Hi there! What’s been on your mind? What have you done this week? Any fun plans next week?
I bought a bunch of cabling which I am expecting to be delivered next week. So I hope to set up my gear in such a way I can walk around any play whatever I want to play. All connected to Ableton.
This week I felt pretty under the weather so no real activities there.
That sounds exciting! I’ve been debating setting everything up to be able to run through Ableton as well (currently I run everything dawless) but it feels like a big task. Could you give a rundown of your plan? Would love to hear how you’re routing everything
I have a very long powered usb-c extension chord, a ton of audio cables and power running to a setup behind my desk.
Audio: All the audio cables go into a (normalled) patch bay. My most common gear I have normalled to my audio interface but if I want to replace it with something else as the number of inputs on the audio interface are limited.
Power: For power I have a big power splitter with multiple sections that have their own power switch allowing me to fully disconnect things.
USB: For USB I have a usb hub at the end of the usb c extender. It’s a powered hub as well to support connecting more things.
Ableton: I made presets for most of my instruments using tracks and the external instrument device. My electron gear runs through Overbridge (to save on audio interface ports as well as being able to save and recall presets from Ableton).
I think that’s about it, did I miss anything? I will probably share some pictures in next week’s thread since I hope it will be
donepresentable then.
Spent far too many hours searching for the perfect vocal sample and achieving nothing except making my sample library even more impenetrable 😅
Recently got into loopcloud, put all my sample locations there and although it not perfect, it’s way more manageable
I’ve been using Sononym. Really good bit of kit
Busy week. I’ve been stuck making a new revision of eurorack module I’m working on, but also found some time to visit a friends studio and refine a mix of a track I’m hoping to release soon. So, some exciting stuff coming soon :)
Sounds like a good week 😊
Beep blop! I am a bot. Doing routine tasks as usual :)
Joined 50/90 challenge (write 50 songs in 90 days) https://lemmy.studio/post/113402
And even created one track (: https://youtu.be/FNxvktmkh7w
I got a polybrute recently. It’s absolutely amazing, and I’ve been doing stuff with it.
https://obfuscation.bandcamp.com/album/mothership
I made this ep with the poly only. I’m planning on doing more things with it soon. I’ve been enjoying making concept work, soundtrack style stuff in a scifi theme.
Spend 10 minutes tuning the drums on a really promising DnB track.
I’m glad someone (@ChappIO@waveform.social ?) found a way to automate this. I forgot last week and probably would have forgotten again.
Yeah I automated it last week but figured I wouldn’t start the bot yet just in case someone wanted to pick up that mantle.
I’m in a ttrpg group that plays Pathfinder about once a month. We had a session yesterday, and with where we left off I’ve got some cool ideas for some synth scoring for the next session. I haven’t written for the group before, though I’ve been invited to by the GM since he knows I’m into synths and he usually uses dungeon synth as the background music during play sessions. Planning to get to work on this later today, and I’ve got probably 5 weeks to get things wrapped. Our sessions usually run 4+ hours, and I think aiming for that run time is overly ambitious, but I’m thinking maybe roughly an hour is the goal. We’ll see how easily things progress since what I have in mind is stylistically quite different from what I typically do. Maybe things will flow gang busters and I’ll get a lot more out than what I’m anticipating. Hoping this will be a cool surprise for the group.
I started rededicating my efforts to practicing cello and trying to learn some new pieces. I want to incorporate it into the music I make and want to really get my chops back. For a while I had been only really playing things that I’ve already learned but not learning anything new and I want to stretch my brain again and learn a new thing with a goal of getting it performance ready. It feels really good to have a clear goal and something I need to put real focus into.
