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(37 replies, posted in Audio Production)

walter b. gentle wrote:

oh lol. dont listen to me then. but i can say ive never seen anyone on the forums refer to reason that i can remember at least. hopefully someone helpful can chime in. q

Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I was simply trying to explain my affinity for Reason. I know a lot of people are apprehensive about using Reason for the fact they don't use plug-ins. And even recently with the unveiling 3rd party plugins, it kinda a proprietary plug-in, not a standard like VSTs.

Saskrotch wrote:

i use reason and ableton together

I've never been able to get into the workflow of ReWiring them together. Do you recommend I try? What are the benefits?

SketchMan3 wrote:

I don't really use them for true fakebit (well, I did once...), but I do use them a lot.

What do you mean by "true"? I might have a misconception on the definition of fakebit...

nitro2k01 wrote:

Doing this will not sound as "dirty" as say a Gameboy because a Gameboy has other artifacts like DC offsets that create various clicks and a 16 step volume envelope.

If you're actually using Reason (and not stuck with Reason 5.0 for "unspecified reasons", *cough* *cough*) I recommend you check out the rack extension PX7, which is Prop's own DX7 emulator. I'm sure you could make it do some more simpler FM sounds that could fit into a fakebit context. Maybe add some bitcrushing to that (Scream 4 in the "digital" mode, low damage control and adjust parameters P1 and P2 to taste.)

Awkward 'cause I'm still on 5.0. It's a legit copy(I'm a personal anti-piracy), but I haven't been able to shell out the money for the upgrade, even though it $100. I've played with PX7 on demo of 6.5, and liked it, ALMOST made me get the upgrade. I have been using Scream4, but funny enough, not on digital, I feel like it's to harsh for melodies, especially when I use the RPG 8 Arp, because it tends to stack.

You mentioned added artifacts, do you think maybe there's a way to emulate them? It'd be cool.

nickmaynard wrote:

the maelstrom has some great synth sounds (square waves, triangle waves, pwm) and i'm pretty sure it comes with nanoloop drum samples. also the nn19 has a lot of great patches in a folder called "synth raw elements". you can find a lot of "fakebit" synths in there.

Stupidly, I never actually looked at the presets/patch bank, thanks for the heads up, I'll check'em out

shintaroumusic wrote:

I hope this is the kind of feedback you're looking for

0hm@hgawd, this is beautiful.

One thing I like doing is all under a Combinator, take two synths, both with a Scream 4 and RPG 8. But one RPG8 is an octave drop and the other an octave up, them use the Spider merger. Sometimes I'll set the Arp rates at different speeds. So when I hit a chord, it'll activate both synths, and it'll give a Daft Punk Tron-esque sound.

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(37 replies, posted in Audio Production)

walter b. gentle wrote:

aww i see. id be lying if i said i knew much about how you would go about it but im assuming you would need to find a way to play some simple waveforms on whatever reason uses to generate synths. or like monkeymook said you could go straight sample based.  i thought a lot of people used fruityloops and ableton for that kind of stuff. ive always kinda liked sunvox and renoise better cause of the tracker interface but that might turn you off.

You see I'm a sound engineer, so I'm real comfortable with the Rack GUI. I don't know if you've ever played with Reason, but there's a million ways I could do fakebit, I know I have my ways, but I really am interested in seeing how other people approach it. And sometimes GUI isn't everything, I prefer LSDj over nanoloop.

BTW Sunvox looks awesome. I'll have to set aside some time and mess with it.

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(37 replies, posted in Audio Production)

walter b. gentle wrote:

maybe i misunderstood. yeah lots of people do. i dont know anything specific about reason though. im sure it will run all the chip vst's available.

edit: i personally use sunvox. no vst's. but some sweet synth generators that can be used for chip like sounds. its more of a tracker than a full fledged daw though i think.

Yea, that's the thing. Reason doesnt do VSTs. That was the motivation behind the post. I have Ableton Live, but I hate it, so I dont feel like using ReWire.

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(37 replies, posted in Audio Production)

walter b. gentle wrote:

how do you make "fakebit" without a daw?

Never said you could. I just asked if anyone out there was making any.

Hiya,

I was wondering if anyone out there is making chiptunes with Reason (or any other DAWs, for that matter)?

What are your favourite instruments? Effect?
Any effective techniques? Simple?
Or anything else, I've talk to a lot of people about producing on LSDj or Piggy, or Nitro, but never higher-end DAWs.

-PMoon

EDIT: Also, if you make fakebit, I'd love to hear it

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(6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Thanks. I'll try both!
The exporting separate channels sounds pretty nifty!
-PMoon

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(6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Hey all.
I apologize in advance for reposting, as far as I've seen I haven't seen this case.

I have LSDJ on my EMS 64M card, and have a bunch of my songs on there that I'd like to transfer to computer to emulate. I used the provided EMS Link software to read the save file. I opened VBA on my computer started LSDJ but when I tried to load the .sav, it gave me an error saying it wasn't  a VBA-specific .sav. At first, I thought it was the difference of versions, so I read the actual LSDJ.gb but even then it wouldn't work. I'm guessing its a difference of file structure, but I'm not entirely sure. Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance

EDIT: The reason I'm doing this is to record an album. So if another emulator is a fix, I'd be nice to have internal audio recording, like VBA, but beggars can't be choosers.

-PMoon