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Date:
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:54:47 -0500
Subject:
Re: (idm) giving up
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Brock Suter wrote:
quoted 5 lines With cubase, programming 5 minutes of chopped up breaks is easy as> With cubase, programming 5 minutes of chopped up breaks is easy as > drawing fucking stick figures. > > Nico from No-U-Turn showed me how to do it years ago, and the first time > I tried, it sounded EXACTLY like a squarepusher track.
Not really. I've done up tracks with cubase and although it is easy to come up with something basic, it's much tougher to create something with feeling and and a bit of originality to it. Also remember that techstep is a lot more basic than most Squarepusher tracks. Half the time it sounds like the producer quantized everything to 1/8th notes; there's little complexity in the programming. And that's just the rhythm end of it - writing tunes that evolve is more difficult than 5 min. of a hoover bass line. GD