Veracohr

I use a drum synth plugin, so I can't help you with a sample playing drum plugin. Although I do sometimes use samples of bongos, congas, things like that. There are particular sounds I can't make properly with the drum synth I use, especially certain widely-used hi hat sounds, so I sometimes wish I had a better sample drum machine that the crap one Digital Performer has. Live has a better one, but since I switch between the programs I can't use a proprietary one.

I don't listen to much full on, but I'll second the suggestion of Talpa!

Welcome to psy Starkraver!

The first I heard was Astral Projection's "Mahadeva", which I downloaded from MP3.com, but I didn't actually get into goa/psy for a few years after that. I just kept listening to that song. Some time later I got into Infected Mushroom, although now I can't remember where I first heard them. Then I started hunting down MFG and Transwave songs online and going from there, and the first non-IM albums I got were Goa Vibes 2 and Hallucinogen's "Twisted".

It's not that hard over the internet, it just precludes any spontaneous synergy between people. I feel the same. I met I guy in my area once and tried to collaborate, but we had technical difficulties with files and he said fuck it. sadface

The objective of this lab is to analyze the frequency response of RLC circuits.

I doubt animals grasp the patterns and ratios of sounds that we call music. They just probably hear noise, and feel it when it's a kick drum. Music grew out of humans' ability to control the pitch and timbre of our voices, beginning with coherent speech. Millenia of learning to hear and use specific sounds eventually led to perceiving beauty in certain combinations. Animals, to our knowledge, don't have that ability. The types of animals we use as pets certainly don't display any tendency to control the pitch and timbre of their meows & howls.

Kinda cool in a weird way, heavy on the psychedelic, made for trippers. From a songwriting standpoint it jumps around and doesn't make a lot of sense, but if one were high or tripping it would be wonderful. 7/10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxcIhFRhfHY

wat. My cat hates any kind of trance or techno. I think she doesn't like the thumping. If I turn it up loud enough she runs around my apartment like she's crazy. Curiously, metal tends to make her chill out and go to sleep.

In today's shrinking CD prevalence, are more DJ's mixing with WAV files when it comes to new releases?

What's it from? Knowing a release date can help narrow down choices based on popular synths at various times. However, it sounds like any virtual analog plugin, which means it's pretty much impossible to identify, but also means you can make the sound with pretty much any virtual analog plugin. Edit: never mind, you said what it was from. If that's around 2000 - I'd say probably a Virus or something similar. Yamaha AN1x is another VA from the same period. Still, you can make that with tons of free VA plugins.

OK, I listened. Indeed it's good. Probably still not going to buy it. No money for music right now.

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Well, I actually stopped listening to the samples when I saw it was $23 (plus shipping of course, to the US). Maybe if I had more money than I do it would be worth it. I find the CDs on Psyshop and Saiko and direct from Suntrip that are $13-$15 to be worth it.

The price is right? I'm not too familiar with them, but I sought out some samples to listen to when I saw the announcement thread. Pretty good I guess, but not worth the price for me.

Samsara

^ To me, some of those are not 'light'. Like X-Dream: not that I've heard everything they've made, but it's all pretty heavy to me. Most ambient (psybient) is almost the antithesis of 'light'; it tends to be very heavily emotional sounding. But then again I don't listen to a lot of that, so perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about. Most Chi-A.D. is very emotional, and progressive tends to sound 'serious' to me, even if it's not 'emotional'. Besides, the question was regarding goa in particular. Not everything remotely connected to psytrance.

I can't say I know much about bacteria or virii in this regard, but those are non-conscious organisms carrying out a genetic imperative without regard for the consequences to other organisms. So we get lovely stuff like ebola and flesh-eating bacteria and HIV and avian flu. We as sentient beings have the opportunity to consider the consequences of our actions.

I can't listen to them at the moment so I can't pull specific songs out, but I think I remember some songs on the lighter side from Slinky Wizard, Cosmosis, Goasia, Crop Circles.

I'm into psytrance, metal, rock, trance and psychedelic, including: Astral Projection, Flogging Molly, Veracohr, Electric Universe, Gojira, Aes Dana, Chi-A.D., Isis, L.S.G., Transwave, RA, Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head, Pink Floyd, Merr0w, Botch, Pleiadians, Metallica, Portishead, X-Dream, Nicole Atkins, Floater, Pantera, Tool, Enya, Dead Can Dance, e-mantra, Shpongle, Crossing Mind, Crop Circles, Nero's Rome, David Bowie, Electrypnose, The Velvet Underground, Tori Amos, Lamb of God, Sublime, Cult of Luna, Radical Distortion, Anna Madorsky, Amon Amarth, Led Zeppelin, Sepultura, Fleetwood Mac, Neurosis, Alienapia, Simon & Garfunkel, Black Mountain, Filteria, Opeth. Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/Veracohr

Back in my younger days I played Dungeons & Dragons. One day I created a dragon character and named it Veracohr; it didn't mean anything, it was just three syllables that sounded nice together. Eventually I started using it as my online name, and then as my music name.

Pretty fucking killer!

I think I counted until pretty much the end of the sequence. The whole time the loud 4-note synth played.

The kind of hybridization and selective breeding that has been around for centuries, while man-made in a sense, is still natural. If someone attempts a breeding or hybrid and it doesn't work, it's because the organisms aren't compatible in that way. Genetic modification doesn't have that check and balance from the natural world (maybe it would on a time scale of millenia), so people are afraid of that unknown. I'll admit I'm afraid of it, even though I admit it could very well turn out to be OK.