discovered that since my miyoo mini plays gb roms I can finally try out LSDJ but before I do I was like “I wonder if other people have gotten Amiga style trackers working” and it turns out there’s one ported to the PSP. There’s also hardware specific trackers (the M8, which is unobtainium) and another company which makes a portable and desktop tracker hardware thing. I guess there’s nitro tracker, but I want to specifically be able to sample and create music like some idiot with their amiga.
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is the one you’re talking about piggytracker? or lgpt? i actually really like that one but it’s samples only
piggytracker. I guess some people have gotten it to work on emulator handhelds, but not totally. I might see if onion OS has a PSP emulator worth a darn, and try the PSP version of it.
you probably know this but you can always try out the windows version if you don’t absolutely need it on hardware
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well what do we have here
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the buttons on the sides seem really poorly thought out - i think you can sometimes see the demonstrator pressing on the opposite side of the machine to stop it moving. idk why they thought that was a good idea, i hate needing two hands to press a button. and it seems like sometimes you need to hold them down (?).
idk how i feel about them moving features onto the app from the machine. for me the whole point of this type of thing is to get away from doing things on a screen. but then most people have a phone with them at all times, so why make the thing bigger/more expensive by adding it’s own screen. and the tutorial functions look nice.
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me of like 6 years ago would have been really interested because it feels electribe-y combined with elements of the op-z but it’s one of those things with grooveboxes where I couldn’t see myself having enough stuff with just this box to make a full track to my own liking and I’d need to pair it with at least one other thing, which kind of kills the use case of a groovebox
it also seems to suffer from the same sequencing issues that the electribe 2 had where unless you really enjoy playing patterns in live you’re going to have a lot of trouble placing individual notes into a pattern - i’m sure they have one but they also didn’t really show off an undo button or anything so hopefully that’s there
it’s nice to see yamaha getting into the space though? i’m curious what they’ll take away from sales of this thing, i also like how they’re touting the FM synth because it’s the one big legacy that yamaha has in the synthesizer space with the dx-7 but the legacy of the dx-7 is ALSO that fm synthesis is mostly inscrutable without any kind of external editor so i’m not sure they’ll be able to give you enough control right on the device? would love to be proven wrong
also struck by how big it is? like it’s really big, looks like the size of a small mechanical keyboard or something, part of me wants it to be modular in the sense that you can just snap off the separate pieces of the box to use them on their own and bring them back together
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Last time Yamaha tried to cash in on the DX series with that Reface thing, it didn’t have enough operators to use original patches and at nearly the same time the Volca FM did. They’re good at shooting them selves in the foot.
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i’m convinced Yamaha cannot design a reasonable UI
been using the MODX8 for years now - it is a very powerful synth but holy shit the UI is abysmal. just horribly janky, unintuitive, slow, finicky. nearly every thing you might want to do outside of adjusting a few surfaced parameters involves extensive, inscrutable menu-diving. it’s serviceable to a degree, but just not good. tho, i haven’t actually used the similar offerings from roland or kurzweil or whatnot so i’m not sure if their UIs are any better lol.
i just know that it seems like it’d be hard to design a UI as fiddly and hard to use as Yamaha’s done on the Montage/MODX series
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local electronic music store Patchwerks is holding a gofundme for it’s continued existence. I really want this place to keep going but I think it’ll have to be saved by people with deeper pockets than me.
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New Omnichord!!!
Supposed to be analog
Has midi out (and presumably not useless midi out like the qchord)
But is $800. Yikes!
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what’s a good drum machine vst to “acquire” 
i’ve been setting my drums up in reaper with the built in sampler and it is both a massive pain to set up and impractical for EQing individual samples
for kicks specifically i like punchbox by d16
typically though i’m just using samples with something to randomise timbre a bit
if you just need a sensible wrapper for collecting and tweaking a bunch of samples like an MPC drum program, try TAL-Drum?
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Seems pretty nice. $200.
it’s very funny to me how many of my coworkers have strong opinions about behringer
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I bought one of these, uh, 9 years ago apparently. I put in the battery and pushed some buttons for a few minutes and said “this is neat, can’t wait to play with this thing some more and see what kind of noise I can make with it.”
Then I put it in storage and never touched it again. Anybody here think they’d like to fuck with it? I paid $159 at launch, happy enough to part with it for half that ($80, free shipping) to a SelectButt in the lower 48 before I take my life in my hands and try to sell it on the wider internet.
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If no one else here bites. I’d be down. These things vanished from RadioShack the day I showed up intent to finally get one.
But if someone is new to hardware or who has a wee one who might enjoy it, they should get dibs! I have a lot of things with dials that make funny noises already.
I’ll give it a few days and if there’s no other takers it’s yours!
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i’d assumed i wouldn’t be able to do full wall of sound shoegaze out of just an hx stomp but i was wrong. i can fit a big muff pi, ce-1, reverse delay with vibrato, reverse reverb with vibrato, and an amp/cab on one patch. parallel pathing doesn’t have a processing cost so i split the reverb and delay. the pi even adjusts the hardware impedance of the input jack when you put it first in the chain. running that into the fx return of my cheap 200w acoustic/guitar center bass amp sounded huge
i started looking into lofi options and aside from the expected random waveform vibrato/chorus etc. i saw recommendations to set the simulated mic distance very far from the cab and set the simulated “headroom” power of effects to a negative value (!)
the actual limits are (understandably) synths and the poly capo/detune which is probably why i see metal players go for the helix LT
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So my Beatstep Pro has a mess of drum trigger outputs. I’ve plugged a space drum and a crash pad into those, but what the hell else takes advantage of those outside of eurorack stuff? I have one of those old Yamaha DD units with two foot pedal inputs that might work but I haven’t seen like a desk top box that can handle an array of those. Is there anything interesting? Or if I want to go deeper is my cheapest option to get one of those brains from an electronic drum set kit and run that through some pedals?