Really excellent, from the chord progression to the sounds used!

Really excellent, from the chord progression to the sounds used!

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Ultra-lush pad! Great beat...and do I detect some vinyl plugin for some grit?  Nice.  Great use of noise timbres!  I'll echo Jim Wood on the chord progressions, also--top-notch work!

Ultra-lush pad! Great beat...and do I detect some vinyl plugin for some grit? Nice. Great use of noise timbres! I'll echo Jim Wood on the chord progressions, also--top-notch work!

cool tune! haha i feel like your unfinished tunes are about as elaborate as my finished ones!

cool tune! haha i feel like your unfinished tunes are about as elaborate as my finished ones!

Nice one mate!

Nice one mate!

excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?

excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?

Mmmhhh, good question... As you say, different beats, indeed.

First, die kurz Antwort:

Priced new, I'll definetely go for the Volca, but I'd add a new contender, the Waldorf Rocket "Thomann Edition" for 175 euros, including the Waldorf PPG Wave plugin in the box.

Second hand, I'm pretty sure yu could get a Volca Keys for around 90 euros. Meeblips are rare, but I've seen some units here in Spain with enclosure (mine was custom made) for about the same price.

Jetzt, die lange Antwort:

Meeblip Anode is compact, but pretty sparse in controls. You'll need to send MIDI stuff to get to most of the parameters that are already in the front of the original Meeblip. I haven't played an Anode, but they're advertising it as "wild and crunchy" and I think that anyone could get tired of that sound very soon. I mean, you can always distort anything if you want, but what if you could never get any clean sound?.

I myself have a love-hate relation with my Meeblip. It's quite limited and forces me to tweak it over and over, which is good, but after almost two years I sometimes feel I've reached the limits of what the unit has to offer. Anyway, I always have ideas, like putting my Monotron to some use and pass the aliased signal of the Meeblip through the MS10-clone filter of the Monotron.

What you usually hear in my tracks it's almost always highly processed (same with the Volcas). I personally use guitar stompboxes for my bread-and-butter sound.

Volca Keys, on the other hand, is kinda spacy and trippy. Limited, yes, but the simplicity of the sequencer makes it really fun. You could always use some iOS Kushion or LittleMidi to control it, but that's another story. Add some of the internal delay and you'll get a lot of detuning and unwanted artifacts that are, curiously, quite interesting.

Well, what a long rant! Don't specs anything crystal clear from neither of those synths. They have their nuances and failures, which is why they are sometimes quite more enjoyable to play than using UHE's Diva or a quite unlimited Absynth patch. That's my two cents of advice

[quote=Perplex On]excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?[/quote] Mmmhhh, good question... As you say, different beats, indeed. First, die kurz Antwort: Priced new, I'll definetely go for the Volca, but I'd add a new contender, the Waldorf Rocket "Thomann Edition" for 175 euros, including the Waldorf PPG Wave plugin in the box. Second hand, I'm pretty sure yu could get a Volca Keys for around 90 euros. Meeblips are rare, but I've seen some units here in Spain with enclosure (mine was custom made) for about the same price. Jetzt, die lange Antwort: Meeblip Anode is compact, but pretty sparse in controls. You'll need to send MIDI stuff to get to most of the parameters that are already in the front of the original Meeblip. I haven't played an Anode, but they're advertising it as "wild and crunchy" and I think that anyone could get tired of that sound very soon. I mean, you can always distort anything if you want, but what if you could never get any clean sound?. I myself have a love-hate relation with my Meeblip. It's quite limited and forces me to tweak it over and over, which is good, but after almost two years I sometimes feel I've reached the limits of what the unit has to offer. Anyway, I always have ideas, like putting my Monotron to some use and pass the aliased signal of the Meeblip through the MS10-clone filter of the Monotron. What you usually hear in my tracks it's almost always highly processed (same with the Volcas). I personally use guitar stompboxes for my bread-and-butter sound. Volca Keys, on the other hand, is kinda spacy and trippy. Limited, yes, but the simplicity of the sequencer makes it really fun. You could always use some iOS Kushion or LittleMidi to control it, but that's another story. Add some of the internal delay and you'll get a lot of detuning and unwanted artifacts that are, curiously, quite interesting. Well, what a long rant! Don't specs anything crystal clear from neither of those synths. They have their nuances and failures, which is why they are sometimes quite more enjoyable to play than using UHE's Diva or a quite unlimited Absynth patch. That's my two cents of advice :)

And I keep forgetting you are the true Wizard of Glitch, so maybe you get something quite unexpected from that same equipment. Keep me posted, please

[quote=Perplex On]excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?[/quote] And I keep forgetting you are the true Wizard of Glitch, so maybe you get something quite unexpected from that same equipment. Keep me posted, please

wow, thank you so much for the rant your opinion and experience is highly appreciated and helps me a lot. i will definitely have a closer look at the waldorf and the volca keys first.

