From solenoid Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 00:06
From solenoid Sent Fri, Aug 13th 1999, 00:06
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Tom Millar wrote: > Is anybody besides me here interested in this possibility? > > Think: a CD of "Remixes" made entirely without the use of samplers. > People on it would be either > a) trying to emulate the sounds of another track with their synths > b) using the same melodies with similar sounds, or > c) taking the same structure, from beat to lead line, and using > completely different sounds (like taking someone else's MIDI file and > changing the pathc numbers, essentially) I'm doing this for several remixes for the Mad MOnkey label's Neutral full-length; no samplers. In fact I've eliminated the original samples from my remix and even imitated some of the sounds (sampled harp or violin plucking) with new sequences of additional synths. For me the remix is about timbral changes and re-composition of the midi data. There will probably be some mp3 versions of these remixes on the bonus cdr with the first batch of cds pressed (a limited edition of some number). Call me naive, but wasn't this what 'remixing' really meant before everyone had samplers? Essentially re-engineering and re-composing...? Just as in the world of sound-mangling plugings for software, there are tricks for re-composing/mixing: logic audio can let you flip the melody around is strange ways, as can Cubase's phrase synthesizer. Putting portions of melodies into arpeggiators, step sequencers and looping them in odd times outside of midi control....reversing note order. Not that any of that guarrantees a good result... > Like "Endlessnessism" and similar projects, we could start off with one > track from somebody who's willing to be number one (I volunteer!) and > then ship DATs/audio files around until we had 74 minutes' worth of > sample-free boom. > > So- whad'ya think? I would only have time to really work on this after i play gigs through Sept when my studio gets back in order, but I'd like to give it a whirl. (in "midi-whirler", my latest plugin, set on 'auto-whirl', of course) Solenoid > Tom >