3

116 2022-07-26 14:15

Mittsies
https://www.youtube.com/c/Mittsies/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7K7v2KGYU

117 2022-09-26 15:15

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~sdill/220A-project/drums.html

118 2022-09-26 15:31

Try Milky Tracker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRDlix-KT1E&list=PLur95ujyAigtzAa6Rw_VcIgdP4n45JvZh&index=1

119 2023-09-22 02:34 *

https://futuremusic.com/2022/11/revisiting-the-roland-tb-303-origin-story/

120 2024-01-23 13:39

>>48

virus ti

RIP
There's an emulator now though

121 2024-01-26 23:46

Polymer Vinyl Chloride is the way of the past

122 2024-09-04 10:44

Top 30 Classic EDM Songs | Rave Nation
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OrhM7TlSJc4&pp=ygUDZWRt

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