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KEYBOARD REVERSE
Are you lacking inspiration??? Reverse the keyboard! Sit behind your
synth, just turn it around so you are facing the backside. You will be
pleasently surprised how different you sound! Now you will make your melodies
with switched brain halves so to speak! You can do this switching brain
halves trick with a lot of other stuff too!

SAMPLE YOURSELF
Sample your own tracks, stuff you never going to use, sketches, even ur hits
and mangle them, pitch them up, down, filter it, modulate it etc. Make fresh
tracks with ur own sounds. Keep using the music as a fractal on and on.

RECORD SAMPLES ON CASSETTE
Get an old cassette recorder and just record some synths jamming on a tape.
Now record the cassette in your sampler and notice the fuzzy warm tape sound
especially when you throw a tiny amount of lowpass filter on it and add a
littlebit of high-EQ! Instant basic channel and wooly BOC style!

KORG VOLCA KEYS SUPER POLYPHONIC MIDI SEQUENCER
The Korg Volca Keys is a bit of a boring synthesizer...you probably throw
it in the corner after playing with it for 10 minutes...but WAIT! Did you
know the sequencer sends MIDI OUT!!!??? yes and a lot of other stuff too...
the problem is ofcourse there is no MIDI OUT port beacause they had to keep
the costs down. No PORT but quite enigmatic a fully working MIDI out circuit
is inside. So the only thing u gotta do is attach the MIDI connector.
The problem is where to put the MIDI out port, u can put it on the side or
hang it loose with a wire from the outside.

3.5" DD/HD Sampler FloppieDisc Crack
YOu got some old gear that uses 3.5" DD floppies? You might have a problem
because 3.5" DD Floppies are almost NOWHERE to be found these days. The only
ones you can still easily get are the HD types which don't run in DD
discdrives...it is said,but with a bit of ragtag improvisation they will!
Most 3.5" HD floppydiscs will work too, just get a piece of tape and stick it
over the (left) hole Now for some reason this doesn't work on all diskdrives,
but mostly it does.

Rice shaker
Add some natural groove to your music: Take one of those plastic yellow
Kindersurprise egg containers put in some rice and you got a shaker.
Record some loops and add over drums for extra "natural" spice.

PITCH ENVELOPE
You can make sounds much more interesting by adding a slight touch of pitch
envelope, only at the decay, so it begins with a little "hiccup". This will add
some tension to your melodies and give the listeners brain some more enjoyment.
It sort of sounds like portemento but then you can use it more polyphonic.
So a good envelope would be:
Attack 0ms Decay 50% Sustain 0 and release whatever. Add this envelope for about
8 - 10% to the synthesizer/sampler pitch envelope amount.

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