From Michael Upton Sent Mon, Oct 19th 1998, 05:22
From Michael Upton Sent Mon, Oct 19th 1998, 05:22
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Peter Hollo wrote: | Not bothering to make one's samples in tune is as sloppy as badly | cutting up samples so that there's clicking, or not aligning samples so | that the rhythms don't match (which, unfortunately, is something that | marrs a couple of the tracks on Neotropic's otherwise excellent new | album). It seriously reduces the effect of a piece of music. Probably being a complete pedant here, but upon agreeing really whole heartedly with most of what Peter wrote, I feel an urge to say "It _can_ seriously reduce the effect of a piece of music", and, sure, it probably does most of the time. Granted, we're probably talking in the context of a track all in a well-tempered scale, suddenly having something going decidedly flat in the midst of it. (I can also think of plenty of tracks with cool clicking samples, and loose timing... :) I've found this whole thing quite interesting, because there're a lot of things I do musically, common to a lot of IDM, that leave me having a lot of trouble finding the resultant tuning. I just hope I get it right, but now I'm slightly paranoid there're legions of people out there who will be whincing at my tunings. I'm thinking of stuff like cutting off a lot of frequencies, and band pass filters at high resonance; and time-stretched percussion sounds which can take on conflicting pitches... Michael np. 'Inflatable Rasta Wig (Deflated)' - Mono TM ____________________________________________ "Also, he has automatic evasion devices" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html