you just eyeball where the amplitude dips are and cut there
or even just cut ever 1/8th or 1/4th
:)
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Eric Fairbanks <eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 66 lines Kent, that's nuts. I can't imagine working with sampled breaks in an audio
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --Forwarded Message Attachment--
>>> 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
>>>
>>>