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Re: Just ordered new instrument





Man, lots of excitement ovet a CD player!

I took my refund, bought some new guitar strings and had a bender in Reno 
with a hot tamale.


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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 10:08 AM PST Matt Davignon wrote:

>I'm curious - do turntable controllers consider the needle? I imagine
>a good turntable controller must have some sort of touch screen for
>the left hand, where you can "drop the needle" in different parts of a
>visual representation of the sound file.
>
>When I was a turntablist, I often thought of producing a record for
>other turntablists. (There's a name for those, I just can't think of
>it now.) Mine would've had one side be just locked grooves of
>chromatic and diatonic scales, so that one could play the turntable as
>a melodic instrument by dragging the needle across the grooves. Side 2
>would've been split between sounds that scratch well (such as a person
>going "sssssss", "fffffffff" and "Shhhhhhh") and singular drum sounds
>that could be combined/looped to make rhythms.
>
>...but I didn't have the idea until I was already migrating to drum
>machine, and I didn't know many turntablists at the time.
>
>
>
>-- 
>Matt Davignon
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>
>
>On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Rainer Straschill
><moinsound@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Rick Walker schrieb:
>>
>> I remember seeing Portisehead years ago where he
>> had gone in and tracked individual tracks (like solo harmonica),
>> pressed to vinyl and the scratched and pitch shifted it in to
>> live tracks in a really amazing way.
>>
>> I remembered thinking
>> 1) what a totally cool concept:   create your own 'scratcheables'
>> and
>> 2)  WOW!! you have to have a lot of money to do this.
>>
>> The solution that might have been used here is Final Scratch or a
>> competitor, where you use special timecode records, then send that 
>> timecode
>> audio to a specific software, which you then use to playback any audio 
>> file
>> according to how you move your vinyl. And while it's not as inexpensive 
>> as
>> 200 bucks (and you still need your turntable, which you already have as 
>> a
>> scratcher usually), it's not in the WOW!!/break your bank price range.
>>
>> --
>> http://moinlabs.de
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>>
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