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If you want samples that no one has ever touched before (or listened to even), www.forgotify.com is the place! If you go to Discogs' marketplace, you can find all the music that is newly listed and you can find some good samples listed there. And www.bandcamp.com is good if you go to the newly bought part of the website.

Most people seem to be using FL Studio or Ableton Live, but I've been using Sonar for a while, and really like it. Also, it's free now. I've not used the free version, but it's got to be worth a download (assuming you're on Windows anyway, there isn't a Mac version).

That's your DAW, the software environment you work in. You'll also need VST instruments to make sounds from your MIDI arrangements. You mention your broke, so a nice option might be getting into soundfonts. You can find players and tons of vaporwave sounding soundfonts for free online. You'll be pretty much good to go.

Yeah, good luck! This is a really nice hobby to get into. : )

Try LMMS. Its based on FL Studio and while pretty rough around the edges you can accomplish a lot with it plus its free. I would recommend doing mixing and mastering in audacity however.

I agree with some of what others have said in that you really shouldn't discount the default ableton instruments. Do you have Max for live? A lot of cool free stuff not just synths are in that.

I do recommend maybe throwing some money at a few vsts though because honestly they run and sound better most of the time.

I don't think Fruity edition lets you do much with audio on the playlist, etc... (but i might be mistaken) FYI http://www.imageline.com/flstudio-feature-comparison/

I do think FL Studio is worth the $$$ and want to support the company. There's also the education edition which gives you the signature edition for the price of producer edition. They also give a 30% discount on your birthday that you enter in their forum wink wink registration. They also tend to offer 50% off on Christmas or new years or something.

With all that said, use whatever DAW or tools / workflow you feel comfortable with, afford. There's LMMS that's open source. https://lmms.io/ which is probably more flexible than audacity.

Honestly if your clever and don't care about losing your raw tracks you can make stuff in demo version and still export finished stuff or individual tracks to go into audacity or something for final touches.

I chose FL Studio because it's got a large, active community, with tons of tutorials and help available, super powerful/flexible, and the free lifetime updates, all sold it for me.

radar footage was taken from weatherunderground. (https://www.wunderground.com/)

they have data from every NEXRAD site that you can conveniently download as a gif. i just took a few from random sites from whenever i put that together and looped them a few times.

i can't really hear much lowpass filter stuff happening here tbh. i guess it could be set quite high with the resonance turned up a little to make it sound sharp. but most of what is important here is getting that particular sound with the osc sync and the chorus. it's possible that the ms20 won't be able to get this exact sound, in fact it's quite likely as the chances of them using an ms20 on this track are quite low.

as i said, it doesn't sound like any combination of traditional waveforms, but i guess pulse waves would be pretty close. if the ms20 lacks sync you could try patching one osc into the frequency of the other and see if you can create some tones that way but this probably won't sound as 'musical' as osc sync

what's interesting is it seems as though the synth line is not sampled from the song, the melody is in there but the synth patch is quite different so i guess pepsi added it in over the top? http://www.whosampled.com/sample/318606/SAINT-PEPSI-Around-Phil-Fearon-%26-Galaxy-Wait-Until-Tonight-(My-Love)/

Or other communications hardware, right. Rodan is spot on there...before diving balls-deep into setting up an SDR, get a hardware(ish) receiver first, throw up a wire in the yard for an antenna, and you're set. Right now, there's a buttload of SI4732-based communications receivers on Bezos-Mart that go for about $60...here's one: https://www.amazon.com/SI4732-All-Frequency-Receiver-Speaker-Antenna/dp/B08Z3C9J57/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=shortwave+radio+SI4732&qid=1639017966&s=electronics&sr=1-5 That way, you can get an ear for the sort of audio "defects" that you get from what you'd literally call "broken transmissions". Plus, that shortwave palette has LOADS of other uses; check out this Stockhausen work which is for soloist and shortwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBWWe1oHaM I've actually performed a different section of "Spiral" back in the 1980s, and it's...ah...sort of intense, especially when it all gels together in ways you hadn't thought of!

From this interview with HKE

> We [HKE and telepath] both use a program called Reason to work in, which makes working together quite easy as we both have a firm understanding of it and we just tend to approach music in similar ways too which helps a lot.

So maybe they rely on the internal VSTs in Reason? HKE does have a reputation in not answering questions overtly.

Try this: https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

Bandlab got control over Cakewalk away from Gibson (a very, VERY good thing!) and picked it up a bit ago...then they made it FREE. As in, really free...no functions behind paywalls, etc. There'll be some differences in workflow from FL Studio, to be sure...but nothing that'll have you freaking out and utterly lost.

The offerings are pretty sparse for free DAWs in general. LMMS is a pretty decent one, though.

The workflow you're describing sounds a bit like Sony Acid, though, so maybe look into that. Or FL Studio, as the other guy suggested.

It just depends on what approach(es) you want to take to your music.

Audacity is always an option.

u/padburymusician writes:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openlabs.stagelight&hl=en
Not much choice out there, above is one.

Feedback says no MIDI out and someone says the Piano Roll may not be very good.

See what you think.

FL Studio Mobile is very good, but not sure it it will install. It's an Android app, on the Play Store, which fits the basic criteria for working on the sort of chrome book version that does connect to the Google Play Store (not all do), so in theory it will install, but don't know for sure. You do the research.

Thing is, if FL Studio Mobile does install on the Chromebook, you've also got the main Fruity Loops software to consider as a partner, which your FL Studio Mobile projects will natively transfer to.

And that IS a good mainstream DAW on Mac / Windows.

The two may be a good combo long term.

I look for interesting photos and then run them though the android app Glitch!

they have really cool effect. then i just run the photo through Irfanview to increase the size to where it needs to be.

But to answer your question, I have honestly kept this simple and make a lot of creations through MS Paint.

Close on the trail!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y5HY3ZW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A17OANUNHCMS2N&psc=1

At the very least you're gonna need an 1/8 to RCA cable to plug into your turntable or tape deck and then plug into your mic jack. This isn't ideal because the sound quality isn't going to be the greatest doing it this way but if your sound is lofi anyway it's not really going to matter, just remember you can always bump your sample quality down after the fact but not up when sampling.

Like everyone else has said though, an audio interface is the way to go. You could get a soundcard if you were so inclined but I think just getting a USB interface is easier plus they're way more portable and you can use em on your desktop or laptop. I've got a few friends that use the Focusrite Scarlett and they say good things about it, I myself use an old Line 6 POD for my sampling and output to my deck and it does the trick.

Interesting, maybe its not just the 64 bit problem. Regardless the solution I came up with works a bit better anyway. I found an old tape recorder on ebay and also bought some blank tapes to record the audio then I feed it back into ableton with this

This is actually the way to go. I use 64 bit ableton and had a hard time finding any VST that has this effect that works. My solution was to get a shitty used tape recorder and some blank cassette tapes to use. I also use this USB Audio Capture. This thing is amazing and actually can capture audio from any headphone jack.