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Boxy- but good.

By mispel on April 27, 2014 4:10 pm

This was inspired by our fellow WB member onezero's submission last week.  It is an "in the box" experiment created with Live.  Though the piece submitted last week by onezero was entirely the product of a single hi-hat hit run through a gang of internal effects, I allowed myself both a hi-hat hit AND a little snippet of a arp-y sounding sample as source material...  Not that you hear a trace of either original sound.  This is all in Live 9 using their included effects chained into a monster machine.  I saved a few takes of audio while i was twisting knobs, then mixed them together.  I also pitch shifted and reversed some parts in an attempt to fill out the spectrum. 

I spent a lot of time just listening to weird washes of in-the-box sound this week and have slightly fallen in love with this idea.  I imagine that I'll be using this method and sampling snippets in the future for unique pads and such.

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April 28, 2014 3:59 am

Jim Wood

A hi-hat AND a snippet? Rather extravagant, don't you think?

Very impressive. smile

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April 28, 2014 6:47 am

laguna

Every time I hear stuff like that, It seems obvious that I don't need new synths, instead I need new imagination.

Simply beautiful, both pads, sound design and overall atmosphere. Sounds really big in a car... tried it this mornig smile

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April 28, 2014 1:13 pm

onezero

So great!  I recognize the growing feedback sound in places, but you've really made the processing on this into your own thing, which is maybe my favorite thing about this technique.  With the pitch shifts, you're really filling out the spectrum, and it's quite lush.  Gorgeous stuff, and I'm glad to have inspired a useful direction.  (BTW, my introduction to this technique was the work of David Lee Myers, in his Arcane Device work.) 

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April 28, 2014 6:59 pm

mispel

laguna wrote:

Every time I hear stuff like that, It seems obvious that I don't need new synths, instead I need new imagination.

Simply beautiful, both pads, sound design and overall atmosphere. Sounds really big in a car... tried it this mornig smile

laguna - that's exactly what I was feeling as I sat there listening to all these unique sounds made of 1s and 0s...  I think I'll be using these as sample sources for more structured work in the future.



onezero wrote:

So great!  I recognize the growing feedback sound in places, but you've really made the processing on this into your own thing, which is maybe my favorite thing about this technique.  With the pitch shifts, you're really filling out the spectrum, and it's quite lush.  Gorgeous stuff, and I'm glad to have inspired a useful direction.  (BTW, my introduction to this technique was the work of David Lee Myers, in his Arcane Device work.)

onezero - thanks so much for the kind words.  I'll be checking out Myers when I have some time to dig in.

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April 29, 2014 8:48 pm

Ipaghost

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April 30, 2014 1:23 am

cfurrow

onezero wrote:

So great!  I recognize the growing feedback sound in places, but you've really made the processing on this into your own thing, which is maybe my favorite thing about this technique.  With the pitch shifts, you're really filling out the spectrum, and it's quite lush.  Gorgeous stuff, and I'm glad to have inspired a useful direction.  (BTW, my introduction to this technique was the work of David Lee Myers, in his Arcane Device work.)

I'm intrigued by this process. Very cool soundscape. I'm definitely going to try this.

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May 1, 2014 1:38 pm

encym

Very nice!

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