KVR Audio

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:05 pm

Track produced during the construction and testing of a Reaktor ensemble. Several other layers of non-Reaktor processing involved as well. Reminiscent of my flense project, but not strcitly speaking part of that output.

Named after the model of Russian gas mask Ive just acquired.

5Mb, 8m long (MP3Pro codec)

GP-5

EDIT:

The original version of this was encoded with the MP3Pro codec, which is more efficent, but seemed to be backwards-compatible with ordinary MP3 players. However on checking its somewhat unclear as to whether there isnt some loss of quality after all. Hence, here's an alternate 'classic' MP3 format version.

7.2Mb, 8m long (MP3 codec)

GP-5

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:08 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:Named after the model of Russian gas mask Ive just acquired.

Pics or STFU.

D/l'ing now, will report back later.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:09 pm

shamann wrote: Pics or STFU.

erm...

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:05 am

whyterabbyt wrote:erm...

Sorry about that, it's what all the kids are saying these days, looked like fun.

Excellent track, just floats by happily in a piano as werewolf kind of way.

intel · Post by **intel** » Wed May 10, 2006 2:55 am

shamann wrote:Sorry about that, it's what all the kids are saying these days, looked like fun.

its great fun.

wonderful piece, sean. very well done. creepy and minimal - two of the things I want to hear in music at the moment. the third is wishful thinking cos I don't think hearing a winning lottery ticket is quite as good as having a winning lottery ticket.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:30 am

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:32 pm

Naming this after a gas mask is really appropriate... sounds like a thick, toxic fog windblown over miles of rusty chain-link fencing. Just about perfect.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:42 pm

dystonia_ek wrote:Naming this after a gas mask is really appropriate... sounds like a thick, toxic fog windblown over miles of rusty chain-link fencing. Just about perfect.

Exactly the landscape I had in my head while developing it. Thanks.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:24 pm

a desolate landscape, covered in the black snow of nuclear fallout.
did you wear the mask while recording?

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed May 10, 2006 3:31 pm

vurt wrote: did you wear the mask while recording?

Nope, its a bit tight, so just headphones

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed May 10, 2006 5:53 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:
vurt wrote: did you wear the mask while recording?
Nope, its a bit tight, so just headphones

damn

they would make great stage prop masks, cept for the sweating hehe.
i want a british ww2 one, i should pick one up one day. just in case...

cool track tho, and tell me more about this ensemble, i like what im hearing but which bits are reaktor and what else is used? the doepfer i imagine came in somewhere

blaster78 · Post by **blaster78** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:02 pm

w00t this is happy music isn't it

delicate and introspective, it feels very lonely and bleak. it brings images of being left behind somewhere far way from others.

have a kitten, now go and write me a melody

great work sean

steve.

Har · Post by **Har** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:08 pm

Excellent, love it!

I'd say this would definitely fall under the category of "Bleakscape".

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:25 pm

vurt wrote:
damn

Oh, and shorts.

they would make great stage prop masks, cept for the sweating hehe.
i want a british ww2 one, i should pick one up one day. just in case...

Yup. Odd thing, I was looking for voice changers, and accidently dicovered that there's quite a lot of them turn up on ebay, and I sorta though "that's exactly what I want to decorate my studio with". So I sorta decided to start collecting them. Waiting on the second one.

cool track tho, and tell me more about this ensemble, i like what im hearing but which bits are reaktor and what else is used? the doepfer i imagine came in somewhere

"Here comes the science!"

Nope, no Doepfer. There's only one sound source, a single pass with the guitar. I then took that, and bounced it down thru a couple of effects and used that as the second track; then processed that with the Reaktor ensemble, and bounced that down to a third track with some reverbs on it. Finally I bounced that track again, with yet another set of effects, giving me four tracks altogether.

I did these three sequential bounce-downs several times over, each time tweaking the construction and settings for the Reaktor ensemble, (but not the other effects) until I was happy, then layered all four of the final versions of the tracks. Then that was it. The work was in getting the ensemble to work, and tweak it settings to effect on the subsequent bounces.

The ensemble is a really crude brute-force resynthesis/vocoder type thingy. Its grossly CPU heavy, and it still needs work, but Im happy with the track

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed May 10, 2006 6:30 pm

blaster78 wrote:w00t this is happy music isn't it

Im afraid I dont really do happy music. There's already enough of it that I like that I'd rather just listen to when Im in a good mood.
Not that Im actually that depressed when I do stuff like this. If I was I'd be sulking under the duvet instead of making stuff.

have a kitten, now go and write me a melody

Ermmm...

great work sean

Ta much

gp-5 : harsh ambient environment/landscape