This track was made entirely in Sound Forge
http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/SoFarSoSo/02%20Morton%27s%20Shadow.mp3
This was from this album
http://music.cornwarning.com/2009/01/31/so-far-so-so-retrospective-1995-2005/
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:02 PM kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 101 lines Before Acid Pro, I did a whole bunch of tracks in Sound Forge. I'd figure
> Before Acid Pro, I did a whole bunch of tracks in Sound Forge. I'd figure
> out the number of samples in a 4-beat measures, create that much silence,
> and turn on the selection grid in Sound Forge so I could see where the
> beats were, and paste/mix samples in. Once I had some basic patterns and
> sounds, I'd make copies and fuck them up, and string them out and paste-mix
> other loops into the master mix.
>
> I'm really comfortable working directly with waveforms. It's a lot easier
> these days with other tools, but I liked that method better than the other
> options of the time, which were trackers.
>
> Though I did do trackers to generate loops that I'd arrange in Acid.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:16 PM Eric Fairbanks <eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>