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    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

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    How cool that young RDJ had access to digital multitrack recording equipment in the mid 80s!!

    Maybe you were being sarcastic but in the case that you weren't, RDJ has said that he doesn't multitrack when he records. He sequences everything and just hits record on whatever he's using, DAT/laptop/hard disk recorder/etc, then hits play on the sequencer. He records everything straight to a stereo two-track.

    Really? What's the source on that?

    It's always good to check, so:

    Everything was originally mastered on standard tape on a hi-fi cassette deck... It's 99% sequenced. Strings I'll play, but everything else has to be accurate... I never keep sounds on disk. This does record companies' heads in 'cos they like you to remix, but I just don't like to do it. Sometimes I might spend three or four days to get the sounds together, then do a track with them. The next time I work on something, if I have a wicked idea for a melody and I'm feeling lazy, it would be too easy to use a disk of drums that I'd used before. That's why I don't save anything, because I like everything to be different.

     

    Over twenty years later:

    ...there were no analogues runnin live on druqks at all... none of the tracks on syro were multi tracked into the computer , they were all recorded live to 2 track, which is kinda insane but the way i like it.

    It all depends on the setup he's using at the time. There's no right or wrong answer. Most of his music, I believe, is heavily sequenced, with some live FM pad playing over the top, recorded live, albeit with multiple takes to get one that's spot on. He doesn't seem to multitrack record all that much, which seems bizarre to me, but there you go. Then for Drukqs (and I'm guessing the Richard D. James album), it's all samples of analogue gear that he then composes with after the sound design, as far as I can tell. Yay tracking! Takes me back...

     

    It seems odd to me that where most people would just record a part, then record the exact same part again to double it, he'll instead buy twice as many modules to do the same thing live:

    that 1.54 [into Fenix Funk 5] is a conventional europatch but dual path , so like 2 mono synths, so 2 filters,2 osc's 2, vcas etc i rek it was mostly doepfer modules, there wasnt many other eurorack modules out then anyhow, you can make the doeper modules sound much smoother/delux like that, 2 of everything and pan it

    I'm not sure how he avoids the problem of running out of hands two twiddle knobs with... Presumably he uses a lot of automation!

    How can you tell that the pads are played live and not sequenced ?

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