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Are pocket synthesizers a good introductions to digital music production? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Smokeydope@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Ive been wanting to dabble with digital music production. All software ive tried has so many menus and buttons and switches I get overwhelmed.

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While looking up instruments on amazon I came across these pocket synthesizers called stylophones and similar like theremin that entry for about 40-50$.

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These seem like cool little gadgets to toy around with and maybe get a foot in the door to learn how to do digital music production. Does anyone have experience with these things? Are they worth messing with?

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I have an old mixer for my condenser microphone that plugs into laptop I think I can plug aux line in from these mini synths to the mixer.

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[–] thenumbernine@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

I got both the regular stylophone and the beat version for my kids a while back. The beat version you can do loops with. My musically inclined brother-in-law could not let it go for about two hours last time he visited. I have only learned the intro to Jerk it out on the regular version though. They are really cheap and you can buy solder it yourself kits for about 10 euro making them even cheaper so I say go for it.