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offline benbusch from Kansas on 2006-06-05 00:20 [#01913395]
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I don't have any specific examples of the sound, but I'll
try to explain it. I guess it's like dropping your finger
on a record and listening to the music fall in pitch and
tempo simultaneously. There has to be a way to do it in
Ableton with a VST or something. Any idea?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-06-05 00:30 [#01913396]
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I'm sorry, I do not have an answer for your specific
problem, but I have heard that in any given case it does
wonders to be on the receiving end of a nice boob massage.


 

offline unabomber from Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 2006-06-05 00:35 [#01913397]
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I think you will need to process the track beforehand, not
in VST realtime. My 2 cents.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2006-06-05 00:36 [#01913398]
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I've already bought a plane ticket! I'll be taking a massage
course that specialized in.. well you know.



 

offline unabomber from Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on 2006-06-05 00:42 [#01913400]
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A preset called Power Loss in some program I can't
remember....


 

offline staz on 2006-06-05 00:48 [#01913401]
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doppler


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-05 02:37 [#01913423]
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envelope pitch bend in soundforge


 

offline 1up from greater manchester (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-05 02:51 [#01913431]
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USE GLITCH 1.3

http://illformed.org/glitch/?page=downloads

and ity's freeeeeeeeeeee!


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 02:52 [#01913432]
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You can also do that with madshifta, which is my favorite
all time pitchshifter from when I used a computer to make
music.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 02:55 [#01913434]
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You know, ever since I found out about that program I have
sworn off of any kind of music that sounds like it could
have been made with it. Sucks too, because I used to be good
at painstaking manual editing and microsampling that that
program seems to do for you. It sucks to be rendered
obsolete, but I don't need to support it.

Using glitch is like handing your penis to the computer and
saying you don't need it anymore.


 

offline 1up from greater manchester (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-05 03:00 [#01913435]
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glitch is the dogs.
i hear what you say, i reckon everyone is usin it to.
everyone should use this!

glitch


 

offline staz on 2006-06-05 03:13 [#01913439]
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it sounds like shit, thanks


 

offline 1up from greater manchester (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-05 03:15 [#01913440]
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dont know till you try it ;-)


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 03:16 [#01913442]
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:(


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2006-06-05 03:37 [#01913451]
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Yeah, because music is only valuable when it's taken ages to
compose. You can tell how good a piece of music is by the
time it took to painstakingly arrange each and every cut-up
fart.


 

offline 1up from greater manchester (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-05 03:46 [#01913457]
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i detect a hint of sarcasm there ;-)


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 04:00 [#01913469]
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No. Its a skill that I used to like to use. Now that
everybody can do it because it doesn't take them any work,
it devalues the style of music. I don't feel like making
music like that anymore, because its less a thing of skill,
and more a thing of what plugins you have. Making IDM is as
easy as making trance nowadays with all the tools that are
at your disposal. And now there is going to be even more
idiots that normally wouldn't even try to develop skills
like that under normal circumstances spamming their pathetic
attempts at making interesting music. Perhaps you can see
why I might get a little pissed off at shit like that.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 04:03 [#01913470]
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Pretty much now it isn't much more than an annoyance. But it
makes me cringe when people talk about using that plugin.
Its like advertising how lazy you are.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-06-05 04:03 [#01913471]
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make what you like, listen to what you like, don't think;
it's music.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 04:07 [#01913472]
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Its not so much about thinking. If you hear the same thing
over and over again it becomes so monotonous as to become
homogenized.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 04:08 [#01913473]
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Anyways. I appologize for flaming. I will now shut up.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-06-05 04:10 [#01913474]
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yeah, but you make it look like you, if someone made a song
using glitch and you liked it but then found out it was made
using glitch, would throw the cd out with the leftover food
from your dinner or feed it to your dog.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-06-05 04:14 [#01913475]
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Makes me think of when someone seems to want praise for
cutting up a break in an arhythmic manner that sounds
rubbish and glitchy and they mention the fact that they
spent hours doing it as thought this means it's
praiseworthy. Whereas they could get the same effect in 10
seconds with supertrigga.

At the same time, I can sort of see Taxi's point. Making
trance is a laugh. Copy of Vanguard, some ejay vocal samples
and a drum loop and you're away. I can't respect something
that manages to both sound rubbish and like it was
done in 5 minutes. Whereas I can respect something which
sounds rubbish, but is, from a technical POV, amazing or
something that was done in 5 minutes, but sounds great.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 04:20 [#01913479]
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No. But like I said, glitch has spoiled that kind of music
for me, because when I hear too much of the same thing I get
bored of it. I don't even bother listening to stuff if it
sounds like everything else out there. There is so much
music that is made by bedroom producers, and most of its
crap, that its not even worth the time it takes to find the
good stuff. And now giving people even more tools to
standardize something that used to be unique...

The way it feels to me is this. There is something special
about a certain kind of production that takes time and work.
You can tell the people that made it were willing to put the
effort into learning how to make it. If everybody can make
that kind of production, then there is nothing special about
it.


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2006-06-05 04:24 [#01913482]
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the tricks that glitch mimics were pretty annoying to begin
with


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 04:25 [#01913483]
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Nowadays, there is so much good music out there, you don't
need to search for it, it comes to you. And its only fitting
that most of the music that comes to you is crap. However,
some of its good. I generally screen all the music that I am
going to listen to. If I find out someone uses hardware, I
will be more likely to listen to it, because you can tell
they will have put more work into it than someone who just
runs an amen break through glitch.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-06-05 04:58 [#01913489]
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Watch out, you'll have some Friutyloops n00b citing a fake
gear list that'd shame Richard Devine's.

