Jump to content

ZoeB

Knob Twiddlers
  • Posts

    1,516
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by ZoeB

  1. Trying out some new filters...
  2. If you want to look at it that way, it wouldn't surprise me if some albums weren't "official". :)
  3. Do you mean there is a low pass filter on the outs of the tape player, apart from Dolby, etc? Never thought about that, and would it be necessary? I simply plug my Tascam 424 straight into the soundcard. Anyway, the recorded high end shelves off at 10khz on the Tascam on regular speed, so frequencies wouldn't go higher than 20khz anyway on double speed. http://homerecording.com/tas424specs.html I mean there's a low pass filter on the input of the digital recorder, so that it won't try to digitise anything that's so fast it aliases. You know when you see footage of a wheel spinning fast in one direction, and it looks like it's spinning slower in the other direction? It stops the audio equivalent of that happening. As far as the tape player goes, I don't know what filters it might or might not have. Hopefully if it does have any, doubling it would make it go to twice that cutoff point frequency. I wouldn't risk it. Wow, if it only goes up to 10kHz on the tape itself, then you could record it (at single speed) at 22.05kHz with no problems. :) Ah, analogue warmth. ;)
  4. Pro tape ripper tips: Use a 4 track porta studio tape player, that way both sides can be ripped at once from the direct outs. Just reverse tracks 3&4 afterwards, and half the time is saved. Rip at 96 or 192khz and use the double speed feature on the porta, then resample the rip down to 48 or 96kbps to get it back to normal speed. That way you cut the ripping time in half again. Leave it on silently while doing other stuff, then skip through the finished waveform in a DAW. Using this process ripping an entire C90 takes about 23 minutes, and checking its content can be done in seconds by skipping about the timeline in the DAW. Apply a little sticker to mark the "done" tapes and put them in a separate box, to avoid double work. You'd have to make sure the lowpass filter before the ADC is about 40kHz or more, not just 20kHz. It sounds like a false economy to me. Those motors are unstable enough as it is, for one thing. The way I did it was simply to plug a portable sound recorder (an Edirol R-09 in my case) into the tape player, check the levels, let it play the first side silently, come back 45 minutes later, repeat. Job's a good'un. I'm so glad Sam's Car has been preserved for posterity, it's right up there with the SAW 1 tracks IMO.
  5. Nina having a little jam...
  6. Nice finds, thanks! That explains all the phes, then.
  7. It's more the case I'm jealous of, I have plenty of Stepper Acid modules. :) They're like the sequencer from a TB-303, only redesigned to be easier to use and geared towards live performance. They're £295. We use them to make acidlines with various different types of filter, some 303 style, some not. (Wasp and MS-20 style work well, for instance.) The reason we have so many is because we make them. We'll be showing them off in this case at the next modular synth meetup in Yorkshire.
  8. Well, I'm officially jealous of Nina's new case now:
  9. That looks like a Studio Electronics ATC-1 to me... :) Plus Oberheim Matrix-1000 and two Alesis QuadraVerbs?
  10. So I soldered together a new Frequency Central module on Friday:
  11. Electronic music is timbrally diverse (not to mention technical), so encourages people to focus too much on engineering and not enough on composing, perhaps?
  12. To elaborate slightly, I didn't draw that picture, but it's what I'm now using in my iTunes library for unreleased RDJ tracks. :)
  13. Well spotted, thanks! Old tape 13 (55 mins) Phase Acid 3:2:35:53 Hypersquij 0:06:53 FmsubBass 0:08:22 4 Bonkophone2 0:09:26 Thy're Here Aahha 0:06:38 9 Wind Squidge 0:10:23 bob Morgan 0:27:30 SubCan 0:28:00 5 Strange Rhythm 0:09:32 PrncDMC 0:19:11 4 Frequency Transmitter 0:03:41 Old tape 14 (46 mins) 16 Shit Squidge 0:12:40 19 Bradley Echoes 0:07:58 33 Jonny Hawkes Broken Guitar[not Finished] 0:03:56 37 Last Clissold Maybe 0:04:57 15 Sekonda 0:10:27 D15 - 8 Ny Groove2 0:03:48 D15 - 10 Dulcimer Dub 0:05:31 (Throatie) 0:01:45 33 Synthi Rhy [q] 0:04:09 (watery big ez) 0:03:50 Old Tape 15 (30 mins) D17 - 5 Synth Bonus Beats 1 6:01:32 th1 0:12:03 Th1 [slo] 0:40:29 (taut) 0:11:15 blue carpet 0:03:15 dsb 0:02:31 hilo 0:17:11 14 Floating∞ 0:04:45 Cmarth [longer] 0:01:47 (mature raver) 0:02:42 Old Tape 16 (37 mins) tigercubdelay 2:01:06 23 Lush Acid [pt1] 0:24:58 5 heliosphan live 0:22:26 Notting Hill Bus 0:04:58 179 brk 2 0:12:13 T13 Quadraverb 0:03:52 T08+4 0:06:41 Cottage3 E 0:08:02 Cottage4 Af 1 0:06:22
