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Thanks for the link, interesting reading...

@ Broma, it does work, is stable etc. but I just find the work flow clumsy.

I mostly use it for finger drumming and sampling.... Much as I like it, I find the pads feel nicer to me than the Akai, it's integration with sequencers is pretty shit. Why I can't just record direct MIDI into PT/Logic/Ableton is beyond me. I don't really like arranging anything in Maschine as I'm used to working a certain way. So it's worse in v2? Well at least that means I don't have to fork out any more dosh.

Really nice work man. Particularly liking the drums on Circular Causality.

This Saturday if anyone's in the area. Can probably swing an extra couple of guest list if anyone wants...

Now he's out there's now way I'm watching anymore of this years DMC. For a moment I thought we had a new DJ Nike. 'Skills' are boring as fuck.

I thought it was a good routine. Lots of arm waving and not too much scratching.

I'm in for a giant volume control.

Ok so it's unlikely to be in any consumer device soon but interesting all the same. http://phys.org/news/2014-03-world-d-acoustic-cloaking-device.html It's quite scary that it's a pyramid shape, explains why you can still hear Tupac but not see him IMO. #illuminatitriangle

True indeed. One more week then I have Easter and no more motherfucking teaching for a couple of weeks!

Need to get down to Rye and have a play!

Very cool... Not into the sound of it so much but Mr Macbeth is most engaging.... And I'm sure if I played with it I'd be happy with the bass sounds. The spring is a nice touch.

Thought the cuts were very cool! Something I found useful for recording/live was a book called The Inner Game of Music, it deals with the psychology of performing and dealing with the thought processes that happen when you record/perform. One exercise asked you to read a paragraph of text whilst you played a piece. At first my brain was like fuuuck, I can't read that and drum, then after a minute, I found I suddenly got super tight, as soon a my brain recognised this, I got sloppy. In essence it's about training your brain NOT to think. If you have practiced and know the moves then it's really a case of turning the brain off and letting muscle memory kick it.

No worries, it's an honest opinion. Obviously I dig her sound or I would have never got into it. I like the fact that her voice does sound different. I've recorded quite a few poor, american R&B sounding people before and to my ears that's way more offensive.... Someone said to me once her voice is like Marmite......

Thanks for checking peeps.

From the same shoot as the previous one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBaGgA4tSIk

Fair enough, least you liked a bit of it.... Thanks for checking though.

Nice one and yeah I can't even watch it really.... Just put it out there and let it do it's thing. There's another one to go up soon. I have a pre made sample of her voice but the effects and stuff are done in real time. I want to run her guitar and vox live through my set up, but I can't get the latency low enough. I'm aiming to rebuild the set and get it more CPU effective now that it's just two of us gigging. The new stuff is quite a bit more electronic and I'm doing the drums live on Maschine. Bless up Joel though, very much missed.

Apparently this new Akai has both square and sawtooth waveforms. Such power, so sounds. I just hope they include LED technology on the power switch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAaf8KN6cU

Having a 12 inch circular rotating platter is a bit of a cliche in 2014 don't you think? I'd like to see a 15 inch triangular platter.

That makes sense.... However it doesn't mean that a synth is less capable of sound creation surely? More that it would take longer to do the calculations, which if takes too long, would be impractical in a music scenario. However, we're talking mostly about subtractive synthesis. The Virus has LFOs, envelopes, oscillators and effects. This is not massively taxing in computing terms. (although I think most people would struggle with these calculations given a bit of paper and a £2.99 calculator from Argos).

By the way, if I'm sounding like a bit of a nob in this thread it's because... A: I'm a bit of a nob. B: I watched this earlier and it made me hate everything about the world.

I'm with the digi crew..... (well, aside from using an old Arp). I used to run a Virus Indigo on Pro Tools, The Pro Tools Accel cards used the same Motorolla chips that are in the hardware Virus. The system cost a hell of a lot of (someone else's) money. The new computer here out performs that machine, in fact my laptop probably does. Not exactly a scientific answer but Virus type sounds are achievable in a computer these days, no problem. Something like Absynth gives you FM, Granular, Additive and Subtractive synthesis..... If you have a half decent D/A then you're ultra blessy. Unfortunately fashion, not science drives the synth market.

Hmm it's hard to get too excited about a single oscillator bass synth and 808 clone to be honest. What about a groovebox that contained granular synth alongside some newer drum technology? I guess that wouldn't be Trappy enough though....