I need to preface this by disclaiming that I’m a n00b when it comes to hardware compressors and I have pieced together these notes from various trusted and untrusted sources. I should also mention that this comes from the perspective of an electronic musician who is entirely outboard, and one who is in the unusual …
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Speaking piano
It talks! A “speaking piano” reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009. A link in case the embedded video doesn’t work
Upgrade to RS7000
I’ve mulled the upgrade from RM1x to RS7000 over for most of the last month and in the interval had a brief look at my friend’s GenoQs Octopus. While incredibly impressive, I’m not sure a GenoQs is what I need presently. It’s a fantastic tool for creativity and live performance, but I’m not sure it’s …
Memory limitations of the Yamaha RM1x
I wrote a pretty massive post on this topic the other night, which fell victim to back-space malfunction. I’ll try again without further ado… Image courtesy of Darren Stone/Wikipedia I’ve got a couple of gripes with the Yamaha RM1x. Let me preface them by focusing initially on the positives. It’s got 480ppq timing resolution. Evidently …
Sound Sculptures
Some seriously mental experimentation with corn starch, speakers and sound. Watch it dance.
Waldorf Microwave XT
New kit! I had previously convinced myself that my synth shopping was done, but I recently figured out that I would never bother using the ROMpler sounds in my RM1X (still digging it as a sequencer though) and that I didn’t need to be routing the out from my effects box in to one of …
Oh, and check this mix of DS-10 tracks
Not amazing or anything, but gives a decent idea of what can be done with the thing. We were also discussing (to belatedly cite the quotes in my last post) whether or not some of the tracks had been 8-bit compressed afterwards, which was inconclusive. You can grab the comp and the mix of the …
A bit more discussion about the DS-10 from elsewhere
Replies from me: Is it something that you could use to make releasable tracks? Releasable in the regular sense I mean, as opposed to on some release called something like “DS10 Trax” where people would allow it to sound a bit duff because it’s a concepty thing. I’ve not put it through monitors to say, …
Getting to grips with the DS-10
A few comments that I’ve posted up elsewhere: Just had my first proper go on this. It’s pretty cool! Navigation is really friendly and intuitive. The kaos stuff is a nice plus. It’s a shame it’s only got the two synths and four drum patches, but you can use drum patch slots for synth sounds …
Robert Henke interviews D&M guru, Rashad Becker
Many thanks to my friend Stelios for this link. Monolake’s Robert Henke interviews Dubplates & Mastering‘s Rashad Becker about the ins and outs of mastering. Very elucidating reading. Apparently only 2/3 done for now, but definitely worth digging in right away!