161 Reply by Sesska

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Shaturu wrote:

EBook or book in mind that allows me just to learn the bare basics of whatever I need to know to start with LSDJ ()

i think you get 2 things mixed up... the tool and the Goal

LSDJ is a tool, you have to learn how to control it, as you would do for a guitar, flute or whatever
then > LSDJ manual!

Making Music is ''the goal'', which has to do with ''controlling the tool very well'' but not only...


The good news is that you do not need to get into boring/complicated stuff to get into it...
you have thousands of free site explaining very well the basics you will need for both understanding how music is made AND make your own


Shaturu wrote:

will that suffice?

depends on what you want to do...

for me absolute basics would be

- how Major scales work
- how chords are made
- what is the relation between scales and chords

in order to be able to built coherent melodies / harmonic backgrounds

but you can make entertaining sound without this also...

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162 Reply by Sesska

(119 replies, posted in General Discussion)

ice cubes in a bowmore oO

...it's... heresy!! smile

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163 Reply by Sesska

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(because you CAN game on a Gameboy)

had a laugh on this one smile

1) Adding LSDj typically makes the built-in EMS menu fail to work at all.
2) The built-in menu doesn't deal with multiple saves between the games. There are alternative menus that do, but they are not compatible with LSDj's file saving

don't get everything, but sounds shitty then...

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164 Reply by Sesska

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sandneil wrote:

taking songs away isnt likely to increase the value for money ever

this sentence will fill up my boring day at work with deep silent metaphysical self debate smile

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165 Reply by Sesska

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in another life I've worked on some projects for dancing and theater performances (I was on Reason+ friend on turntables then)

it was great for composition to have both general directions for every given tracks AND a global plot to follow... it gives a lot of ideas in terms of samples, instruments to use, different colors to add, a certain rythm to find between tracks.

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166 Reply by Sesska

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all of these fit in 1 bank ? oO

I'll go and try to get some info (what they are, what they acutally do, that is)

I know there is a complete list as a thread above, but hard to guess what is actually worth having.

so thanks for the quick feedback and not having bumped me wink



ps: what do you do with the Nanoloop demo if you can't save anything ?

ps2:

I intend to use my old game boy (real one, found back in my parent's attic, that played double dragon and tetris battles back in the late 80's^^) in a new music project, involving:

- a friend on: Tabla+guitar+looper+guitar multieffects
- me on: flutes+doublebass+looper+bass multieffects... +GB^^

so mostly backtracking with chords waves, maybe some trip-hop / dubbish beats and bass...

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167 Topic by Sesska

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Hi again,

i swear i've (kind of) used the search thing...

The USB cartridge allows to flash another rom on it, right ?

Nanoloop doesn't really run this way if i've understood, maybe something else, synth?  post prod ? or other type of complementary software can be worth having on the card?

I'm aware about PC music softs, and a bit about android ones... but NO clue about what's worth playing with on a GB...


any idea or suggestion ?

ps: do NOT answer ''Tetris''...

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168 Reply by Sesska

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Saskrotch wrote:
herr_prof wrote:

More artist driven records and less genre driven please

I always feel like an album should have a specific feel to it, .

+1

a certain coherence within an album tends to give the artist a ''pro'' aura, it somehow has to tell a story, like the different scenes of a movie.

i feel that it's also a kind of ''respect'' for the audience, not to throw bits of spare tunes all together in a ''album'' smile

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169 Reply by Sesska

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to me Reason (older versions than 3 at least) just popped up as the most intuitive, easy and versatile music making program... i've tried both FL and ableton live and never acheived to get more than 1 or 2 yacky loops running on these.

Can't wait to get confortable with LSDJ now smile

the Caustic app. on android looks very-very nice, though my device never allowded to run it...

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170 Reply by Sesska

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hi

thanks for your feed back and trick, I'll try to learn LSDJ first any way, keyboard fun will come much later (I got 2 spare din PC boards at home, so total investment is +/- 6$ for the ps/2 kit, nothing too terrible)

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171 Reply by Sesska

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PleaseLoseBattle wrote:

I'm from France !

actually near by my place (LePuy)

are you the same ''loosebattle'' i've worked with once on the samplestation forum oO

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172 Reply by Sesska

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sandneil wrote:

i think it was most popular in france



yes it was !!

I had one as a kid \o/
should still be in my parent's attic

... hours on barbarian, chopping heads off ^^

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173 Reply by Sesska

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ouch, is it then worth getting the ps/2 kit along with the blank USB cardridge and make the hardware solding and so on ?

the info i've had on the net about the pc keyboard did not mention all this mess, and actually prentended it worked rather find...
I kinda enjoyed the idea of a physical interface, being rather ''instrumentist'' than computer freak

is it worth the hassle ?

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174 Reply by Sesska

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@bitman: great story!

reminds me of many ''C scenes'' we have made in local festivals (and surely will again) smile

don't you have ''specialised clubs'' in the US ?
I remember when being student at edimburgh that we could choose between big beat, drum and bass (long time ago, I know), latino, funk and so on...

people there where here to get wasted, hopefully find someone AND listen to the music.

playing specific ''niche'' orientated in a regular foam-wet-teeshirts place is VERY courageous...

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175 Reply by Sesska

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hello,

don't know if that helps:

http://randscullard.com/CircleOfFifths/UserGuide.htm

print a simple circle of fifth, FCGDAEB like this one:

what you have to remember on this (well everything is interresting but might be somehow a pain to go through) are 2 tricks:

1/ the very easy way:

Pick a random chord in the circle, let's say D

Play the 2 ''neighbourg'' chords, D>A>G

The Beatles have earned quite a lot of money with this...


2/ variation:

pick a random chord, let's say C

pick a second chord in the circle, let's say A

go back to the first one following the circle down, C>A>D>G>C
you can substitute some of these by their ''minor relative'' shown on the circle

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176 Reply by Sesska

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i occasionally play klezmer music with my friends here in jerusalem...

cool, on which instrument ?

Hi,

maybe one day you and i can combine our european folk music knowledge with that of chip music and make some interesting stuff together : )

hi, no pb, this will surely end up in some Korebeiniki-like battle smile

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