#groovebox

[rdollarent]

Hey everyone, play our new game!

I'm super excited to share that I did the sound design for a brand new game called Knoblins! It's a unique game where you hatch musical creatures and create your own tunes. It's user-friendly and perfect for anyone, whether you're a music pro or just love fun and creative games. The game has a lot of cool features like different stages, customizable knobs for each creature, and even an autoplay mode for endless music. Check it out and support our work. Your feedback is honestly, the biggest benefit for us.

Glad to finally add a video game to my portfolio.

[monixxdesign]

[upmala]

come into my dark dank cave

[yellowmanula]

Sad to inform that Jochen Peuyn aka Sorgenkint passed away in a car accident. He performed in second edition of Rave Fm Audio Festival, soon we will upload his memorial perfomance (he was an acid music lover)

He was born 1982 in Willich, Germany. Already in the early days as child he noticed that he is highly interested in music. After the dead of his brother in 1995, he started to learn guitar which his brother left him. He spent a lot time with his guitar and music, and he began to understand, admire and play music of all kinds of style. Jochen played guitar, drums, bass guitar and keyboard and is as real multitalented musician. In the beginning he was more addicted to Crossover, Metal and Hip Hop, but soon he discovered ACiD music...!

That was the start of his career as Sorgenkint and after he bought a groovebox, his main target was to play ACiD as Dj and Live. Three month after this his discovery of ACiD he already has his first gig on a Technotronica-Party. It wasn't a long time, that other DJ's call attention on him and so the Dj and Promoter Man at Arms noticed his talent and the beginning of a long cooperation between them was born. He was booked on a lot of ACiD partys, next to the ACiD Legend..s Brixton, Rob ACiD, ACiD Junkies. In his Live-Performance there was not only the sound of electronic synthesizers, he also combinds it with real drums, guitar riffs and vocals. In 2007 he started his first label SORGENVIBES.

[beigebox]

Something a little different, part of my retro music tech collection. This is the Yamaha QY10 and it's honestly a beast. It's a full featured MIDI workstation that runs on AA cells and just about fits in your pocket. For an idea of its power, this introductory video is an hour long and doesn't give you time to follow along:

I used mine for a while as the centre of my dawless setup, controlling a Commodore 64 (via MSSIAH), a Yamaha DX 7, and a Korg Wavestation. Now I mostly carry it as a music sketchpad.

It came from Japan and still had a truly awful piece of music on it from the original owner that I will never delete.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

""THE TEACHES OF PEACHES WAS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED USING A ROLAND MC-505 GROOVEBOX..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on one of several Roland MC-505 units — a self-contained synthesizer, drum machine and sequencer — used by PEACHES in her early career. Courtesy of the artist.

MINI-OVERVIEW: ""The Teaches of Peaches" was written and produced using a Roland MC-505 Groovebox, in a super-simple one-machine, bedroom set-up. It wasn’t even just a bedroom set-up, she says. “It was anywhere I could find a plug… I wasn’t really interested in the traditional, layered ways of composing. I was more interested in a punk way, using electronics, but saying ‘this is the bass, this is the guitar, these are the drums. That’s your instruments and they all have their place. They all get heard’. I just wanted to make sure that the one sound is just slamming and it’s direct and it hits you between the eyes.”

"I liked to use it back then because I would find very direct sounds I really liked,” she says, "probably sounds KRAFTWERK used [laughs]. I looked at the name of one of the sounds I used a lot, and it was the sine tone. Literally the sine tone. I would slightly manipulate it, but I thought it was so direct and it had such a perfect place in what I was doing.""

-- AUDIO SPITFIRE, "PEACHES on the Roland MC-505 Groovebox & the "Teaches of Peaches" 20th anniversary tour, by Emma Warren, c. 2020

Sources: https://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/peaches-on-the-roland-mc-505-groovebox-the-teaches-of-peaches-20th-anniversary-tour & discogs.

[caycecayce]

🔪🪢💀🦎

[rabidhiss]

For your listening pleasure.

Welcome the psychedelia

[synthtv]

Wersi CX2 Wersimatic Analog Groove Box 1985

[swankyangles]

Okay, has anyone actually I.D.'d the piece of music gear that this is written in?

This strikes me as a 303 clone sort of statement.

[exxcitement1995]

I’ve been borrowing cares groove box for like 3 weeks now and I finally plugged it in today I love this I want a 307 now lol

[corduroyinstitute]

Saturday, November 6, 2021: Two years ago today, Corduroy Institute recorded the first new piece of music since releasing Eight/Chance/Meetings. The session was not dictated by high-minded principles or conceptual aims. Instead, we simply made a new piece using inspiration itself.

The Roland MC-707 groovebox yielded a forgotten drum rhythm consisting stock sounds, mangled user loops, and strange percussion derived from XMOD processing which established the basis for the piece.

With the groovebox setting the tempo, the Bass VI was ready to establish the bassline. In a single take, we recorded an improvised rhythm for Corduroy 68.

Next, S.A. Morin plugged the Telecaster into Bass VI's signal chain while W. Ruiz connected the Microfreak into the MIDI In of the Akai s5000 sampler. We improvised one layer of sound together, then added a further layer of improvised melodic content atop the Bass VI and MC-707 rhythm tracks only. We felt the second take was more aligned with our sensibilities. We then subtly mixed in the first performance and discovered that both melodic takes were largely complementary.

The initial Akai s5000 layer recorded on this day was later placed into VCV Rack 2 in December of 2021, and this mangled content subsequently formed the orchestral basis of Corduroy 74 in 2023. Corduroy 68 itself remained dormant until lyrics and vocals were added on March 20, 2022. Mixed in mid-2023, it received the title "Say Something Gentle." Now it is slated to become the third song on our forthcoming album, Take the Train to Manchester.

[brudiza-spudnik]

it's astounding how much technology hates me

[vizreef]

Yamaha SEQTRAK groovebox (Japan, 2024)

[kuliak]

Pictured is my current modular rig* (1,2,3). In addition to these cases I currently also use a Make Noise Strega and 0-Ctrl, Moog DFAM and Spectravox, and Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2. All recordings played live, processed through Elektron Analog Heat mk1, and recorded via Zoom H4n.

Each system is housed in an Intellijel performance case. Each is intended to fill a specific purpose, and to be playable as its own instrument - though of course they're more powerful than the sum of their parts when put together.

The first is a "modular drum machine" with many voices and complex, focused sequencing. There's a couple of fun routing options and effects, but it's intended to be like a groovebox.

The second is, for lack of a better word, a texture processor. Feedback, sample mangling, and smooth tactile control are the name of the game here.

The third started off as a more classic synth, and can still fill that role with several oscillators, a filter, and a delay. But the open ended nature of so many of the modules allows for much feedback patching of CV and audio for various glitchy ends.

*The bottom row of each case is for planning purposes of changes to make, and not reflective of a secret third 3U row in the performance cases.