I prefer to salt my songs with the BITCH sample.
smile

578

(54 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I can never unsee it

579

(33 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Making me anxious for mine to get here. . . sad
The heart is a nice touch

GET.

I really like CC and UWFC.
moar.

581

(42 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Yeah doing reverb/echo/delay effects on the original hardware is much sexier then using a KP or effect generator. I always do this. It just feels. . . right.

582

(144 replies, posted in Releases)

Frostbyte wrote:

Lol Master Xaiwan is SOOOO different from the copy you had way earlier

lol it's barely recognizable now! Well, not really. wink
I'm glad I have both, though. Really nice.

Telerophon wrote:

It's been demonstrated possible to pro-sound an SP, there's just not a lot of room in the case…

Maybe you guys could do it old school with a hanging cord dongle pro-sound?

Yeah, I've been thinking about just getting a couple of my sps prosounded and custom painted. smile

584

(42 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I use a Y cable every once in a while. My speakers are usually fine for composing most of the time. If I'm composing with a piano, I use portable speakers in each prosounded gameboy. Surprisingly they can compete in volume with the piano if I'm going all out.
But also, since I'm more and more involved with integrating my other hardware with 2xlsdj, I have to use my mixer. Of course I'm also now programming other things so it's a must with all the MIDI I got going everywhere now.

Anyway, composing in 2xlsdj isn't that hard. Just get in the mindset that it's all one big lsdj .sav. I've gotten so used to the process, I walk around with one gameboy composing one half while knowing exactly what is/will be on the other gameboy.
One thing i do to prepare a song is, get an idea of the percussion rhythm and split it between both gameboys. For instance, I like to double up snares with a sampled one, so some typical songs end up like this:

Master:
wav: snare sample on 4 and C
noi: closed hat sequence and other percussionals
Slave:
wav: kick and more sampled percussion
noi: open hat and snare


This kind of gives me the rhythm even when i'm composing on one gameboy. Of course there's still other stuff going on like typical lsdj songs, I'm juggling bass in between them and cramming and stuff. But it helps to percieve hocketing.

Only other ideas to give out is to work with tuning. There's a lot more options for combining sounds too. A pulse 25% and 50% (an octave higher) lead sounds great. Especially if you detune one of them. Like I did in Aphelion, you can make them both play at the same time and have one do response. There's just a lot of new ways to get tiny things out of the program. Experimenting combing wav and pulse sounds, chorus echoes, harmonies, and chords, etc. these are things you've maybe done in 1xlsdj but now have some more freedom and space to do in 2x.

Hope something out of this helps in some way. tongue

spacetownsavior wrote:

I'll be up in norcal from August 3rd-August 10th if it happens around then! definitely willing to play a set! but the Sac-town is pretty far away from where I'm staying so this needs to be like CONFIRMED CONFIRMED if I am to play hmm

Oh shit. Just got real.
hope to have my arduinoboy done by then.

Amity Level 2 wrote:

Frostbyte is always the first one to post on these topics yikes it seems like he created a secret notification algorythm for his phone, that makes a sound if a topic has words like "logo" or "cover" in the name. haha

587

(144 replies, posted in Releases)

Shit. All the versions you played yesterday were amazing. I'm way behind on the music I have to listen to. neutral

588

(24 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I feel like the pocket isn't much better. I never considered my stuff that busy. I don't do any of things mentioned in here, but my dmgs and my pockets can't handle some stuff.

589

(144 replies, posted in Releases)

I should probably listen to Codex soon. tongue

That webshow took up most of my day yesterday and I'm so used to the copy you sent me from before.

Oh. Well I just got another request for a show in Sacramento. I'm so popular smile

Replied in your other thread.

I know of only 2 artists who are really close to the Sacramento area besides myself. It's pretty dead here.
I can take up two spots, one centered around lsdj with microkorg, live effects, drum machine. . . The other, more loop based and improvisational but still chipesque.

But it's up to you.

CTLGS wrote:

i want to get a show in sacramento next month hopefully, I'm friends with this guy who owns a little venue off stockton/broadway area. (The Cave) and he said he's down to throw a show in august. i just need to complete some more songs, but if anyone wants to play there with me, please hollaaa

I am always down. You're who contacted me on Facebook?