Colin OOOD

?? Theoretically a good soundcard will let you hear deeper into the mix, provide a more stable stereo image, give lower latency (very useful when tweaking parameters to know that what you're hearing represents the position of the control right now rather than 1/2 a second ago) and generally enable a given engineer to produce a better-sounding final result than a cheap crappy noisy soundcard. Of course the audio doesn't pass through it if you're bouncing down offline (but then many producers have to bounce down in realtime, eg. if they're using their soundcard's onboard DSP for FX).

I'm looking forward to this, it'll be my summer holiday in the sunny sun sun

Not a good deal for creative producers IMO unless the beat creators get both publishing AND mechanical royalties as well as the up-front fee. AND A WRITING CREDIT.

Yup, Andrew's given the look a bit of a spring-clean, and we've uploaded clips of a bunch of tracks from the next album which is not far off being complete. As well as pure Cod we've got collaborations with Steve from OOOD, Chris Organic and Tron. Hope you like our compound sounds! http://www.myspace.com/voiceofcod

You can get a really clean, hard sound by using distortion before the filter.

Brain Bokka, but only cos I was lucky enough to watch them making it. Otherwise it's impossible to choose a favourite!

Gunshot: OOOD - Smoke A Lot (also has "chik-chak" reloading sound) Car noises: Unconscious Collective - Synchronicity Converger (Formula 1 cars passby)

Had mine for about 4 years now, no problems with grounding so far or using it with a Mac but for the rest I agree. The sound is great, the mic inputs are a total bonus and it's pretty robust; after 4 years of constant use all over the place mine now rattles, and one of the output sockets doesn't feel right when you put a cable in, but when it works - which it always does eventually - it all still works. I have more problems with it at home than I do on stage!

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Free Psy-kick plugin made by Abnormal Audio, aka. Speakafreaka: http://files.filefront.com/Psy+Kick31dll/;...;/fileinfo.html http://hosted.filefront.com/speakafreaka/ - lots of other plugins with preset banks and mp3s of his tunes...

Brain-bending. I couldn't tell you now the exact details of how it works as I've used MIDI to program 303s ever since Nigel put a CV/Gate/Cutoff/Accent input on his in 1995, and even when I was programming it every day I still had to have the manual nearby. It's similar to the step-sequencer in many other devices (SH-101 or Sequential SixTrak for example) in that you get very little feedback of what you're doing and have to hold the whole thing in your head whilst your programming it. Basics: you step through the pattern (max 16 steps) one step at a time, programming a note of the required pitch or a rest into each one. Each step also has options for octave shift, tie, slide and accent. You can chain patterns together to make longer melodies, and make songs out of chains and patterns. If once you've programmed your riff you then realise you've made a mistake (which is fairly probable) and want to correct it (who knows, the mistake likely sounded better than what you intended) you have to listen to your riff a million times, counting 16ths like crazy until you're as sure as you can be that you know where in the riff the mistake was, then step through the pattern and correct the note(s), praying to god you didn't get confused by the fact that the slide function applies to the note AFTER the one you programmed it on... oh you did get confused? No matter, your riff now has a quirky syncopation in it! Cool! And oh look, the 'C' key double-presses sometimes so you just overwrote another step with the wrong note; no matter, put an accent on both of them, crank up the res and the accent level and listen to that baby squeal! For those of you after ultimate reality in your 303 riffs, this page is the Bible (at least for me); geeky maybe but it really does make a difference when used with a good 303 emulator. [fanboy rant] If the 303 is one of the most important instruments in dance music, then Phoscyon is perhaps one of the most important plugins. Admittedly it's been a while since I had my hands on an analog TB303 so my memory of the sound is quite old but it really is that good to my ears. I'm in heaven here right now. Raw instrument output - no plugins or processing [/fanboy rant]

Ok this is the first 303 thread I found; I just wanted to say I LOVE PHOSCYON.

From the promo emails I've received it looks like Triskele have been engaged by um whoever the label is to do their release promotion.

You're assuming they run on the same DSP platform, and that Clavia didnt feel the need to invest massive resources into making a demo version of a hugely complex and intellectually-demanding piece of hardware they knew they'd have huge problems selling otherwise... dunno; it's all speculation (perhaps you'll find answers on electromusic.com) but their decision makes sense to me.

Apart from the huge work in porting efficiently specialised DSP code to a standard OS, you'd be asking them to make their intellectual property effectively available for free, given the prevalence of pirated software in the music production scene. And besides all that, to Clavia, old products are dead products from what I can tell.

http://www.clavia.se/products/nordmodular/demo.htm Clavia do not support the NM1 so you'll have no luck asking for a software version, I guarantee it. Have you tried Nomad as an editor? It's third-party Java-based software for the NM1; check it out here.

Still like the best of the old stuff, just like I like the best of the new stuff

This will be slightly large. So many styles under one roof! Gonna be lots of friendly faces there too, Psyforum has been buzzing about this for ages. Be sure to save some energy for the afterparty at the Collosseum though, I hear OOOD are playing! wowowow can't wait to see them, they're fantastic, my favouritest band ever in the whole world... What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Good album. Really good.

Yes he did, it was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 back in about 1994 I think. It was at least partly responsible for giving the scene its initial kick-off.

STOP being emo

I dunno, maybe Eat Static listen to just as little other trance as I do?

First rule of keeping your feet on the ground (not that mine are lol) is: never assume that just because you've been doing something for ages, people will have heard of you... wot?

Not at all. Eat Static played a live set here in Bristol last night - Merv only. Check the blog on their Myspace page - Joie has left but Merv will carry on with the Eat Static brand. It was a pretty good gig actually, Eat Static and System 7 live.