OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thread)

[Hircine]

rayman, do you like getting head from agnatas because they have no jaws?

*googles agnatas* ... hahahaha

oh and does anyone have a link to that madEP samplepack? :B

The vinyl one? I just downloaded it yesterday. oops slipmat and mains hum were favorites
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mad+ep+sample+pack

is this the pack youre talking about Hircine?
http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=235735

I was hoping I could put a brickwall limit the samples to get an idea of the room sound, but it sounds like they're gated?

I may have used a gate. Plus it's a dub setup so the snare has a piece of cloth dampening it, tom and floortom have almost no tension on the skin + tape and there's a coin between the pedal and the kick drum skin. I will try to bang a snare in there and record it, just gotta finish some production business first!

Also cheers for digging the MadEP sample pack

[wub]

Should get myself sorted and do a sample pack, got enough weird bleepy things now.

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weird bleepy things.

Tell me more about your weird bleepy things.

BTW for the hardware, Officesteppers crew...there are rumors of a Korg "mini" MS20 resurrection...supposedly it will come in right around 700USD new. 'Dat filter

[wub]

Got a Chimera BC8 and a Korg Kaossilator so with the addition of a Monotron and my new Electribe I'll be doing stuff like this;



Need to look at a cheap mixer to bring it all together now, I guess.

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http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MG102c/ <--highly recommend this mixer...have used it for a while in various capacities. Right now I'm using it pre-interface to mix my drum tracks off my Electribe. No noise that I've ever noticed, one send/return, 80hz shelf cut on each mixer track and compression one a few of the tracks. My only complaint is I wish it had mutes.

The Electribes are a great series by the way : )

Nice little blippy setup...is that your own youtube vid or someone with the same gear? (sorry can't look, gotta jet to class)

[wub]

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MG102c/ <--highly recommend this mixer...have used it for a while in various capacities. Right now I'm using it pre-interface to mix my drum tracks off my Electribe. No noise that I've ever noticed, one send/return, 80hz shelf cut on each mixer track and compression one a few of the tracks. My only complaint is I wish it had mutes.

That looks pretty spot on TBH, might have to take a closer look at that

Nice little blippy setup...is that your own youtube vid or someone with the same gear? (sorry can't look, gotta jet to class)

Not my video but will probably try my hand at one or two a bit further down the line and see what happens

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Yea. I need to do a video of a hardware jam. Only camera I have is my laptop web cam or my phone. There is actually a really cool hardware thread on idmforums.com...its in the studio sub forum stickies. Sorry dunno how to post links on my phone.

There are some reasonably priced small mixers w fx from A&H and mackie. But if hou dont care about fx you cant beat that Yamaha on the price.

[Artie_Fufkin]

I will try to bang a snare in there and record it, just gotta finish some production business first!

Would be much appreciated

So I've been thinking lately about a way for me to perform live and not just deejay my own tracks. I've been thinking of playing one of the instruments in the songs and switching off on guitar, keyboard, and maybe bass guitar now that I've got one. Any thoughts or suggestions? Have you guys met people who didn't really like the idea of dj'ing for live music instead of actual musicians?

[Hircine]

I will try to bang a snare in there and record it, just gotta finish some production business first!

Would be much appreciated

So I've been thinking lately about a way for me to perform live and not just deejay my own tracks. I've been thinking of playing one of the instruments in the songs and switching off on guitar, keyboard, and maybe bass guitar now that I've got one. Any thoughts or suggestions? Have you guys met people who didn't really like the idea of dj'ing for live music instead of actual musicians?

Lurk glitchhopforum live pa thing. I can't remember who, but this guy performed a few of his g-funk tunes alternating between playing solos and lead lines with a keytar and live drumming / chopping on a mpc. There was a video on youtube, he looked really cool with that keytar thing

[Artie_Fufkin]

hahahaha....wait, this one?

excellent....


I've been looking on those forums and it's giving me the idea.....that I need to get an apc 40
I had the idea that I could maybe kick off some stuff by playing a few drum sounds on my midi keyboard and then build layers from there as if I'm actual looping it on the fly but really just having patterns play in my daw and then switch over to playing pads/leads/bass/guitar over the beats once it's all constructed. This way it shows where the backing stuff is coming from and kinda presenting it in a way that the audience could appreciate more by hearing the pieces put together in front of them. But that would probably get boring after a few times of doing it, right?
I'm really just trying to come up with the balance of live performance and pre-recorded stuff that is how I want it to sound and would be hard/impossible to do perform live. Or maybe I'll just pull a mistabishi

also, LOL @ this post on ghf:

Yea, remember to epoxy your knobs on the APC40 when you get it. I lost so many of mine playing shows last year. Scrounging for more. You can usually find some on the floor at venues.

is that true?

[OfficialDAPT]

what's epoxy mean?

[Electric_Head]

Epoxy is essentially a type of resin.
In this instance though he means glue em.

[wub]

what's epoxy mean?

Two part bonding agent that comes in seperate tubes that has to be mixed together before it can be used.

Basically a really strong glue.

[OfficialDAPT]

I don't see how you could glue your knobs on the apc40 and still have them turn.maybe he's joking?

[wub]

I don't see how you could glue your knobs on the apc40 and still have them turn.maybe he's joking?

Just gluing the knob back onto the rotary switch underneath, not gluing the switch itself in place.

[Electric_Head]

Remove the knob, epoxy the knob to the shaft not the actual apc surface.



Edit - Wub beat me to it.

[wub]

Global exchange server outage at work so am dead in the water in terms of being able to do actual work.

However, the Internet is still working


EDIT - going to spend the morning on this channel until Exchange serve comes back

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Just throwing this out there to Officestepper tech heads. We have cable internet at home. My girl just started working from home and remotely accesses her desktop from this weird little computer with no HD, she does medical billing so they won't risk data being stored offsite. She has to use a wired connection, no wi fi. If she connects remotely to her work before I connect to the Wi Fi (same router her computer is hardwired to) I can't get internet access--I can connect to the router/network...but no internet access. Thoughts? Again, she does medical billing, so I'm wondering if her computer/workstation thingy somehow secures the connection.

[wub]

Seems a standard 'dumb' terminal style setup from the way you've described it...machine doesn't really store anything locally and instead downloads the OS/programs (guessing it's got some bespoke software on it?) as and when you use it.

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Seems a standard 'dumb' terminal style setup from the way you've described it...machine doesn't really store anything locally and instead downloads the OS/programs (guessing it's got some bespoke software on it?) as and when you use it.

Yea, it loads up stuff as she needs. I know she is using "Windows Remote Desktop". And yea, it seems it downloads everything she needs. I don't really know what bespoke software is, lol. But I know it takes a long time to "boot". These are her words, I'm not really supposed to hang out around her workstation or ask questions about it since it's all medical stuff.

But whenever she is connected none of our other Wi Fi devices in the house can get internet access. She has a work order in to her company's tech support and we are going to see if Time Warner Cable can help us at all.

I'm wondering if the router is just outdated/malfunctioning.