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I’m looking mainly at live-streaming, video conf calls, etc. and wondered how this (expensive) mic compares to the other goto mics for voice ?

From the documentary “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound” at 2:27

Wonder what brand that is…

It’s good to see a brand’s future be secured in this way. I felt the same way about Sequential’s acquisition.

https://www.engadget.com/fender-presonus-acquisition-155406145.html

Looks we have some Maono products but they dont have a brand right now and I want to add my Maonocaster :-)

You should celebrate! I had a heart attack about 3 years ago and thought I was gonna die... It's because of that I decided I was not gonna put off indulging in my passion for music anymore which is how I ended up on Equipboard 😁

And what about grooveboxes like the MPC Live, MPC One, or larger Force / MPC-X ? None of these, particularly the MPC-X is exactly portable and I can imagine those are devices that people would have in their home studio... or are you saying only commercial studios count ? 😉

https://pitchfork.com/news/jon-hassell-dies-at-84/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/26/peter-zinovieff-british-composer-and-synth-pioneer-dies-aged-88

Sorry Im coming in late into this thread as someone who has also started getting into modular gear after being into synths for years (Eurorack didn't exist when I first got into synths as a kid in the 80s :-) My advice would be to take your time learning about this stuff, there is just so much choice out there in modular that really its taken me about a year to learn and figure out what kind of modules I want to be playing with. Its way too easy to spend a chunk of money on modules and then realize it wasn't quite what you wanted. YouTube is great in this regard because you can find videos on almost every module. I literally only just started acquiring modules the past few months.

Some (hopefully useful) notes:

• Check out Red Means Recording's or Cinematic Laboratory's or Mylar Melodies' channels on YouTube.

• Mutable Instruments and Make Noise make the most popular / well-known modules.

• modulargrid.net is your friend.

• Cases are mad expensive! Some are really nice though and you can start small but to be clear you WILL run out of space (ie. question is when, not if). I own cases from Intellijel, Arturia (RackBrute), Frap Tools and Moog (who also sell a nice tier rack if you end up with several Moog cases). I have recently started looking into making my own cases (I found Etsy a great place to find modular parts and inspiration).

• I see you've already found vcvrack :-)

@monochrome Are you looking for a standalone box that does this ? You may want to look into granular synthesis because it sounds very close to what you're describing, but Im not sure there is one looping granular synthesis box that does everything you want.

There are plenty of granular synthesis plugins if you're using a DAW, for example Granulator for Ableton Live. For hardware: you may want to look at pedals like the Microcosm from Hologram. (Hainbach did a fantastic video on this pedal. There is the GR-1 Synthesizer from Tasty. In the Eurorack world, there are things like Clouds from Mutable Instruments.

https://www.engadget.com/sony-dat-influence-on-modern-music-production-135054267.html

You're right though it's such an iconic brand you can understand fans' desire for Sequential to be around when we get to Dave's age. I work in tech and I'm older than most of the people I work with so I'm very aware of the ageism in tech. Seems like for the current generation every -ism is banned except ageism 😞

Yeah, Dave is getting pretty old so it’s kinda nice to know the team and the brand have a safe home when he passes. I’d be interested to see if any ideas from Novation make their way into Sequential gear and vice versa.

https://www.wbgo.org/music/2021-04-28/al-schmitt-who-set-the-gold-standard-as-a-recording-engineer-is-dead-at-91

My computer experience pre-dates PCs - my first computer was with an 8bit (BBC Microcomputer). Eventually got a dickless PC with a single builtin floppy disk drive (no hard drive). You had to boot with a "system" floppy disk which you then ejected after its loaded to put in your application floppy disk to load an app.

Later I got into 16bit bit and I still have two Atari STs in my parents attic :-)

Holy moly https://www.musictech.net/news/industry/focusrite-acquires-analogue-synth-powerhouse-sequential/

I doubt many people will remember Steinberg Pro 24... :-D

https://www.musicradar.com/news/best-beginner-daws

Thanks!

https://sports.yahoo.com/julien-baker-dispenses-hard-truths-161711397.html Anyone know what guitar she is using here ?

I would love to maybe see a "Studio Tours" section for artists with maybe a player for a YT or Vimeo (or whatever) video of their studio...

Just out of curiosity, what kind of mixer were we talking about here ?

Holy crap https://www.musictech.net/news/gear/analogue-solutions-colossus-fourth-production-run/

So Rupert Neve died...

I' m curious about these new mini macs and where that's going for the power macs, but the whole system is not upgradeable, classic apple bullshit.

Personally, like my router, I upgrade my computer every few years anyway so its not an issue for ME. I always believed we would have machines with many many cores years ago so in many ways Intel has held us back - its only increasing cores now because AMD is pushing it to do so. We do need more competition and more choice in personal computing.

Im waiting to see how the Apple M1X machines turn out out though I fully expect them to be high performance machines, even the low-end models. Im thinking maybe an M1X iMac for the studio Im building would be perfect, assuming Ableton's M1 native binary gets released in the next 6 months. Apple was an early investor in ARM so what took them so long? :-)

Also I might have a look at Cubase... https://www.musictech.net/tutorials/cubase/free-cubase-video-tutorial-series/

https://djmag.com/news/ableton-announces-live-11-release-date

I thought I read some not so kind words about deadmau5 awhile back in this thread, but I came across his MasterClass and wondered if it was useful - anyone taken it ?

that sound track was pure gold, especially nun with a motherfucking gun

Was just listening to it. Again. I kinda obsessed on it when it came out. Still trying to figure how they got certain sounds...

