Any Nauts into handpans or tongue drums? I'd love to hear your music/experiences

[Hooger]

Ah okay, thx. Saw a youtube video with the device and some NI-Kontakt handpan vst, so that is why I assumed it was a controller only.

[korpinen]

This is a Yudin Workshop tongue pan I got a month or so ago in a trade. Just seemed like a fun idea to have something like this. Haven’t been using it a whole lot yet, I’ve only done a couple of jams including some piano and orchestral VSTs and that’s something I intend to do more in the autumn. I don’t have any background with acoustic percussion so I’ve been playing it with mallets so far, the highest notes are pretty difficult to play with hands.

[StarLicks]

I love wooden tongue drums. I’ve thought about playing live ambient sets with one of those + a synth and Cosmos, but was worried it would come off as too new age

[Hooger]

@StarLicks

but was worried it would come off as too new age

As long as your heart is in it, just do it!

I am not into new age-stuff, but I discovered the last couple of years that making soundscapes/ambient while patching/twisting knobs has an enormous relaxing effect on me.

Together with running it is an activity where I think about nothing else and my head empties. The same vibe I got with tongue and handpans. If someone would call me ‘new age’ because of that, they can go **** themselves

[plragde]

@Hooger

Don’t know if it’s a handpan, but the first time I got captured by these kinds of sounds, was when hearing this track:

I had hoped it was Intellijel Plonk, since I know he had that in his modular case when mixing Lush (there’s an Instagram post and a Sound on Sound interview) but the Bandcamp notes for the album say “Hang on Lush performed by Tom Baker”, so, yes, it really is a handpan. (Still hoping to synthesize something like this, I own Plonk but it’s been packed away since a few days after I acquired it, so I have no idea if it can approximate these sounds.)

[4Litre]

Try the Odd Hang app. A cheap way to play around with various tunings until you find what you like. Then buy that in hardware.

[Hooger]

Great tip, thanks!

@4Litre

Try the Odd Hang app.

[4Litre]

The “Bank C” of dum kits is focused on tuned percussion and has some good starting points to make hang drum type of sounds.

Probably the Yamaha DTX 12 is probably another good one to try and build this with.

[ObscureMachines]

I got to play one of these Yishama F2s. It was pretty unworldly when you hit the ding.

[s3kn0tr0n1c]

Nice. Ive not been down to F2 yet…lowest ive been is A2.

One day. Lol

[adfielding]

Nothing wrong with sounding a bit new age or leaning into that aesthetic, IMO. I know there’s a stigma that surrounds most stuff that’s new age-y, but by and large I think most folks would agree that there’s something cosy about that kind of aesthetic that doesn’t necessitate a fervent belief in the healing power of crystal skulls. If you like it, lean into it.

[DimensionsTomorrow]

@adfielding

know there’s a stigma that surrounds most stuff that’s new age-y, but by and large I think most folks would agree that there’s something cosy about that kind of aesthetic that doesn’t necessitate a fervent belief in the healing power of crystal skulls. If you like it, lean into it.

Valley of the Sun was a cool mail order new age tape label that Numero brought back. Worth a listen.

[hausland]

Listening to this while doing some work tonight. Thanks for sharing!

[adfielding]

Awesome, I’ll check that out - thanks for sharing!