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Post by damien on May 23, 2009 14:38:07 GMT -8
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Post by Pp3dr0 Ag4o0 on May 24, 2009 0:15:10 GMT -8
beautiful work damien - is that a zoom FX pedal i can hear? (please forgive my blunt ears if it's something more costly...) i really like how your sound has it's own kind of latin & jazz - influenced ethnicity why - chippie is just chipper... fall is nostalgic, gemini is a sublime little piece (i wanted more !) and jordu - a racey track with great guitar layering... very nice stuff - did you make it all yourself from the ground up ? is that a drum-machine in there? is it capable of really stressing out the beats the way modern music does? have you thought of getting with other musos to make a fuller creation ?
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Post by damien on May 24, 2009 0:39:10 GMT -8
Pp3dr0 Aagn0 thank you for the compliments and good advice, in answer to your question im using a boss micro br with the preset guitar f/x, i played those four songs from a "real book" which is a book of jazz songs . the drum machine in a nut shell sounds "dated" i also have an electric drum kit i use to make more "dynamic " drum beats , but my long term vision with some songs is to go in a studio with a live drum kit and record them there , here's a link to a song with some "acoustic " drums :
yes i love to hook up with other musos for full creations , im not fussy about how "good or bad " they are either , only that we work well as a team
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Post by Pp3dr0 Ag4o0 on May 24, 2009 1:16:14 GMT -8
tht's very cool sorry if i sounded off about the drum machine - it was my dream to use a very sparsely programmed drum machine as a metronome to the sound and build a track around that which uses real drums to play some humanity in around the regular element supplied by the machine (also have you ever tried putting some distortion on a drum line?! it is a WIkkID effect !!) i have problems myself with the over-regularity of drum-loops and so i tend to spend a lot of time editing them and moving the hits about to reorder the rhythms which is okay and lets you do some impossible sounding things , but takes a lot of work and still doesn't always escape from sounding repetitious and inhuman in the wrong ways...(there are definitely right ways too !) my link doesn't seem to be appearing in my signature so it,s : www.myspace.com/pedroagno if ya wanna hear what i've bin up 2...
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Post by orpheus on May 24, 2009 3:45:43 GMT -8
With my own drum patterns I keep things as sparse as possible, record that pattern for x amount of time then improvise 2 or 3 more drum takes over the top with various kits, delays and modulation effects. Tends to give variation amongst the bars but obviously it's hard to escape the fact it is a non human drummer (unless you happen to be Squarepusher)
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Post by OTL - the9thtentacle on May 24, 2009 3:55:28 GMT -8
i must get around to loading some drumsounds into that VST sampler - only got a pianoey keyboard to drum on but i guess with practice and time...
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Post by damien on May 25, 2009 13:50:51 GMT -8
hi pedro , ive heard distortion on bass drums , your music is very left field trippy stuff , very experimental . its like taking acid ! in re to drum programming i get bored programming drum machines , what im really into at the moment is understanding time signatures , so if the feel is 4/4 getting the 4 crochets in time on the ride or if its 6/8 the then setting up a dotted crochet pulse . anyways i have some new tunes up they are profile.ultimate-guitar.com/ibanez1511/music/all/play621318ok j , paste it together, grr! and yukky end these are all my own compostions in the making , im think of working "paste it " into a prog rock type thing and recording in a studio with drum kit and and some sort of nice rock organ sound
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Post by nicktoone on May 25, 2009 15:45:26 GMT -8
All my hardware drum machines are defunct since I discovered Ezdrummer - easily the best drum software I've ever used. All the midi patterns are played by pro / session players and the samples are absolutely top quality. The best money I ever spent on samples!
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Post by OTL - the9thtentacle on May 26, 2009 2:10:22 GMT -8
nick hi - good to see you again - loved the disc you sent me (moved house - it went missing) and i just DL'd the free tracks you posted... leaps and bounds mate - although i'm not really qualified to say otherwise....
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Post by Pp3dr0 Ag4o0 on May 26, 2009 2:59:18 GMT -8
thankyou damien - that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me... distortion works on snares well too - industrial sounding...
