From thatcat Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 02:57
From thatcat Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 02:57
On 05/19/98 20:16:56 you wrote: > >>why would you think it wasn't live playing? how do you think autechre records >are >>created? >Why do you always jump down people's throats about their incorrect assumptions >about the way techno is made? Most techno on this list sounds programmed, >because the percussion is so exact and every sound is exactly "in place"... >It's the electronic equivalent of a band doing 100s of takes in the studio so >they can get exactly the sound they want. If they can use Cubase and protools >to get the sound the first time, why bother to rehearse and play a track live? it is far easier to record a keyboard part into a sequencer than to step-enter or otherwise program the notes. now, i'm not saying that ae are recording everything live at once, obviously they are recording many tracks of things into the sequencer and editing. but unless ae are doing something far different (and far more tedious) than other musicians, it all starts with playing live keyboard parts into the sequencer. as for techno artists getting crisp and rhythmically precise beats, one can quantize a played part into an exact pattern. another element of liveness in ae's recent works that is often overlooked is the fact that not all the percussion is looping throughout the tracks...often things playing a fairly steady rhythm will slip up or mutate into something else. take for example the remix they did for spacetime continuum, the kick and snare parts do not always fall in the same place; it sounds a bit live and sloppy. >But regardless, they're's no reason for you to be all bitchy about showing people >up with how much you know about Autechre's studio. Just say it in a friendly >way... If I've misinterpreted what seems to be a desire on your part to be a >prick, please restate yourself on the list. i just asked two simple questions...i didn't mean to bitch at people. but it does slightly offend me when people assume that electronic music is programmed in the same fashion that someone writes computer code...it's not too much different a process than a guitar band going into a modern digital studio and recording multiple tracks of everything and then editing out all the mistakes... "a dream is worth a thousand pictures, the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."