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I miss the times where concerts were actually impressive in terms of setup...


...now it's just laptops and/or iPhones only.
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Compyfox wrote:I miss the times where concerts were actually impressive in terms of setup...


...now it's just laptops and/or iPhones only.
my heartfelt advice is go see Ladytron :love:

their setup, and more importantly, how they play all those wonderful old machines, will soothe the soul :D



on another note, jonutar said: "perfectly antiquate"

hehehehe... that's an odd thing to say about this stuff. :P
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yeah i'm not with brok on this one

what's the difference between a mobile device with musics apps on it than any other instrument? a synthesizer, a drum machine.. damn even an acoustic guitar. just because you can take it around with you and it's not a "pc" means you can't make music with it?

i agree with you if what you're trying to say is you can't make a full song with it... i have an iphone, and i've tried to make a decent full track. pretty damn impossible.

but as an instrument, it's pretty damn good. sometimes if i want to improvise a synth part i'll just load up bebot. or if i want to make some loops i'll load up dopplerpad. or if i want some drum machine sounds i can use bleepbox. you can mess around with it while you're on the pot and you can sample what you did onto your fancy computer later

but really i haven't found an iphone app that i've really connected with as much as the korg ds-10, that's why i won't get an ipad (pretty much a big ipod touch with a few extra apps). the thing i like about the ds-10 is the modulation (and the semi-crappy sound). it's capable of making some really crazy sounds.. and i haven't found anything quite like it for the iphone. i've only found really basic va synths and crazy granulators, i want something in between i guess

oh yeah, if you don't think you can make monkey using mobile devices, check out the new Xiu Xiu album, packed full of ds-10 sounds. Xiu Xiu makes money (not enough)
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Compyfox wrote:...now it's just laptops and/or iPhones only.
+1 ...and to be honest I think that we are going in the "one button" direction (I mean the "play" button on stage :hihi:)
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Just bought this today and unfortunatly having a bit of buyer's remorse(as much as you can for $10 anyway). I'm not seeing any way to record notes or drums in real time. And the piano roll is finicky. Adding and subtracting notes is a mess. You can't audition sounds in piano roll view. Unless I'm just not seeing it. I've only spent half hour with it so far.
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MaxSynths wrote:+1 ...and to be honest I think that we are going in the "one button" direction (I mean the "play" button on stage :hihi:)
Sequencer or synced tape machine as playback machine... all that was years ago at EDM concerts already.
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nbshif wrote:sometimes if i want to improvise a synth part i'll just load up bebot. or if i want to make some loops i'll load up dopplerpad. or if i want some drum machine sounds i can use bleepbox.
They really need a product-naming division.
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@Compyfox: yes, but synchronized devices are a different thing from my point of view: it requires some skills and knowledge (maybe also courage) to make a bunch of synchronized devices to work properly while performing on stage...
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LBN wrote:
nbshif wrote:sometimes if i want to improvise a synth part i'll just load up bebot. or if i want to make some loops i'll load up dopplerpad. or if i want some drum machine sounds i can use bleepbox.
They really need a product-naming division.
you want apple to rename these people's apps? how about iBebot, iDopplerpad, and iBleepBox. better?

(edit: they've done stranger things...)
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MadPsyance wrote:Just bought this today and unfortunatly having a bit of buyer's remorse(as much as you can for $10 anyway). I'm not seeing any way to record notes or drums in real time. And the piano roll is finicky. Adding and subtracting notes is a mess. You can't audition sounds in piano roll view. Unless I'm just not seeing it. I've only spent half hour with it so far.
I like that it has 3 synths and a drum machine, but yeah, it's pretty underwhelming as a whole. It's useful but a bitch to work with. Having to set a note playing on the grid and then switching over to synth editing is retarded, but i guess it's meant to work best with the keyboard that's supposed to be out this july
Meh.
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I just bought the Synthstation 25 on the weekend, and it's a blast! I really didn't expect anything more than a casio toy, but the fact that you can access excellent applications via the iPod/iPhone is a game-changer, imo. So far, I've found 3 apps that work with the controller: Akai's, Nanostudio and iVoxel. Are there any more out there?
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Synthstation 25 looks very nice.
Specially with Nanostudio i think.
Eden (the nanostudio main synth) is really impressive.
Is synthstation-nanostudio the smallest (cheapest? lightest?) synth-sampler-drummachine-sequencer keyboard?

Neb, If you find other compatible apps let us know :)
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