Is the laptop a Mac? If so, give Drambo a look
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Surely I jest
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You’re just saying this because of all these decades of the legacy media demonizing late night massage parlors and turning Cong Burn into something far more taboo and shameful than it deserves to be. I mean, people get Cong Burn, and that should be ok! My mom once got it, and so did my grandmother… Hey, even my uncle had a little bit of Cong Burn when he got back from the war. People with Cong Burn are people too, so let’s not forget this.
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Congburn my arse.
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Is the title of the new Mr Bungle album.
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Oops, didn’t realize that
I went to Salford uni many moons ago. Walking to the student halls through the locals gave me Congburn many times.
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Doctor, if I drink too much Bone Soda will I get Cong Burn?
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Four out of five doctors of High Jazz recommend drinking Bone Soda to soothe Cong Burn
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I mean, if you own an iPad… that would change everything, Cong Burn, King Extinguish,… you name it… iOS offers. But mainly Drambo… Korg Gadget, too
Well, there is also Korg Gadget for the lappie. I dig it. And if you dig trackerz, Renoise
And if you wanna go retro and spend no money:
https://jeskola.net/buzz/
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Can recommend Gadget as well. Easy to learn, yet very powerful with all these machines (gadgets). Very smart and focussed interface as well.
yeah, gadget has great machines and a streamlined interface
it makes me actually finish tracks. fast
don’t listen to the gadget demo songs, most of them sound like 90s video game music. nothing against that, but it can do much more than that. the synths are actually pretty nice. I love wolfsburg. But the sample based stuff is very cool, too
I made this with gadget, a long time ago. its not mastered
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and this is Drambo
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Don’t sleep on a laptop as a groovebox https://youtube.com/shorts/SLPItjSXjVw?si=rC9vy_WIVAYeyiOI
Using the daw you already have with stock plugins only is a fun challenge
My next gear purchase will most likely be a macbook upgrade tbh. Big screen, lots of buttons (the keyboard) , the best plugins objectively, big battery, speaker, best file management, best editing precision, highly portable … It’s everything people (me included) say they want but then willfully buy devices that are lacking
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I don’t know. To do it right though, you have to buy multiple laptops, and that gets expensive.
1 laptop for FM synth sounds
1 laptop for subtractive synth sounds
1 laptop for sampling capabilities
1 laptop for polyphonic sampled instruments
1 laptop for a drum synth
and maybe an “end of chain” laptop with analog emulation plugins to “warm” it all up.
Or… are you telling me you can do all that in one box?
Oh god, I’ve been in hardware-land too long!
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It’s surprising how far you can get with the computer keyboard - Renoise/Redux obviously is the king for this, but even in Ableton/Bitwig.
Fwiw I got an M4 MacBook Air recently and so far it seems to have plenty in the tank for what I’m using it for, especially when the point of comparison is much more expensive hardware that’s trying to do the same thing, and great battery life.
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So thought I’d give yous all a little almost 3 year anniversary update.
Still happy as Larry with the MacBook Air. For a little M1 with 8gb of RAM it really does do well. But I’m mostly using it as a sort of desktop at the minute and it’s killing the battery. Also, now I’ve got a push, the lack of ports is becoming a pain in the arse.
Then I see that a few places have dropped the Mac Mini M4 to just over 500 notes. Ridiculous price for so much power. So there’s one in the post on its way to me. I’ll probably have to get a cheap monitor to go with it as a second screen, but being able to streamline the MacBook as a pure gig machine will give it a new lease of life and a much longer one too hopefully.
Absolute fucking Mac wanker.
I’ll probably end up with a fucking iPhone next…
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The last junction off the motorway before the one that takes you into the city centre.
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