Goa Travellers

Hello, Each of us organizes himself his own way to take control of all instruments (hard and soft), with all MiDi and audio tracks, be it for live performance or at the studio. There are different ways. Here are a few questions that come to mind: Do you use only hard synths and drum kits, or only soft ones, or a mixture? Do you use the PC sequencer for both live performance and at the studio? When you perform live, do you basically play your tunes one after the other, or do you have your own large tune specifically made for this purpose? If you perform live, how do you manage transitions from one tune to another (if you use actual synths)? When performing live, do you simulate that you're playing, and use an MP3 playlist while turning the knobs? Eh eh Do you assign a MiDi channel per drummer kit instrument (e.g. One MiDi channel dedicated to bass drum, another one for snare drum, etc.) How do you manage/remember all positions of pots on analog vintage synths when going from one tune to another, in order to always have the expected sound? Do you separate all audio outputs of all possible instruments, for left/right? (e.g. L/R for kick drum, L/R for lead, L/R/ for pad, L/R for synth 1, L/R for bass line, etc.) That would be n instruments × 2 audio channels = twice the number of instruments for the whole number of audio channels... Do you gather audio outputs on the mixing console by logical groups? (e.g. two slide pots for L/R of all drummer kit, two slide pots for all special effects, two slide pots for basses, etc...) Do you use an MPC? If so how do you manage the limitations? (lack of tracks, only 16 pads, arguably not convenient...) Do you record all MiDi events such as turning pots, selecting the instrument? Did you split your MiDi channels according to your instruments? (e.g. channels 1 to 10 for drummer kit ; channels 11 to 20 for synths, etc.) How do you gather your MiDi channels in your PC sequencer interface? When composing, do you first compose the main instrument from the beginning to the end, then on top, add the rhythm from the beginning to the end, then the bass, then the pad, then create transitions, then add effects. Or, do you compose at a slower pace but you compose all instruments at the same time, and you even add and fine-tune all effects as you move on? Did you find a way to simulate slide pot motions using MiDi on your analog synths with a CV/Gate to MiDi interface? Or isn't there a way? If you mix MP3s, how to you keep kick drums in sync from one tune to the other? Is there an automatic procedure, or only the hard way? Thanks for sharing

It looks like a sawtooth wave with overdrive filter and a band-pass filter with high resonance and middle cutoff filter.

Is hip hop music actual music? My English teacher called "rap music" an "oxymoron". Just kidding Some would argue only real music is classical music, LOL... Some of my relatives say rock and pop music are actual music because actual instruments are used, while electronic music isn't. Thing is that they have no idea how many electronic instruments are used for pop and rock music, or even RnB, blues, etc...Without electronic instruments, these genres would sound different!

@E-Mantra: Yes, I didn't see the Nord Lead corner on #5. On #1, Stéphane Holweck (left) is on an SH-101, with a TB-303 under his left arm. On #3 there's a TR-909 on Lior's side (middle right of the photo), there's a Novation Bass Station in the upper-left corner of the photo and a JD-800 in the middle-left of the photo. @Veracohr: Wooden end cap, yes, I agree, but these don't seem to be keys, rather slide pots. For #6, it's either an SH-2 or an SH-09. Anyone can tell?

@E-Mantra: Indigo for Transwave (Nr. 4), yes. Do you think Nord Lead for Total Eclipse (Nr. 1)? It looks more like a red mixing console to me...Where the Juno? And what model of Juno?

LOL Come on...You're too bad

Hello, what exact use do you make of your MPC? I'm asking because I have always thought about buying one, but goa trance music has so many tracks and instruments played for a single tune that an MPC seems unusable compared to a PC sequencer, don't you think so? You won't have 64 or 128 tracks with an MPC. It seems more suitable for music that makes use of less instruments (e.g. blues, rnb, rock, dance, pop...). Or do you use it only for the sampler of the MPC?

Try your teeth on these 1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7:

Oh...So that's easy

These tunes are mad! What gear are you using? (just out of curiosity)

" " FTW! Intensive use of SH-101 with pulse wave !

Here's what I suggest: - discoDSP (NordRack 2) - Bass Station - DCO-6 (Juno 106) - SH-101 - V-Station - Access Virus - ReBirth + soft MIDI interface All importable in the VST Instruments section of Cubase

Hello, do you know the name of the artist and tune at 0:28:00? Thanks!

Namaste, Salut, mon lost track est ici après 28 minutes: Une idée ? Boom !

Those VSTIs work simultaneously: Novation V-Station, Clavia Nord Rack 2, TR-909 and SH-101.

I have tried 4 simultaneous VSTIs and they've worked properly. I guess I could try more.

I use only VSTIs, my Bass Station VSTI doesn't work, but others do. When I use Cubase, it mutes the sound in native Linux apps, and when I quit it, I recover use of sound in native apps No audio latency so far, but I haven't tried tens of VSTi tracks at the same time TBH!

Take a look!

Master Of The Universe kicks ass!!

Yeah, it's a goa or psytrance mix that starts with the intro of Born Slippy.

Hello, I had a mix that started with Underworld - Born Sleepy I don't remember the name of this mix. Do you know this mix? It's a famous one that is widely available on the Internet, but I don't remember the name. Thanks!

Hi guys, My mixer has 32 tracks and using 2 tracks for each instrument to have stereo, this reduces to 16 instruments, which is very limited when you include many effects, new sounds here and there. Also, I have only one echo effect from Alesis. I can put echo to only one instrument, for the rest, if I have integrated effects, great, otherwise the instrument will be pure with no effect at all... I'd like to know how you deal with these limits. Do you use mono instead of stereo? Do you record one instrument after the other and put them together later, with a sound editor on your computer? How do you solve this problem? Thanks.

* BUMP * Ok, I have used PCs and Macs at work (not for music), and I find both more or less the same (same excellent stability, same performance). I see for the same price that PCs can have much better performance, and that PCs have more software available. Could some one tell me why buying a Mac? I've got nothing against it, I just would like to know Also, at what point is performance important for music authoring? I remember in the 90's when I made music, I had an old Pentium 133 with 32MB of RAM and I didn't have any performance problem with Cubase. Maybe things have changed though. What do you think?

Hi guys, I'm a little puzzled... Doesn't raising the general volume on a mixer the same thing as using a maximizer? What's the difference? And what is also the difference with a compressor? Do you know a good site that explains many things like that, please? I'd like to learn many of these concepts Thanks!

Hello, I have a home studio with a computer, a few synths, a mixer, etc... When I play my tunes using Cubase and the MIDI interfaces, the sound is very good, but if I record the tune and mix it with musics from famous artists taken from audio CDs, their music has a good quality of sound and when arrives MY tune, the sound quality of not very good, it sounds like I recorded the using using a microphone, the sound lacks "power", it sounds weak. Do you know what is missing? Thanks,