[quote=laguna][quote=Perplex On]excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?[/quote] Mmmhhh, good question... As you say, different beats, indeed. First, die kurz Antwort: Priced new, I'll definetely go for the Volca, but I'd add a new contender, the Waldorf Rocket "Thomann Edition" for 175 euros, including the Waldorf PPG Wave plugin in the box. Second hand, I'm pretty sure yu could get a Volca Keys for around 90 euros. Meeblips are rare, but I've seen some units here in Spain with enclosure (mine was custom made) for about the same price. Jetzt, die lange Antwort: Meeblip Anode is compact, but pretty sparse in controls. You'll need to send MIDI stuff to get to most of the parameters that are already in the front of the original Meeblip. I haven't played an Anode, but they're advertising it as "wild and crunchy" and I think that anyone could get tired of that sound very soon. I mean, you can always distort anything if you want, but what if you could never get any clean sound?. I myself have a love-hate relation with my Meeblip. It's quite limited and forces me to tweak it over and over, which is good, but after almost two years I sometimes feel I've reached the limits of what the unit has to offer. Anyway, I always have ideas, like putting my Monotron to some use and pass the aliased signal of the Meeblip through the MS10-clone filter of the Monotron. What you usually hear in my tracks it's almost always highly processed (same with the Volcas). I personally use guitar stompboxes for my bread-and-butter sound. Volca Keys, on the other hand, is kinda spacy and trippy. Limited, yes, but the simplicity of the sequencer makes it really fun. You could always use some iOS Kushion or LittleMidi to control it, but that's another story. Add some of the internal delay and you'll get a lot of detuning and unwanted artifacts that are, curiously, quite interesting. Well, what a long rant! Don't specs anything crystal clear from neither of those synths. They have their nuances and failures, which is why they are sometimes quite more enjoyable to play than using UHE's Diva or a quite unlimited Absynth patch. That's my two cents of advice :)[/quote] wow, thank you so much for the rant :) your opinion and experience is highly appreciated and helps me a lot. i will definitely have a closer look at the waldorf and the volca keys first.

Great conversation/ rant! I own a volca keys and it's a blast. I run it via midi and feed the signal into my minibrute giving me either three more oscillators for the mono synth or turning the minibrute into a three to four voice poly synth (depending on how you set the key priority on the brute and play with the volca keys). If you use the keys creatively it can be an extremely deep beast! Just my two cents

As always keep up the good work you guys!

[quote=Perplex On]excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?[/quote] Great conversation/ rant! I own a volca keys and it's a blast. I run it via midi and feed the signal into my minibrute giving me either three more oscillators for the mono synth or turning the minibrute into a three to four voice poly synth (depending on how you set the key priority on the brute and play with the volca keys). If you use the keys creatively it can be an extremely deep beast! Just my two cents :) As always keep up the good work you guys!

[quote=donnyjankowski][quote=Perplex On]excellent lush combo, mate! Since you own a meeblip please allow me one question: Meeblip Anode or Volca Keys, what would you recommend if you have to decide? I know they are not very comparable but i just want to afford one of both at this time and i'm asking myself which could be more fun?[/quote] I own a microBrute.. Could you elaborate more? I tried the external input a couple of times but was kind of dissapointed, expecting it just to be processed by the filter, like a Monotron. I'm really interested in what you suggest, because I was about to buy a Doepfer Dark Energy 2 just to achieve 2 note paraphony. Please tell me more :) Great conversation/ rant! I own a volca keys and it's a blast. I run it via midi and feed the signal into my minibrute giving me either three more oscillators for the mono synth or turning the minibrute into a three to four voice poly synth (depending on how you set the key priority on the brute and play with the volca keys). If you use the keys creatively it can be an extremely deep beast! Just my two cents :) As always keep up the good work you guys![/quote]