I’m easily annoyed by repetitive vocal samples. My brain reads them as uncanny/ something is broken and needs to stop. Perfectly quantized straight 1/16th hats are theoretically just as unnatural, but I love them. But hearing a sample clip of a human singing something in exactly the same way bar after bar makes me murderous.
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it’s always some phrase that’s generic and dumb, like “do you want to dance” or “get higher now” over and over. As if people weren’t already dancing and on drugs. Oh, and don’t forget the requisite vocal pitch shift up if you’re doing big room or down if you’re doing so-called underground.
That’s why I don’t even bother to audition vocal clips that come with most sample packs. They’re pretty much guaranteed to be generic played out crap.
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True. Except for that ROYGBIV " Hey !".
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Reso bass
Keyboardists who hate on modular and talk about music theory knowing nothing about good drone/ambient music. Go listen your Vangelis.
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Ahh this thread comforts my feelings of alienation on being such a snob about various musical pet peeves.
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And “Orange” in Aquarius 
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Using “FILL” on my Digitakt – I always forget it exists! Would rather just build weird breakdowns/buildups in with trig conditions or new patterns
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I think FILL should be independant from the other trig conditions since it has a dedicated buton. Then I would use it a lot more.
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Yep, like a completely new pattern, bringing a light version of Direct Jump to the Digis 
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The Anti-Dub:
Bland sort of hipass filter sweep into reverb/delay FX after every 8th bar or so. Combined with embellished gestures in particular.
Just stop it.
Terrence McKenna, Alan Watts, Tim Leary samples and any other cliche acid references. Downward pitch bends on synth solos, quacka quacka envelope filters on guitar or bass.
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Drone/ambient music and Vangelis.
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Abul Mogard, Irisarri, Harold Budd, Eno, Hecker, Stars of the Lid, The Dead Texan are def not for everyone.
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Moving to Austin, LA, SF, or NY
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suggesting that every product upgrade ever should “have granular”
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At least Seattle is off the list these days :0)
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I’m sure this has been posted already but now that I have a SP-404 Mk2 and have been checking out videos of people using it I’ve been treated to those awful DJFX Looper stutters all over again 
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Yep, same as Freeze Echo on Octatrack. Stop it!
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No
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I used to like accumulating samples and the occasional sample pack, but I’ve spent years regretting it as I get my collateral organized.
I can’t even recommend people I like do the same!