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Perhaps the Eventide Omnipressor plug-in? I used to play through a hardware Omnipressor and seem to remember it could turn your dynamics upside down. (or write your own with pluggo....) At 12:54 PM -0700 6/6/03, sserendipity wrote: >On a vaguely related note, I've been looking for a software based dynamics >processor with a >negative< ratio controls - not fractional like an >expander, but actually negative. If any such beast exists, please let me >know. Dbx used to make a hardware one. > >This would allow you to make the quiet parts loud, and the loud parts >quiet. > > > >bIz > >------------ >http://www.groovetronica.com - "Well, it hasn't made it into our playlist, >I'm afraid. It's summer so there are no djs here to listen to and play >music, so we're just playing automated music right now." >------------ > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Greg House" <ghunicycle@yahoo.com> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:27 PM >Subject: Hearing parts that aren't there (was: Re: the function of some >music) > > >> --- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> > Brian Eno's notes on one of his earliest >> > ambient albums (Music for Airports, I think, but I >> > don't have it in front of me) describe another >> > important aspect of ambient music. Eno was in bed >> > recovering from having been hit by a car, and a friend >> > brought over an LP of some very quiet 17th century >> > harp music, put the record on and left. After she had >> > left, Eno realized that the volume on the stereo was >> > set much too low, but was not feeling up to getting >> > out of bed to fix it. As he listened to the record, he >> > could only hear the loudest notes, and had a sort of >> > epiphany regarding another way of listening to music >> > in the context of ambient sounds. It wasn't that he >> > wasn't listening attentively, but rather, the 'local >> > soundscape' was an integral part of the listening >> > experience. >> >> Interesting, I'd never read that. But this happens to me periodically, >in >fact, >> it's something I actively do to stoke my creativity. My car stereo has >this nifty >> "feature" of resetting the volume to some standard (very low) level >when >the car >> is turned off. Some of the music I listen to is recorded at relatively >low >> volumes and at the stereo's "standard volume" I can't hear anything but >the >> loudest notes in the music above the noise floor of the engine and the >road. >> >> What I find happening sometimes is that my mind starts filling in the >pieces to >> construct a more complete musical piece. But they're not the same >pieces >from the >> original music! I hear new rhythms, new melodys, and textures that >aren't >there. >> Just something my mind formulates while trying to make sense of the >little >bit of >> music it's periodically hearing. >> >> It happened by accident the first time, and I was surprised to find a >song >I knew >> well playing away when I raised the volume of the stereo...and kind of >> disappointing, since I was enjoying what my mind was formulating on >it's >own. Now >> I actively persue finding that magic volume, where I'm hearing enough >information >> for my mind to hear and start working over, but not so much that it >starts >> latching onto the original song. It doesn't hurt in this discovery >that my >car is >> becoming a noisy bucket of bolts, so the noise floor is much higher >then >it used >> to be. >> >> Greg >> >> >> >> __________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). >> http://calendar.yahoo.com >> >>