At 02:15 PM 2/25/99 -0500, szalemandre wrote:
quoted 24 lines i wouldn't doubt that he's using opcode's max as well as supercollider.>> > >i wouldn't doubt that he's using opcode's max as well as supercollider.
>> > >csound is a bit obtuse to really make the type of music he's making,
>> > >which could be done in much easier ways than csound.
>> >
>> > there's not very much (if anything) on the new single that couldn't be
>> > achieved with your average bog standard pc/mac plugins such as
>> > hyperprism. and there's a lot of NR plugin abuse on it too. many of
>> > the samples blatanly use the underwater effect, which is what happens
>> > when you over-use spectral analysis NR (on the wrong frequency bands)
>>
>> Shit, man, I heard this Mozart song the other day & I thought it was all
>> awesome until I realised it was just some regular piano in regular tuning.
>
>i don't think that was his point. i think what he was trying to say went
>something like "since it's so much easier to get the results he did by
>using some standard, easily obtainable products, it's highly unlikely that
>he used csound or any other 'programming' to write any of those songs.
>that'd be like synthesizing all of the required chemicals to make your
>favorite flavor of kool-aide from scratch, from taste alone, which could
>take months/years maybe (less for the exceptionally skilled) when all you
>really had to do was go to the local 711, buy it, and mix it up with some
>sugar."
>
>i don't think he was commenting on the results, but the process.
Yeah, sorry, I think you're right. I guess I'm so used to that other
attitude being taken on this list, especially in reference to Aphex Twin,
that I was responding to what I was expecting to read & not reading
carefully enough to see that there was a subtly different message in the
above post.
Marc Poirier