From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Thu, Feb 25th 1999, 20:19
From Marc 3 Poirier Sent Thu, Feb 25th 1999, 20:19
At 02:15 PM 2/25/99 -0500, szalemandre wrote: >> > >i wouldn't doubt that he's using opcode's max as well as supercollider. >> > >csound is a bit obtuse to really make the type of music he's making, >> > >which could be done in much easier ways than csound. >> > >> > there's not very much (if anything) on the new single that couldn't be >> > achieved with your average bog standard pc/mac plugins such as >> > hyperprism. and there's a lot of NR plugin abuse on it too. many of >> > the samples blatanly use the underwater effect, which is what happens >> > when you over-use spectral analysis NR (on the wrong frequency bands) >> >> Shit, man, I heard this Mozart song the other day & I thought it was all >> awesome until I realised it was just some regular piano in regular tuning. > >i don't think that was his point. i think what he was trying to say went >something like "since it's so much easier to get the results he did by >using some standard, easily obtainable products, it's highly unlikely that >he used csound or any other 'programming' to write any of those songs. >that'd be like synthesizing all of the required chemicals to make your >favorite flavor of kool-aide from scratch, from taste alone, which could >take months/years maybe (less for the exceptionally skilled) when all you >really had to do was go to the local 711, buy it, and mix it up with some >sugar." > >i don't think he was commenting on the results, but the process. Yeah, sorry, I think you're right. I guess I'm so used to that other attitude being taken on this list, especially in reference to Aphex Twin, that I was responding to what I was expecting to read & not reading carefully enough to see that there was a subtly different message in the above post. Marc Poirier