Challenges involved:

1) My DAC is made by hifiberry. You need to use their custom "flavor" of Raspbian. They provide it free. You need to disable Bluetooth, and maybe mess with the "dtoverlay" portion of the operating system, which is a word document that you edit and save. My DAC is the PRO+ version, has its own clock in it, but it disagrees with the PI 3 clock, so you have to tell it to ignore it's own clock, and respect the Pi 3's clock. The not pro version of the DAC is cheaper and doesn't have this problem.
2)make sure the latency is set right in Sunvox and in the USB to midi interface.
3)get everything agreeing on MHz.

Most of the problems I had, were with the clock issue. Otherwise easy issues solved by light research in forums.
Sunvox is JACK and ALSA compatible, which are like two standards for audio stuff in Linux. Hifiberry DAC, also JACK and ALSA compatible. They shake hands real nice.

As for finished work you can hear, now I'm trying to learn to use the software. Which is why I started this stuff, because I want to make beats with "tracker" style interface. It's a real deep program, and I'm just finally finding my legs on my MPC and digital recorder without integrating this yet. I'm getting there though.

I'm really a fan of early Dabrye and he used an early "tracker style" software to make 1/3 which led me to Sunvox. It's developer is *extremely devoted Russian dude* and is free/cheap and runs on any garbage hardware imaginable. So it runs on Raspberry Pi also, and there are available DAC "hats" for the Pi that sound spectacular in the $20-50 price range. Mine cost $40. Anyone else tried this stuff out? For not much more than $100 you get a *massive sounding* midi compatible setup. Pic is my rig.

Quote from: PrincessDan on January 11, 2016, 01:59:45 am

Everyone should watch this video where Bjork almost dies, and sample the living hell out of it.
https://youtu.be/75WFTHpOw8Y

What time is it at?

1:30, thereabouts, although the "cities, little cities" bit is what needs sampled.

Everyone should watch this video where Bjork almost dies, and sample the living hell out of it.
https://youtu.be/75WFTHpOw8Y

Everyone maybe should grab the Meow the Drums stuff Just Blaze put out for free, at Daylight Curfew. I haven't gone thru all of it, its not so well organized per se, but to me worth the effort of filling out a cart.

I'm just curious as to how he got a start doing that, you know? Maybe things were less tense in the years when he was beginning this? I mean like when he first had the idea to do it and all
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"Had the idea to do it and all"
It sounds like you think untrue things. All Kanye invented is next-level self aggrandizement.
In the mid/late 90s, internet 1.0, no SoundCloud, no bots searching for infringement, totally different universe entirely, but its not like the record labels smiled on infringement in the good old days.
My whole SoundCloud, which is kinda an experiment along these lines, IS "technically" copyrighted material, that I don't own. I'm doing it as an experiment, chopping and screwing with the rate enough that I am creating something new and moral(not posting Britney Spears remixes lol) but no beats or anything to muddy up the bots' recognition, so I'm really just trying to see WHAT EXACTLY crosses the line and gets me taken down. Poking at the bots to see what they care about.

Nobody has yet mentioned Archive.org, which astounds me. The wayback machine is also there, for all your vaporwave and seapunk Lisa Frank visual needs. And like 2000 Dead shows, start with 5/8/77 kids, then some 1968 for context. Dip a toe in, its not like you'll grow dreadlocks from one listen

I was watching a Dilla Documentary with Madlib hunting through Dilla's record collection, and he stopped himself from mentioning what a couple records got used for on Donuts, because he was pretty sure they weren't properly cleared. On Donuts. Huuuuge record. Uncleared samples. His Moog in the Smithsonian.
I think we can all agree that it's a catch-me-if-you-can game, as long as you are turning something, especially something dusty and forgotten, into something totally else entirely.
Snatching whole vocal lines from someone without payment or credit, probably not so good, in terms of liability. Dick move.