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Yes I do. Go to sequencer mode, and assign your sound patches to tracks. When you switch between the tracks, you will find that the sounds are not cut off.

Thanks for the info, I really missed that feature! Gotta get GZDoom 4 now! 😄

Look, we didn't go wrong, but absolutely right. Electric music took over our lifes, not only in popular dance music - but everwhere else in our daily life! Including doorbells, ring tones and toddlers' music boxes. Also, icecream truck music. The bands you named just reflected that electro influence in their music. 😄

Now, before anybody complains about vince's commentary calling my video boring and not being nice: vince is CORRECT. This video is SUPPOSED to be boring. It's as boring as a construction blueprint - on purpose. So don't complain about vince complaining - he got it absolutely right. 😄

Helping people with that stuff is my thing, and people confirming that it helped is my bread & butter 😊

I am putting in the next base note and then the chord type. And then hitting enter each time. Example for the Fade to Gray chorus input: 1. play next pattern on note C 2. play it as major chord 3. play next pattern on note E 4. play it as minor chord 5. play next pattern on A 6. play it as minor chord Hope that helps.

@@SynthesaurusRex Awesome sauce!

That is very correct, my good sir! 😁

No.

I would need more details on that before I could give any reasonable advice. For example: What color is it, if not blue?

Thank you, I am always glad to hear my stuff helps 😁

CZcams user oldream gives 3 flames. Okay. Noted. ❓

Well, thank you, I guess. I must say, your comment is a bit over the top, being borderline ironic. But I decided to take it as a compliment 😁

Its a compliment! It takes a lot of effort to share all these info so thanks to you! 😊

Thank you very much, kaja. It does take some amount of effort to share this kind of info, thank you for acknowledging that! 👍

Well, I am not a Volca expert, but there are two things that makes this very difficult: 1. The Volca Drum does not have a MIDI out, 2. It can only play 6 different tones/keys in one pattern. There might be better Volcas out there to be used as sequencers (the Volca FM2 for example has a MIDI out and can play multiple keys in one pattern).

@@SynthesaurusRex Thanks!

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I agree, it is. Hopefully they will correct that on the follow-up model, I forgot its name. KR-11 something?

Thank you! Telling me that my video helped you is the greatest reward you can give me. It's what me happy. 😄

@@SynthesaurusRex After watching your video I added many sounds from Tyros and Fantom into kross 2 🤩🤩

Again: glad to hear that my videos are helpful! Happy synthesizering! 😁

Thank you! Comments like yours motivate me to go on with my channel. It always helps me to learn that my vids actually help people to make the right decision. 😊

Isn't it? I didn't mention that in my video, because young folks won't understand, but messing around on the KVD makes me feel like the Kraftwerk boys creating drum sounds on their selfmade devices back in the days, creating sounds from scratch. In other words: Like a pioneer! 😁

Thank you. Funkytown, although not being my most favorite song of all time, is a nice example of how few means you need to create a classic that we still talk about (talk about, talk about) today. It's proof that the IDEA counts, before anything else.

The reason why I stopped experimenting with sampling on the KK2 is exactly that: we do not know how much data we can squeeze into it. If we overdo it, it can result in a memory overflow and render the machine unusable. I strongly recommend to get a sampling device instead.

@@SynthesaurusRex I'll keep an eye on the amount of EXPCM that each sample uses so I don't get too close to the limit (I unloaded the Korg expansion packs that I didn't use) so I think that should keep things okay. Still a great discovery by you!

When you follow my channel, you know I got a Roland MPC Key 37, which is just what I always wanted in a sampling keyboard. It's a dream come true, and a great team-up with the Kross. Sure, the MPC 37 is not cheap, but there are cheaper versions, the ones without keyboard, also older versions. You might get one of those used for a good price.

I wouldn't be so harsh. The Beats is just for people who are not that much into creating their own drum sounds. That's fine.

To be honest with you ... that's one of the reasons I wouldn't recommend the KK in 2024. Back then when the KK1 was released in 2013, it was fine. But I can't in good conscience recommend paying full price for the KK2 today. It's way out of date.

@@SynthesaurusRex .. even though i have an EX, like your kk2, i wouldn't recommend EX in 2024 either.. your better off getting the cash together and picking up a pre-owned non AT Nautilus on ebay..

