2025: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2025)

[vurt]

I have a cracked Tres guitar that I’m going to tune up and use later today. I’m hoping to get some nice results especially that it’s acoustic.

I used ferrous with the Wildkat, safe distance from pickups, and it was interesting. I was getting good results until I decided to record. It’s was crap at that point and I was too tired to keep going.

Today is that different day to explore more!

dont forget!!! 30 seconds of noises!!!

[elxsound]

I have a cracked Tres guitar that I’m going to tune up and use later today. I’m hoping to get some nice results especially that it’s acoustic.

I used ferrous with the Wildkat, safe distance from pickups, and it was interesting. I was getting good results until I decided to record. It’s was crap at that point and I was too tired to keep going.

Today is that different day to explore more!

dont forget!!! 30 seconds of noises!!!

Cue Pixies, Where is my mind?

On it.

Tres is tomorrow.

[vurt]

just got mine done and sent

[Shabdahbriah]

I have a cracked Tres guitar that I’m going to tune up and use later today. I’m hoping to get some nice results especially that it’s acoustic.

I used ferrous with the Wildkat, safe distance from pickups, and it was interesting. I was getting good results until I decided to record. It’s was crap at that point and I was too tired to keep going.

Today is that different day to explore more!

don't forget!!! 30 seconds of noises!!!

I really really wanted to do this, but became oblivious to times passage, as I got sucked into an "Ooh LOOK!... something shiny!" vortex of acquisition ever since that vid came out. Hopefully it will be an ongoing thing.

[elxsound]

I have a cracked Tres guitar that I’m going to tune up and use later today. I’m hoping to get some nice results especially that it’s acoustic.

I used ferrous with the Wildkat, safe distance from pickups, and it was interesting. I was getting good results until I decided to record. It’s was crap at that point and I was too tired to keep going.

Today is that different day to explore more!

don't forget!!! 30 seconds of noises!!!

I really really wanted to do this, but became oblivious to times passage, as I got sucked into an "Ooh LOOK!... something shiny!" vortex of acquisition ever since that vid came out. Hopefully it will be an ongoing thing.

Are you sure you are going to pass? It's just 30 seconds.

I just sent mine off. Started super dark with morphagene set to slow & low, but my submission is glittery and cheery. I'm happy I resisted turning this into a drum loop... though I might need to try that now.

[vurt]

bit of dpo/bruxa/mimeophon action to finish sunday off...

[Shabdahbriah]

I have a cracked Tres guitar that I’m going to tune up and use later today. I’m hoping to get some nice results especially that it’s acoustic.

I used ferrous with the Wildkat, safe distance from pickups, and it was interesting. I was getting good results until I decided to record. It’s was crap at that point and I was too tired to keep going.

Today is that different day to explore more!

don't forget!!! 30 seconds of noises!!!

I really really wanted to do this, but became oblivious to times passage, as I got sucked into an "Ooh LOOK!... something shiny!" vortex of acquisition ever since that vid came out. Hopefully it will be an ongoing thing.

Are you sure you are going to pass? It's just 30 seconds.

I just sent mine off. Started super dark with morphagene set to slow & low, but my submission is glittery and cheery. I'm happy I resisted turning this into a drum loop... though I might need to try that now.

Yeah, well... Thanks for the reality-check. I stayed up most of the night to work through the hour and a half of 30-second 'variations' I'd done, and sent one off.

Posted a half dozen or so slapped together as one file, here:

https://soundcloud.com/obsidiananvil/ma ... ing-guitar

My toying with the Make Noise Morphagene reel by Walker, for the "continuing iterative music project", featured in the video "12-String Guitar Drones" on the Make Noise YouTube channel:

[elxsound]

That's great! Seriously. I'm curious to see how they'll stitch these all together and if it's something they'll continue with other reels.

[Shabdahbriah]

^^^ Thank you. I'm curious as well, as a "continuing iterative music project" is pretty-much my idea of a "production-centric" Nirvana, as I really enjoy playing with other peoples pre-recorded stuff, and transforming it beyond recognition.