  14. Good point. Judging by his comment, it was SoundCloud, not him, who deleted it, so it's canon. I'll add it to my list, thanks!
  15. Old tape 13 (50 mins) Phase Acid 3:2:35:53 Hypersquij 0:06:53 4 Bonkophone2 0:09:26 Thy're Here Aahha 0:06:38 9 Wind Squidge 0:10:23 bob Morgan 0:27:30 SubCan 0:28:00 5 Strange Rhythm 0:09:32 PrncDMC 0:19:11 4 Frequency Transmitter 0:03:41 Old tape 14 (46 mins) 16 Shit Squidge 0:12:40 19 Bradley Echoes 0:07:58 33 Jonny Hawkes Broken Guitar[not Finished] 0:03:56 37 Last Clissold Maybe 0:04:57 15 Sekonda 0:10:27 D15 - 8 Ny Groove2 0:03:48 D15 - 10 Dulcimer Dub 0:05:31 (Throatie) 0:01:45 33 Synthi Rhy [q] 0:04:09 (watery big ez) 0:03:50
  16. Yeah, it's the third iteration of every four that has the last two chords in it, which is pretty unexpected. It takes a while to wrap your head around, but sort of makes sense once you get used to it. I think it's one of those exercises in lateral (or naïve) thinking that makes the music a bit harder to get into at first, for the first few listens, but keeps it interesting afterwards, once it's familiar, once you're at the point where most music gets too predictable. But I'm probably reading way too much into it. :)
  17. It looks like Syro's tracks have been added and maybe a few others? Certainly not a hundred.
  18. So is it me or do some of these sound like "missing links" between styles of his? For example, the Donkey Rhubarb remix sounds like a cross between the Donkey Rhubarb EP and Melodies From Mars, especially Fingerbib given that "aphex worm" patch (the one with all the portamento). Even 70s Tune is pretty close to Fingerbib's melody. I'd love to know just how many of these happy, catchy tunes he's made and why he didn't release them back in the day. It's not like they're outtakes, they seem like parts of a pretty cohesive album in its own right that could have been released just before the Richard D. James album. Then there's the early versions of released tracks. Isn't Metal Beat an early version of Come to Daddy (Mummy Mix)? Similarly, it sounds like Girl/Boy Dark Version got tuned and merged with bits of Cutting to form the final album version of Girl/Boy Song. (Which makes sense, didn't he mention in an interview how he'd work out the rhythm of a track, drawing in where the notes went horizontally and only roughly getting the pitch right, before he'd work out what the pitches were supposed to be?) Should be an interesting lot to explore quite aside from how lovely some of these tracks are, especially the likely SAW 85-92 (Sam's Car) and Polygon Window (No Cares, With My Family) outtakes. Those are really a lot better than some of the tracks that made it to the albums. And I've only listened to a fraction of these so far...
  19. That's odd, especially as the DATs were mastered to 32kHz 12-bit...
  20. ZoeB

    APHEX TWIN - SYRO

    I'm guessing you saw this already, but https://soundcloud.com/richarddjames also has downloads enabled now.
  21. They're probably just the track numbers of proposed releases (e.g. Analogue Bubblebath 6) they could go on. So you can either group them by those releases as much as it's possible, or you can ignore them, I'd say. It's just an internal reference.
  22. Some of the less intuitive filenames, in case you have trouble finding a particular track: "bell bass" is "ep string" "23 100m 3" is "23 modular3[live gig]" "9 100m 2" is "9 leeds orbit[live]" "25 arrd" is "25 funnel" "5 jap flute energy rave" is "5 sline" Sorry if this is a dupe, I can't keep up!
  23. According to an old interview, he bought an 100m when he was 13, so that makes sense. Although he says he didn't have any money, which makes less sense. Were they really that cheap when digital synths were new fangled?
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.