Category Archives: Music Software

Sound Forge Pro + Windows 8 = Frustrating Frustration.

With the advent of Windows 8, Sound Forge users may run into a registration brain fart that can’t be fixed simply. I ran into this on two different machined. The symptom is that Sound Forge works fine, for a while, … Continue reading

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In which SoundCloud sends me a hilarious takedown notice

So today I got this interesting message from Soundcloud: Hi chaircrusher, Our automatic content protection system has detected that your sound “Rubber Duckie (Wub Machine Remix)” may contain the following copyright content: “Get Some Fruit (Wubstep Dubstep Remix)” by Anand … Continue reading

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Using Random Processing in Ableton Live

There are two things that I’ve done consistently for 18 years I’ve been using a computer to make music is to experiment with random processes to generate something musically. EXAMPLE ENSEMBLE: http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/AbletonLiveRandomizeExample.zip Ableton Live has a ton of effects. People … Continue reading

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Reaktor Effect: Random Multitap Delay/Shuffler

http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/RandomMultitapDelay.zip The Random Multitap Delay is a delay effect that randomly, continuously changes the delay time between the input and output. The delay times are based on musical note durations – ¼ note, ? note, ? note triplets, etc.  My … Continue reading

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New Paulstretch OS X build

As software projects go, PaulStretch is rather a shadowy enigma. Since I did the initial Mac OS X port, I’ve had very, very sporadic communications with the author Nasca Octavian Paul about it. Then there’s the issue of versioning. Paul … Continue reading

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Fun with Max For Live LFOs

http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-2011-08-14-BeatRepeatLFO.mp3 It’s hard not to be an electronic musician without developing a fascination with random/stochastic processes as a compositional tool. Particularly because when you pay attention to e.g. a Max Roach Drum Solo he seems to be balancing random choices … Continue reading

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PaulStretch 2.1 is Out! New build instructions + new x86 OS X build

Please go Here for latest build! Paul added a new library dependency, which I hacked into my build recipe here: http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/PaulStretchBuild-2.1.tar.gz Instructions for building I have a completely UNTESTED binary for people to try here. It should work, but I … Continue reading

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PaulStretch Build Instructions – Now with Linux!

GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST The world of open source software development doesn’t sit still. A program that I rely on to build PaulStretch on OSX is CMake, which is an open source, cross-platform program that hides some of … Continue reading

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More ‘Just A Band’ — Ha-ha

Not my favorite track on the Just A Band 82 album, but this music video does rule. Apparently it was one of East Africa’s first Viral video complete with its own #Makmende Twitter tag. Makwende is apparently the Kenyan Chuck … Continue reading

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New Track: Expemsible

All the hootenanny about PaulStretch got me playing with it again, and this is what I came up with. As my vrave buddies used to say ‘very ambient.’ http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-Expemsible.mp3 The source material was a couple of samples downloaded from the … Continue reading

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Forensic Examination of the Slowed Down Justin Bieber “Love U”

This will be my last post on the subject. It’s been fun to get a lot more site visits, but just for perspective, my friend Jerry’s Retarded Ravers Of America site was getting ten times the traffic ten years ago … Continue reading

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Paulstretch for OS X — the Justin Bieber Edition

GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST Well, someone may — or may not — have posted a slowed down version of Justin Bieber’s “Love U” and as a result my janky little blog is experiencing a 25-fold bump in traffic. … Continue reading

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Iowa Cicadas

I started my summer DJ mix with a track of sorts I made with my Zoom H4 of insect sounds in the evening here in Iowa City. Here is the track independent of the mix: http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-IowaEvening.mp3 This is actually done … Continue reading

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Again with the Granular Synthesis — Granite VST

New Sonic Arts has come up with a new granular synthesis tool they call ‘Granite.’ It is similar to many other of the granular synthesis tools, and yet has it’s own unique sound qualities. This was announced last week and … Continue reading

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Even More Granulosity – PaulStretch

GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST When I did the OS X build for PaulStretch, it became the most popular and enduring blog post I’ve ever done. Paulstretch has kind of a funky user interface, but the way it sounds, … Continue reading

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More Granularity — Christopher Hipgrave’s Ambient Software

Christopher Hipgrave’s Ambient is a piece of software distributed by Audiobulb. Ambient is based around granular synthesis of any audio file. It’s pitch shifted, delayed and filtered, and there are several controls you can tweak to control the sound, though … Continue reading

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Granular ‘Shoot Out’ — ArgotLunar,Discord 3,Granular-to-Go

I’ve been rather taken by using granular effects the past couple of weeks. Sure I should courriel that to Circa 2000 Twerk/Kit Clayton/Taylor Dupree, but whatever. I find things at my own pace. In particular, I like the idea of … Continue reading

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New Chaircrusher Track “Amber Waves”

http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-AmberWaves.mp3 Had a track on the back burner, when i downloaded the ArgotLuna granular delay effect VST plugin. Slowed it down 50BPM, put ArgotLunar on the pad synth, and there you are. Argotlunar is pretty cool — I like especially … Continue reading

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Autechre “Move Of Ten”

As has been their wont, Warp released the download version of Autechre’s new album Move of Ten as a digital download in advance of the physical product. So I bought it yesterday. I got the 24-bit WAV file version because, … Continue reading

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PaulStretch 2.0 — OS X PPC Build!

GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST My PaulStretch build was unfortunately Intel-only, and probably would only work with OS X 10.5 or later. Now, a friend who shall be known (at his request) as “the anonymous benefactor” has done the … Continue reading

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