From Kent Williams Sent Fri, Jul 7th 2000, 16:59
From Kent Williams Sent Fri, Jul 7th 2000, 16:59
http://www.mp3.com/chaircrusher New track "Solstice Beat" -- conceived originally as a hip hop beat it gradually goes through a complete rhythmic deconstruction. 90 bpm, mixed dubwise live -- you can hear the crackle when I hit the mutes on my mixer. For the trainspotters amongst you -- Every sound in this track was computer generated primarily using the Vaz Modular software synth. A few hand-me-down drum samples from the internet were used, but there were no pre-recorded loops at all. The bit that sounds like a 12 string guitar plucking single notes is made just from massively processed sawtooth waves. The sweeping 'jet' sound comes from a delay with a flanger in the feedback path. The drums came from single hit samples, either hand-assembled in Sound Forge, or triggered in Vaz Modular. The little drum rolls comes from occasionally adding a fast LFO square wave to the sample trigger. I played with randomizing the re-triggering, so that you never hear the same drum pattern twice. Then I cut loops out of about 5 minutes or random mayhem. The bassline that comes in a few minutes in is made from a thick drone sound sampled and replayed using granular synthesis. It's then time stretched in Acid to where the sound breaks up, and then further effects added to smooth it out. It's called Solstice Beat because that's when I started making the track. kent williams -- xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx