From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 04:41
From Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 04:41
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Adam Huffman wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 1998 xxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xxx wrote: > > > On 05/19/98 18:26:22 you wrote: > > > > >Hmmm. I was trying to think of a clever phrase and that was all I > > >managed. What I should have said was that a lot of the melody on that > > >track sounds like live playing > > > > why would you think it wasn't live playing? how do you think autechre > > records are created? psychic powers on sean and rob's part? or did you > > mean it sounds like live instruments (guitars? horns?) haven't heard the > > track yet so i can't comment. > > > > Sigh. What I meant was it sounded as though they had left the parts I was > referring to unquantised, having simply played on top of the existing > track. Not all that unusual an event, granted, but it *sounds* different > to the more usual Ae style. As it happens I do know how "techno tracks > are made". Some of the tracks on Chiastic Slide sound like they were using different swing quantizations that would end up forcing their notes into awkward positions, that is, places where a non-experimentally-minded programmers would say "that doesn't sound right" and correct them. Well, Autechre must just leave them, or push them around a bit. Also, I wonder if they have any access to quantization templates (don't they use Ensoniq samplers, what can these boxes extra software do?) which they screw with a lot. On the other hand, some of their earlier stuff, like one title on the Anti-EP is fairly simple syncopation...in fact I was able to get an almost identical sound on my Pro One once last year and realized that their were few other elements at all in the rest of the track. I think that they just keep a fairly open mind when programming their sequencer and recording CC changes or patch modulations into their tracks. If you look over the whole history of Autechre records, they've been messing with non-quantized (or more oddly-quantized) sequencing gradually more and more. David xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx <------+