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Post by damien on Jun 10, 2009 7:39:44 GMT -8
my friend
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Post by damien on Jun 11, 2009 14:45:06 GMT -8
Damien's Groovy BACKING TRACK ... ive made a backing track to jam over , "A" natural minor is the key signature . chords are Am F C Em F C G G .. its here on my ug page profile.ultimate-guitar.com/ibanez1511/music/all/play633440its very quite but my original is not ! if you like it i will be happy to send you the un-"ugged" via version via email
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modo
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Post by modo on Jun 13, 2009 4:36:16 GMT -8
for anyone who's feeling too agitated and need to cool down a bit: we've got a few calm tracks over at our myspace... (beloW)
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Post by damien on Jun 18, 2009 13:06:24 GMT -8
my new song , im proud of this
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Post by damien on Jun 18, 2009 13:08:35 GMT -8
btw modo your tunes are very chilled , my fav is psi kitten
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Post by modo on Jun 19, 2009 14:29:34 GMT -8
why, thankyou damien - that is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me ! stop by anytime... did you find the other modo site there - it's even deeper stuff on /modomallhours than on /themodosite, even less rhythmic and more inspired by Aphex SAW2 - ie supposed to be like a darker take on brian eno's ambient work... i really enjoyed making psi-kitten - it was a few years ago - i was trying to make an eat-static-esque synth arppegio line with a roland juno60 (pretty basic, but my weapon of choice for realtime playing), but i ended up taking it in a different direction...
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Post by OTL - the9thtentacle on Jun 26, 2009 11:20:07 GMT -8
i'm just having a listen to your track damien - it's gorgeous - and really lushly produced too... nice !
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Post by Pp3dr0 Ag4o0 on Jul 6, 2009 1:26:13 GMT -8
your cellartapes central site sounds like a journey... a bit more varied and less focussed on the OTLSpage one though i think...
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Post by damien on Jul 10, 2009 5:22:21 GMT -8
thank you "otl" for your kind words .... this is my new recording
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Post by OTL - the9thtentacle on Jul 11, 2009 1:08:06 GMT -8
beautiful and deep man, er... are you a catholic by any chance?
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Post by damien on Jul 11, 2009 6:58:28 GMT -8
i can see why you would come to that conclusion "otl" , im just me
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muckybadger
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Post by muckybadger on Jul 13, 2009 2:35:58 GMT -8
Hi OTL - nice to see you on this board (if you're the same OTL i know). Is this where we tell people about our own music? I make music - if you call it that... It's pretty intimidating stuff. I hope you like it.
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Post by OTL - the9thtentacle on Jul 13, 2009 3:07:36 GMT -8
muckbadger - hi yes it is i, OTL. you've got our track up on your site mate...i didn't ok that? what you doing buddy... i'll pm you about that in a wee bit... . damien - the entity your vid mentions has different names all over the globe - but there are consistencies and similarities between the versions - either it is one many-faced being that whispers to us through the storm, or it is a reflection of our own minds, as examined with their hopes and fears...
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muckybadger
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Post by muckybadger on Jul 18, 2009 1:12:31 GMT -8
er - ok sorry i put a credit on it for you now...
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Post by invisiblerhino on Jul 20, 2009 3:48:58 GMT -8
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Post by OTL - the9thtentacle on Aug 1, 2009 13:16:35 GMT -8
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Post by gracerooms on Aug 29, 2009 7:30:42 GMT -8
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Post by Enos on Aug 29, 2009 14:00:28 GMT -8
Brilliant.One question how the heck do you do the fast keyboard arpeggio's?,(From about 8:40 into track).Is it difficult to play/program that stuff.
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Post by gracerooms on Aug 29, 2009 14:53:42 GMT -8
not shure if that question was for me but if it is.i did it with the arpeggiator from the roland juno 60 just play and twirl with the tempo/notes and filters until i got it right.its not that difficult if you know yer way around analogs
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modo
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Post by modo on Sept 8, 2009 4:33:00 GMT -8
gracerooms ! - you got thee same synth as me ! a bit limited, but loads of fun, especially if you've got a noise gate to fix the horrible signal-to-noise-ration...
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