Showcase your best Acid before its too late!

KrisM · 2014-02-24T10:15:56.000Z

I’ve used 303 sounds a lot, but nothing I’d ever call proper acid anything. There are times when I’m tempted to get a x0xb0x, keep my 522, and lock myself in a closet for a month with them and a small mixer (or the OT).

Oh 303, how I love you so

jaalmadakan · 2014-02-24T13:13:30.000Z

Isn’t the OT an amazing ACID machine when sync’d to a 303 ?

Area303 · 2014-02-24T18:32:29.000Z

How can the OT be an acid machine? It’s a sampler.

subq · 2014-02-24T20:06:15.000Z

""Area303"":

How can the OT be an acid machine? It’s a sampler.

It is also a midi sequencer.

In addition, it has slide trigs.

jaalmadakan · 2014-02-25T08:59:31.000Z

Acid isn’t just about being able to make 303 bassline, it’s about the rythm, the groove, the “supporting synths”, the effects, and the OT is fantastic for that.

Area303 · 2014-02-25T09:21:20.000Z

It’s simply just a fantastic machine. Period

Dayflight · 2014-02-25T09:28:58.000Z

I think that Roland has recognized very (too?) late what Korg has made successfully with the analog product line. Now they launch the retro staff in a trendy design, but what is innovative about that?

Hundreds or thousand new Acid-Improvisions on youtube…nothing scecial.

jaalmadakan · 2014-02-25T22:05:33.000Z

Eargasm

subq · 2014-02-26T22:37:12.000Z

the influx won’t matter, classics like this will live on, regardless of the gear

Area303 · 2014-02-27T07:35:08.000Z

I never liked the Analord stuff all that much.

subq · 2014-02-27T16:06:38.000Z

""Area303"":

I never liked the Analord stuff all that much.

I admit that I’m not a huge fan of a lot in that series either. However, the track I posted is right up my alley, love it.

point is, apparently a lot of people love some of his stuff and it is very old, the influx of new material hasn’t caused really good old stuff to get lost

xmit · 2014-02-27T16:16:53.000Z

Heh, no way will acid (in the sense as we understand it!) ever become commercial/mainstream, it is the anti-thesis of that, so any attempt to commercialise it will result in failure, because once you start adding in cheesy shit it is no longer acid, but just another tedious cheesefest with a 303 or clone in it, there have been lots of tracks like this in the past 20 odd years, and they are soon forgotten.

And, the TB3 in the hands of the average hipster nimrod is going to sound just as shit as it does in the Roland demos, over effected gutless shite.

Ministry of Sound will probably re-brand the term acid house, just like they did with deep house, electro, r&b, garage etc, but anyone who knows even a tiny bit about music genres won’t be fooled.

Loving Daren’s unbridled passion here for a beloved musical form…& I for one wholeheartedly agree. ‘acid’ isn’t even necessarily about that sound IMHO…it’s far deeper than that, it’s a style & a philosophy…

MK7 · 2014-02-27T16:27:04.000Z

Maybe it doesn’t meet a strict definition of “acid” (no xoxbox etc. involved), but anyways I think that the following pattern meets the spirit of acid quite well:

https://soundcloud.com/marc-und-moritz/19-05-13-analog-four-acid

Is it that what you, xmit, mean? I’m neither much interested in main stream, if at all, nor do I know much about acid tbh.

Where is Highsage?!!

darenager · 2014-02-27T16:52:17.000Z

Maybe I’m biased, I was fortunate enough to be right in the thick of it when the acid house scene hit the UK, I am well aware it is easy for me to sound like some old git on a soapbox, but at the same time I’m not precious about it, I fully expect to hear some young kids getting hold of the Aira’s and doing some amazing tracks with them, and good luck to them. On the other hand there will be 1000 lame pretenders knocking out generic cheesy pap, same as with any other genre, but as always the good stuff tends to get noticed.

And as Xmit says I’d be the first to say a 303 is not essential for doing acid, personally I think it is more about the person than the gear, it is a philosophy and if you try to fake it, it will show, too many embellishments or try to get too musical/clever and you lost it, its about that raw stripped down groove that keeps you hooked, much like the best funk its all about the stank. IMHO. It came from the ghetto and it belongs in the ghetto, and like most of the best music was not about flashy gear and pristine recordings, fuck that noise

Anyway, rambling on…

I am looking foreward to checking out the posted tracks, keep em coming!

darenager · 2014-02-27T16:59:00.000Z

On that AFX 12" this one is the one for me
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Duncan · 2014-02-27T19:25:14.000Z

Uneasy Acid

DaCaVa · 2014-02-27T19:33:40.000Z

This one is another A4 vs machinedrum acid track. This one never really had great reviews when I posted it, but I like the groove. It’s bouncy, dirty and fun:)

https://soundcloud.com/doktor-fibonacci/i-love-zuza-live-hardware-acid

Aiyn_Zahev · 2014-02-27T19:43:48.000Z

Not sure how far this counts as Acid, but I made this a few days ago on the A4

subq · 2014-02-28T20:00:25.000Z

""DaCaVa"":

This one is another A4 vs machinedrum acid track. This one never really had great reviews when I posted it, but I like the groove. It’s bouncy, dirty and fun:)

SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

I like it, good showcase of the A4 too.

subq · 2014-02-28T20:03:27.000Z

[quote=““Aiyn Zahev””]
Not sure how far this counts as Acid, but I made this a few days ago on the A4

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don’t think the thread was A4 only but I’m digging the A4 only acid posts