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Are You Practicing Minimalism? If So, How So?
There are a ton of definitions and personal boundraies to a "minimalist" approach and I'd like to hear where you all stand. Maximalists are also encouraged to share as I love to hear about the insane workflows people with a ton of resources can create.
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My fiancé and I are moving into a tiny house in 2 weeks so definitely practicing minimalism lol. My setup right now is an iPad, midi controller, and a couple tiny hardware synths like pocket operators, volcas, model samples/cycles, mostly just for fun jams.
A great question. Minimalism for me is basically taking the idea of song structure and tossing it out the window. Rules about "don't repeat something more than twice in a row" and other such rules don't apply.
One of my minimal techno pieces.
There are clever ways to get around being too repetitive, such as polymeters (where in 4|4 time signature your kick pattern can be four beats long, your hihat pattern five beats long, your clap pattern three beats long, etc). And try not to use too many sounds and keep things sparse like in the above example. And have things evolve over a stretch of time.
Or if you're looking to do minimalist Ambient, I'd say no more than three sounds. One of them should be the drone, and the other two whatever you wish (even if it's layering two other higher drones on top of the bass drone).
Point is, with Minimalism sounds evolve over longer stretches of time and the arrangement of sounds is sparse. If you're toying with a minimalist type of piece, if you think there are too many sounds, chances are you're correct.
Even before iDevices, I’ve always worked with older devices that cannot handle loads of tracks and FX. Even when I buy them, they’re already a few years old or base model. This is what helps me cope with analysis paralysis.
I do by choosing to own a apartment style condo instead of a house. It limits how much stuff I can own.
Buying something new means I need to make room for it by either getting rid of something or getting creative with storage.
Doing as little work in my job as I can and offloading it to AI, so far so good! As for music, making stuff way too busy as usual.
Oh actually I do have a little side project that is just mainly Circuit being recorded into Endlesss, quite a fun exercise!
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I’ve always preferred having a pretty slim group of instruments on hand in the studio, so I buy and sell things a lot to keep it fresh. I don’t do well with lots of options, so there’s no need for me to keep a bunch of gear I’m not currently using.
Sometimes it backfires, I’ve repurchased and sold some pieces a few times over the years. 🙂
I have a couple of hardware synths and an 84 hp modular rack with some various modulators and processors and a Volca sample 2 I rarely use and a guitar and mic with a “channel strip” of a tube preamp, compressor, and eq. I usually just use the preamp for the channel strip when I do and sometimes a big muff or tube screamer to drive the preamp more. Oh yeah I have a sk5 but don’t use it often and just for resampling stuff for that 8bit aliasing. And then I mostly just use a Launchpad and nk2 for midi but have a couple Casio midi keyboards/pcm. Rarely am I using all of that at once. I mostly sample stuff or cut loops and piece stuff together later on just the ipad and nk2. I think that would qualify as pretty minimal in comparison to other setups I’ve seen
Definitely, i am keeping list of my music apps i have installed on my iDevices as small as possible .. up to 8 synth apps, around 16 fx apps .. one (or at currentl momenr two daws, cause inam evaluating posibilies to switch to othwr one) and that’s it..
regarding hw it’s not that minimalistic but it’s less than inhad before - syntakt, digitakt, digitone and small (2x niftycase) modular - that’s it ..
When I still had space for a studio I did the same thing. It was like a revolving door 😂 but I definitely sold and repurchased more than a couple of things.
I’d love the Syntakt some day. I loved my Digitakt/Digitone combo but ended up selling them. The Model Samples and Cycles is enough for me for now though. I don’t have space for something that big anyway.
I have a lot of apps, but I consciously strive more and more for an iPad only workflow where I don’t rely on external keyboards, midi controllers etc. And am definitely - and consciously - going through a, for me anyway!, enjoyable phase of actually applying some minimalist principals a la Reich etc to my noodlings. I also Iike to keep my setups a bit simpler than I used to, working with fewer instruments etc, though things still get quite complex on the midi setup end at times!
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I’ve been doing the same over the last couple years. Almost all my actual music is done entirely on the iPad. The hardware I rarely reach for and even then it’s mostly for fun. iPad + midi controller is the optimal setup for me.
I’m curious, are you using only the on screen keyboards to play? (Outside of sequencing of course).
For regular midi, yes, using Xequence keys set with velocity response to be lowest at the bottom, highest at the top, usually quantised to a particular scale, and always with the sustain slider loaded when playing pianoteq. For mpe stuff I still sometimes reach for the Seaboard. I do need to start using my nanokontrol more though, because it is really handy to have some physical knobs or sliders to tweak while recording live, even just so as not to have to constantly move things around on the AUM screen.
I'm in the process of moving so almost all my gear is packed up. However, I'm going to limit it to an iPad, Minilab 3, headphones on the hardware front. Software will likely be NS2, CB3, Drambo, and a few synth and FX apps. I've just got ButterSynth so want to learn that. Need a couple of drone apps though. Any recommendations?
Edit: also using a trackpad, which I find easier to use than a mouse for music making.
Does the Minilab 3 have a headphone port or are you having to use an interface?
Xequence Keys is my go-to midi controller on iOS too. It’s a really really great app. I like Velocity Keyboard a lot too though. And the new Beat Pads app is handy as well.
I’ve been eyeing a nanokontrol for a while just for that. May cave and finally get one. It’s Bluetooth right?
Bluetooth yeah!
Thanks! I’ll have to grab one. I see them pop up used for really cheap all the time.
The fact that you need to reset the faders on all these kinds of controllers every time you reopen an old session where you used them, if you have used the same controller knobs in a different session since, is why I don't really use them. Every time you go into a session you'll have to remember which knobs do what and make sure that their position reflects the position of the knobs as saved in your session, before you start performing. Quite a pita.
Will never ever sell DT/DN/ST :-) I rather sell my iPad lol .. until i will be not starving, there is no chance i sell DT/DN/ST
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ditto
Life is short.
Maximize everything!
Minimalism? I wish!
I love hardware way too much and currently have the space for it. I grew up fairly poor and in the middle of nowhere so I would have no problem going back to that life if necessary though. Sometimes I definitely fantasize about leaving it all behind. Just me, my wife, and my animals out in the middle of nowhere in a tiny house. I would be pretty content with that and a garden. Yep!
No.
I’ve cut down from wearing two socks to one. Can’t wait for the next developments. No socks, one shoe, no shoes, hopping on one foot and finally the total abandonment of bipedalism. After that the sky’s the limit until I eliminate the sky.
Not sure, I've never looked. I've got an iPad 9 and use the headphone port on that.