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Your desert island setup.
So I had a thought today. What if I could only have a few apps for each category to make all of my music from? So I sat down and came up with these. 5 from each category: Synths, Acoustic Intruments, Drums, Samplers/Grooveboxes, Effects, Sequencers/Utilities, and one DAW to rule them all.
Here’s what it came down to:
Synths:
Fluss.
Fundamental.
Mela 3.
Omega.
Branches.
Acoustic:
Module Pro.
Sampletron.
ThumbJam.
Riffer.
PSP.
Drums:
Drum80.
Hammerhead.
Borsta.
Playbeat3.
Perc Synth.
Groovebox/Samplers:
PaulXStretch.
Beatly Pro.
Koala.
Gauss.
Drambo.
Effects:
Vintage Rack.
Other Desert Cities.
MagicVerb.
Beef.
Flux Pro.
Sequencers/Utilities:
Rozeta.
AUM.
Scaler 2.
Wavebox.
Octacron.
DAW.
Cubasis 3.
What would you guys choose? I know it’s a little long winded but it was kinda fun.
Comments
Which Island?
@McD Aruba
Thanks for not putting Drambo in Sequencer makes it so can have it as well as AUM
Now were are talking... I'll back light at 12 apps to leave room on storage for songs.
Tera Pro is a great one that I overlooked. Not sure it’d make my top 5 but very close. I’ve been having tons of fun with DS lately too. A lot of cool sample sets at Pianobook. The gibberish one is my current favorite haha.
I need to get into Moziac. There are so many creative scripts out there.
I'd rather take some instruments that aren't reliant on a battery. There aren't many desert islands with power outlets...
All metaphorical of course
For the generator:
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/b3bd7607-a424-59eb-9f29-b1d0dda7f481
“This guide has been written to assist
anyone interested in running small stationary diesel powered
engines on coconut oil”
Pretty niche huh? 😂
i live here. it works
i can account for one of these:
An acoustic guitar, a faithful, passionate but impotent hunter gatherer and 4 beautiful women who adore me.
Funny you should mention power... ours went out last night and the power co is expecting it to remain out until
tomorrow around 10AM.
Thank fully I had 2 large USB battery packs charged to 80% that should get us through the interim without power.
I have drained one MacBook and my wife has my iPad for some video streaming.
I'm at 51% on the M1 MacBook and have a new Windows 11 computer left to drain. My iPhone is getting me Cellular internet as a Personal HotSpot.
We can do this without confronting out addictions by going cold turkey... but I'll be checking out generators after this.
We can't cook, microwave, pressure cook, air fry or grill due to rain. The out and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I guess. We've used Starbucks for coffee and In' and Out for lunch. Chocolate skake for dessert...
speaking of dessert islands.
Sorry to hear that, it sucks when you lose power for any period of time. We’ve been fortunate to not lose power for that long for quite a few years, but last time we did it was midsummer and it was about 90 degrees that evening…
If we do lose power I’m usually playing acoustic instruments in the dark.
Oof that’s rough. We had a bad storm a year or so ago and a tree fell and knocked out the main line to our house. The city couldn’t fix it until we had the landlord hire someone to fix the hookup attached to the house itself. All in all we were without power for 5 days at the tail end of spring, leading into summer. I know the pain and it sucks big time. Good luck with all that!
anything acoustic and hardware (as in actual instruments)
The high winds of last night took out a tree and a main road to our neighborhood is closed. It's created many areas of gridlock (all local lights are voluntary 4 way stops without power). It took some knowledge of the alternative options to get to Starbucks which would normally be 1/2 mile away but was now 4 miles of neighboring roads.
After getting home we opted for a lunch from In and Out which again would be 1 mile but was now about 5 miles to avoid the gridlocked options.
Not sure when the crew will get the road opened again but probably laster today since that main road is needed for the tourists to find their way to all the stuff the tourists come to see.
I can't find it by that title... is it the "Spoken Pads" package?
Using Mozaic tools is one thing... I fell in love with making them for the creative pleasure of creation that
programming provides. It's deep flow activity like making something with your hands while pulling the materials out of thin air. Very rewarding... if anyone uses your scripts that's a bonus but "they never write, they never call."
You might see a comment or a thumbs up but most creative life is like that for the hobbists and mildly talented.
NS2 + audiolayer
Wouldn’t need anything else
Well hopefully the tourism will help move things along with getting it fixed, but I'm sure the gridlock is not a great thing to have either.
It's not usually weather for us that causes outages - almost all of the ones I can think of for us and nearby have been people driving into power poles. It's seriously unbelievable that people do that so much around here.
How do you record since NS2 never got audio tracks?
AUM + Scaler + Drambo + Rozeta + Splat-to-Clat + Borsta + Skaka + Pure Synth Platinum + Twin 3 + Tomofon + Knock + Reelbus + Crystalline + FF Pro-C, Pro-L & Pro-Q
If I had to pare it down to basics...
Synths:
Obsidian
Korg Electribe Wave
Acoustic:
Module Pro
Pure Synth Platinum
Beathawk
Drums:
Splat-to-Clat
Groovebox/Samplers:
Koala
Effects:
Beef
MagicDeathEyeStereo
Pitch Drift
Barricade
Youlean Loudness Meter
Sequencers/Utilities:
Nanostudio's sequencer is good enough for me.
DAW:
Nanostudio 2
It was hard to choose only five effects as my toolbox is vast and varied. On the other hand, it was tough to come up with five apps in the other categories as I'm good in those categories.
Then again, this does seem like an overabundance of apps for a desert island situation. So if I had to choose five apps in total regardless of category...
-Korg Gadget 2 (with all its internal IAPs, not including external compatible apps)
-Korg Module Pro (with all its IAPs)
-Korg iMono/Poly (with all its IAPs)
-Youlean Loudness Meter
-AUM
All of the production would be done within Korg Gadget itself. AUM can host the output of Gadget and feed it into Youlean's Loudness Meter. Then I can either use Gadget's limiter or DeeMax to set the level so its output is roughly -14LuFS.
record what?
Those audio tracks you sell to me on Bandcamp. OH! On the Desert Island you would just play into headphones. Right?
I basically don't need audio tracks, and when I do, Audiolayer or neon audio editor can do it in NS2. I would also play into headphones.
I like Neon in AUM too... you can start it recording and play with the AUM transport running and after a intro section start the drums and sequences and then stop when you like and the recording captures the complete end-to-end session. Just turning it on while working in AUM can produce a track useful for pulling out loops or re-arranging into a long form composition.
Neon has all the little extras in an AUv3 format and a pretty decent Media management system too for the loops and projects and such.
Oof that’s horrible. I hope it gets sorted soon. You must live up north? Or Midwest?
Pacific coast of California. Tourist town.
It’s called Babbling. I found it by searching for the most recent uploads. It’s 4-5 spaces down. It’s in English and French I believe. Really fun tho!
Also how hard is it to write scripts for Moziac? That does sound like a lot of fun and it’s something I’ve been wanting to dabble in for a while.
We have a few in common. I almost chose Splat over Drum80 but the FM+Cymbals are what sold me.