YY music compo - Feb/March - VOTE!

[gribbles]

OK - the entries are in. Nice to get a handful again. Well played, all.

So, in no particular order:

Rik: Unknowable-First
gribbles: Breathe
Zoot: House Mouse
(o)(o): Straquria
gravy: snowz
Venusian: melt

Pick the couple you like the most. Poll will end in 5 days or so.

[Chontler]

You can only pick 1.
All my gear is still stuck in storage and it looks like it'll be there a few more months yet. I don't feel inclined so much to muck about on the mac or ipad as I've had enough of gawping at screens by the time evening arrives. I've a really limited space too, but I'm gonna try a more hands on approach. Just snagged a drumbrute and I have an analog 4 on the way! Guess I'll be sat on the floor surrounded by boxes! I was getting tempted by the OP-1 reviews but couldn't actually find any decent finished tracks made on it.

[gravy]

Op-1 is definitely great for noodling but not so great for finished tracks TBH. You can do it but it's hard and you need to be a decent kb player. Which I'm not

[Chontler]

Interesting - the keyboard was another thing that put me off. It looks annoying - like something I'd try to play on but get frustrated with very easily. Mini-keys do that to me. At least the one on the elektron make no such pretensions! Now if only it had the op1's screen.
It was still a close call on eBay. The elektron won as one turned up 100 quid cheaper, but I'm pretty sure I made the right choice. I had a budget of about £600ish, so I've added an old keylab 25 with the change.

[gravy]

It's more that system is oriented around a virtual 4 channel tape recorder.

There are some sequencers available but once you've recorded something it's not really editable on a sequence basis.

The sequencers are fairly basic, the drum one works well but you kind of need to to play lead lines at least and if your timing's off there's no quantise

That all aside it's an enormously fun machine

[gribbles]

You can only pick 1.

Oopsie.

Fixed.

[RiK]

Err, right, cheers..

So, back to the original spirit of 'suitably ambiguous' topics...

Do something in your style or genre of choice, with the theme of Contrasts.

I'll leave Gribbles to set it up :-)