Music Production Tips/Tricks/Bits of Kit

I was going to suggest that talk, he says a few things about the process. I think Timothy Fairplay played bass on the Asphodells stuff too.

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Experiment with the Amp and Overdrive in Ableton.

Paging Eurorack peeps!

Anyone have any recommendations for sequencing in the rack, weighted towards Techno? I’m thinking about the Intellijel Metropolix, downsides are it’s size and cost.

Another query, I have 4 VCA channels free (split over 2 x MI Veils 2020) plus a fair few free LFO’s to use (Doepfer A-145-4, free running and Xaoc Devices Batumi Quad LFO paired with their Samara Utility Waveform Processor. Batumi is clocked and I kinda like it running in the divide mode)

I’ve got two oscillators/voices, the Noise Engineering Loquelic Iteritas, and the ALM Busy Circuits MCO. These are both currently being sequenced with a mix of the Torso T1 and MIDI to CV sequences running on the Blackbox.

What could I do with the spare VCA channels/LFO’s?

Cheese!

Not a euroracker but have a copy of numerology which is cheap and good (and available as an expensive eurorack module)
Nerdseq is the one everyone always talks about - I think it’s “tracker” format ?
Other than that there’s some decent YouTube from surgeon where he explains his eurorack based live setup

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I’ve got the Metropolix and it’s ridiculous. So much you can do with it… I’ve also go an SQ-1by Busy Circuits which I love and you can get things happening super quickly…

I have no clue on the second question. I imagine anything could be messed with via an LFO…

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Nice. I have a fair amount of GAS for the Metropolix - The Squarp Hermod+ looks good too, maybe a bit more menu driven.

I’m down to 40HP left in my case. Might be time to look for a bigger one (actually considering two Intellijel, or the new Befaco 7U cases)

The Squarp Pyramid is great = brain of my setup
The hermod is basically the same gui / ar hitecture from what I understand , very capable and easy to use once you’ve sussed the key combos

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Good to know thanks!

I bought a Metropolis just before the Metropolix was released…

Another option rather than a standalone dedicated sequencer is Expert Sleepers FH-2. In addition to LFOs and envelope generators it has 4 sequencers, you control them with a Launchpad. Expanders are available to give as many CV and gate outs as you need. It takes a while to setup the system to your liking, especially with several expanders, but it’s a very powerful system. Especially when you compare the price against ‘heavy hitter’ euro sequencers like Metropolix, Five12, Eloquencer, USTA etc.

Edit: Hermod+ is on my radar too…

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ALM have released some new VCV Rack modules.

https://library.vcvrack.com/ALM-Bundle

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Couldn’t resist… exactly what I’ve been looking for.

Retrokits RK008

Everything else on the market too complex and/or too expensive - Hapax and friends I’m looking at you.

I’m old enough to remember the og (useless fact: the Hardcore Uproar record in the other thread was made on an MMT8) and I’m hoping this one is just as good.

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Interesting! Orbital used MMT8s for years!

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They were the only affordable option just before Atari took over the world!

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U-he Diva. Where have you been all of my life?

This is better than an MMT8, it’s like a parallel world evolution of that. I sold all my synths but this is the perfect little sequencer.

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Anyone have experience of the Adam Audio T5V or TV7 monitors?

Or any better options for a similar price.

I wish I’d bought the Adam’s monitors. Such good bang for buck.

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This looks like a lot of fun

https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-133/

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Yeah, this looks amazing, especially with that £299 price point. GAS intensifies over this!

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Has anyone picked up anything in the black friday sales?

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