What’s your background with drumming/percussion?

I totally understand the portability appeal. Just to having something for that extra 15 minutes at work with nothing to do and ideas flowing.

Yeah, there it is. I keep a folder in iCloud to sync samples but drag and drop sounds ideal.

I have it loaded on my iPad but have never taken the time to dive in. It was good to fully get my hands dirty editing samples and tweaking the sound to what I like and not just loading the .wav on a pad and calling it a day.

How are you managing loading samples back and forth from your main computer to your Koala app?

Genuine question as someone who has not used a TE product, what is it that you like about it and the TE workflow? I just struggle with TE feeling like a design brand who happens to make instruments, but can’t deny the appeal of the Pocket Operators?

At the same, does “painting our selfs into a corner” loose having true ending to stories?

Constraints and limitations drive creativity, but you have accept a final product at some point and move to another universe/story.

Can I ask how do record each part individually and then layer everything and if so how do you normally work through it all in your head?

So far just have the software version. Told myself I needed to master the software and navigating the hardware before buying the standalone Maschine+.

For perspective, I’m barely over “what even is a splice, I just want to play clips” level of Maschine understanding.

So it is 100% me and not knowing how to sequence it with the Beatstep. I moved it to the office and hooked it up to Maschine. Ran some midi clips through and it sounded fantastic.

Having it plugged into a PC, the built in tuners are a godsend as well.

I think the issue is I just haven’t figured out how to interact with it yet. I won’t fault the instrument.

I’ve been practicing letting those wow moments go and just appreciate that I experienced them. Very meditative for me personally.

Honestly I just signed up for Melodics to learn finger drumming. I’ve played drums for so long I had to talk myself of getting an electronic drum set to just track drums fully.

I’m glad the guy I bought the neutron from threw in the skin and a deck saver. The red is… a bit much.

How do you like your neutron? I’m having a very hard time finding its “voice”, it just clashes against the other synths.

No need to put homelab in quotes, it’s whatever is your lab. We all have different setups that grow and shrink as we learn.

Let me show you a smaller option than a full rack amp. I used this exact setup before except using an AirPort Express instead of the pi.

I would do the Pi (your plan) -> this -> bookshelf speakers like these.

Does everything have to be all in one, or are you open to exploring passive speakers and a receiver?

Since this is in Homelab, I’m assuming you have access to a 19” rack. You could rack mount any amplifier (I like crown amps personally) and then feed either a Bluetooth or Raspberry Pi using a line/headphone amp. That also gives you the ability to continuing adding amps to feed more speakers around the house. That’s my homelab answer.

Home theater answer would be to look at a home theater receiver.

What I wish it had was something similar to Roon which would be a Spotify integration. If I search for something and I don’t have it in my personal library, let me just stream it from my streaming service subscription.

I’d go out on a limb and say the last few years have been tough just overall. I don’t know your personal experiences but for almost a decade I’ve slowly let work erode all of the creative parts of myself fade away. Even tho I work in a very related field (broadcast production, did live sound for remote video productions) it just became work.

A few years ago, a very good high school friend had me track drums on a few tracks on his debut album. Took him a few years to finish but it just came out. Something about hearing me from the past kinda kickstarted this change of mindset. It just started with listening along and then thinking of ways I could have done something cooler, which then gave just enough of a spark for original ideas to start coming back. And loud enough to drown out work thoughts.

It’s sounds egotistical to say that listening to my own recordings with a big ass grin on my face, but it’s just the longing to want to be creative like that again. Rejuvenating. It honestly might have been the first time feeling actual joy again for a very long time.

I’ll pm you the link to my friends album. He’s a fantastic guitarist, it’s dad rock, and lll admit I don’t think the lyrics were a strong suit.

I’m actually had to stop touching my Subharmonicon as I’ve stumbled upon this polyrhythm sequence that is just 🔥 as the kids would say. It’s given me a learning challenge of now how to create a lead with a Behringer Neutron.

I’ve had a whole marriage that lasted shorter than since I’ve backed this game.

Right, like that makes sense. I just got done playing for 30 minutes or so. Most of it the same pattern over and over while I wiggled the cutoff. I guess this is the point of YouTubing or streaming. I thought about streaming and just showing like a 2000s music player visualizer.

What are you doing nowadays when you’re jamming? Just living a moment or did you learn how to tame the 20 song temptation?

We just turn them sideways on a shelf at work. We use a lot of micro form factor and they look slick in a row on a 1u shelf. We fit 3 or 4 (can’t remember) wide across 6 shelves.

I’m having the exact same experience on the SteamDeck. Currently level 20 with about 50 hours in.

There are so many questlines and each are so damn good. Glad your having a good time!