KVR Audio

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:04 am

an un-characteristically un-tortured song (except for the grating scream of exquisite pain in the middle):

www.rachmiel.org/kvr/soundcombing.mp3

enjoy. :-)

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:09 am

any reaktor user care to guess what ensemble i used to make this? :-)

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:27 am

Some real ethnic and organic flavours going on here, those stringy sounds after the scream that sound like a chamber music insert, wonderful plucks and buzzes. Oh man, this is one of my faves for sure... really enjoyed that!

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:59 am

thanks poly!

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:31 am

my guess would be "StockHausen in my System4.ens" or that freebie they gave away for Christmas one year. The first part of it sounds intentional on some level; the second clearly not at least in terms of relationships that one can digest in one pass.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:08 am

yes: metaphysical function. :-)

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:13 am

Do I win a random prize?

Keep on keeping on man. There are always more buttons to push and humans are just filters anyway. I'd rather be an editor with a room full of scrapes on tape than a cowbell player any day.

Jazzyspoon · Post by **Jazzyspoon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:50 am

vERY COOl, Rach. I love that machine. nice use of it, too. you really never know quite what you're going to get in the end. As always, very skilled texture work.

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:34 am

Awsome sounds man, it takes a very special talent to get the sound you use to fit as cohesively as you do. More brain food for me!

3am

JacK_SoliuM · Post by **JacK_SoliuM** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:15 pm

excellent electronic-tension, and killer sound !!
wow ! it's f**king great !!!!!!
another great Rachmiel's piece in my hard-disk !!!!

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:32 pm

Whoa.
Improbably clear sounds make up a soundscape that sounds mangled and distorted even though it mostly isn't. I like. Talent, yes. I still don't have Reaktor, but you're one of the people who keep reminding me I should save up...

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:01 pm

> I love that machine

yes, it's pretty amazing. i have the ensemble, along with the standalone version, so i can modify it, which is very fun. one thing i often do is decrease the reverb, which is pretty over the top in many cases. i like working with little reverb or even dry ... learned this from a friend who is one of the lowercase guys. for me, except in situations where it feels called for (as an effect, rather than just a way to emulate a spacious room), strong and long reverb can detract (a lot) from the integrity and power of a piece, make it sound too easy and gooey.

> nice use of it, too

thanks. :-)

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:06 pm

> it takes a very special talent to get the sound you use to fit as cohesively as you do

that's a very nice thing for you to say. i love finding/creating unusual and compelling sounds and then figuring out how to mix them and what form to give the mix. i believe that pretty much everything in a composition can emerge from its essential materials. so every groove loop contains the "code" for the piece it will inhabit. the trick is to develop good enough ears to perceive and decipher the code.

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:12 pm

> excellent electronic-tension, and killer sound !!

thanks. :-)

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:17 pm

> a soundscape that sounds mangled and distorted even though it mostly isn't

good observation. i love mixing order and chaos. one of my favorite sounds is of an orderly audible structure (4/4 groove, for example) each of whose parts threatens to (and sometimes does, for a span of time) break out of orbit.