Thanks, mate! 🙌

@@kaitlyn__L One of your partners? I, too, enjoy my relationships like my synths, Poly.😅 You should upload your PO jam, yo. Peace from a bi unicorn

@@slowbro1337 that’s a great pun! Yeah, I’ve been poly for 12 years haha I don’t have any POs, just lots of experience with those tact switches on other devices (and my own projects from school!). This beat was made in Ableton :) though I’m considering making a second channel to shove my music on, as a counterpart to my underused SoundCloud.

@@kaitlyn__L Well, best to you n your partners! I am always happy to come across other poly peeps, especially ones that enjoy synths as well.😄 Most of my setups are dawless, but i have been using Fruity Loops as a primary DAW since FL7(got to love lifetime free updates) I've never had any knob issues over the years of use for my gear. That said, I don't play my gear with cheeto fingers or dirty hands, and try to keep them clean. A second channel is never a bad option tbh. Nice chatting and peace to Y'all. If you ever feel like sharing, I wouldn't mind listening. I got a hurricane about to hit me, and I need to find my sampler before it comes in to record the audio, peace haha

Thanks! It still feels hip-hoppy. I should change the drum packs to have more constraints :) Btw, would love to hear your music. 🎧

@@slowbro1337 recording storms is important! I will try to remember to come back to this to tell you when I finally get round to it, haha. I want to get the chords and melody down first, and a few variants of the rhythm, rather than posting a bare beat on its own :) The bare potentiometers are usually pretty resilient, the worst that would happen is they get a little mis-calibrated. But the tact switches often get debounce issues after a little dust or grease gets in. The cleanest hands still have a little dust! But I’m sure the communal switch bin I used had pretty tired ones, and maybe TE have really really good debounce code. You might not notice issues until they stop actuating at all, if they’re masking any bouncy switches. Which would be sensible to have done since they charge extra for the cases! As to DAWs, I can’t compose in them at all. I can’t even compose on paper, or any hardware sequencer. I just have to play my ideas 😅 the downsides of being “classically” (aka ensemble/orchestrally) trained! I’ve tried drum machines for rhythms, but get frustrated at the hoops to bring timing subtleties back in. Most of my rhythms I’ve played IRL (on a desk or guitar body with fingers, say, or in real-time over MIDI) and then tweaked after the fact (swapping sounds, nudging timing 1/128th beat at a time, etc). Usually vertically combining multiple original ideas into one beat as well. But of course that’s all subject to change, as I move from endless sketches and track segments into trying to make more finished pieces!

Yep! The best cases ever. I love how they add stability and reliability to the beauty of pocket operators.

I like the fully-enclosed ones, because those tact switches can react pretty badly to skin oils and dust after a few years of heavy use. They're cheap and easy enough to replace if you can use a soldering iron, but still!