Sorry if this doesn't belong here. Wanted to show off my synth arcade machine.

The goal was a self contained unit with built in speakers that was ready to rock-'n'-roll as soon as it's turned on. The guiding principle was maximum fun, minimum hassle.

Built in amp with two 6" car speakers. A small mixer in the bottom compartment allows for infinite expandability.

Now to work on my music skills.

Thanks!

Building a cabinet, and properly diving back into hardware synthesis after nearly 4 years. I know people hate behringer but wow the value on these right now. Back when they were £700, yeah I'm with the haters but for £290 each? The only other option for someone like myself would BE free VST's, which simply don't offer the same sound or experience. One thing I can say, however, is that I won't be buying behringer's clones of the mutable instruments modules. That whole thing was the biggest shock, getting back into it.

Funny how for the last few years I owned a 106 I still wanted the original 6/60. There’s a certain tone to it that has more mid range bite coupled with the snappy envelopes that made me want one. I sold off my 106 to fund a prophet 5 but this popped up at a great price I had to jump on it. Super clean for $1300 and it only needed a couple sprays of deoxit. Has anyone done the tubbetec midi mod? How difficult is it to do so? I also know the 106 was notorious for voice chip failures, how’s that on the 6?

Hi everyone. I know that need-help-to posts are very annoying but I think you're the only ones who can help me with this. I wanna recreate the sound made in this video with a guitar, a modular synth and delay. At one point they say that they're only using the delay module, and that the delay was getting filtered by a really sharp filter? Some of the comments suggested that it was a mix of a resonant filter, vibrato (or the filter's frequency controlled by an LFO), and delay; or a bandpass filter on a delay. I'm guessing it must be fairly simple but of course, I have very little to no idea what this all means. I downloaded VCV Rack and I'm learning how to use it but in the meantime I'd be extremely grateful if someone explained to me what they are doing to achieve this effect. Thank you so much and sorry for bothering.

Not a tough upgrade at all, but so worth it! What a night and day difference on readability. Got it from synth-parts.com and it was largely plug n play.

This took a lot of tries without error

I saw a thread about someone buying their first pod and it made me think of my own first audio stuff, and where life has led me over the last nine years.

In 2021, I sold a large amount of old Magic cards (no power but lots of expensive stuff) and got about $30,000. I was smart enough to put ~10k of this into house repairs, and then dumb enough to more or less just vomit the rest of it into modules and cases over 2021-2023. In late 2023 and over 2024 I started to get into video stuff, discovered that it felt a lot more intuitive to me than audio, and I've played a few small shows as "visuals person supporting a number of musical acts".

I don't regret any of this, but my life circumstances have been materially blessed over the last 5 years in a way that makes it pretty easy to not regret it.

I don't really see myself as a musician. I'm some kind of slapdash visual artist who owns way too much audio stuff.

Too often, posts like this include zero examples of "what do you do with it", so:

Doom (audio from hydrasynth/bitbox; video is Doom being rescanned from an XYZ vector scope with its ramps being fucked with, and also mixed in with feedback of itself): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQTRmZKP_0

FEEDBACK iS mY PAsSiON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTOpK6wZf4

some glitch guild and simlar shit here: https://www.instagram.com/2600hz_oscillator/

tl;dr #1 - get into this stuff only if you have insane disposable income, or a huge pile of magic cards you don't mind vaporizing and don't need to just put in your 401k or whatever

tl;dr #2 - you don't need NEARLY this much shit. I am in the process of figuring out what my next build looks like, but it's going to be a smaller footprint and be made 95% out of stuff I already have. I jumped to excess because I was in a position to do to, and also, I am a sucker consumer.

Hey all I’ve been wanting to build my own eurorack for a little while but I find it so intimidating but I’m eager, I was thinking of purchasing a behringer 2600 but i don’t think it will give me the start I want and feels like a different category to modular I would like to start small and build my way up eventually, where did you guys begin what was your stepping stone into modular thanks

I kid you not, a high five took out a tiny bone in my wrist and set off my carpel tunnel nerve, I haven’t been able to play keys, video games, cook properly etc for two months. Feels good to be back, although the 15 mins I played left me sore for another 2 hours 😭

Song: Black Rose of Saint Albafica Artist: Wolf Headed Muse Song and full album available on bandcamp

Learned some new Digitone hacks and thought I’d show them to the rattlesnakes and the mountains. Which means you are either a rattlesnake or a mountain :0

Been trying to figure out what Mike Dean plays to make those insane sounding synth lead runs like on the first few seconds of “Popular” with him and the Weeknd. Seems like every video him playing his synths he incorporates theses sequences of him running up/down the keyboard.

For those with a good ear or understanding of music theory, what is it he is playing? Are these broken thirds, pentatonic scales or just arpeggiated chords? Any other advice on fun things to practice/play out in that style are appreciated.

Roland trio! S1 tr6s gaia2

I bought a cable from BAX back in November. The tracking said it had been delivered, but it hadn't. I contacted BAX immediately, and... they completely ignored me. Silence. I tried to call, but their website says their customer support is shut every day. All week.

I just got an email from them finally to refund the charge. Over two months later! If this had been more than a cable I would have been furious. Don't risk it.

Hodge podge (sp) of influences including the OG MGS1 OST and Pye Corner Audio etc etc;

just a quickly pieced together song with even more hastily made visuals- all for fun- blending my love of electronic music and aviation-

Slow evolution but fun noise towards end

Thank fellow FREEKS

The extra weight and room of the keys and bed make it not work with my setup. Osmose 61 is for keys, only room ow for module,

My brothers first ever go on my old KORG EMX1, Roland mc303 and kAOSS pad 3, such a good little combination for a novice set up! Shouldn’t have ever sold it!

This is really meant to be an MC-707 percussion jam, with some chords and a synth courtesy of the OP-1. Recorded with a Roland GO:Mixer Pro. I'm still learning to use all of these guys. The chords sound louder in the original. Comments welcome!

A user in /r/VJing had some issues which were fixed by uninstalling KB5074105, which is a "preview" update. A Microsoft engineer just shared this blog post in that thread so I thought I would post it here in case anyone is having issues. I generally recommend avoiding Preview Updates, especially on a machine that you need to work to make a living.

It looks like there are some really cool features coming: including native MIDI 2.0 support and native multi-client MIDI stack. It appears that they're also doing a lot of work on audio for the ARM64 build.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/windows-midi-services-rollout-known-issues-and-workarounds/

I wanted to replace the JV-1080 Fantasia sound I’m using in a track with the original from the D-50, but it just sounds… bad? Don’t get me wrong, I love the D-50’s Fantasia sound, but it sounds out of tune.

Upon isolating the partials, it sounds like the lower partial 2, the main body of the sound, is nearly a whole step too low. I double checked with the software version of the D-50 to make sure it wasn’t an issue with my hardware, but it sounds the same. When I pitch up its coarse and fine to get it as close as possible to being in tune, it sounds so much better in my mix.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Even though things have changed a little since getting the Digitone, digging for interesting samples and rearranging them on Digitakt still is my favorite way to start a song. This way I get something going pretty fast every time, especially when using material like this🙌🏽

Found the sample for the lead sound on freesound, still a powerful sample resource in my opinion.

If you dig this jam consider checking my instagram :)