DS-10 Stuff
By Sunjammer 2 Comments
I think the DS-10 is getting a really bad rep for the wrong reasons now. I personally was really disappointed by the unit, mostly because of how impressive the tech is and how fail the interface is. But it still hasnt left my DS since i got it, and i still use it for putting down sketches, which it utterly excels at. I've made more actual music on the DS-10 than i have in any sequencer in a while now. Sometimes working with strict limitations brings out the best of you.
It helps that DS-10 patches are moved pretty seamlessly over to VSTis like Arguru's Voyager and come out nearly identical, albeit sounding BETTER. Which is sometimes not what you want, but nothing a little downsampling can't fix. You can literally just line up the knobs in the same angles, and bam you're good to go. This is a quick sketch ported directly from the ds-10 to Voyager running in Renoise.
http://www.doomsday.no/music/sketches/ds10.mp3
Going to be putting up some vids soon on YouTube of some of the "hacks" you can do on the DS-10, such as using the way the song mode interpolates patches from pattern to pattern for faking extra patterns, faking stereo delay using volume and pan, and some simple patch tricks like automating the pitch of osc1 and 2 independently to get a polyphony of 4 synths going in a track. It's pretty fun stuff to mess about with when commuting for sure :)
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