I noticed DJ Pierre tweeting about “Los Niños Del Parque” by Liaisons Dangereuses, and checked out the Youtube video that was making the rounds. This is apparently a miniature Twitter phenomenon, so I’m jumping on a bandwagon yet again. Oh well…
Anyway, I went looking for some place to buy the music, and it turns out [...]
1. Load some audio into a slot.
2. Select ‘Beats’ for the warp mode.
2. Select Transient mode for the Grain resolution
3. Select ‘Off Mode’ for the Transient Loop Mode — icon looks like ‘->|’
4. Dial Transient envelope down to zero
It ends up sounding like a gate effect, but it can be further confused by, for example [...]
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Lackluster “Portal EP”
This is a collection of tracks that was supposed to come out on another label that closed up shop. I offered to do a Creative Commons release for Lackluster. He located the masters (on backups, and backups of backups!) and I mastered them.
Lackluster has been one of the most well regarded [...]
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God bless those teutonic DSP elves at NI. Guitar Rig is part of Komplete 6, and it’s tons of fun to screw around with.
I of course, went straight for the extreme noise
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
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This is a ‘forgotten draft post’ — something I started writing and then for some reason never posted… so enjoy it 4 months late!
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-ExileOnFingerStreet.mp3 Amongst a certain sort of musician, the big news this week was Native Instruments’ release of a new Reaktor-based effect called “The Finger”, programmed [...]
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[Audio clip: view full post to listen] http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-ExileOnFingerStreet.mp3 Amongst a certain sort of musician, the big news this week was Native Instruments’ release of a new Reaktor-based effect called “The Finger”, programmed by Tim Exile. “The Finger” is rather like Sugarbytes Artillery 2: each key on the MIDI keyboard triggers a different audio effect. [...]
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Falty DL’s “Love is a Liability” is the latest in a long line of Planet Mu releases that show there’s no record label currently doing a better job artistically.
Sonic Router presents a mix and interview.
I noticed this, and someone had the temerity to complain about it, but Wordpress is confusing me. From the front page of the blog, you can go back a certain number of entries, and then there’s no way to move backwards in time, i.e. the “Earlier Entries” link at the bottom of most self-respecting blog/journal/whatever [...]
I just recorded this album — Lucas found it at an antique store — and was going to put it up for download but I found out that someone else already did it.
UPDATE: I downloaded this file and put it on my site here.
Why should you care? It’s one of the very few early 60s [...]
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This is a common ‘helpful tip’ about playing live or DJ’ing with Ableton Live — ‘put a limiter on the main output bus.’
After recording a set last night (which you’ll hear about when I get approval from one artist to use a track) I have spent some time rendering, tweaking, and then re-rendering a mix, [...]
I spent a bit of time this morning trying to whip my laptop into shape for a Ableton DJ set, and then I figured ‘fuck it.’ I’m not the best DJ in the world but I have good records. Plus it’s a benefit for the local AIDS hospice, so it’s not a hardcore dance music [...]
Sonic Router has the links
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I’m still a little overwhelmed and exhausted, and I need to write it up for Little Village so I won’t go long-winded here… but
I hadn’t been to the festival since 2006 and it was great to be back. I saw a ton of people I only see in Detroit, and got to have some [...]
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I drove in to work today, because I was moving slow and it was pissing down rain. If you know Iowa City (and maybe 2 of you do), Kimball Road was a river, and where it met Dubuque Street there was a lake. Luckily I was following a car down the hill so [...]
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Lucas is going to Buenos Aires tomorrow. American cancelled his flight for tomorrow, and rescheduled him such that he’d have a 35 minute layover in DFW for an international flight.
Here’s the thing — how fucking hard is it to program a computer to not book an impractical layover? This has happened to me multiple [...]
I read The Superficial because it’s scurrilous and nasty and occasionally really fucking funny. The anonymous person or persons who writes the entries can transcend the merely sarcastic and snarky.
This post is about Jon from the television show “Jon and Kate Plus 8″ who was photographed getting knee-walking drunk and then getting into a [...]
A commenter asked for help building Paul Stretch for his G4 Powerbook. I didn’t bother with a PowerPC build for OS X; but if you’re familiar enough with programming to build stuff from source it’s not too difficult. Instructions after the jump — I know most of you would rather eat broken glass [...]
Yesterday I couldn’t spell OS X Developer and now, I are one!
With some help from my friends on the CMake mailing list I finally got a running standalone OS X application built out of the Paul Stretch source. As I wrote yesterday, it’s free, it’s easy, and it makes hours of freaky soundscapes out of [...]
Every so often you just gotta let loose. This track took me about 45 minutes to make from a standing start. Inspired by buying Scanned Synth which seems really good at making harsh, dirty sounds. Add some drums, some effects, and I jammed it out live in one pass. I undid [...]
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Sorry for repost, but apparently, this post got trashed in my Blog SQL database. Eff me silly, computers suck. Apparently the post showed up long enough for MKB to comment on it, but then went to the great bit bucket in the sky.
The quaintly named Paul Stretch is a program that does extreme time [...]