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From:
Kurt B. Pruenner
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Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:24:11 +0100
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Re: (idm) Gear vs. imagination, literally
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Galen Beals wrote:
quoted 13 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message----- > From: j.d. [mailto:cs92jd@eim.surrey.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 1:49 AM > To: idm@hyperreal.org > Subject: (idm) Gear vs. imagination, literally > You know something strange is that I think it's due to the way many > sequencers visually represent a song as blocks that extend from left to > right. Which is the way that you would expect it to work and, for most > people, it does. But, I have been messing around in a program called "Buzz" > that goes from top to bottom. I know this sound ridicules but I have > actually heard a marked improvement in my compositional skills. It reminds > me of the way I used to program drum machines like my old little Dr Rhythm. > I'm not sure why though.
Well, no wonder BUZZ's patterns and the sequencer go from top to bottom - after all, it's a very beefed up tracker; just take a look at FastTracker 2, ScreamTracker or Impulse Tracker - all of them look somewhat similar... =) (And this is not to dis Buzz - hell, it's a freeware project -okay, with optional registration to make you feel all warm & fuzzy ^_^- with quite a lot of people hacking together generators and effects... hey, I use it almost exclusively right now! :) -- Kurt B Pruenner Haendelstrasse 17 4020 Linz/AUSTRIA http://www.mp3.com/Leak np: David Holmes - Shake Ya Brain (This Films Crap Lets Slash The Seats) (Oh, by the way Galen - _which_ David Holmes tracks did you hear? "No Mans Land" from this disc is _sooo_ gorgeous...) WARP Records http://www.warprecords.com/ BUZZ 1&2 http://www.buzz2.com/ User Friendly http://www.userfriendly.org/ Segfault http://www.segfault.org/ Anime On DVD http://www.animeondvd.com/ Slashdot http://www.slashdot.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org