ManFromGlass wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 11:01 pm Being able to say something different with that difference is a rare skillset.
Being able to say something different with a non-different is as well.

I think the trouble here is that we have words looking for a meaning.

Daphne Oram occupies part of that 0.5%, her work going back to the 1940s. No, we’ve done that with sampler technology, that’s just the modern version of cutting and splicing tape and speeding up and slowing down ‘found sounds’. Daphne Oram's work goes way beyond standard Musique Concrete techniques, ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:50 pm Jeez... what a world we've made for ourselves.

Sorry,

You can find out more about Driftworks at https://driftworks.uk/ I don't know about a specific connection, but the Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival does acknowledge that Brian and his brother grew up there. https://woodbridgeambientmusicfestival.com/ And yes, ambient CAN be disturbing - Dark ...

Maybe we've explored 99.5% of the ways to generate and torture sound... Daphne Oram occupies part of that 0.5%, her work going back to the 1940s. Very true. we have reached a situation where we are becoming way to obsessed with the minutia of sound, it's not important, if I want to convey say, the ...

When I was a teenager a friend had all sorts of pedals, I went round there one day, I used his Wah-Wah pedal as a tone control, leaving it in a fixed position, he said "you can't do that!" and snatched it away, I then picked up a treble recorder played it into a mic which I put through his MXR ...

I offer the 1U brush panel! Place it immediately below the patch panel, and shove any drooping cable loops into the brushes to keep them out of the way, but instantly accessible. Handy for bringing cables through from the back to connections on the fronts of gear, too. Thanks, never seen these but ...

With all my sample libraries and soft synths, I have access to about 50,000 sounds. I don't think that's at all abnormal these days. But it's not just about the sounds we have. Trying something new can be very creative and help people generate ideas they wouldn't previously have had. On the other ...

OK, this Magnolia, I like the look of it, a lot, the sound is nice and gnarly if required, that's good, but, I'm thinking, is it worth it? a Prophet 5 could cover what I've heard so far for me anyway, if I was going to have to spend this type off money I'd go for a Pro 10, and a decent pedal, but ...

I haven't owned a DX7 for some years, but had my previous one for about fifteen years, made loads of sounds. I bought one about three years ago as I thought it would be good to ave one again, I just didn't connect with it, I transferred all my sounds into FM8 which does the job. What I miss form the ...

I installed the MK11 expansion chip in mine, gave me more Midi options, plus Function editing per voice, not global.

Yes, also, its so easy now, and many electronic sounds are very familiar, to the general public, they aren't mysterious or special anymore they are generic electronic. No one cares if its analogue digital FM computer or what not, you can get them anywhere. The days of the first Moogs people were ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnEjur ... rt_radio=1

Sorry chaps, but how much more stuff do we need?
Every time I log in to YouTube there are yet more emperors new clothes, sounding exactly the same as the 80's and the 90's.

In other words, how to completely destroy the Buchla paradigm in one fowl swoop. Don took pride in releasing his stuff from the bonds of rigid musical structures, so where are we now? Boom Boom Boom Boom 1 2 3 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8SoKRmkYzg People seem to be just trying way too hard ...

Thanks for that link Tony, which is very timely, as I subscribed to Driftworks just a couple of days ago, and yesterday as a result received a complementary ambient album from Andrew Heath, which was VERY listenable. I've since found that Andrew has contributed to many albums released by the ...

Sam Spoons wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 11:03 am I'm sure that was the case along with many jazz drummers being pretty adventurous back then and rock/blues was the exciting new kid on the block.

And we can't get more adventurous than Jamie Muir! another refugee from the Little Theatre Club.

Thanks, I may look for something second-hand, subtleties like different rims skins etc will be wasted on me, these are for scraping and bowing, with the odd funky-freak-out by me! I guessed you wouldn't be too fussy. Pretty much any second hand kit by Pearl/Yamaha/Premier will be perfect. A decent ...

Thanks, I may look for something second-hand, subtleties like different rims skins etc will be wasted on me, these are for scraping and bowing, with the odd funky-freak-out by me!

Reaper for 23 years here, and don’t want to change, it changed my life when I first used it, all of a sudden here was something that didn’t need a doctorate from a German university to use it.

I think a lot of Jazz drummers in the early 60’s started to realise Jazz was on the way out and thought they could earn more money playing in Blues, Rock bands.

Didn’t know where to put this, so put it here, I need a basic kit, only bass, snare, hi-hat, I’m just wondering what I can get away with, what are off the shelf basic kits like? We need this for improv stuff, my mate is bringing over his percussion box, but we need a kit too, and I love playing dru ...

But as has been said, it's easy to add colour and grunge to a recording, but that doesn't make it sound vintage, just coloured and grungy. It's really all in the source material. So true. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard a favourite artist in real life and heard the same thing ...

This is actually quite easy to do, first of all you need to add some bigger knobs, preferably of the "chicken-head" type, then, if you have the space and posses moderate DIY soldering skills you could add a nice large VU Meter or two, finally, a change of colour scheme can help a lot, I’d go for e ...

Bob Bickerton wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:08 am Indeed, and superbly so….

Bob

I’m giggling in a sort of sideways slightly ironic cheeky way.

......that obviously wasn’t meant for my eyes, it said, "another moaner, I’ll deal with this later" Nice. :clap: :D classic email fail! :headbang: forgot to say Arp - if they were referring to you as "another..." it suggests you weren't the only one unhappy with the listening experience. their res ...