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Re: HuMaNiZiNg cold DRUM MACHINES



Is there a special microphone you use to do this? i
supose one that would overdrive a bit would give an
interesting lo-fi sound which i love...
Cheers
Louie




--- Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote:
> On 03-12-12 09.29,  "Louie Angulo"
> <laab2000us@yahoo.com> wrote:
> .
> > so i would like your
> > opinions,techniques,recomendations is a sampler
> better
> > than a groove box ? or a drum machine? Which ones
> > work well with the EDP and how do you employ them
> > live?
> > Louie
> 
> 
> Occasionally I've been using a groove box (MC-303)
> and this is a good
> alternative. I used to keep it on a mix fader to
> fade in now and then. On
> the box you can easily punch in and out different
> drum sounds to create
> variation. If you run the EDP as midi clock master
> you can also change
> program to one with another 8th/cycle setting and
> this will have the groove
> box play in another tempo while the EDP is staying
> the same.
> 
> Another cool alternative is to keep a microphone and
> punch in doing vocal
> beat boxing when you need a groove. Takes some
> practice though. Now I tend
> to like this more than the groove box. Besides, a
> groove box is very heavy
> to drag around.
> 
> A third alternative I have also been using is to put
> a computer as a midi
> clock slave and use some software for beats. One
> especially cool thing I
> discovered once was to run Logic with a autofilter
> plug-in. That auto-filter
> had its cut-off parameter side-chained from an audio
> input fed from my live
> guitar playing. I had some Burundi Drummers loops
> going on the laptop and
> the harder I hit a string on the guitar the more
> treble was let through that
> filter. So the drummers got sharper when I played
> harder.
> 
> Another nice software to bring grooves into a loop
> performance is Ableton
> Live. The good thing is that this program can play
> audio loops in just about
> any tempo - like the Repeater. I can go down from
> 200 BPM to 10 BPM and the
> laptop will follow my EDP. But I think the Repeater
> still sounds better on
> those trashed out slow motion beats. But the Live
> software can apply lots of
> interesting plug-ins which is yet another universe
> to explore.
> 
> -- 
> Best wishes
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.looproom.com
> 


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www.luis-angulo.com

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