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Darkside · Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 10:23 pm Post subject:

Well, here you go - there's another one.

https://soundcloud.com/drxid/negatiivsuse-rasketoostus

This time even darker and more minimal, sort of ambient I guess.

Darkside · Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 7:49 pm Post subject:

And here's yet another crazy experiment, where Volca Modular is on the lead this time.

https://soundcloud.com/drxid/riisivalja-sodalased

megamarkd · Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 9:09 am Post subject:

Hey mate, top stuff. Followed!!
I love that last one with all the soloing over the top. Really inspired, reminds me of some of the experimental music I used to hear at the beginning of the 21st century when I was attending sound meets devoted to this sort of thing, though this is a lot better and I'm not saying that just to be nice, it's the truth. Keep up the good work.
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Stuff I'm using: Umm right now, well there's a Volca Drum, a Micro Freak, an ADX-1, a Pulse, a Blofeld, a UNO Drum, KeyStep/Beatstep Pro/Keystep Pro (one of each), a Circuit, a LiveTrak L-12 and this nonsense: The Brief-case as it was about a bit over a year ago (the the complete ridiculous GAS monster collection here)and here

Darkside · Posted: Mon May 06, 2019 10:01 am Post subject:

Oh, thanks! There will definitely be more.
To be honest, before getting into modular I used to, well, not like sutch kind of stuff at all, questioning always: why do they still make that kind of music. Being able to quite literally touch this music with my hands and construct it gave a completely different look to everything. It's actually more than just interesting to build a patch in which some aspects are of course still controllable by it's builder, but overall it's living and functioning by itself and working in sutch a way is definitely more varied than just programming a pattern into a regular step sequencer.
Currently I have an extreme interest in Mutable instruments Plaits, so it's more than sure I'll be getting it in not so far future. So yeah, there will be more of those cosmic sound particles flying out my system.

Travelinni · Guest Joined: 17 May 2019 Posts: 70

yay another volca this time with a tube!

no offense to volca owners but seriously volca?
i bet you can polka.

volka nu bass vaccum tube synth , does that mean it can suck tube synths?
just another gimmick proudly brought by lovely Borg
ROFL

Darkside · Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 11:57 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah, if I ever decide to get that one, there will be lots more acid and my Roland Tb-03 could go to sleep on that matter! Of course the Nubass is no 303 emulator, but it sounds definitely acidic and evil.

TheDoctor · Full Member Joined: 28 Mar 2019 Posts: 162

this new NuBass is so uninspiring. Sub Osc with a not aggresive saturation and the volume know doesn't have a big range, the Bass can do a better sub osc with two oscillator.
You get Accent and Transpose stuff with random generator and you lose the ability to have up to 3 different sequencer
But the most stupid thing is put LFO Rate and Speed as shift function on Attack and EG Int? And they leave Accent and Swing alone? Who did this synth? Kids?

Travelinni · Guest Joined: 17 May 2019 Posts: 70

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ShoNuff · Full Member Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Posts: 221

megamarkd · Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 12:21 pm Post subject:

Travelinni have you ever played a Volca? Why bother posting all your hate here if you have? Just go play whatever instruments you do like and let others enjoy what they like. You are sounding like a guitar nazi paying out on synth musicians because they "just press a button and let the synth play the music".
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Stuff I'm using: Umm right now, well there's a Volca Drum, a Micro Freak, an ADX-1, a Pulse, a Blofeld, a UNO Drum, KeyStep/Beatstep Pro/Keystep Pro (one of each), a Circuit, a LiveTrak L-12 and this nonsense: The Brief-case as it was about a bit over a year ago (the the complete ridiculous GAS monster collection here)and here

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TheDoctor · Full Member Joined: 28 Mar 2019 Posts: 162

ShoNuff · Full Member Joined: 27 Oct 2014 Posts: 221

what's happening with this forum now, we have the 'long' display.

megamarkd · Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 2:32 am Post subject:

Meh, I like the sound of the NubAss and it's simplicity. As old mate in the thread about this synth on the News board said, tubes are being used as osc's by Erica in their modules and isn't exactly just a gimmick, they really do have a different sound to the traditional methods of creating analogue waveforms. It's definitely not like the second wave of Electribes that used very tame sounding tubes in their amp section.
Shonuff, I'd have thought you'd jump on the idea of swapping out the valve to screw with the sound and try to find a tube that will make it sound nothing like the sound it comes with.

I'm not very familiar with the original Volca Bass but have done a little bit of A/B listening on youtube to the two machines and have to say that although the original Bass is a nice synth (three osc's is a boon!), they definitely have a different sound to them with the NubAss really sounding like an instrument made to make acid bass.
I'd love a real TB-303 but I can't afford one and I thing they are too fiddly when it comes to writing a sequence. I remember reading about the devilfish mod many moons ago (before dawn of the new century) and laughed at how it was supposedly a grand stroke of genius to work a DS-1 pedal in to the 303 box; I'd been using a DS-2 on my MS-20 of a long time in my attempts to emulate the 303 sound (and patching the mod wheel to the pitch to get the gliding between notes sounding right). The growl that the NubAss has to it is reminiscent of that set-up without going overboard on the distortion, as I used to do Wink

ShoNuff I know you are wishing for the programmer's playground and you ain't gonna get that with this new bass box, which is a shame. And TheDoctor I know you feel like it's a dumbed-down synth and have to agree it's like a betrayal of the original knob-per-function aesthetic for ease of live performance, but for my tastes and desires, it's a great addition of texture to what I've got going already and able to provide a sound I can't get out my Pulse 1 or 2 (both of which can do the original VBass sound albeit without the on board sequencer).

And Darkside, I have to agree with you, I think I'm dropping the TB-03 off my list of "I'll grab one 2nd hand if I see one cheap" list and adding this to the "I'll buy one new when I have the flashcash burning a hole in my pocket" list. But I do really like the the Drum and the Modular, both are really so tempting too. It's really starting to feel like Pokemon, gotta catch them all! YIKES Shocked

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Stuff I'm using: Umm right now, well there's a Volca Drum, a Micro Freak, an ADX-1, a Pulse, a Blofeld, a UNO Drum, KeyStep/Beatstep Pro/Keystep Pro (one of each), a Circuit, a LiveTrak L-12 and this nonsense: The Brief-case as it was about a bit over a year ago (the the complete ridiculous GAS monster collection here)and here