Well, to be honest: If you have the cash for a used Nautilus, you better invest that on a modern Roland, used or new. I'm saying that because the Nautilus follows an outdated concept, which is cramming everything possible into submenues, so the panel can be as empty as possible (stylish!). Screw that, get a synth with controls on the panel, is what I say.

That's what I'm saying. If you want that oldschool sound without having to bother how to create it, the Volca Beats is the right thing for you.

Well, that's what the CZcams copyright algorithms do: They are soulless monsters who constantly search the internet for content to suppress and destroy. To protect the financial interests of the big corporations. But let's not get political here.

@@SynthesaurusRex For real

Would you sell me your PM 64?

@@SynthesaurusRex I was thinking about selling it but it isnt worth selling it for 50 bucks

@@SynthesaurusRex also I can message you in private and showcase you the keyboard

Depending on where you live, the shipping and customs costs to send me your PM 64 might not make it worth it. But who knows - maybe you live next door? 😁

@@SynthesaurusRex i live in Romania!

I don't know, because I never tested out what the KK2's memory can handle. Because I don't know if it would actually render my KK2 unusable, because it was not officially made to used that way.

Yes

Well, I wouldn't paint the future of music that dark. On one side, we will have the music consumers, who can't tell and don't care about the difference between AI music and real bands. Give them a version of Spotify, which is free (because producing AI music costs next to nothing), and let them create their own playlist by clicking on "punk rock". That playlist will feature only AI-generated songs, which they don't have to pay for, because it's all created by AI. Our children will grow up with that: clicking on a style of music, and getting an endless amount of AI-generated songs. On the other side are we. We will not accept AI music. Not because it's bad (which it isn't) , and not because it's not made by real people. But because it's terribly boring, because AI can't do anything else but recombine thing we have heard before a 1000 times. AI music is not a sustainable industry. But since we are living in the age of "pleasing the current investors, not the future ones", we will have to deal with horrible, horrible pop music in the next 10 to 20 years.

You named the keyword here: "expressing yourself". That's why we musicians do music. And you named another important aspect here: AI music is a threat only to people who use music to impress other people. Not to express themselves. In the end, AI music will never be able to replace humans, because all it can do is recombine music elements that already exist. AI is not able to invent new things.

The Alesis SR-16 is also a great drum machine. I owned it once, but I sold it the same reason why I gave away my KR: In the meantime I collected tons of synth devices, which can also play drum rhythms to practize my bass guitar to. As a practizing metronome for guitarists, who don't have an arsenal of other rhythm devices like us, I think it's worth the money.

Well, I don't know your setup, maybe it has other FM synths. But since my Reface is the only FM synth in my little home studio, I really do appreciate how I can make sounds with it, that my analog subtractive synths and ROMplers and samplers can't do.

Comedy? Was I funny in the video? *re-watching it* Oh, I guess I was. I am sorry, I just talk like that, I wasn't being intentionally funny. But that doesn't matter - the only thing that matters is that my video was helpful to you, so thank you very much for your response!

Oh, I so understand that. But believe me: you are better off suppressing that urge.

I am sorry, but can you film experts make up your mind about what film this clip actually is of? Disco Godfather, Human Tornado, The Phantom Menance?

@@SynthesaurusRex great so change the fucking title then instead of whining like a lil bitch and maybe people will stop correcting you and what movie this is

Qwit bitchen, mofo. Dontcha re-alaaze that's what's makin' folks comment on da vid, yo? *maakdrup*

I hope it wasn't as painful as mine usually are.

I haven't tested all Volcas, so I can't say if it's actually the weakest. All I can say is that the "Volca Samples" is a straightout lie, because it can't sample anything.

To be fair, the MPC's overall interface isn't so bad. It's just - what dumbasses decide to put 3-pixels touch buttons on a screen!!!

I fact what I am complaining about in my video is absolutely not MPC-37-specific. Just to make that clear: I do recommend the MPC 37, it's awesome. What I am complaining about is those dumbass designers AND those even more idiotic marketing bosses who made the decision to go with those designs! It just pisses me off to spend 900 bucks for a device that has a large touch display, and STILL uses ant-sized micro-button in ONE screen, while using normal-sized button in the next screen! IT MAKES NO SENSE! ARRRGH!