Hello everyone!
My name is Tom and I love making music. I grew up in Germany and moved to the Netherlands about 10 years ago. My passion for music sparked up when I was about 6 years old. I got piano lessons for about 8 years, taught myself to play the bass guitar in my teens and had some great time in a band with a couple of friends from school. Besides that I made a couple of tracks using FastTracker2 and soon got my first hardware synthesizer (a Quasimidi Raven - I wish I'd still have it :( ).
Fast forward a couple of years and I found myself working in IT for a advertisement agency.
Lucky me, my office at that company was a basic music studio and I started to get into music production and sound design, mostly for web projects, using Cubase, Nuendo and Reason.
More years forward I found myself having some serious writer's block (usually starting up the DAW and soon getting
lost in the unlimited possibilities). I created probably 150-200 track ideas which I never finished.
Back in fall 2016 I finally decided to buy some 2nd hand music gear by selling lots of things I hadn't used in a long time and re-discovered my passion for electronic music. It was the best decision I ever made!
Jamming on actual hardware gives you the satisfaction of turning real knobs and pulls out creativity by limiting in what a specific device can do.
I'm not really tight to a specific genre but love to get lost in dub, house, minimal and ambient electro (plus everything in between).
Anyhow, I'm really excited to be a member of Steemit and its great community!
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Welcome to Steemit.
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Thank you my friend!
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Willkommen! Hast Du auch Musik, die man sich anhören könnte?
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Dankeschön! :) Ja sicher, mein neuster Jam landet heute noch auf dTube.
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OK Ich glaube der upload hat funktioniert:
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Absolutely 100% on needing physical controls for my workflow. Some people love a DAW, I want sequencers. Been gradually piecing together a collection hardware, slowly and cheaply. Massively regret not getting the Roland JU-06 before it sold out everywhere.
Still NAMM next month, new boxes ahoy!!
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Germany and Netherlands. Two fine sources of music right there!
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If you're really into it you can get something like a Maschine or Push to have some physical control. But it's still not the same.
So did I! My whole dawless-journey started with soldering together a SonicPotions LXR drumsynth and getting a (really beat up) Electribe2 and went on from there :) Anyhoo, thank you for your comment, I'm very excited to contribute to the music community here on Steemit!
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I think it is being tethered to a PC/Mac that really alienates me. I can spend forever piecing a mix together in Ableton. Love it. Make a tune though?
So have I've got so far is:
Beatstep Pro - Keystep - Korg Volca Beats/Bass/Keys - a TC Electronics reverb pedal (forgot which one) - Behringer mixer.
I could do with some more lead / pad synth noises, a midi merge box and loads of cables, then I'm ready to go! Got my eyes on the Dreadbox synth range. Real weird sounds! Plus Behringer seem determined to remake all the classic synths at a cut price at the moment.
I know about the SonicPotions LXR, I used to chat to Anastasia Kristensen (who, since then, has gone on to be a bit of a phenomenon) a fair bit earlier in the year and she was telling me of this wonder box she'd put together. I keep meaning to go back and check it out.
No problems on the comment, I'm only a couple of weeks old here too and trying to get into a little bit of an Electronic Music vibe.
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Those Volcas are really great for the money. I only have the Keys and the Bass which I use regularly. The filter on the Bass is fantastic. I'd love to have the Volca Beats too, it sounds really warm and the kick sounds you can make with it are incredible. I bit myself for not buying it when it was 99 Eur over here... Now it's 159 Eur :(
For leads and pads I have a Waldorf Blofeld. You can buy them incredibly cheap on the second hand market (paid about 200 Euro for one in mint condition and still with warranty). It's a sound designer's wet dream and one of the deepest synths I ever had my fingers on. People tend to listen to its presets (which literally suck big time) and sell it again because they don't want to get into it, but once you do it's crazy!
Dreadbox stuff is really great, want to get the new Hades DIY kit from them. Looks like a fun project and it's not too expensive. The other Dreadbox synths are also high on my wish list :)
If you're looking for an exceptional midi merge/splitter check out the RK-004 by Retrokits: https://www.retrokits.com/rk-004/
You can't get more flexibility at that price point (it's both a splitter and a merge!) and you can do crazy stuff with sync dividers (e.g. have your volca keys at half the clock, bass at 3/4 beats at double, etc.).
Btw, just followed you :)
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Yay! Good to have you!
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