Esperado

Oh boy count me in! Ive got plenty of gift ideas this year too!

#Sludgepop. Its like Vaporwave but with more pop and less reverb.

I know that videogames and cosplay go hand in hand for many people around the world. There have got to be some cosplayers on here so lets see those cosplays! It doesnt matter if youre a beginner or a professional cosplayer, share the love!

Ive got one cooking, should be done in time!

You supposedly can run midi through the lightning to USB adapter(the same one you need for the Scarlett interface) and just a plain usb midi cable. That is assuming you only need one midi input at a time.

Come on guys, dont leave me hangin!

For real! what a turnout this week! Glad to be able to participate. Voted, and everyone seemed to have a different take on things which was nice!

Wow youve really cleaned it up and made things more organized! you werent kidding!

That myst soundtrack! hnnnggg

subbed. Castlevania goes Christmas! (sortof)

solid logic! Ive definitely had some close calls with deadlines and slow wifi before. also Hoboka, is the deadline in EST?

So ive got a downtempo(?) Remix of Burn Dinorex and Sigma fortress (stage 2) So Ive decided to stop into the workshop again with what I feel is the closest ive come to an OCR quality mix, and has the most complicated sound design of any of my mixes to date. https://soundcloud.com/jesse-mitchell-3/tiny-arms-big-heart-v2 Evidently Im still in love with mono synth square/saw leads. Will add a source breakdown soon! Any comments or critiques are encouraged!

Will have something in tomorrow before the deadline. Its nice to keep polishing a mix right until the end.

What a beast, theres still almost a week left! The king of castlevania doesnt screw around!

just kidding. Ableton will not load no matter what i do, so ill enter if i can fix it tonight.

OH BOY, CASTLEVANIA! COUNT ME IN!

I didnt know they could be hooked up via midi. would you be able to hook one up through a daw and have the daw controlling it via midi?

Thanks for all the examples APZX! I guess ill have to save up for a radias someday, I really enjoy the rich timbres! I ended up getting the Blofeld because the radias ended up selling before i could get to it. I would have preferred the Radias after looking through all the various examples out there, but the Blofeld is no slouch! I dont like all the menu diving, but admittedly I can go buy a patch editor app for my ipad and just use that whenever im in need of a better menu options. The aftertouch is a little too stiff, but im sure you can adjust it in the global settings. with the bad stuff out of the way, I enjoy the keybed, the inbuild presets are varied and rich and the sound design engine is powerful enough to keep me busy for some time. The mod matrix is also mindblowing and complex.Best of all it integrates well enough with ableton! Looking forward to seeing what i can come up with! Edit: It does randomly buzz and generate line level noise though, which i find to be a bit annoying, but im sure a noise gate would deal with it.

Ive heard many people advocate just noodling around to music that you like, which is probably what I will end up doing. I just want to shy away from a midi controller because it has less of a "plug and play" aspect of it. dumb as it sounds, i want to make my experience playing as hassle free as i can so as to set myself up to be as successful as possible in sticking to it regularly. v That description was exactly what i was looking for! Some examples of it in use would be fantastic! I solved that problem as my roommmate might just gonna sell me her old keyboard for dirt cheap which could make the keybed situation easier. As for those questions , ive got them figured out, just need something reasonably powerful for under 600! Anyways! Ive narrowed it down to be between a blofeld with the keyboard (i found one cheap) because of its in-depth sound engine and aftertouch, or the radias with its tactile knobs, analog sound and modulation/fx options. still a tough choice as both copies i found are squarely at the 600$ mark, and while one has aftertouch and more versatile sound design the other is analog and has less menu diving and nice fx. At this point its going to come down to whichever seller comes through first with a synth thats in reasonable condition.

its also worth noting that garageband files transfer over to logic.

i personally would say go for Logic Pro, it's 200 for the full version (last I checked) and since you've got a MacBook it will run like a dream. Also there's reaper which a few people around here swear by and its 50$ for the full version.

Ive decided i need more time away from computer screens so im looking to buy a keyboard with which to learn more about music on without starting at my computer. Im looking to spend anywhere up to 500, maybe more if its nice enough. I cant decide between a synth thats good for sound design, and one thats good to learn to play with both hands (with more that 49 keys) some options ive found: Waldorf blofeld ( 600 used in my local music shop) Korg Radias (650 also used) Plain old Yamaha with weighted keys (200ish most places) Novation ultranova (500 used) Tldr: what hardware synths and keyboards do you guys swear by and do you have some examples of them in use?

I may be one of the few who check the site on their phones but anyways. When surfing threads there are only two options for looking through multi page threads, "previous" and "next". This is bothersome on huge threads like the recent Sigma Fortress Remix Gauntlet, where you have 40 pages to poke through when you just want to go to the most current. I don't know if this can be addressed or if it's just a limitations of the forum software , either way I thought it was worth mentioning. *title should say gripe. oops, wrote this on a phone.

Mirroring the sentiment that this was a good experience all around. I had a similar experience to wildfire. I learned a lot about improving workflow and arranging techniques. Definitely going to polish my final round mix up. Is anyone thinking of mashing more than one of their mixes into one?

This year was a particularly fun year. Thanks for all the good music and the chance to improve!