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(97 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

thursdaycustoms wrote:
Zef wrote:

Yup, I've tried using a headphone splitter in reverse, it does weird things to your stereo and really just doesn't sound good.

That being said, if anyone gets a Stereo solution to this problem that's small and cheap, let me know and I'll pre-order one pronto. I don't have a mixer and I do a lot of 2xLSDJ work, so this would be a Godsend. THISMEANSYOUTHURSDAY (still using my Thursday-boy daily, VERY nice work smile)

Awesome!
Yeah I'll see what I can come up with tonight if possible. I'd like it to have two stereo inputs with panning and one head phone output.
Should I do all jacks 1/8"? 1/4" would be more my style but 1/8" would obviously save space.

I understand it's less rugged, but my whole set-up is rigged in 1/8" right now so that's my preference. It's easy enough to get an 1/8" to 1/4" converter cable for those who need it.

Ahh, that's too bad. Seems like something that would be useful; In that case I don't really need the USB version and might just go for the standard Xenyx 802.

bryface wrote:
Zef wrote:

I'm looking at this:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHQ802USB

Super cheap, got all the inputs I need.
The USB out should let me record each channel separately into my DAW right? Can anyone clarify on that?

Can anyone comment on this one?

i can't really answer your questions, but that mixer actually looks really interesting!  it's a relatively new mixer in the xenyx line?

my current live setup involves a XENYX 1202FX + a breakout audio interface + laptop for effects, but i'd like to streamline that setup as much as possible, by having a smaller mixer with less inputs, and by taking the audio interface out of the equation.   this might be right up my alley (assuming it actually sounds good enough).

Yeah, from the reviews apparently the USB interface isn't the greatest, but I think it's still worth me checking out for that price. I believe it's brand new as of this year, someone in the reviews said it uses USB 1, which seems unlikely and rather silly to me.

I'm looking at this:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BEHQ802USB

Super cheap, got all the inputs I need.
The USB out should let me record each channel separately into my DAW right? Can anyone clarify on that?

Can anyone comment on this one?

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(97 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

thursdaycustoms wrote:

That will cut volume when both are playing. It's not balanced at all and you will run into more trouble than its worth.

Yup, I've tried using a headphone splitter in reverse, it does weird things to your stereo and really just doesn't sound good.

That being said, if anyone gets a Stereo solution to this problem that's small and cheap, let me know and I'll pre-order one pronto. I don't have a mixer and I do a lot of 2xLSDJ work, so this would be a Godsend. THISMEANSYOUTHURSDAY (still using my Thursday-boy daily, VERY nice work smile)

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(21 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hey there Andrew, you do some well informed writing, I like the writeups you do for the ChipWin group. I'll never turn down free marketing that's for sure. You ought to find something to sink your teeth into here: http://danimalcannon.bandcamp.com/album … processing

Wow, that's an absolutely SICK lineup, sweet tour guests too, I'd love to hear Kitty Pryde team up with you lot. Not to mention EC smile
BTW, Come to Saskatoon/Winnipeg/Edmonton/Calgary, KTHXBYE

TalkPolite wrote:

Actually spent some time looking into the music he had on his page after I wrote that. At the time it was meant as a joke, because the thread seems to have died down to jokes and random shit anyway.

Haha, no worries mate, I'm just being silly.
It's a very lively [and opinionated] community, we welcome enthusiastic newcomers, but we tend to also put them through the wringer so they learn what's important to us here. Looks like you made it through initiation for the most part. I'd agree with what people have suggested about building into existing groups though, at least until you're a little more versed in the scene.

And lurk a lot too.
Cheers.

I'm seriously considering giving up on this whole forum thing and just going to try making some of this "Chipmusic" stuff you guys seem to like talking about. Yeah. I think I'll do that.

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(5 replies, posted in Collaborations)

I don't mean to be rude, but it's considered poor taste to ask for music without at the very least posting screenshots, game video, or a link to past works. Music typically isn't required until very late in the development process and asking later saves us all the trouble of working on music for a game that may not make it through to completion.

That being said, best of luck to you.

If you only want it for bass drums then just make sure the instrument you're using is Manual then run this instead (replace $ with number of synths to skip):

F-$0
---
H-01

As far as cutting sample speed with a command, I couldn't find a normal way to do it, but I did discover a rather cool work-around; try this:

CYM I$$ PF0
--- I-- P00

Or you can run the P commands in a table if you like
That'll pitch bend the sample down real quick then hold it there, by fiddling with the PF0 you should be able to get it to sound about the right pitch (with even more precision than 0.5x) unfortunately the sample will still only last as long as a 1x playback, but you can work around that by using R commands or turning loop on for the instrument.

These are all work arounds of course, but that seems the only option at this point.

Also thanks for getting me to mess with things a bit, just discovered some cool effects using V on samples.

Let me know if you need anything else.

No deep cloning a pattern doesn't deep clone instruments.

You can however clone instruments if you want, just hold select then press B, A over an INS number in the phrase screen.

nickmaynard wrote:

Have you tried cleaning unused instruments?

I suppose i should have asked this first, but really the complicated methods are by far the most fun smile

It's doable yes, and actually quite easy. First I'd preferably use a synth in manual mode, just makes things easier. Then all you do is run an F command for the number of Synths you want to skip. To skip to the next one its F-10, skip 2 is F-20, and so on.

Then if you want to increment through that instrument use a series of F-01 commands, so if you wanted an instrument to play through smoothly on the synth 3 ahead it would be:

0 - F-30
1 - F-01
2 - H-01

Run groove commands in the right hand column to change playback speed. Ex: running a 6-6 groove would be equivalent to a synth of speed 6, 3-3 groove equivalent to speed 3, etc.

Hopefully that helps, not too tough to use. If you want to do pingpong effects it's harder, but is doable with a little logic and thought.

Are you sure you can't just alter some of your pulse instruments to free up more instruments though? I think that would be easiest.

I skimmed over it, great job, must have taken a lot of work. Props for actually using a screencap rather than just videotaping the screen.

This'll really help people learn, you cover a lot of pretty advanced techniques.

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(25 replies, posted in Releases)

This is prime stuff, really clean and definitive sound. I'm digging it.

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Ex.
1. DC
2. A
Etc.

Any ties will be decided by random draw, good luck. It'll run 48 hours, ending 10 am March 4th NYC time.