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Re: Sound Clip: Eclipse-ish sounds on Powerbook



Per, 
very impressive job !
I'm asking if it's all live-made. If yes, you're great ! 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <per@boysen.se>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Cc: <simeon@simeonharris.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:02 PM
Subject: Sound Clip: Eclipse-ish sounds on Powerbook


> Hi Loopers,
> 
> I thought I should share this sound clip with the list since we had  
> this discussion about the possibility of using a laptop to play  
> sounds similar to those you get out of an Eventide Eclipse.
> 
> I did the sound clip for a tutorial in Swedish I wrote on the topic  
> "Using Ableton Live as a musician fx rig". So it's typically just  
> plugging in a guitar and playing though the fx patches for  
> demonstration. Not by any means a finished piece of music. I still  
> think it may interest some. The file is 4 MB and uploaded at http:// 
> www.boysen.se/audio/Live_clinic_Studio_6_2005.mp3
> 
> 
> FYI, these are the plug-ins used:
> 
> --> On Audio tracks:
> 2 Augustus Loop, panned Left vs Right.
> 
> --> On Effect tracks:
> Live 4: Freeze reverb in economy resolution.
> OhmForce: OhmBoyz.
> Pluggo: Rye.
> Pluggo: SpeedShifter.
> 
> --> MIDI Clips
> Lots of midi sequences (trigged by FCB1010 foot pedal) used to pitch  
> transpose the two loops as well as for creating arpeggios in the  
> spinning (and recording) loops.
> 
> Eight different pitches used for the loops. No quantization used, so  
> as soon as I step a pedal both loops go directly into the new pitch.
> 
> Five arpeggios (can't imagine you need more? Comments?)
> 1. Octaves bouncing (kind of giving a "Ska back beat" on the upper  
> octave)
> 2. Octaves bouncing (different poly rhythm accents)
> 3. Dim scale arpeggio.
> 4. Quint chord scale arpeggio.
> 5. Whole note scale arpeggio.
> 
> All arpeggio clips send relevant pitch commands in a different order  
> to the two panned loopers. This is for creating a broader stereo  
> field and some interesting stereo poly rhythm.
> 
> Augustus Loop parameters mapped to the FCB pedal are Feedback, Beat  
> Division and Freeze Loop. Actually I never used Freeze Loop in this  
> example, both loopers were overdubbing all the time. The "pad" sound  
> in the background is Lives freeze reverb and the two pluggos also  
> provide some instant sweetening, one among high and one among low  
> frequencies.
> 
> "Drums" provided by forty "RAM Mode" audio clips with random scripts  
> ("Follow Action" as they are called in Live). On each eighth note the  
> drum loop has the probability of one to twelve for changing to  
> another, randomly picked, loop. When this happens the jump from one  
> loop goes into the new loop at the same eighth note (since they are  
> all run in "Legato Mode").  A chines gong sample is used to stop the  
> random drums (triggerd from a foot pedal).
> 
> To save up CPU resources no compressor plug-ins were used and no  
> SupaTriggah on the drums ;-)
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> ---
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> http://www.boysen.se (Swedish site)
> http://www.cdbaby.com/perboysen
> 
> 
> 
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