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Quiz funk

By laguna on July 17, 2016 11:56 pm

This week I'm finally at home, catching my breath. Didn't have any bright ideas, just messed up a lot with some Amiga emulation, building a whole "virtual retro" enviroment, piece by piece. I've also been removing some samples from my library, so they must be often used, turned into an usable kit or archived for good.

I messed up with the original ProTracker on the Amiga (well, actually not the infamous 2.3d, but 3.15 ECS version). The bass samples were created on a Mac running Ableton Live then converted to 8 bit 22.050 kHz using the SOX command line utility, and the drums were downsampled to 11050 kHz. Whole module took less than 54kb of space.

I loaded the whole thing into OpenMPT and then exported each channel as lossless FLAC tracks and then continued to work back on Live 9. Lots of reverb and M4L's Diffuse, but no bitcrush on this one (although it sounds like it).

I know it's quite a simple piece, somewhat juvenile and silly. Plase don't take the whole "points" stuff literally: I don't think this song deserves a 10, it's just that I had very few minutes left till the deadline and found some cool Speak and Spell samples smile

Like a lot of WBeaters out there could confirm, I guess, I'm confronting the fact that the key to a good setup is not having a lot, but knowing well what you already have. So I'm cleaning my sampling library, trimming all the fat smile

Time to sit and really check all my software, from A to Z.

Looking forward to catch up with your wonderful tunes. Have a great week!!!

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The "juvenile" feel came across to me as playful and fun. It fits well with the retroprimitive sounds, which are pretty great. Maybe not a 10 on a 10-point scale, but possibly on an 11- or 12-point one.

With all the bit and rate downsampling you were mentioning, I was expecting something much more abrasive. This is really mellow. I especially like the vocal snips.

Makes me want to get my Amiga from the loft....great stuff smile

GrainBastard wrote:

Makes me want to get my Amiga from the loft....great stuff smile

Oh, please do! Amigas deserve to be at good use smile Thanks for listening

Jim Wood wrote:

With all the bit and rate downsampling you were mentioning, I was expecting something much more abrasive. This is really mellow. I especially like the vocal snips.

Glad you liked it, Jim... I guess lo resolution samples could be mellow if treated with love smile My aim is to recreate some sort of "E-MU Emulator" sound on the old equipment and try to go beyond my usual bitcrushed stuff smile

Thanks again for dropping by every week!!!

CrazyBob wrote:

The "juvenile" feel came across to me as playful and fun. It fits well with the retroprimitive sounds, which are pretty great. Maybe not a 10 on a 10-point scale, but possibly on an 11- or 12-point one.

Oh, I'm really flattered! Thanks for the complyment, CrazyBob

Your talking a foreign language to me.  Still sounds great though.

Relentless funky badassery. Outstandingly catchy.  Loving the graininess of the sound, the speak-and-spell voice. I didn't take the point thing seriously--it did suggest an interesting narrative, though.  Great piece!

(Fav'd and downloaded.  Extremely cool groove.)

Edmund Snyder wrote:

Your talking a foreign language to me.  Still sounds great though.

That was just some technical rant about using old school gear, which is after all the least important thing. I'm glad you liked it and enjoyed the groove

onezero wrote:

Relentless funky badassery. Outstandingly catchy.  Loving the graininess of the sound, the speak-and-spell voice. I didn't take the point thing seriously--it did suggest an interesting narrative, though.  Great piece!

Whoah, so much Humpty dope glitchness... Glad to be featured along with the Digital Underground smile

Your compliments are really appreciated, Maurice. It's great to achieve funkyness

Nice and funky, the mellow bass and the more abrasive elements work really well together.

Plantrain wrote:

Nice and funky, the mellow bass and the more abrasive elements work really well together.

THank you, Plaintrain. It's nice to know you actually found it funky... I wasn't too sure after all smile

Suhweet crunchy downsampled beats and really like the opening main synth sound.  An excellent groove fo sho! smile

Ipaghost wrote:

MIND BLOWING G.I.F as usual... Thanks, man!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Suhweet crunchy downsampled beats and really like the opening main synth sound.  An excellent groove fo sho! smile

It's some native Ableton's Analog... I've been thinking about collecting some of my best patches and send them to you, oh Great Wizard of (the) Pads smile

How cool is that? Lovely
Amiga was my first Sampler/Tracker

Crunchy head goodness! Love those vocal snips!

Tone Matrix wrote:

Suhweet crunchy downsampled beats and really like the opening main synth sound.  An excellent groove fo sho! smile

It's some native Ableton's Analog... I've been thinking about collecting some of my best patches and send them to you, oh Great Wizard of (the) Pads smile

haha Wizard of pads smile I like that. Kinda like the wizard of oz tongue

oops i think i messed up the quote tongue
Btw giving this another listen, so groovy! Go pads go! smile

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