ndguardian

So I just wanted to give my thoughts on the Ableton Move here. I was seeing numerous conversations around it during the hype phase and when it came out.

Many people saw it when it came out and said "oh hey it's 4 tracks, it's too basic, etc." I think that's not entirely incorrect, but at the same time I think those comments are a bit misguided. It's true it only has 4 tracks. It's true that sound design is somewhat limited. It's also true that its workflow is somewhat basic. This last one though is frankly one of its best features.

Let's say I've got an idea bouncing around in my head for a track. I could fire up something like an MPC or Ableton Live and start recording it. I need to go in, pick out the instruments I want, set my tempo, maybe set my key, etc...there's a bit of pre-work that needs to be done, and then I can record.

On the Move, I turn it on, pick an empty set, maybe pick a key and just start noodling. If I use capture, I just noodle around, push capture - done. Well, for one track anyway. But in doing that, I have instruments out of the box ready to go. Maybe they aren't the best for what I'm feeling, but I can change that later. Because I hit capture, it went ahead and guessed the tempo for me, and that is automatically applied to the rest of the tracks. So from there, just pop over to another track, rinse and repeat.

One thing that bugged me was that my kit didn't have a shaker in it. So what did I do? I grabbed a little wooden shaker egg I had nearby, hit the sample button, sampled with the onboard mic and suddenly I had my shaker sample.

Oh, my hi hat was too loud? No bother. Just hold down the hi hat pad and turn down the volume encoder. Done.

All this is to say that while yes, it has its limitations, it is VERY good for getting ideas down quickly, and I've found it's led me to pump out more creativity. Will I record an entire track on it? Nah, probably not. But it will let me record something quickly that I can flesh out later.

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What gear do you all think got a bad rap, and why do you love it?

Howdy!

So I recently got a hold of a Criter and Guitari Organelle M and just got myself set up to write up custom patches on it, and I'm looking for inspiration on a simple patch to make on it.

For those that don't know what an Organelle is, the synopsis is that it's a Raspberry Pi-based musical computer that you can custom program your own patches on. These patches can be anything from synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, effects...really whatever you want to make musically.

Anyway, I'm just about done working through some tutorials to get a better handle on how that all works, and I'm interested in potentially simple patch ideas to build. Anyone have any thoughts on a simple synth concept or something like that I should try to make?

I'm not affiliated in any way with Polyend, but on Polyend's official Reverb (and I think some resellers as well) they're selling new Trackers for $359/€399. If you have any plans to buy one, now would be a pretty good time. I just pulled the trigger on one myself.

Per the email from them, the sale goes until September 4th or while supplies last. Also I confirmed as I was typing this, but that price does seem to be reflected with at least Sweetwater and Zzounds. Can't speak for others yet.

Or don't. You do you. But they are both sweet and affectionate and would love to snuggle you and eat your food.

Eevee is the kitten, and is my SO's snuggle buddy. Link is the big guy and is my tiny furry overlord, who dictates my snuggle schedule and bed time.

PS: I know cats in boxes and bags are in right now, but meh.

Hey there!

So I’ve had a migraine that has been going for a couple days now. Nothing entirely new, but it’s frustrating. Dark room, low noise, tried sleeping it off, taken multiple medications for it including my Ubrelvy which normally knocks it. It took the edge off, but now I’m going on day 3 with the migraine with no perceivable end in sight.

Anyone got any tips that normally helps them to knock their migraine that’s worth considering? Normally I don’t care too much as I’ve put up with them for years, but this one has me all nauseous which makes it that much more miserable.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Sorry for not seeing the responses on this sooner. I went back to bed afterward and mostly stayed in bed and holy crap the responses blew up. I also called my neurologist and told them about it much like some of the advise that others have mentioned, and they started me on a round of prednisone to help. Fingers crossed it gets rid of it. Seems to be helping, but only time will tell. If it doesn't, I'll see about giving some of these a try. Thank you so much!

I know this isn't strictly music production related, but it might be a good way to share what we make with the rest of the fediverse. If people don't think this belongs here, let me know and I can delete the cross-post.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2650755

We Distribute is bringing in a new feature - The Mixtape! We create playlists of songs that broadcast through Radio Free Fedi, and share it with the wider fediverse. It's an opportunity for people to discover music by Fedizens, and help support artists on the network.

Our first playlist is themed around hot summer vibes.

So this is a very early song that popped into my head that right now I'm simply calling "Forest Night Theme" because it makes me think of a child walking through a forest alone at night. Calm and peaceful, but also with a slight apprehension as to what else could be lurking in the forest.

Anything you all think it might absolutely benefit from, or anything that just should be dramatically changed? I know in its current state it's rather boring since most of the parts are static...planning on spicing things up once I have a good skeleton to hang everything else off of.

I'm a fan of grooveboxes and other do-it-all gear. It gets me away from the computer and lets me focus on just making music, and typically there's some kind of limitation to force creativity.

Here's what I've got.

• Roland Verselab MV-1
• Akai Force
• Synthstrom Deluge
• Sonicware SmplTrek
• Roland SH-4d (though I technically use this one solely as a synth module, but still)

Bonus points if you've got tracks you want to share! Like I made this track on a Maschine+ and then mixed in post in Logic. https://soundcloud.com/ndguardian/dreams-of-loss

@Beto - feel free to remove this if you feel like it doesn't belong.

Also full disclosure, I am in no way affiliated with this app other than I just discovered it.

Anyway I was looking around for mobile Lemmy clients since mobile is how I always interacted with Reddit. Seems like it's slim pickings for now for fairly obvious reasons, but I stumbled onto Mlem. It's pretty bare bones at the moment, but it seems to have the core feature set. It also looks pretty nice. If you're on iOS and are looking for a mobile Lemmy client, it may be worthwhile to check it out.

Well, guess it's time to introduce myself. I'm ndguardian, a tech guy by day, (very amateur) music producer by night and gamer the rest of the time. Based out of the midwest US. On that note, technically wouldn't I be more mideast? Definitely more on the eastern half of the US, but whatever.

I don't really have a formal music background...I was in show choir in high school, then as of a few years ago decided to get into synthesizers and grooveboxes. I don't release a ton of stuff, though technically I do have two tracks on Soundcloud. I'll link that at the end in case you care to check it out.

I like to think I have a fairly mixed taste in music, with my preferences ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Hans Zimmer. As for my music production preferences though, I tend to steer more toward ambient and soundtrack-esque music.

Anyway, feel free to hit me up if you have questions or just want to chat.

My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ndguardian