If you'd talked about cinematic or world music, I might have seen your point but the genres you name use a subset of the same kinds of sounds we do. EBM shares sounds with all those genres and several others. I've certainly never heard anything approaching sophisticated sound design in any of the genres you've named.recursive one wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 10:58 amIt seems you just need some very limited set of sounds. Nothing wrong with that, I 've actually heard some of your music and it sounds good for the genre, I like some EBM/industrial, but you probably don't understand (and don't need to understand) what sounds/features people may need for other genres, e.g. psytrance, dubstep, DnB and such, which may require some quite sofisticated sound-design.
If that's true then you can't be very good at what you do because I get way more tonal variation than I need from any simple waveform, just using standard techniques like PWM and various forms of cross-modulation. If I am still doing this in 50 years, I doubt I'll have run out of new and interesting sounds.exmatproton wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:18 am+1. I am glad with all those minor variations one can find in different wavetables. It makes (at least my style of music) so much more dynamic. Not just "another pulse/saw/square/triangle" but actual content in the wave itself to play around with.
And when did you start? Because I reckon I had all my bases covered 10 years ago. I mostly buy new synths because I get bored with the old ones. They serve as inspiration for whatever comes next. If 2017 was your first year, then it would take you a few to get hold of everything that was already out there.wagtunes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:23 pm 2017 - $8,701 spent
2018 - $6,757 spent
This year? $2,062 spent and $1300 of that was on Warp IV brass and woodwinds, which is proving to be worth every penny.
In short, there's just nothing coming out that excites me anymore. At least nothing that I can't replicate with the synths I already own.
I can't remember the last time I bought anything and thought "this will allow me to do things I couldn't do before", although listening to some of Massive's glitchy presets made me realise I could do the same kind of stuff in DUNE. Prior to that I'd have done it in any of a dozen or more of my SynthEdit creations, using things like the RARP (RandomARPeggiator) I invented and/or the GATE I put into them. It gave me ideas of different ways to use things I already had, as opposed to enabling me to do things I couldn't do previously.
So the world can go to hell in a hand basket, you've got every thing you want. I suppose you pray for those less well off than you and that salves your conscience (assuming you have one, of course)? Meanwhile, people of real moral standing can't be happy because others are doing it tough. Look at Bill and Melinda Gates - if you think you've got it all, imagine how much more they have, yet they will get rid of it all to help others. All of it in the end.wagtunes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:44 pmActually, my life is wonderful. I have everything I could possibly want. My wife, my daughter, my church, my music, an album that's finally going to be professionally recorded by a band in 2020, a nice inheritance, great friends, and the best health I've been in in years.
That's largely because you are impossible to have a rational discussion with. I put it down mostly to ego, you don't take criticism well at all and you love to push your own barrow at every opportunity.The only thing I don't have is peace at this forum from people who insist on stalking me and commenting on everything I post with nothing but contempt and hostility.