Moved!

I decided to ditch blogger and go with wordpress. You can find the rest of my boring blog at http://meerpower.wordpress.com/

Note Repeat in FL Studio, just like an MPC!

The note repeat function on Akai MPCs allows you to trigger a sampler at an interval you chose just by holding down a pad; you hold down a pad, a hihat plays eighth notes or whatever. I'm pretty sure that some midi pad controllers from Akai can do this, just by sending a bunch of note messages when you hold down the pad, but if you have a pad controller that can't do this, there's still a way. The Korg Padkontrol's roll function can sort of do this, but it kind of sucks.

Lookin' Good

I changed everything! I think it looks pretty good now.

Thanks, Blogger (and Google)

In my quest to find a suitable way to embed audio files in this blog, I thought that soundclick would be the best way. Blogger told me that I could upload video and image files, but not audio, and that I'd have to find somewhere else and probably pay out the nose to host my audio files, and that it hated me for suggesting it. You probably didn't notice that the soundclick player got totally frugged up in the feed,
which sucked, and totally screwed it up with huge white spaces all over the place. Frick.

Guitar Rig, Skippy Fills

Today, I decided to go through all the old projects that I haven't worked on in a while. Usually I'll leave old things behind to work on something new every week or so, sometimes more frequently than that. Anyways, I opened one song up, and it seemed to be from my "slap Guitar Rig on everything" phase from a week or so ago. The beat needed a bit of variation, and since it was a beat I had made before and chopped up in a slicer channel, I just started rearranging some of the chops and making them shorter. It ended up with a sort of 'skipping cd' sound, which is okay.

Crappy Bass

Today I tried to make a better bass sound than yesterday's failure. I decided to mix something from Thor with some noises from the PAIA Fatman!

Crappy Bass

I was trying to make a cool bass sound yesterday, with lots of timestretching, resampling and crossfading... but it turned out sounded really out of tune, so I guess I'll try again today, probably with some comb filters in Thor, but I don't know.
Crappy Bass

Some noises, mostly stupid timestretched stuff.

I downloaded version 1.4 of Akaizer, a vintage timestretch/pitchshift lofi soundbadizer which can open files directly from FL Studio(!!!). Lots of fun crossfading sounds and resampling in edison. Here's a screenshot just for fun.


Akai'zed

Halloweeen!

So, here's some laser sounds. They're pretty crappy, but that's okay. Some oscillator sync, I think.

Laser Sounds

Laser Sounds.

Well, the laser picture didn't embed properly, so here you go.
Laser Picture on wikipedia.