october ordeal ... GOSSIP

[emdot_ambient]

ive killed and ill do it again i tell you :muhahahaha:

IT . . . IS . . . ALLLLLLLIIIIIIVE!

[vurt]

i can kill you all with a mere cat!

[vurt]

a mere thought!dagnabbit

must remember to feed the cat tho...

[emdot_ambient]

Leeeeeeeeeroooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeenkiiiiiiiins!

[Beardedone]

This is a very tough challenge for me. Having to mess with audio smokes my gourd. I have hit the wall six times already. I am giving it one more chance.

[emdot_ambient]

This is a very tough challenge for me. Having to mess with audio smokes my gourd. I have hit the wall six times already. I am giving it one more chance.

Why don't you just isolate some small samples and plop them in any VST you want that can use samples and then write your own song with them? Make a wavetable of 100 sample waveforms taken from other's stuff. Junk like that?

[Hanglow]

Did mine in a couple of hours as I was babysitting for my brother who was at a wedding and it only seemed fair that I use his copy of melodyne. So it was the first time I've ever used it, and didn't really know what I was doing. Thought I'd better keep it simple as I'm a bit of newbie to all this. It is one cool app though.

emdot_ambient, I like your entry, sounds like it would be a good track for a scary dream sequence in a movie

[emdot_ambient]

Thanks, HanglowSkank! I put it together yesterday from scratch but had no idea what I was going to end up doing when I started.



Anyway . . . is there a review thread this time around?

Scoops -- Knarf: siht it might be . . . but there's only 0:43 of it! That's not much siht. Where's the rest of your siht? Pretty good siht, though. Would have made a good intro for some monstambient siht. But FTW? Nice little snip.

WattTyler -- Frankenbarney Must Die Die Die: Yes. Yes, he must. I was really hoping to hear the random Goth poem in there. Nice visceral ending.

Knockman -- Frankin Nonsense: Interesting. Not so much in what you did but how you did it. The violin sax was particularly interesting. I had one sample of that sounding like a guitar in my song before I changed it to a straight sax sound again. The arrangement is good and the tune ends up being pretty nice. There are a couple of little stutters (around :28 and :42 that kind of give me pause, kind of disrupts the illusion of this not being a stitch job. (Pun intended)

Fucanay -- The Monster Romp: Mmm, funky, goofy, nutter stuff. Great job! Only problem is the ending's really rushed. Squeezed that in there, didn't ya?

[emdot_ambient]

You™ -- that alphabet thing you done did: Very clever. You're undoubtably very adept at this kind of thing. Personally I find working this way to be interesting but not very satisfying. Difficult, too, but that's mainly because I haven't taken the time to learn the tools I need to really make it happen quickly . . . I'd rather slug through micro-managed MIDI manipulation (how's that for an alliteration?) than figure out slicing and stretching and whatever. But you make it look (and sound) way easy

[Scoops]

Scoops -- Knarf: siht it might be . . . but there's only 0:43 of it! That's not much siht. Where's the rest of your siht? Pretty good siht, though. Would have made a good intro for some monstambient siht. But FTW? Nice little snip.

Tisk siht sith...Shirley...u gest
I mean how long does it take to attend to a monster that has awaken in his dreams, scared some children, and then tuck that monster back in bed? Hey? Exactly 43 seconds.

Thanks for your kind siht

Scoops

[Wopelka]

okay, i'm only good at short and useless reviews:

Barnadine: absolutely gorgeous, my fav so far. You achieved the task with your usual talent, a whole track, original and well produced, fitting the theme, in 59 sec.

Art Gillepsie: the background soundscapy horror and the mechanic drums don't fit together very well. but i'd like to know how to program these wicked beats, cool.

Farlukar: interesting sounds and polyrythmical arrangement.

mystahr: very cool noisecape. this genre needs more time to evolve, tho. i want more of this.

Patrick9: i often find your tracks "too full", if you know what i mean, too much material which doesn't melt together. it gives a brutal and extatic touch to your sound. considering the theme, it's a plus.

fucanay: this tracks rocks! very well produced. one of my fav. 2 little things annoy me, tho: 1) the hook (main groove) is just an easily recognizable loop taken from goshunjisama, Aerosteak's hit. 2) this music is far from being scary.

YouTM: you're also a talented bastard. funny piece (the lyrics!) with this jumpy-groove that is your speciality. love it.

to be continued (hopefully)

[knockman]

Knockman -- Frankin Nonsense: Interesting. Not so much in what you did but how you did it. The violin sax was particularly interesting. I had one sample of that sounding like a guitar in my song before I changed it to a straight sax sound again. The arrangement is good and the tune ends up being pretty nice. There are a couple of little stutters (around :28 and :42 that kind of give me pause, kind of disrupts the illusion of this not being a stitch job. (Pun intended)

thanks emdot i was delighted with the sax sounding like a violin. i noticed a while back that if you take a wave from brass instruments, which can be very steady yet with complex timbre, they can be used to make peculiar sounding halfling instruments, i was pleased to find the same worked for sax.

those stutters seemed to arise at the end, and for the life of me i can't see how, if i isolate the looped guitar and play it on a key it plays ok, though not the best loop in the world, yet when the track runs they appear seems i'm probably missing something or exploiting an eXT idiosyncracy unwittingly. anyway, with the theme being assemblage/monster building, and my contest rule being one day from scratch to post, i allowed them through, even regarding them with a certain thematic charm.

thanks again for listening and commenting
regards

[You™]

okay, i'm only good at short and useless reviews:)

That wasn't a useless review you gave me. It made me feel a lot better about my little song. Thanks!

@ emdot: I don't know how adept I am at it, but I like autodidactic antiphonic audio assemblage as much as micro-managed MIDI manipulation - probably more - as I been stuck with MIDI for the last 20 years and never really improved much as a musician. Working with samples and loops - even of my own tracks - gives me an added level of context and an organic quality I often felt was missing when I moved from tape to digital recording. Whatever ease there is in arranging such audio assemblages is a direct result of Live - one of the best programs I've ever had the pleasure of owning.

[Beardedone]

Beardedone wrote:
This is a very tough challenge for me. Having to mess with audio smokes my gourd. I have hit the wall six times already. I am giving it one more chance.

Why don't you just isolate some small samples and plop them in any VST you want that can use samples and then write your own song with them? Make a wavetable of 100 sample waveforms taken from other's stuff. Junk like that?

A wavetable? I have no idea how to use these. OK assuming that I can find this out, what synth? I have WS2 but still can't see how to use any wavetables other than teh ones it come with. What other synths use wavetable other than WS and Symptohm?

[You™]

What other synths use wavetable other than WS and Symptohm?

You can do it with Cameleon 5000 - you have that don't you? It's not too hard - you can basically import Wave file(s) and use them instead of the preset waveforms. You can even randomize the parameters so you don't have to worry about programming anything. What am I saying? You've got Live. Just import a bunch of sounds into Simpler or Impulse. Bing bing.