(Warning. A lot of BLAH BLAH BLAH)
As a continuation of last weeks trend I went forward with the look to my past by jumping to another old tool I used before diving deep into DAW world. I dug in deep and found my PSP loaded with Little Game Park Tracker.

After my Game Boy 8-bit obsession wore off, I started exploring other chips and machines. I dabbled with the NES, OPL3, Sega Genesis, and eventually found my way to the Paula chipset of the Amiga. I fell in love with the crunch of the samples and characteristics of the machine. Sample synthesis was something that I had not played with much until that point and had me excited with the possibilities. I never had the privilege of owning or working on an actual amiga for composition. I instead used cross platform trackers and wrote within the limitations that Paula had. During this time sample based trackers rained supreme in my music. LGPT became my main tracker eventually because of its familiar feel to LSDJ, flexibility, portability, and great supportive users.

I am a control freak when it comes to samples. I felt and still do feel that using other peoples samples was a lazy practice that I don't want to partake in (drum samples and music cuts being the exception). The sample I used were cut and manipulated by myself or self generated via synthesis from FM (OPL3, Sega Genesis, Nanoloop 2.3/iphone etc.) or subtractive means (monotron, Korg DS10, VSTs etc.) at the time.

I started this song in LGPT and finished the rest of it with my DAW with some other gear. I wanted to go back and explore the house style, sample based, noise experiments I was doing back in 2010 in LGPT but also add in my current way of doing things. It has been a nice recap of old lessons that I learned during this time period.

LGPT from 2010:

Toys used:
PSP 1000 (LGPT)
MPC 2000 (Resampling some drum samples)
Kawai R-100 (Toms, rim, BD samples)
TR-606 (Hats and Cymbols samples)
Montron (Main BD Kick sampled)
Audio Technica Turntable (sampled sound textures of vinyl crackling)
XM and Mod samples

Tags: ableton, amiga, chiptune, house, lgpt, noise, samples, week 16 2014, View by:ENC_