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brokebust ·
After all my bitching I have managed to start getting some usable results and am having fun with synthmaker so I thought I should say thanks to everyone here for their help - I would have been lost without it 🙂
I got envelope follower code from here and with some coding dictionary help also from here managed to get something which did what I wanted!
If anyone wants to hear the first results they're here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GarY4fhBWA 😉
Thanks again 😇
mwvdlee ·
That's some nice sounds!
How do you get the drum into the software? I noticed in another of your videos you had a single mic laying on the snare, is that the only input you used? I also noticed you used a digital drumpad of sorts, does that transmit audio or midi to your schematic?
Cool beard too! 😉
MichaelBenjamin ·
congratulation, nice video
trogluddite ·
Excellent, that gave me a big grin 😀 Quite fond of glitch/8bit music, but was always a bit put off by the 'geek answering his e-mails' live experience. Think you're really onto something here - are you the evil love-child of Squarepusher and Yoshida Tatsuya? 😉 Just the kind of thing that might inspire me to get off my arse and start actually making music with my live-audio manglers instead of just fiddling with the code endlessly. If you ever fancy gigging this kind of thing up in Yorkshire, give me a PM - a mate of mine has just started putting on a monthly gig in Bradford for bands who like to bend people's brains.
aliasant ·
Love te video too! Well done! Nice mind sweeping sounds that would have been fun to play along to. Tangerine Dream could have used a drummer/sound/software like that for a track or two back in the late 70s 🙂
Love the beard too. Reminds me of a certain dwarf character in a certain epic saga.....
=)
mwvdlee ·
aliasant wrote: Love the beard too. Reminds me of a certain dwarf character in a certain epic saga..... =)
I wouldn't exactly call Disney's Sleeping Beauty "epic" 😉 😈 (just kidding)
aliasant ·
mwvdlee wrote: aliasant wrote: Love the beard too. Reminds me of a certain dwarf character in a certain epic saga..... =)
I wouldn't exactly call Disney's Sleeping Beauty "epic" 😉 😈 (just kidding)
I think your confusing it with the "homemovie" by the same name, starring a bunch of males from San Fransisco.... eh
brokebust ·
Haha! Well the beard traditionally causes shock and awe in normal circles but I thought a forum for people programming synths might be a more discerning beard audience! 😉
Thanks everyone for the kind words - will just run through some points:
Excellent, that gave me a big grin 😀 Quite fond of glitch/8bit music, but was always a bit put off by the 'geek answering his e-mails' live experience. Think you're really onto something here - are you the evil love-child of Squarepusher and Yoshida Tatsuya? 😉 Just the kind of thing that might inspire me to get off my arse and start actually making music with my live-audio manglers instead of just fiddling with the code endlessly. If you ever fancy gigging this kind of thing up in Yorkshire, give me a PM - a mate of mine has just started putting on a monthly gig in Bradford for bands who like to bend people's brains.
I'm basically trying to come up with enough ideas to make some kind of set that would be bearable for an audience member - like you said, I don't want something boring to watch. I've since found out about duracell and it would be something like that in concept but not sonically I guess. Watch this space - next step is firing samples off, which might afford more dynamic stuff - and a video that doesn't end with "BWEEEAAAARRRRZZZZ" which I have noticed is becoming my signature sound. Do you have a YouTube or any material up anywhere yourself? Also what's the night called in Yorkshire - it got a FB or Myspace or anything?
How do you get the drum into the software? I noticed in another of your videos you had a single mic laying on the snare, is that the only input you used? I also noticed you used a digital drumpad of sorts, does that transmit audio or midi to your schematic?
Yes my mic placement is genius, thank you for noticing. I will soon be releasing a book on the subject entitled "What stands? I thought you had stands?". There's a mic in the kick to pick that up - which is split and one part sent through the synthmaker gubbins - then a mic on the snare which picks up the snare, cymbals (barely) and toms (not at all) - that's all fed through some madshifting and reverb and other stuff which is controlled by the kick. Then there's a little bit of the dry camera audio mixed in.
Right, next step: triggering samples! 😈
trogluddite ·
brokebust wrote: Do you have a YouTube or any material up anywhere yourself? Also what's the night called in Yorkshire
Too much tweaking and not enough musicking these days - but I'm gonna make an effort to edit down some of my hour-long noodles into something vaguely worth posting. The Bradford night is called BONC! (Bradford Original Noise Club), we're just setting him up with a web presence at the mo' - the first gig was kind of a private party to celebrate getting to 40, but the venue are really enthusiastic about doing it regular, and he's got a fair few bands already lined up for the next few months (Nitkowski, Vessels, Amateur Assassins, Silent Front, Cissysound...)
mdk ·
just posted on one of the youtube vids, but had to say here im absolutely loving what you're doing.
brokebust ·
Thanks 🙂
I managed to get samples triggered: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAJ3r13K ... r_embedded
😀
mwvdlee ·
brokebust wrote: Thanks 🙂
I managed to get samples triggered: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAJ3r13K ... r_embedded
😀
That'a pedal for semi-randomized string-plucking and something else for the piano sound? Midi or mics again? What were you planning to do with the software anyway? Just for personal use?
By the way, how long have you been playing drums?
oddson ·
Great piece... the wound on the leg is actually less disturbing than the black socks with shorts. 😀
aliasant ·
oddson wrote: Great piece... the wound on the leg is actually less disturbing than the black socks with shorts. 😀
100% agree 🙂
brokebust ·
That'a pedal for semi-randomized string-plucking and something else for the piano sound? Midi or mics again? What were you planning to do with the software anyway? Just for personal use?
By the way, how long have you been playing drums?
1.) Midi pads for the piano synth (they're kit-left and are obscured by the hats and mini-snare in the vid) 2.) to make Fruity do stuff it coudn't do before - primarily to create a kind of enhanced peak controller (a Fruity internal controller plugin) - then to use that to do this and load of other stuff I haven't yet though of! 3.) been playing drums since about August 2008 - whoah that's like almost 2 years now! Feels like I only started still :O
And for the mathematicians amongst us, there is no way to prove both my socks were black! :P
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