Ah man, Acid Pro. That's exactly what I was picturing. I've heard of
musicians who work like that, but it sounds like a nightmare. Might as well
compose music in a video editor at that point IMO.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:09 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 78 lines I did it kind of as a dare for myself. I was working in Acid Pro, and I
> I did it kind of as a dare for myself. I was working in Acid Pro, and I
> cut the break into chunks, and then looped a bar or two bars, and
> copy/paste bits into the loop until it feels full. Then move on to the
> next measure.
>
> It wasn't hard, but it made me hate those particular sounds by the time I
> was done.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:44 PM Eric Fairbanks <eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Kent, that's nuts. I can't imagine working with sampled breaks in an
>> audio editor. (well, I suppose I can, but it sounds like a serious
>> headache) My recent jam has been writing LUA scripts that
>> generate/transform patterns in Renoise that re-arrange cut up breakbeats.
>> Editing and manipulating breaks and sequences in a tracker at 180+ BPM
>> 8/16LPB is work enough. Cutting up breaks in an audio editor represents a
>> level of long-term focus and dedication that I'm unfamiliar with.
>>
>> Totally hypothetical, but if Jenkinson handed me a spec for some
>> beatmangling software, I'd happily implement it in return for some spastic
>> Squarepusher-brand breakcore. >.>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:24 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure I'd call it piss-weak. Not sure if I like it yet, but I
>>> enjoy the melodic content. It sounds like he's using the Eventide effects
>>> rack as a synthesizer again -- that buzzy foreground sound, which comes
>>> from playing bass through it.
>>>
>>> Closest contemporary comparison is the PC Music stuff, which is
>>> manically shiny in a similar way.
>>>
>>> You can't fault him for trying to do something that sounds different.
>>>
>>> As regards the Amen break, I did a track years ago that involved loading
>>> the Amen break as a sample, and then cutting and arranging it so every bar
>>> was different, across 5 minutes. As you can imagine this amounted to about
>>> 8 hours of painstaking zoomed-in editing.
>>>
>>> Ever since doing that, I'm allergic to the Amen. I don't mind if people
>>> use it in their tracks, but if I load it a sampler and start messing with
>>> it, I start feeling sad and wishing it would go away.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:21 AM CRAIG SIMPSON <craignorms@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is pis* weak. Hes making music that sounds like its all been
>>>> sampled from an arcade or funfair. Hes given up on the amen break. It's a
>>>> tragedy.
>>>>
>>>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 22:06:04 -0700
>>>> From: gwrenchxx@sbcglobal.net
>>>> To: idm@hyperreal.org
>>>> Subject: Fwd: Re: Jlin album out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 21:58:47 -0700
>>>> From: gwrenchxx@sbcglobal.net
>>>> To: 313@hyperreal.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Jlin album out.
>>>>
>>>> I've had to review a 12" or two for the radio station where I DJ, and
>>>> I've never heard anything that appealed to me in the least.
>>>>
>>>> kent williams wrote:
>>>> > I'm surprised footwork/juke hasn't been a bigger thing on the IDM
>>>> > list. This new record on Planet Mu is revelatory.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.planet.mu/discography/ZIQ356
>>>>
>>>>