(I don't think I would have caught it either way, though I love me some Watchmen)

Read the graphic novel in my teens but what I really loved about the recent TV series was the great work Reznor et al did on the soundtrack (movie, TV and game soundtracks are kinda my thing).

Now... as to which of these are worth the time to watch, which is what you're probably asking anyway: that's a great question I don't have an answer to.

Bingo. It’s a bit like picking a DAW - you guys seem to use several because one doesn’t seem to cover All The Things. (I wish someone would write the definitive comparative guide to DAWs)

That said, in my personal experience, Software Engineers have a better handle on how to push themselves through learning new things than the population at-large.

There’s always new shit to learn in tech to just stay relevant 😉

You've probably had to learn a few different languages and new design patterns, etc over the course of your career.

At this point I’m not an expert on any specific language because years ago I realized it was more important to cultivate the ability to understand and learn fast whatever I need to build stuff, so yeah I’ve probably used a dozen languages and various frameworks but I’ve become more of a generalist the past decade. The pace in tech is simply too fast to become and stay an expert in any specific thing. And yeah, I realize that sounds worse than it actually is.

1. Use whatever approach to learning new things has worked best for you thus far, and ignore anyone who insists you deviate too far from that.

2. Prioritize advice from artists and mix engineers who are directly-responsible for tracks you personally love, tracks you'd be happy to use as mix reference tracks for you own work... and take any advice from anyone else, especially internet people with no tracks posted (like me) with a grain of salt. ;)

Sounds reasonable though what works for me has evolved over the past year. I have never thought of YouTube as a source of great learning material for anything for example, but I’ve learned a lot about synths and modular gear over the past year by watching. I’ve always loved books but have grown to really hate dry books so books have become tricky. Depends very much on the style. I’ve started looking at the many online courses that have sprung up over the past few years but those are a mixed bag.

what bothers me about all this stuff is its not really teaching you....

Personally Im happy learning about mixing. But does anyone have recommended resources to do so ? Books, classes, courses, whatever ? Ive found it hard to find stuff about mixing that allows me to learn at home at my own pace (don't want to be gathering with other students during lockdown - I would be classed as slightly vulnerable).

Remembering back to when buying an Alesis Andromeda was the only new analog poly on the market... what a glorious time for analog synths we currently live in! I'm sure I'll love the PolyBrute once I get a chance to actually play one. :)

Sorry, I had to share this too: https://youtu.be/vqXysMoM5fg

:thumbs_up:

Suggested replacement: https://medias.arturia.net/images/products/microfreak-vocoder/vocoder-01.jpg

Well, the Flow 8 uses a smartphone as the UI.

If you don't need a mixer, apart from Zoom, maybe a simple dedicated recorder like Sony PCM D100 ?

I think we're way over-thinking this customer's needs. He needs something super basic, that will take him from start to finish. As in, he can record multiple tracks and bounce them down to a stereo output (like many smartphone apps these days). Who knows why he is averse to computers. Maybe he doesn't own one. I don't judge. But talking about Dolby vs dBx, all that is way over his head. He's a total novice.

Maybe look at entry-level stuff that holds your hand like Behringer Flow 8 ?

Also curious to know what the story on Zoom converters is all about...

live's on sale now with a free upgrade to 11 when it comes out

I saw that, but my priority right now is a mixer / audio interface. I like the Arturia gear but Ive been looking seriously at the Zoom LiveTrack 12 which can multitrack to an SD card or work with a DAW. Don't know how they compare to the new Onyx gear from Mackie... also need to get a new home laptop - Im waiting to see the M1 version of Apple MBPs or iMac (I'd probably want the M1 version of Ableton Live 11 when the time comes).

At home I have Cubase (need to update to 11, begruding the fee LOL),

Im happy to see Steinberg are still around even if its a totally different product. But you have to laugh when you see something like the PolyEnd Tracker or this thing.

Roland sold you plugins in a keyboard essentially....

Yeah they're riding on their past somewhat... not that their current line-up and the Boutiques are not nice (I have the SH-01A and plan to get more) but needing to use their cloud app to edit patches in software simply doesn't appeal.

I think Arturia spurred IK into the arena too and of course Behringer, would Uli be cloning if he hadn't seen Arturia go toe to toe with korg in the heap seats?!

Of course, people love to hate on Behringer but Im just happy they are making stuff we can afford that is very close to how vintage gear works / sounds. Still waiting to see how their OB-X and CS-80 clones stack up. Im also currently building with their cloned System 100m modules and mounting them in a 6U RackBrute (that's right, using Behringer modules in an Arturia rack to build a Roland modular, yeah :-)

I digress, arturia knows what's up! I certainly want a polybrute and I'm sure I'll talk myself into it eventually when theyturn up used.... at the moment the prophet 10 is the enxt giant synth purchase, sorry new guys, its Dave. SO\ometimes I wish he was my dad...

Arturia have been making all the right moves. I think Korg are doing good things too - the Volcas are an affordable way for kids to jam, not going to knock it and I have to applaud their ARP reissues, will probably get an Odyssey module eventually. The Prophet 10 is a beast but even more expensive than the PolyBrute. Just feel the PolyBrute brings so much new exciting stuff to the table - Marc Doty has made more videos on that one instrument than anything else so it must have struck a (ahem) chord :-D

I miss my ST, creator, pro 24... stable as hell for midi... no PCIs like when I went PC.... none of these thunderbolt cables.... although reording audio? fire up the teac 8 track!

I don't have a lawn but the kids today are like "here's a video of me multi tracking to cassette on my retro 4-track" - I swear that showed up in my 'Tube feed the other day :-)