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haha, that was seriously the only thing that came to mind when trying to describe it, all I could think of was "sounds like the soundtrack in a david lynch film" if I could chill in a black and white universe and smoke a cigarette, your music would be the perfect soundtrack.
 
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I haven't recorded anything in forever. Been mostly playing jazz and jazz shows.

A Zelda medley I did a long time ago:


Oh, and something I recorded at 6 in the morning, with only a guitar and a keyboard, after a couple bottles of Crown:

 
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Soilwork said:
I haven't recorded anything in forever. Been mostly playing jazz and jazz shows.
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Dope! I'm gonna take a tame guess, that you aren't using a drop tuned 7string for Jazz work.

What sort of rig you running for these shows?
 
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created a soundcloud account out of computer crash paranoia....

https://soundcloud.com/victrambass

Just uploading random parts and half songs to keep the creative process going. At some point this year we'll play our first live show I'm hoping!
 
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i was tinkering around with nexus and found this preset....

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:spock:

:)
 
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Zardoz said:
I decided to rework an old eurodance track "masterboy - show me colours". my version has heavy 303 & no vocals.

if you care to give it a listen: https://soundcloud.com/cylotron/cylotron-90s-dance-303
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303 it ain't but it sounds good anyway :D ;)

The track (specially the bassline) reminds me of "Living on Video" by Trans-X.

Do you use a DAW/computer to make music? If you're looking for a mean little analog bass and drum synths, get yourself a Korg Monotribe, it's inexpensive and gives your sound a lot of personality. Much better than any plugin.
 
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Takumaji said:
303 it ain't but it sounds good anyway :D ;)

The track (specially the bassline) reminds me of "Living on Video" by Trans-X.

Do you use a DAW/computer to make music? If you're looking for a mean little analog bass and drum synths, get yourself a Korg Monotribe, it's inexpensive and gives your sound a lot of personality. Much better than any plugin.
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hi ! ....

sadly i've just been using fl studio so far, but have installed dozens of vst's & have nearly 10gb of .wav samples(drums, hats, etc).

i just got back into music production a few months ago. before that i had not done anything period since around 98 - 99. back then i remember using fl studio as well as cakewalk. i also had a jx-305 & an sp-808 (sold them both long ago though).

i do feel a bit restrictive just using my keyboard/mouse so i do want to get some sort of decent(inexpensive) synth. i will look into that monotribe! ^_^
 
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i totally want a monotribe too, it looks like you can even mod them for about 60 bucks to have midi support.

might be next on my list of musical toys since I just finally finished replacing all the tact switches in my MPC, now it only looks ghetto and busted! but functionally it couldn't be more minty :)
 
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OrochiEddie said:
new track. Beatervention
https://soundcloud.com/calamitydown/beatervention

A less sophisticated track: Bourbonaut
https://soundcloud.com/calamitydown/bourbonaut
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haha you make some crazy noises man, I always dig the vibe. good stuff.

I've really not finished any tracks in awhile myself, mostly just experimenting and practicing, but I have thrown up some small loops of unfinished ideas and shit I might as well post.

https://soundcloud.com/jeeshyness/no-escape
I'm not sure if this is complete... but I have no idea where else to go with it if it's not.

https://soundcloud.com/jeeshyness/peanutbutter-racism
for years I wanted to watch the anime film spriggan, it looked so awesome but I couldn't find the dvd locally and at the time I never ordered online, I finally found it cheap and it came with a soundtrack cd, I never really liked the movie...... but the soundtrack CD got put to a little use here at least :)

https://soundcloud.com/jeeshyness/air-on-the-g-string
this was just a attempt at sampling a piece of public domain classical music and try to make it sound as far from the source as possible

https://soundcloud.com/jeeshyness/lab-loop
Just a little experimenting from today, got tired of messing with it and decided to just throw the loop online and take a break.
 
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This may be only news to me so I appologize if this is common knowledge but I was excited to learn today about MIDI carts for the NES! a cart that has a midi input on it that allows you to play the NES's soundchip with a midi instrument! There is one on kickstarter that seems to be reasonably priced but I think I discovered it at the wrong time as it seems all the 50 dollar donations to actually receive a cart are gone and I don't see any other ordering option just yet.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jarek/chip-maestro-an-nes-midi-synthesizer-cartridge
there is also this other one that seems quite pricey and I've heard the fella that makes em is not too reliable.
http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php
but he certainly has a cooler website :)

Just learning of this possibility I also was interested if something similar has been done with my other consoles, I didn't find much but I did find this genesis one.
http://little-scale.com/
but it seems it's no longer available either :(
 
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There's a similar cart called MSSIAH for C64, bought it a couple of months ago for €49 (about $63), check it out here: http://www.8bitventures.com/mssiah/ . It's still available as far as I can tell. The package contains the cart and a cool sequencer/synth software.

Excellent stuff.

If you want true video game-like sounds, buy a Yamaha FB-01 FM synth and a Philips PMC100, they're both cheap and really wonderful machines.

However, you don't really need special hardware for that nice lo-fi sound if you have a sampler or sampling program that is capable of downsampling to 8bit/2KHz. Try it with some standard square wave samples, FM basses or drums, et voila, there's your ung-tshak-ung-tshak-diggadiggaduggadump sound of the early 80s.

Sometimes I use my Ensoniq Mirage for that purpose. Best old sampling synthesizer ever made, can't go wrong with sampling + juicy Curtis analog VCF and VCA.
 
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