I’m so weak. And poor.
I wouldn’t get that JT-4000 tho, it has no midi. Hard to integrate with your sampler, though of course you could just use it as a sample source which would work
Just bought one of these, looks pretty fun for messing about on:
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Please make a sample pack
Up in the lakes for half term/my birthday and got given the little synth that I can plug the beat box through. Such a fun little setup. And rainy days in the van are no problem now, I can keep the family entertained for hours with some sci-fi soundscapes.
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Lush. You’ll need a massive reverb to go with that I’d image
Now the darker / colder times are here (where I am) I’ve been tinkering with my Volca a bit more again and, maybe because I’ve been searching for help on YT, this was suggested to me…
I’m blown away. Especially at the first 3rd(ish).
Not only am I amazed by the samples used to create some of these tunes, the editing of the video is incredible.
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A bit pointless but my grandad had a stylophone back in the day. It had Rolf Harris on the box.
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My Nan too… and she left it to me when she passed.
I still have the Stylophone - but got rid of the box.
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Saw that the other day, there was a few on there I had no idea about, except the last third when I stopped recognising anything past around 2005
This one still amazes me, I thought it was just some guy dicking around with the child piano settings on his synth
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Holy shit that’s amazing. I’ll definitely be checking out more of these.
Cheers for that.
I always hear this as a nursery rhyme - added to the watch later pile.
This made me feel really old. Thought (almost) everything after Burial’s Arcangel was ass musically-speaking tbh. It’s just one tune per year though I guess.
Agree the editing is amazing. Quite forensic.
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I reckon my grandads is at my dad’s house somewhere, probably still boxed.
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Burial for me too, the pitch shifting on that was amazing. I was looking for a video I saw about the drums on the Untrue album. Can’t remember what it was but there was only one track I think that used anything close to “standard” drum patterns - I might be making that up.
I saw something similar about Aphex Twin track Vordhosbn. A music professor said it was the most intricate song he had ever hear, all the drum patters throughout the song are unique and not repeated.
Again, this may all have been a fever dream because I can’t find the videos to substantiate any of this
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Vordhosbn is a great track, one of my favourites but it’s way more simple than you think, rythmically. Lots of sample and synthesized hits placed on a tracker timeline and partially randomised 16th notes with probabilities factored in and you get a seemingly complex programmed beat but it’s more random and luck than that. It’s the fact that we have all heard it numerous times and created this muscle memory of where each beat hits that makes it seem genius level thought out.
Real good music has way more luck and happy accidents involved, that’s why things come out new sounding and have unexplainable feels.
It’s a funny trick how the linear drums on that tune makes the rhythm sound more hectic/complex when in fact little or nothing is layered.
Weird to think that - technically speaking- it’s probably less rhythmically complex than most things that have a couple of sampled drum breaks layered.
Such a dope tune.
Exactly, it’s the hectic stuff that’s the simplest usually. It just makes people who want to show others that they like extreme music go “woah”
It is a really great tune regardless, it doesn’t even matter how things are made if the result hits your spots.
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This guy’s stuff is interesting if you’re into that kinda thing
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Thinking about your question, the size is the only negative about this really, for the money and could be a positive
Good sounds, good connectivity, fairly easy to understand, good built-in reverb and delay, audio in so you can do without a mixer…
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