http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ Electro, gothic, noise, darkwave from the Side-Line en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:35:13 +0000 http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/digital-music-distribution#post-88607 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:36:07 +0000 munzurulm 88607@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p><a href="http://www.dittomusic.com" rel="nofollow">www.dittomusic.com</a><br /> From an idea born in a tiny Birmingham flat, Matt and Lee Parsons have helped over 30,000 artists distribute their music to a world-wide audience. In 2006, Matt and Lee wanted to release their own music independently. By the time they set up a record label, worked out barcodes and ISRC codes, and finally managed to get their music distributed six months had passed. Their momentum stalled, their fans moved on, and their track limped into the charts at number 70. Their music career was over. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/cubase#post-88281 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:12:22 +0000 aphxero 88281@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Anyone else here using it? Let's start a discussion? </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/waveformless-posts-mindinabox-tech-interview#post-88590 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:43:17 +0000 MetaSektion 88590@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p><a href="http://waveformless.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/tech-interview-mindinabox.html" rel="nofollow">http://waveformless.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/tech-interview-mindinabox.html</a></p> <p>Tom Shear's (Assembleage 23) excellent music blog has now posted an interview with mind.in.a.box's Stefan Poiss. Lots of interesting insights into their sound and how they create it. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/bring-the-noise#post-28442 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:23:33 +0000 Tsarik 28442@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>since people have asked for some sounds</p> <p><a href="http://www.soundclick.com/tarsick" rel="nofollow">www.soundclick.com/tarsick</a></p> <p>just a track of a drone patch I made on the Future Retro XS with some reverb provided by the Eventide Eclipse</p> <p>i know these noisy synth demos are boring to most. i do enjoy programing and tweaking drones and noisy patches though. i plan on cutting out chunks of that track and copying and pasting them back in such a way to make a more rythmic pattern. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/free-loops-from-dg#post-88505 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:38:43 +0000 digitalgeist 88505@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Hey guys,<br /> Doing a little cleaning up in my studio I found quite a few same loops I'd made that I hadn't used and thought I'd offer them as a free download.<br /> <a href="http://digitalgeist.com/you-like-free-things-right/" rel="nofollow">http://digitalgeist.com/you-like-free-things-right/</a><br /> This first sample pack is 363mb, 75 loops all with the root note of C at 140bpm, and you can use them however you want. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/vintage-drum-machine#post-88359 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:20:29 +0000 silently 88359@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Hello</p> <p>is there someone who knows which drum machine is used on the last frozen autumn album, especally on the track 2 :sidereal attitude<br /> <a href="http://www.cede.ch/fr/music-cd/frames/frameset.cfm?aobj=927197" rel="nofollow">http://www.cede.ch/fr/music-cd/frames/frameset.cfm?aobj=927197</a></p> <p>thanks in advance and best regards </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/eastwest-suck#post-87935 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:10:18 +0000 amiles 87935@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Been waiting for a while for a promotion on EASTWEST samples and the NAMM 50% special tempted me for Voices of Passion. Two nights later… now wish I’d not even bothered. Why design a sound engine that takes a fucking degree in computer science to install (what’s wrong with NI’s Kontakt)? Anyway sill not got it installed on my vista 65 bit machine. My advice stay away from EASTWEST sample libraries you will be ripping your hair out. Asked for my cash back after two days of crap tech support and getting nowhere. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/soulja-boy-fruity-loops-tutorial#post-88199 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:19:01 +0000 Cult of the Bleeding Toe 88199@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rjhVe59ek&amp;feature=g-vrec&amp;context=G2c2d7e8RVAAAAAAAAAw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1rjhVe59ek&amp;feature=g-vrec&amp;context=G2c2d7e8RVAAAAAAAAAw</a></p> <p>Some useful tips I think. I need to get FL now. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/best-hardware-sequencers#post-59489 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:33:30 +0000 hollowman 59489@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Please do not recommend the MC-500 MkII. I did battle with it and lost once ;-)</p> <p>Some time ago I composed on an R8 drum machine and enjoyed it. So recently I thought to try getting back to basics and employing a TR-707 and a pattern sequencer for compositional tools. I am so hugely inspired by it now. Composing sans-DAW is really liberating for some reason. So I am contemplating a gear purchase. A hardware sequencer.</p> <p>I have been told the Yamaha RMX-1 and Roland MC-808 are very good sequencers for little expenditure. Any truth to this? What others might I focus on? </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/good-affordable-usb-interface#post-87427 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:39:35 +0000 se3n 87427@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>im trying to get something affordable that will sound good as a preamp/mixer for recording both vocals and instruments (guitars mostly/etc). What is good thats affordable out there? Ive looked at some really cheap interfaces, including some on ebay for under 70 bucks... </p> <p>I just want to get something that will let me record a clearer signal than just plugging into my sound cards mic in. I guess a bit of mixing functions would be nice (eq/levels/gain/etc) but I dont see it really necessary as long as I can monitor the signal live coming out of my daw.... which brings me to my other question, can you monitor the signal after its sent through your computer thru a usb interface? Ive just never used one or set one up.</p> <p>Ive heard from other people that you need something around 300+ that sounds good for a usb interface/mixer/preamp thing. Is there really a difference? I've tried some cheap non-usb mixers before and they produced ALOT of added hiss and noise to the mic signal which seemed to render them useless imo. I don't know if USB interfaces clean that noise up or not, but I would think (hope?) so. If i could get a cheap mini usb interface will that sound worse or produce more noise/hiss than a expensive one? Thanks for any info or suggestions. much appreciated </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/looking-for-small-physical-8-bit-synth#post-75685 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:52:00 +0000 Ornox 75685@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Needs to be triggered by a MIDI keyboard alone.