I still don't have a Morphagene, but could certainly crank out reels for them, with a little more research/feedback. Been feeling a strong urge to get back into synth programming/preset making, of late, and bought several synths recently for that very purpose... I have missed getting into that flow, though "editing" is generally even more so for me.

[elxsound]

^^^ Thank you. I'm curious as well, as a "continuing iterative music project" is pretty-much my idea of a "production-centric" Nirvana, as I really enjoy playing with other peoples pre-recorded stuff, and transforming it beyond recognition.

I still don't have a Morphagene, but could certainly crank out reels for them, with a little more research/feedback. Been feeling a strong urge to get back into synth programming/preset making, of late, and bought several synths recently for that very purpose... I have missed getting into that flow, though "editing" is generally even more so for me.

Budding urge for that here, only because of the Syntakt Labs on the Elektronaut forums have me dusting it off and pushing things a bit. I want to dive back more into building drum racks in Live. I have to get used to the workflow considering the tools have gotten so much better.

I spent time in Illustrator yesterday and while some things come back quickly, there are so many new tools for 1-click options. I don’t know if RX is there yet, but I’m hoping there’s something useful and quick.

[McLilith]

So, what's the story with these 30-second recordings you folks are talking about? Is someone compiling or collecting 30-second audio clips for some larger group project?

[Shabdahbriah]

I spent time in Illustrator yesterday and while some things come back quickly, there are so many new tools for 1-click options. I don’t know if RX is there yet, but I’m hoping there’s something useful and quick.

iZotope RX? For quick-n-dirty clean-up of the usual suspects, even the 'Standard' edition is fine, but the "cool-kids" (in the know) have pretty-much moved over to Steinberg Spectralayers. Real 'updates' that matter, and added 'features' that work, and are of value, unlike the hype surrounding RX 'updates', which I quit doing (annually) @ v.7. I've had and used both since they came out, and Spectralayers is hands-down the real deal as far as versatility/flexibility/potentiality... (just sayin')

[Shabdahbriah]

So, what's the story with these 30-second recordings you folks are talking about? Is someone compiling or collecting 30-second audio clips for some larger group project?

That's the premise as I understand it, yes. The link to the Makenoise video where Walker proposes it, is in my post above.

[elxsound]

I spent time in Illustrator yesterday and while some things come back quickly, there are so many new tools for 1-click options. I don’t know if RX is there yet, but I’m hoping there’s something useful and quick.

iZotope RX? For quick-n-dirty clean-up of the usual suspects, even the 'Standard' edition is fine, but the "cool-kids" (in the know) have pretty-much moved over to Steinberg Spectralayers. Real 'updates' that matter, and added 'features' that work, and are of value, unlike the hype surrounding RX 'updates', which I quit doing (annually) @ v.7. I've had and used both since they came out, and Spectralayers is hands-down the real deal as far as versatility/flexibility/potentiality... (just sayin')

Yeah, just saw the recent release notes and damn I’ll set aside to add that once I see I’m on it, and not just thinking about it.

I had just upped the music production suite, RX from also v7, but fairly cheap as bundled.

[justin3am]

I still don't have a Morphagene, but could certainly crank out reels for them, with a little more research/feedback. Been feeling a strong urge to get back into synth programming/preset making, of late, and bought several synths recently for that very purpose... I have missed getting into that flow, though "editing" is generally even more so for me.

I use Reaper for making reels because it's really easy to create markers and export audio with those markers intact. If you haven't seen it, there is a web editor for reels: https://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/morphagene/

I have a pretty big library of Morphagene reels at this point, something like 300 bits of audio. For rhythmic loops, I always have the same loop repeated twice in a reel, with a splice at each individual hit in the first section, then the whole loop, with just one splice at the beginning for the second section. That way you can choose if you want to play with each hit individually or scan though the whole clip. For droning reels, I spend a bit of time making seemless loops, and I put a bunch of them into a single reel, with spliced between them. This can lead to wavetable/like results. I had thought about releasing them as some kind of sound pack, but that sounds like a lot of work.