81 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(73 replies, posted in General Discussion)

chunter wrote:

Soundcloud limiting downloads without a subscription is news to me, but I've had a subscription for about nine months now, mainly to have the extra space and not need to delete things or make an extra account. I don't mind the extra stats but the only ones I really look at are the geographics.

Without Soundcloud Premium Solo (or above), each song can only be downloaded 100 times. You need to pay 9 Euros a month (or 79 a year) for unlimited free downloads of your songs.

http://soundcloud.com/premium/free

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82 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(73 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Edward Shallow wrote:

from the inability to arrange albums other than 'by release date'

Click on your name, profile, then scroll down to Discography and select custom order, then drag into the order you'd like.

Edward Shallow wrote:

the insistence of PayPal only

PayPal is not required.

http://bandcamp.com/buying_without_paypal

Edward Shallow wrote:

and the lack of user support.

I've never had to deal with them, so I can't comment on that.

Edward Shallow wrote:

Not only that, but the 'free downloads' function is a fucking joke.

I can agree with you here, but even Soundcloud limits your free downloads without a subscription. You can see why they did it.

Also, you can easily get around it by posting a Mediafire link in the description of your album (that actually might be better, because you could limit the high-quality downloads to paying customers).

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83 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(47 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

If I remember correctly, nizzemanden is from Denmark.

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84 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(27 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Jotie wrote:

I got a .sav file from superfriendly pandastar which explained a lot about adding random effects to me. Whole sequences of crazy Pitch-shifts, and V-commands that worked great.

Studying other people's SAVs is great. Don't know where to get some though, I heard you could buy some somewhere

You can get loads from here.

http://lsdsng.com/songs

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85 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(95 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Telerophon wrote:

The best guitar is the one that you enjoy playing and enjoy hearing yourself play.

Incidentally, the same thing is true about your game boy or literally anything else you use to make music.

This. I've used a 5th hand beat to shit £30 acoustic guitar for years because of the way it plays and sounds. It has given me endless inspiration. If you can find one of those instruments that just feels right (a GB, a violin, whatever it may be), make sure to hold onto it and take care of it.

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86 Topic by Sycamore Drive

(0 replies, posted in Trading Post)

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87 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(134 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

ForaBrokenEarth wrote:

How do you alter the groove on just one channel?

Just put G01 at the CMD 0 position of every PHRASE screen in your WAV channel, and change the groove to 3/3. If you double up on your CHAIN screen, it will run in line with the other channels on the SONG screen, but you'll be able to fit in twice the number of notes in the same time as before.

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88 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(134 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Invisible Robot Hands wrote:

One wav channel can be used to hold kicks and bass notes by alternating between them.

A good way to achieve this is to use a 3/3 groove on your wav channel (where it would normally be 6/6 so it runs at twice the normal speed), because it gives you the opportunity to push those kicks and bass notes closer together. That should help if anyone is finding it difficult to maximise that space in their channel.

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89 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(134 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Direktor wrote:

Also, being able to run one Game Boy through effects (like chorus, lots of reverb aso.) is a big plus.

If you were willing to hard-pan your channels left and right, and you used an audio cable that splits 1x stereo to 2x mono, you could run the left or right side to effects pedals/units. So you could achieve this kind of setup with just one Game Boy if you use it creatively.

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90 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(69 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Mod Sun sure does keep shady company.

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91 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(52 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

lastfuture wrote:

It would be awesome if somebody made a dedicated LSDJ notebook app for the most popular platforms so we can save the trees. Bonus points for sharing capabilities. 20x bonus multiplier for a built in emulated preview.

You're trying to be funny right?

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/lsdj-pa … 65867?mt=8

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92 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Goughy wrote:

A red backlight looks really nice too. The whole red/black thing looks good, but it looks best with a DMG. I'm not sure about other devices. As for biversion-inversion, I don't know much about that. All I know is that with experience, the bright red backlight does make everything much easier to see, and is also really useful if you want to use it with a DMG in dark light.

Take into account colour blindness though when you buy (if that sort of thing affects you), because I've tried out red backlights and found them to be the most difficult to see hands down. Green/blue/white are really bright and clear.

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93 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Men of Mega wrote:

But than again: anyone wants to do a split? big_smile

seanmonistat wrote:

i'd love to do a split with someone.

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94 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(34 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

I love it. This has been my setup for 2012.

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95 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(97 replies, posted in General Discussion)

▒▒▒ wrote:
electricloverecords wrote:

i have, i agree.  it's just a dream.

still, if the price was right and i could make some electronic music vinyl and sell them for like 5 or 6 bucks, people might be into it.

yes, it seems pricing alone is too much for one person.. quick thought:
select 4 artists (yourself included) from your site/label for a 4 way split (i.e one track per artist, 2 tracks per side) contact them, if they are also interested to hear/release on record format then split the cost between the 4 of you, lightens the load money wise, plus allows you to check out the quality of said records
or in a similar vain, find similar labels who are interested to go physical and team up, joint label releases split the costs, promote each other etc etc...

^ This is great advice. It really works for punk bands (I love split 7'' releases, and I've bought many over the years), and makes shifting a pressing of 200-300 pretty viable if you split it 4 ways. At 33 1/3 rpm you've got plenty of space too. You could even go wild and do a 12'' compilation release, and split the pressing 10 ways.

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96 Reply by Sycamore Drive

(30 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Feryl wrote:
Telerophon wrote:

That said, how hard is it to find out on google that Anamanaguchi uses an NES, not a Game Boy?

I know, right?

Ehh, they actually use BOTH (they use a GB in the song Mermaid).

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