161 Reply by e.s.c.

(617 replies, posted in Releases)

Working on a new environmental sound collapse release for the first time in 4 years, looks like I'll also have a split coming out soon. Plus doing an album of remixes for my d_strct project that's only a few tracks short of being done

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162 Reply by e.s.c.

(5 replies, posted in Trading Post)

kid versus chemical wrote:

I have one, what kind of stuff do you have for trade?

Good to see you're still around, hope he's got something you can use cause i want to hear what he'd do with a sammichFM

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163 Reply by e.s.c.

(7 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

is that a legit GBA slot? might be nice for nanoloop 2.3 if so

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164 Reply by e.s.c.

(14 replies, posted in General Discussion)

PULSELOOPER wrote:

Last time (~3 years ago) I felt cocky about my live setup, I had a gp2x midi-controlling a nord micromodular, a shruthi and an arduinoboy, all of them going thru a bunch or crappy guitar pedals. By the middle of the set, everything started getting out of sync and when the midi-split cable 9v battery died I said OK FOLKS THAT'S IT I'M BRINGING MY LAPTOP NEXT TIME.

during my set at the Hexawe All-Stars Blip '11 afterparty i had the piggy midi freeze on me so i did a quick unplug-repulg mid-song that people for some reason thought was actual showmanship of some sort, not just a random hardware glitch that i was fixing as quickly as possible.. i'm probably crazy, but i sort of liked the possibility that my set could go terribly wrong. kept me on my toes

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165 Reply by e.s.c.

(14 replies, posted in General Discussion)

reserving this space for when i have the energy to find as many live setup pictures as i can from the last 17 years and be bothered to explain them all

for now, i'll just say my current setup is a psp go, a gp2x f200 (both running piggy tracker), a kaoss pad, & a mixer.
before my back went bad, my setups were sometimes pretty sizeable, think a few of my hometown gigs topped 200lbs worth of gear for my audio & visual setups combined

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166 Reply by e.s.c.

(7 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Saskrotch wrote:

how do y'all even know what this is

for real. i have no idea what this would even have been

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167 Reply by e.s.c.

(8 replies, posted in Collaborations)

you didn't even put it in the right place. moved to "collaborations"

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168 Reply by e.s.c.

(4 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

frank angotti is dead wrote:

damn I didn't know glitchSNES was a thing, if anyone has one laying around they dont want I'll buy it lol

it's not

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169 Reply by e.s.c.

(9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i can't remember for sure because i started messing with nanoloop and various game boy/gba music software in 2003 and would throw in samples/loops i made with it in tracks with lots of other stuff going on, but i think this was the first nanoloop-only track i released (probably on mp3.com in 2003, only had enough stuff i liked to put out a full chip album at the end of 2004 but i had an EP i put out in late 2003-early 2004 that i never bothered to put on bandcamp when i was putting almost all e.s.c. stuff on bandcamp a few years ago)
https://e-s-c.bandcamp.com/track/rum-runner

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170 Reply by e.s.c.

(14 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Apeshit wrote:

Open up a paypal dispute as soon as possible. People have been having issues with Transformer for the last decade. He doesn't have a history of cooperating even if you can reach him.

this, x100. nearly every time his name comes up i hear about at least a handful more people who just never got their orders and one or two people who got theirs only after a ridiculous amount of time has passed. surprised paypal hasn't suspended his account at this point

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171 Reply by e.s.c.

(235 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i'm now stuck with severe chronic pain issues in my back & neck. can't work outside of doing a video here & there on commission & weird experimental video art just for myself. that's why i haven't really been doing hardly anything on the music front, i can work through the pain usually only for maybe an hour at a time tops and i always would basically work on music for long stretches of time to get anything i was happy with, with the first 30-45 minutes of any session usually being stuff i'd have to throw out until i got in the right mindset to get the results i wanted. oddly not a big problem for doing remixes, so i've been doing some of those as i can manage it, but it's made working on my own stuff much harder/slower

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172 Reply by e.s.c.

(36 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

_-_- wrote:

Interesting! I hope it will sound accurate.

A shame making it in aluminium and not plastic IMO. I get that a lot of people have an aluminium fetish, but a handheld console makes a lot more sense in a plastic casing.

in what sense? aluminum has been used for everything from business card cases to briefcases to cameras. no reason a game console NEEDS to be plastic, and aluminum has the bonus of helping dissipate heat

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173 Reply by e.s.c.

(6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

i thought lsdj keyboard mode didn't do notes though, more stuff like channel mutes.. never messed with it because, well, mGB exists & i prefer nanoloop for non-midi game boy stuff & LGPT over all game boy stuff (though LGPT controlling mGB is a pretty sweet combo).. well even if it does, mGB is the better choice because it supports volume control over midi

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174 Reply by e.s.c.

(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

yeah, nothing about that sounds like chipmusic. also that video is weak

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175 Reply by e.s.c.

(6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

toasterpastries wrote:

Two options: a guitar with MIDI output, or converting the guitar audio to MIDI

The first option is a guitar with a MIDI pickup. This is usually expensive and varies in performance. I have a Roland GK kit with a GI-20.. pretty old stuff, and it is not totally reliable. You have to play very deliberately and it does not do legato/bends reliably. You have to hit notes pretty hard to get them to come through reliably. Newer hardware is probably more reliable. I would be willing to bet that Aethernaut uses a violin with MIDI hardware built-in.

The second option is trying to use software to convert audio to MIDI. This also suffers from reliability issues, though honestly I haven't tried any software for this in at least 8 years.. it might have come a long way since then.
If you're going for something that will work in real-time, LSDJ probably isn't your best option as you'll have no control over dynamics... it won't matter if you play notes louder or quieter, they'll all come out of the GB at the same volume. mGB would probably be more reliable but lacks in some sound options.
Either way you'll need an Arduinoboy to get the MIDI into the Game Boy.

unless they added it in lsdj since i stopped caring about lsdj, lsdj can't translate midi note input to notes out of lsdj. pretty sure for game boy it'd have to be mGB or pushpin (and mGB is the btter option of the two)

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176 Reply by e.s.c.

(83 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Moriadri wrote:

I dont know if this was asked before but, there is any tutorial or book about LSDJ with instrument setting presets to make for example flute sounds and things like that ? I love touch all options, but dont like spend 3 hours for "find" horse diying instruments.

please share "horse dying instrument" patch. kthxbai

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