</p> <p>Please help! </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/presonus-studio-one-1#post-87727 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:46:48 +0000 twylightsync 87727@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Anyone in Industrial music using this DAW? I LOVE it. Its really easy and fun. Anyone play with it yet? </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/the-most-brutal-distortion-signal-processor-ever-created-1#post-83062 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:59:51 +0000 Analog Mind 83062@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>I am looking for a distortion processor, must be analog, that is the most brutal, bone crushing effect ever. Could be a bitcrusher/distortion too.</p> <p>I dont care if its a guitar petal, or part of a modular synth system. Anything that I can process my audio through to destroy and rape the sound to death!</p> <p>I would run guitars, synths and samples through this when needed.</p> <p>Any suggestions? </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/how-to-make-power-noise-music#post-83720 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:20:41 +0000 Thereflectingvoid 83720@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>I am basically wondering how to warp and distort percussion and general sound effects in a manner that makes them heavy, wet and crunchy without being ear rape. I have made music for a long time but my more abstract and power noise attempts have almost always resulted in ending up sounding like a mess, even when I try to mix them well. Are there more subtle ways to distort that are more easy to control in the EQ department? I use predominantly software and FL Studio with a large collection of samples, softsynths and free and bought VST effects. Thanks. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/new-oto-biscuit-firmware-turns-the-bisquit-into-a-synth#post-86273 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:54:05 +0000 YADE 86273@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p><a href="http://www.otomachines.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.otomachines.com/</a></p> <p>will try it out tonight....</p> <p>looking forward to DER OTO </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/voice-manipulation#post-84207 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:34:41 +0000 Smoking Kitty 84207@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>OK, cybergoth boffin here, I have been on the hunt for decent software to use. I want to learn how to change voice to sound like the FGFC820 style, styley styley. Just tell me. Appreciated. Kitty </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/cevin-key-synth-modules#post-86497 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:51:29 +0000 hollowman 86497@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>WTF?<br /> <a href="http://subconsciousrecords.com/model15-37/synth-modules.html" rel="nofollow">http://subconsciousrecords.com/model15-37/synth-modules.html</a><br /> The Model 15 VCO looks kinda interesting... </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/diy-key-repair#post-85651 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:12:42 +0000 M4RC 85651@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>Does anyone happen to know any good resources for either replacing misaligned keys or fixing them by chance? A D key on my Virus polar has started sticking up at higher angle than the rest and even though it still works I can feel it getting slightly stuck when I release it. </p> <p>Here's a photo to make it clear what exactly is wrong: </p> <p><a href="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l53/nisroch/photo.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l53/nisroch/photo.jpg</a></p> <p>Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/give-me-hardware-or-give-me-death#post-85933 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:15:27 +0000 hollowman 85933@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>The compositions I am currently working on were fleshed out in the DAW. But now they are entirely running from hardware. And they sound better now - like eye-opening better! The DAW provided some basics for each track, tempo, EQ, levels but a few tracks got heavy processing like granualar resynthesis and stuff. Afterward I exported the tracks in chunks and normalized them and added further processing in Sound Forge before porting them to the sampler. Many of them were actually sampled direct in order to employ hardware effects with real-time parameter control.<br /> Once in the sampler the synth engine became the new signal chain. Each track now has the benefit of an entire synth engine with 3 envelopes, two tempo-synced LFOs, dynamic tempo-synced panning and levels, filters, pitch manipulation etc. etc. as well as the sample manipulation features. Add to that the built-in FX and 16 assignable outputs. </p> <p>The sampler is under control from an Emu MP-7 for sequencing and real-time controllers. And the Mp-7 adds it's own sounds as well as sequencing/controlling my various other synths. All audio is running to the mixer where 4 FX processors are connected as channel sends and the groups have a send/receive loop where various other hardware units can be patched in via patchbay for the overall mix. </p> <p>It has been alot of work getting here so far. It has not been convenient in the least. But it has been rewarding and hugely satisfying. Especially now that I am structuring the composition without having to touch a damn mouse or clicking and dragging and drawing envelopes and all that Jazz. Now I reach for a knob on the Mp-7 assign it to whatever and twist it. One thing I do spend a bit of mouse-time on now is the sampler's GUI control program Aksys. But it is kinda fun to use so I don't mind turning back to the PC for this. </p> <p>The power at my disposal is roughly equivalent to that which I had in the DAW. But on-the-fly edits and adjustments are so much faster now. And overall the sound is really what makes it worth the effort. And that effort will be significantly diminished once I stop fleshing shit out in the DAW. Everything is tighter, brighter, punchier and more cohesive sounding now. Everything I loved about the music I did in the 1990s sound-wise is realized again.</p> <p>Fuck the DAW and fuck the PC and fuck plugins! fuck convenience!!!! Keep that shit. I'm offically a hardware convert now! And the hardware fucking rocks! Long live the patchbay! </p> http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/topic/i-r-disappoint#post-81208 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:25:06 +0000 soillodge 81208@http://www.side-line.com/side-line-forum/ <p>I can't beleive you bastards have not been using the great "Collaboration Portal", that Dodd put together for us! Seriously, what have you people been doing this summer? We NEED to make music damnit!</p> <p><a href="http://subspine.org/ocportal" rel="nofollow">http://subspine.org/ocportal</a></p> <p>Get on there. Start a topic. Upload some track ideas, WAV's, MP3, MIDI, just write down some notes with a crayon and scan it to a JPEG image and upload that. Seriously, too much bitching on this site and not enough constructive shit going on. Don't make me troll the Dubstep and Witch-House forums to look for collaborators.</p> <p>FYI, if you look in the content zone you will see I put up three tracks ideas. WAV's and MIDI. Fuck it up gentlemen. That is all..</p> <p>`michael </p>