I sort of agree with you though; if someone is prepared to
spend thousands of pounds on gear, short of the possibility
that they're just some wealthy dilettante who bought a load
on a whim, it would suggest that they're going to be
prepared to spend the time learning how to use it properly.
I think listening by recommendation is a better "filter"
though; there's some great stuff made 100% with pirate
software that it'd be a shame to miss and likewise, there
are tedious "experimental" (read: structureless) tracks made
by people who fall into the trap of thinking just by buying
an Access Virus they'll become better at music. I think
people in this latter group are most tragic. At least the
floops n00b hasn't wasted their money, only their time.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2006-06-05 05:13 [#01913496]
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Art is always evolving. What was once avant-garde sooner or
later becomes a cliché. Get with the times, try and do
something new for a change. Or go on rehashing the same
tired old junk if it pleases you, just quit whining about
it.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-05 05:33 [#01913502]
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Ummm. Yeah. As I said in five or six different paragraphs,
thats what I did. Well, not stop the whining, but this is a
messageboard.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2006-06-05 05:42 [#01913505]
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But you seem to be angry about it, as if it's not normal and
scandalous and terrible. It's just the way things go, the
avant-garde is meant to be digested by the mainstream,
that's why it's called the avant-garde. It's a good thing
and there's nothing regrettable about it.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-06-05 09:11 [#01913590]
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use the VST "tape stop" it's free. google it i don't have a
link.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-06-05 09:19 [#01913603]
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A good song is a good song regardless of how complex it is.
for example "Lowrider" by War.

haha. i'm actually being half serious here.


 

offline benbusch from Kansas on 2006-06-05 10:59 [#01913680]
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Thanks... I didn't intend on sparking such an in-depth
conversation, but it was entertaining and educational to
read.


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2006-06-05 11:09 [#01913688]
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There is more to it. Since supatrigger has been out no one
has made anything remotely as a good a beaucephalous
bouncing ball. There is more to that track than a bouncy
effect.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2006-06-05 18:34 [#01914016]
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SupaTrigga doesn't do bouncing effects...it automates cut
ups/reversal etc.

The Aphex track is just clever use of basic delays in a
structured way.



 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-06-05 18:37 [#01914017]
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there is a free vst bounce effect though. it's called
'bouncy' i think. well i have it anyway.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2006-06-05 18:39 [#01914019]
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It's not a case of how hard it is to make something that
determines quality, it's how it makes you and others feel.
If someone takes 5 minutes making something that they really
like then fuck you if you think it's worthless because it
means something special to them.

As far as Taxidermist's glitch rant goes...I suppose I could
hammer a nail into a peice of wood with a screwdriver if I
spent long enough...would that be more of an accomplishment
than using a hammer to do the same job? Music is about
emotional investment not technical prowess.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2006-06-05 18:41 [#01914020]
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I have the same thing. Never used it though :)

An enveloped delay is all it takes.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-06-05 18:41 [#01914021]
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if you do that, make sure you get a video of it in the
youtube thread.


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-06-05 18:42 [#01914022]
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it's quite nice, i've used it on a speeding up bouncing
melody line which i think turned out quite lovely to pat my
own back a bit.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-06 00:11 [#01914081]
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I don't think you are getting the whole point tho. Its
oversaturating an already saturated field of music. People
who wouldn't normally try to make that music will, and in
the end, the emotional involvement that may or may not be
involved in that song is less likely to be listened to
because a lot of people will dismiss it due to the fact that
there is so much of it. A similar thing occurs with money.
Its like any other economy. Too much of it and it looses its
value.

Likewise, I feel less compeled to make that form of music
because there is so much of it. Its not unique. The fun I
used to have doing all those things manualy is lost, because
I am not thinking, "this sounds neat, I want to continue
doing this". I start thinking "wow. this sounds like the
same thing everybody else and their mother can do now". Fun
is one of those emotions that is expressed in music. Its not
all just misery, or happiness, or childish memories, or
recapturing the feeling you get when you take a hit of
crack. I would go so far as to say fun is one of the most
integral emotions that go into music and can be felt by the
audience, next to love and depression.

Anyways. I overreacted. I am sure you overreact every once
in a while when you see something that annoys the fuck out
of you. I just don't like it when people get lazy with
something they contend is their art. It makes things seem
cheap.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-06 00:15 [#01914084]
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I use SupaTrigger (Trigga?) and/or my own Synth Edit Romana
Shifter.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2006-06-07 13:26 [#01915164]
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Anyone could make Acid...it's fucking basic stuff at
instrument level...not everyone can make good Acid (stuff
like Impakt's etc.)...I still don't think your arguement
holds much water, although I respect your opinion.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2006-06-07 13:32 [#01915172]
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Glitché


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2006-06-07 13:47 [#01915188]
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The emotional involvement is less likely to be listened to?


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2006-06-07 14:45 [#01915254]
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no glitch is shit when you use it on the rocks

midicontrol it makes it kinda cool

i think i like copy/pasting/cutting more


 

offline evolume from seattle (United States) on 2006-06-07 14:51 [#01915258]
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you let rye get moldy.

to make it good, you add speed or PCP.


 


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