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ahhh, gimme a bit of that paranoid music mucho maas ... brought to you live on KCUF! REPORT ALL OBSCENE MAIL TO YOUR POTSMASTER! i got a kick out of your sounds ... the url spoke "crying lots" to me ;-) a-and let's keep this away from the trystero you know what i'm raving about, rob slothrop! Todd Madson schrieb: > > > > Geez, if I'd known.... > > There are lots of MP3 files I've made and they're on the net for > download. > > You can first of all check out: > http://www.waste.org/~crash/asb.html > -and- > http://www.waste.org/~crash/loopage.html > -and- > http://webriffs.dhs.org/ > -and- > http://www.waste.org/~crash/crash.html > > The ASB site has, naturally, ASB music on it. > Many of the sounds in the track "aliensporebomb" are vortexed to death.. > There's 6 stereo pairs of electric guitars playing in harmony and all are > processed thru the vortex. Then, the drum machine has drums and bass > playing, but is also the source of the "synthesizer" in the background. > > The synth pad is created by taking the other two bass guitar samples > in the drum computer and tuning them up one and two octaves respectively > and mapping key notes to the drum pads. Then I "play" the pads for each > rhythmic pattern. > > I then take a line out from the drum machine and into the vortex running > a custom patch I created. The tap tempo was used to further give the > illusion that you're hearing a big keyboard synth thru a swirling leslie > like patch. > > The drum machine allows you to send specific signals through any of its > six outputs (stereo left, stereo right, then 1 2 3 and 4). This allows > processing of specific signals while leaving others unprocessed. A very > nice feature. > > So essentially, you're hearing 1 guitar and 1 drum machine. But due to > the multiple outputs of the drum computer you can do a heck of a lot, and > the Vortex has much mutational power. > > Let's see, the stuff at webriffs....lots of that is vortexed to death > too... Late nite has a clean guitar thru a choir patch with the tuned-up > bass samples from the drum computer into the vortex using another custom > patch. There is no bass guitar or synth on this tune, just one guitar > and one drum machine, the drum machine is playing internal samples to > create the bass and "synth" parts (which are tuned up basses). The > higher pitched "synth" stuff is a fingerpicked bass up two octaves, the > lower pitched (sounds a bit like rubato electric piano thru chorus and > delay) is an acco contrabass sample up an octave or so. > > "Dance of Life Part 2", guitar and Kawai K4 synth processed thru the > vortex there. The lead guitar is conventional until the fake B3 > (processed thru orbits) drops out and then you've got a guitar thru > a mesa boogie studio preamp thru a mxr blue box thru a boss oc-2 > octave box into the vortex (on that dynaflanger patch, aerosol I > think) direct to the board. The drum programming is actually the > drum machine into the vortex using a tap tempo delay to create some > complex counter rhythms.. > > I could go on...am I crazy enough for you yet? > > The looppage stuff at my site...the flanging on "unravelling" (short > version) is vortex I believe, just 1 guitar and nothing else... > > Oh....and the Vortex can rock too. Check out my crash page to hear > "The Velocity of Naught", crunching chunks of heavy metal madness... > the song that could not be killed. Nothing special in terms of weird > panning but it sounds allright. > > -t