Gear lust

[nowaysj]

Hey Frag, what midi channel does the volca keys receive on?

The MIDI channel is set and stored at power-up, again by holding the Memory button and touching a step key, one of many combinations that are common across the range.

Thanks dude!

[nowaysj]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dave-Smith-Inst ... 1583665007

If you want a prophet 08, I bet this is going to go cheap. This is the one that I owned for a day.

[fragments]

Holy shit, I can't even keep up w/ this thread anymore lol. Yea...changing the MIDI channel on the Volca Keys is really easy ;p That Zoom Pedal is great, real stereo I/O chaining FXs is kinda a pain in the ass IMO, but its nice that you can just chain stuff until you run out of DSP.

I really, really shouldn't buy a Micro Granny, but now you have me thinking about it again...then I'm looking at the Volca Sample and thinking...damn...its like a hundo less and has a sequencer w/ lots of awesome step programmable parameters...seems like it would be really sexy for doing weird vocal shit for this spoken word project I'm gearing up for.

I'm supposed to be getting my ass in the studio to today just to record some noodles to chop up later on for the new project...

I'll hook up the Zoom CDR for sure...maybe today is the day to dig into the Volca Keys deeper...

[nowaysj]

Bro, I think the Keys is more capable than you think. I say that, never having touched one, mine being in the mail.

ONCE I figure out my midi sitiation [sic] I'm going to have some FUN!

It is like I've been chasing this hot chick for 15 years, and she is now looking at me with that look, like yeah, it's time now, I WANT YOU INSIDE ME!

[fragments]

I agree, I've not given the Keys a fair chance. I bought it for analog polyphony, like just a module. I think the trick is in the sequencing/recording knob motions etc.

[mks]

Microbrute and Volca Beats just arrived. Oh shit! Damn, I need to do homework too.

[nowaysj]

On a Friday? Nucka?

ON A FRIDAY!?!?

[fragments]

God damn I am loving this hardware craze taking over DSF production...

question though...and its pure curiosity...do any of us even make Dubstep?!

[knobgoblin]

DubStepTM is dead. Long live dubstep!

[nowaysj]

question though...and its pure curiosity...do any of us even make Dubstep?!

Hells of no. And hells bells of no for dubstep on hardware. You know how hard it is to find a sine wave lfo in hardware, in real analog? Not very easy!

But I think of dubstep as a very software/softsynth kind of genre.

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Thinking more about mks's dilemma over there. I can imagine having a microbrute and a freaking volca beats show up. Dude nothing could stop me from getting a little jam going. Damn...

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I would like to see some of y'all performing a live jam. I intend to do something like that once I get setup.

Have been watching SO many people on youtube doing their bedroom live performance.

People get down. And damn, people are so talented now. There used to be a much greater distinction between punters and pros when all this electronic music shit started. I mean, just at the gear level, at the sound level, let alone at the groove/song level. But damn, everyone is so good now.

I could really see like the end of lp's and ep's, and just checking people's performances on youtube! hahah. Strange times.

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V-verb arrived a few days early. Hells of yes. INTERMITTENT NOISE ON AN OUTPUT. Like sometimes when I plug it in, it is dead silent, other times I think it is the right channel, what is it, about -50dbs all kinds of crumbly noise. Think it is a cold solder somewhere on the output? Anybody know of such things? Should I open it up and start soldering away?


The verb, from what I can tell is pretty fucking clean dude. Think I got it for $75, and it sounds like a MUCH more expensive verb. I didn't really get a chance to test it out too much.

OH and I may have blown my tweeters... how you like that? I initialized my Patch Mix, my software mixer for the 1616m audio i/o, and there was a loop out into the v-verb and back into the i/o, which was handled in my previous setup, but forgot about the implications of going to a default setup. Fucking feedback loop went crazy, and there is no knob on the audio io, it is software volume control.

AND and this is a really serious AND: I monitor with my main out at -20db, and it is very loud, like you have to talk really loud and close to be heard over it, the initialization was jacked all the way up at 0db, so it was sooooooooo fucking loud.... SO I go, in an original star trek hand over ears leaning to 45 degrees panic trying to turn it down, but the volume isn't working, the fucker launched a popup, "Do you want to keep these settings?" I didn't see the popup, and it locked me out of the volume control.

Holy shit my ears are ringing. I haven't even set it up again. I don't want to hear the tweeters. But I am tapped out. If those tweeters are blown, I'm done producing for quite some time. Am going to have to take up killing the neighborhood cats or something.

[mks]

^^ That sucks. I had some software go into feedback before, my speakers started popping. I now keep a limiter on the master of whatever I'm working on. I know my amp is fucked, but this is unrelated.

Ghettotech jams at 155 bpm ensued on the Volca Beats. I haven't even unboxed the Microbrute yet.

[fragments]

I just recorded a noodle to sample from.

[knobgoblin]

Al dente?

[nowaysj]

^^ That sucks. I had some software go into feedback before, my speakers started popping. I now keep a limiter on the master of whatever I'm working on. I know my amp is fucked, but this is unrelated.

Ghettotech jams at 155 bpm ensued on the Volca Beats. I haven't even unboxed the Microbrute yet.

So you like the beats? Has sufficient range of sounds? A good sound? How's the noise, like is it noisy?

[knobgoblin]

I've seen a few vids that show simple mods for greatly extending and improving the sound of the beats. The snare got a lot better after a simple tweak. Kick sounds good to. I bet if you modded it for individual outputs and routed it to a mixer or interface it would sound really good.

[fragments]

Al dente?

Yep. Very.

[knobgoblin]

Mmmmm......chewy

[mks]

So far, so good. I'm liking it. I was able to get it going pretty intuitively. I just pulled out the manual for the deeper functions. I started with the internal speaker, and then plugged it into some Philips laptop speakers. I can hear that the kicks and toms can have some bass weight. Can't wait to hear this on bigger speakers. It's got potential for being such a little analog device.

[nowaysj]

Honestly, the three of those are so revolutionary. I was mostly interested in the keys, trying to get my analog poly... But I may end up getting all 3. We'll see how noisy the keys are.

[cyclopian]

Honestly, the three of those are so revolutionary. I was mostly interested in the keys, trying to get my analog poly... But I may end up getting all 3. We'll see how noisy the keys are.

I've used the volca beats for at least one thing in every tune you've heard from me, super fun little boxes. (albeit I do process/mangle the hell out of the beats' sound)

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Also why my mixdowns are typically so gash