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    Prince (1958-2016)

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by pierlu

    everybody loved him, even the ones you wouldn't have imagined

     

     

    the funny thing about this cover it's that it's not so different from prince's version: everything you hear is in the original arrangement

    DANK MEMES

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by pierlu

    I didn't even knew there was someone named bassnectar who was so well-known... said artist 's Bass Head track on youtube has 19 million views wow

    and people are making paper on this kind of music wow

    surely I feel old... but I never felt better about being old :D

     

    [edit] well... he's benn around since 2001 wow it's not even that I'm old... it's that really I've never heard of him up to this moment... wow the things you learn from dank memes!

    Yamaha Reface

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by pierlu

    To me, the added feature of these, after watching sonicstate videos, is how close controllers are to the hands that are playing. With that perspective in mind, minikeys makes sense... especially cos they seems very playable. You can play and adjust parameters at the same time... Dorian Concept comes to mind for that style of playing. He was constantly playing and adjusting the sound... but of course he could PLAY, and minikeys are no troubles for him. So I guess they are addressed to those kind of players.

     

    Apart from the DX which could intrigue DAW folks as well... in the end, you need a keyboard to test your sound design, and you could "lap sound design" with that.

     

    I do not work for yamaha :) but I can see who this things are addressed to... I cannot imagine whether they are going to be successful tho. I sent the link to a friend of mine who is a good keyboard player, and he wasn't really impressed. So... :cerious:

     

    edit: typos

    Yamaha Reface

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    Well, after seeing the videos, I think they are really interesting. Nice variety of sounds from each module, compact format, battery powered.

     

    Of course these are targeted at keyboard players, not at DAW users. And I think that those are really interesting for a keyboard player, expecially because they sound good, they are portable, the keyboard is playable, they are battery powered. Which basically it means you can play anywhere you want to play... but if you doesn't know how to play... they are pretty useless.

    is it true Go Plastic by Squarepusher featured no computer wizardry?

    in Squarepusher

    Posted

    My first "electronic music" attempt was done on a QY20, btw. So I totally get that feeling

    When I look back at all the programming I did on the QY-20 (editing stutters and notes in between on drums and instruments, trying to replicate some atomheart sounds back in 96... with built in GM sounds :D ) I wonder how could have I done that? I spent hours on the thing to get the sequences I wanted, but I reckon that once you get the grasp of it, it was fairly quick. I imagine that the QY700, given it's big buttons and screen, could even be faster than what I was used to... not strange that he sticks to it, I can relate.

    Drukqs is truly a modern masterpiece.

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by pierlu

    I was thinking about the title 'DrukQs' today because I've always struggled with it being about 'drug use' or whatever - doesn't really seem to match the depth of the music.

     

    So I split the phrase into 'druk' and 'qs' and found that:

     

    'druk' is derived from the old Scottish 'drukna' which means 'drowning' and q.s. (in medicine) = quantom sotis, or 'the amount which is needed'.

     

    So we end up with 'the amount which is needed to drown'. I'm not saying that this is the meaning of the title, but the sheer weight of the music, mixed with the journey between cornwall and france conjured by the mont + mount track really feels appropriate to me.

    It may not be like that, but it's my favourite ever explanation for the album title. Even tho I'd prefer to think about it like "drowning a little"... I imagine it being a reference to rdj drowning under the huge amount of work that has gone in putting the tracks together... He just released them before drowning completely

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted · Edited by pierlu

     

    Btw if you get youtube-dl and run this command in your terminal, it will download all of the original files.

    youtube-dl "https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001"

     

    Thanks for the suggestion!

     

    Btw, if you look at the metatags on VLC player (on OSX at least) it shows which software was used for encoding. The majority of the tracks are encoded with iTunes 12.0.1.26 (which I guess is the latest itunes avalaible, so it's a fresh compression), AB6 is encoded with iTunes v5.0.0.35, Luke Vibert remix with iTunes v4.6.0.15, and so on... the only track not encoded with itunes is (vocoder disco) is encoded with SoundJam v2.5.3

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    Listening to Parking Lot now... at first I thought it was strange he used the same sample that janet jackson had used for her song... but then, after listening now, I just realized that he had done that way before janet jackson and I went check the dates... JJ's song is 97; according to his notes, Parking Lot is 88-89ish (and you could tell that from the style of the track too)... how cool is that? it's 8 years before the same exact sample was used in a massive superproduction track

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

    in Aphex Twin

    Posted

    Seems like he might've not uploaded .wavs to Soundcloud but the actual 128kbps files. Maybe

     

    Well, I think that it's an hassle to upload 111 tracks to soundcloud, so I don't think he's going to reupload anything, just enabling the download. So if he uploaded higher quality,we will get higher quality, otherwise it's the 128kbps we're sticking with... I cannot imagine anyone wanting to reupload 111 tracks again to souncloud, and I think rdj has better ideas on how to spend his "now". Maybe

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