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Post by ranseur on Sept 28, 2017 14:35:20 GMT -5
Haha, I still have my old PSS 50. These gears are wonderful. Never tried the 50, the 80 is great though, 100 is supposed to similar but better. But the 130 is very limited (i used it on the ranseur sleeping corpse split). But these are cheap to buy usually.
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Post by Alder on Sept 28, 2017 15:47:45 GMT -5
Haha, I still have my old PSS 50. These gears are wonderful. Never tried the 50, the 80 is great though, 100 is supposed to similar but better. But the 130 is very limited (i used it on the ranseur sleeping corpse split). But these are cheap to buy usually. I love Yamahas - usually well-made & with interesting tones - but the fates seem obsessed with giving me Casios: bitchin' secondhand deals on 5 classic casio keys (MT-240, CTK-530, LK-43, CT-360, & CTK-2100), all within the last couple of years since the Great Unwilling Purge of my keys collection. The one & only Yamaha I have now is the PSS-130. It's totally awesome, but I've yet to work it into much of my DS music. This is partly due to its more "8-bit-esque" sound, but also the lack of an audio-out jack: do you record by mic alone, or have you added a jack (not so hard, I hear)?
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Post by Tyrannus on Sept 28, 2017 17:23:03 GMT -5
Fuck yeah Yamaha. I use a psr f51 which is just a step above like a demo keyboard with light up keys
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Post by nahadoth on Sept 28, 2017 20:31:09 GMT -5
all of the first Nahadoth record was using a PSR 172 - not light-up keys, but limited sound bank of 100 tunes, then some weird educational features built in. some really nice tones though.
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Post by Tyrannus on Sept 28, 2017 20:53:34 GMT -5
all of the first Nahadoth record was using a PSR 172 - not light-up keys, but limited sound bank of 100 tunes, then some weird educational features built in. some really nice tones though. Holy cow I looked it up and it’s so cute
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Post by ranseur on Sept 28, 2017 21:00:12 GMT -5
Never tried the 50, the 80 is great though, 100 is supposed to similar but better. But the 130 is very limited (i used it on the ranseur sleeping corpse split). But these are cheap to buy usually. I love Yamahas - usually well-made & with interesting tones - but the fates seem obsessed with giving me Casios: bitchin' secondhand deals on 5 classic casio keys (MT-240, CTK-530, LK-43, CT-360, & CTK-2100), all within the last couple of years since the Great Unwilling Purge of my keys collection. The one & only Yamaha I have now is the PSS-130. It's totally awesome, but I've yet to work it into much of my DS music. This is partly due to its more "8-bit-esque" sound, but also the lack of an audio-out jack: do you record by mic alone, or have you added a jack (not so hard, I hear)? Gotta go with some killer second hand deals. The 130 I used this weird mic from i think the early 80s that was for voice recording. It's one I got mostly for nostalgia because I had it in the early 90s. I think it's pretty easy to add a jack to any of those, there are some websites that talk about it. I think you can just solder one in place of the speaker and drill a hole in the shell.
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Post by Almenning on Sept 29, 2017 15:50:29 GMT -5
I recently bought a Yamaha PSS-270 very cheap. One of its many advantages is the stereo RCA output, check this video review:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2017 16:46:51 GMT -5
Damn cool sounds, indeed !
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Post by secludedalchemist on Oct 1, 2017 10:17:13 GMT -5
It feels right to preface with this, but, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing when it comes to creating dungeon synth. (I'm sure this comes as a surprise to no one.) But, when it comes to recording, I use a Yamaha YPG-235 (has a pretty fantastic range of tones) and GarageBand (IPad) for recording and mixing. I will say, this is definitely a genre that lends itself to experimentation, so there's absolutely no need to be afraid when it comes to experimenting with different types of sounds. Like I said, I have no idea what I'm doing, so feel free to not listen to anything I say regarding this subject. But, I figured I'd throw my two cents in. Good luck to ya, man, and I can't wait to hear what you come up with!
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Post by thekeeper on Oct 1, 2017 15:56:01 GMT -5
90% hardware - very occasionally i'll use software synths from Logic or a soundfont but generally I prefer to play things much more. thekeeper , what Yamaha style vSTs do you use? I guess none now that I've checked, ha. Could've sworn a couple had been modeled after some Yahama sound libraries. I have drum sample backs for RM-50, RX-5, RX-21, RY-30, and TG-33 though.
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Post by zerointerno on Oct 16, 2017 5:38:35 GMT -5
And what about inspiration ? The most cool thing is when the good music comes by itself. Like, one night I've seen a dream with a peculiar medieval scene accompanied by a tune which I am pretty sure I never heard before. When I woke up the tune still rang in my head, and whatsmore - somehow I already knew how to play it on a guitar. I quickly typed it in Guitar Pro before it vanished and used it later. The other time I just took two random chords on a guitar and suddenly they prolonged into a long melody in my head - I just had to proceed with plucking notes until I managed to imitate it as precisely as I could.
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Post by nahadoth on Oct 16, 2017 9:52:15 GMT -5
The trance-inspiration feeling is pretty great when it comes to composing music. Dare I say it sometimes feels like being on the luck potion in Harry Potter - you just have a feeling that all your choices are going to lead to the correct outcome, and if something else comes up, that the outcome will be even better. It's a wild feeling.
but personally, that sort of thing happens once every three or four pieces I record. Since beginning to self-record any of my music some years ago, I've learned at least when to walk away from a piece and let it simmer, rather than try to force inspiration. Sometimes I am very impatient, so this can be difficult! But it is often for the best.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2018 3:28:40 GMT -5
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Post by heidis on Mar 2, 2018 18:01:48 GMT -5
And what about inspiration ? I mean, we talk about software or hardware, but how do you get inspiration ? I'm a bit frustrated since some days because, when I go to sleep, I have lot of "riffs" in my mind, and when I woke up, everything is vanished. It's a bit strange i know You can sing your riffs in your smartphone so that you remember them the next morning Jeremy Soule did that for Morrowind (very rare document) Haha wow, I actually did exactly this about a month ago for my debut album. Had gone to bed, and out of fucking nowhere a fine melody pops into my head, I rush up to my phone and open up the recorder and start to whistle what I have in my head, then immediately fell asleep. Woke up and finished that song the same day, it really can work wonders
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Post by stormcrow on Mar 3, 2018 11:56:41 GMT -5
Steve Vai said he usually goes this way to fix his musical ideas. So... Why not?
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