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The pros and cons of intentionally making life difficult
I’ve spent the past weeks chasing my tail sidetracked by a smoke screen of red herring on a wild goose chase up the garden path masquerading as a fool’s errand which all turned out to be a waste of time.
I suppose it started with the broken Poly 800 I need to repair (power transistor and zener diode blown on the power input, a common fault). I started looking at the synth architecture of it and why it is such a badly respected synth. However, technologically it is almost a single chip synth, and not only that, it uses a single chip — a MSM5232 — that made square waves and in fact belonged in an arcade machine. So, if the Poly 800 can generate (though Walsh functions) a variety of waveforms from only adding square wave octave intervals, what else can do that?
One of the first actual synths I built back in 1980 was a pair of little metal panels each with switches and buttons, and each housing a SN76477 chip (it wasn’t actually that one, it was a related derivative of it). It could make funny sounds, but had a very digital aspect about the sound, which we’d today refer to as “chip tune” in nature. I don’t really want to get another of those chips, for one thing, they’re really not very musical at all (it’d be like making a 555 track actual musical data — possible, not natural). What about an arduino, as I have three spare Dualminiloves here, as well as breadboard arduino setups still plugged into my breadboards. What about using those to either control a chip, or be the sound generating chip itself? There’s a fair few articles and videos etc on that. Again, it could certainly be done, but should it be? This went on for a few weeks, just reading and researching and reminding (and not going too close to Pocket Operator youtube videos).
In the end, I had to realise that all I was doing was trying to find a way of making life difficult for myself. I don’t need to build anything, don’t need to set up an arduino, don’t need to solder anything, don’t need to do anything at all in fact. I’ve already got as many chip tune making things as I’d more than want on the iPad. Besides, it’s only an effect — it’s not as though I’d really want to make a whole song out of that sort of sound (although I could probably make 72% of a song sounding that way without realising). Time to open up Gadget and breathe a sigh of relief. Why make life difficult? Everything is already there, in software, on the iPad, and it works. In fact, that’s probably the answer to everything.
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Life is difficult by default and within it we create little totems or effigies of difficulty in an attempt to tell ourselves on some level that we are in control. 'Life is difficult because I make it difficult as I am the one in control!'
However, by merely accepting the big picture and the inevitabilities of life and death we can realise, yes, lets just open Gadget... Ahhh, hmmm... So cozy, so easy! ...and it Links so well with Patterning too... And look who else has Link? Fuge Machine... ! Hmmm, I can just use Studiomux and plug that into my laptop and use my vst plugins with Fuguey and oh I have this track from ten years ago I should finish and hey lets pull the Nord Lead out of the closet and, jeez, I think I have enough here for an album. You know If I get up a couple hours early every morning before work... I mean sleep is for pussies and coffee is yummy! huh, now if I could get fired at work I would have a lot more time to make music... Hmmm... I could be a real overtired asshole and have lots of free time soon... This may actually work...
Hm, poly 800 isn't the most interesting sound in the world
If I look back I had an sequential c. Multitrack and stuff ...
These things sound so lame compared to what I am carrying around in an iPad now.
I would never go back.
Software only on Apple computers since 15 years.
We just like to keep ourselves busy with something,
Some do the garden and some spend years in a synth cave.
Choose your weapon
I spent a good part of the week trying to recreate a sound in an old track I want to remaster. I had wisely bounced all the other tracks but forgotten one- a midi track using Unity DS-1. Well, that stopped being developed ages ago, the computer is long gone, and in addition, Unity's a sampler. I'm left here layering disparate sounds to try and match this one track's unique characteristics. My only choice at this point is a form of what you had to do— let go and accept a different path. In my case, the path is lined with croaking frogs playing bells and harps.
Me too.
Oh Patterning, how I lerve thee, lemme count the ways ...
Oh, I know about this!
I spend the last 2 years exploring ivcs3
Big Library update is in the next release ...
Your threads are an unfolding journey of self-discovery. Doh = dog of house.
Reminds me of my futile attempts at finding "music composition/production shortcuts". One time I reasoned "a song is just harmony in motion" so I figured I could be lazy and lay down a sequence of block chords using soundprism. Then I would assign each note of each chord to a different synth. Then I would program arpeggiator patterns on each. Then I would layer the hell of them. Then I'd layer on a bunch of lfos at different rhythms controlling filter cutoffs with square waves over the whole thing. Needless to say I did not make it that far before tedium set in and everything became a huge mess and I realized I was not having fun at all. The masochistic side of me still wants to see that through at some point though.
Sounds cool man. I bet if you keep hitting that you may just unlock the right alchemy,
This week so far I am so tempted to delete every app off the iPad 2 except Sunrizer. That’s probably all I need. Just Sunrizer. The second synth app I ever bought, years ago. Sunrizer.
Just what I've been playing with lately... or for the last 3 years
^ Pretty.
More profundity on this page than I've ever seen by the Dali Lama....Great stuff, guys!
A thread is not a thread without an animated gif.
Life is infinitely hard and full of things I don't want to do , and places I don't want to go to . In my iOS world though I do what I frigging like , so no chord sequences and song writing challenges for me - switch everything on and enjoy - and by routing it all through aum I can record the results just in case it sounds slightly better than awful
Zen way. Throw away all that you feel useless. All that you do not have used by since a month (or 1-2 weeks). All that does not make you feel in a merry mood. All that does not let you forget time's running. And do not regret about money wasted. Money may come back (sometimes even does), life never does it
PS: all above works for me. And not only in iOS
My avatar is an animated gif. FB shows it, AB forum not. What a shame
Variety is supposedly the spice of life, difficulties are just another of those varieties
You are so right about sunrizer! Thanks for your post, it made me take a visit through the presets which are just amazing. Doing so, I found out about the "web library" which contains tons of nice presets!! Very cool.
I read also on the palm sound website that an AU update is planned for sunrizer. Can't wait!