Roland SP606, this was my favorite of the old sp samplers I ran through in the early 10s, kinda the grandpa of the mk2, 4 tracks sequencer, sample chopping and two mfx busses. It’s a little clunky to use but the effects sound great.
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Holy shit. I’d forgotten all about the hue of those old screens.
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This one reminds me a lot of the mpc1000.
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D-BEAM baby!!
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I absolutely spent like 20 mins this evening playing d-beam synth 
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We all have buddy. Whether that’s a moment of pride seems to vary greatly. I imagine I looked like someone playing that dancing lightsaber game on the VR headsets, but damn did it feel cool.
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How they put out that new 64 thing and called it an APC is beyond me. APC is all about faders and other hands on control.
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Soma Ether v2. Intensinos ; go out and have some noisy field recordings.
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Nice! I have planned to make myself something similar. Didn’t know there was a finished product for sale. Might consider buying this too because most likely won’t have time to diy.
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STG Post-Lawsuit Low-Pass Filter and Frequency Central Little Melody
Intentions: to make little melodies and filter them.
Just about to start my winter diy project building up an Oakley 5u modular.
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Unintentionally bought a second AE Octatrack for a decent price and with no alcohol involved 
Will use for 3 weeks since away from home to give me something to do, then decide to take it home and rock 2 in my setup or trade it lol.
Will whack my travel companion M8 thru it out of curiosity and use the knobs for M8, FX and scenes for now!
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did you ever watch that Jon Wayne “2 Octatracks and a mixer” video from this thread? Pretty dope.
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No not watched that one - will take a look! Thanks!
Just been reading old “dual Octatrack” threads lol
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Pair with Koala Sampler desktop version. Had been thinking about buying an old tablet just to get using Koala again, but realised I can use desktop version on my MacBook, just fine - but needed something to control it better as I can’t be dealing with qwerty keyboard for controlling anything.
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Found this Suzuki QChord for the low low ($50) used. Really want an Omnichord but this will do in the meantime. Suzuki is re-releasing the OG any day now. Cool little chord-synth for easy always in tune lofi strumming. Will run through fx/pedals to expand the sound options.
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Ordered Beyerdynamic DT 700 Pro X headphones to use primarily for vocal recordings.
They will replace my AKG K271 MKII’s that are presently used for the same purpose. The AKG K271 MKII’s sound a little too clinical for my preference and do not have the best sound isolation. The new headphones, based on my testing, are more suitable.
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Extraordinary good price! Gratulations!
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Just picked up a copy of Sononym, the sample library analyser/browser/librarian software.
I have a lot of samples on my hard disk and there’s some great stuff in there but my various DAWs and plugins don’t always make it easy to navigate. I trialled an old version some time ago but it didn’t work well with my M1 Mac. Well, the just-released version 1.5 has native Apple Silicon support and it’s much, much faster and the sample preview is snappy now. Very easy to filter all those sampels to find the best bits.
I’m amazed at how well it manages to categorise the samples e.g. “breaks and smashes”, “nature and atmospheric”, “explosions and shots”, “metal hits”, “pads and textures” to name a few, and of course many drum categories like kicks, snares, claps, cymbals etc.
It has a 30-day trial and it’s coming on sale at the end of the month so it’s a great time to give it a spin.
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Interesting. I’ll have to have a look at this one. If it works how I hope it’ll save me a lot of manual labor.
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