And I love the Space Drum but it’s like instant Stabbed in the Face plagiarism.
i think the cv outs on the beatstep are mostly designed for eurorack. there’s a lot of semi modular stuff it would work with, but the 8 trigger outs are probably gonna be overkill.
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Thanks! Yeah, I don’t know if I’m in it enough to justify modular gear yet. I was just looking at prices for cases and power supplies and getting dizzy.
I made the jump from that Korg SQ-1 and I sort of miss its simplicity (and resistance to being tuned) but I do enjoy feeling compelled to learn everything this thing can do.
the beatstep pro is a fantastic outboard sequencer for eurorack, but i would not consider getting eurorack stuff just to use those features. there’s probably less funcionality from those outputs than you get from midi, so it’s only there if you already have stuff that makes sense.
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yeah for the bsp if you don’t have enough eurorack to make it worth it i would go all the way and use it with like ableton or bitwig or something, i’ve seen a polar inertia live set that’s just a person with ableton and a bsp and it sounds great
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i definitely need to spend more time with mine over midi.
it’s pretty cool that it has so much stuff going on there, but also as someone who just wanted 8 gate outs over CV it was one of the best options for the price too.
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patch cables arrived so I can hook all my dumb stuff together
i wish I could make music and not just annoying loops :<
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The monotron delay is like the mightiest thing ever
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it honestly rules, it can really turn just about anything into the wildest sounding shit
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I’m constantly switching my set up around and assigning midi channels and all that seems like a big commitment! But it might let me hook up everything at once!
look aside from suspecting you’re judging yourself too harshly i’m going to ask the annoying question of, does any of that stuff let you noodle around and record the result live? i know the tracker software and the teenage engineering thing can record loops but do they have to be pre-programmed
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yeah honestly going from loops to music is having the wherewithal to record the process of you messing around with those loops
like if music is a time based medium then half the battle is proving to other people that the thing you created does in fact have some sort of progression over time and 90% of THAT battle is just like, having recorded the progression over time
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honestly i’ve always found making music on hardware pretty daunting because there’s so much you gotta figure out in order to even have two different instruments loop nicely together
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another recommendation here for just hitting record on things, especially when working with hardware
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done something very silly and gotten LSDJ to sync with the Korg NTS1 by making a click track from the noise channel. this doesn’t work on the pocket operator though, but I am one more splitter cable away from daisy chaining all this shit together
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That’s really clever!
I wonder if I can do this with Korg DS’s software and the same splitter cable. the NTS1 seems pretty robust in whatever clock signal it’s getting.
oh hey you totally can and this guy did just that
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what would be a good method of learning to play guitar for a complete beginner? sorry if this is the wrong thread to ask.
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start just mashing your fingers just behind the frets until they no longer hurt
then do it to a metronome
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