From Kent Williams Sent Wed, Nov 4th 1998, 20:33
http://inter-source.net/~junglist/kent/takeabite.ram (streaming 20kbps) http://inter-source.net/~junglist/kent/takeabite.ra (download -- ~720k) This is a piece I've done over the past few days, based around a sample pulled off of www.weprevent.org of McGruff the Crime Dog saying "Take a bite out of crime." It's best characterized as abstract downtempo, with lots of dubby echoes. For those of you who have PC's this is a good showcase of Martin Fay's VAZ Modular program. http://www.software-technology.com/info/softech/vazmod/vazmod.htm This is a full featured analogue-style modular synth, which runs on a PC. In the case of this track, I took the McGruff sample, split it into individual words, and loaded them as a multisample. Then I used the excellent step-sequencer in Vaz to sequence the voice, which gets run through a variety of filters and delays. The drum patterns were created from oscillators and noise sources, sequenced with VazMod's new trigger sequencer. The track you hear is 90% Vaz. There's another drum loop layered through part of the track, but it's mostly the direct unedited output of VAZ saved in a WAV file, and massaged a bit in a sound editor. I'm actually using an alpha version of Vaz Modular that has many features (direct X plugins, multisamples, multiple synth windows, trigger sequencers) that aren't in the released code. All I have to say is that if you have a decent PC (Pentium 166 or better), for $127 you can have something comparable in many respects to a Nord Modular, and the next version will be even more amazing.