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Viveka
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Re: New Cactophage - "Crypsis" [Re: propensity]
#20512739 - 09/03/14 01:44 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah man I completely don't understand the Burial thing, there's barely anything happening on those albums. I think it's because he uses cartoonishly warped R&B or whatever vocal samples and it hits all those human voice response buttons and people can still put it in their "EDM" playlist. I also just realized a couple weeks ago that thousands of people paying good money and going to stand in one position and watch a "DJ" is a big thing now too. They don't even really move they just watch the "DJ" and mimic what he does. Throw your one hand up...now both hands this time...now jump! At least people used to dance to the awful stuff. But enough about stuff that sucks.
I'm impressed by your prolificity at this point. It makes me wonder what your workflow is and what sort of routine you have. I think it's fantastic that you use FLStudio for this stuff. And you said you just have one midi controller that you're really familiar with? You're sort of an object lesson in keeping the production approach simple and efficient to great result. I've been all over the place the last couple years, literally with a move, then building a studio in the house I'm renting now and routing 16+ channels of signal all different ways and switching my focus from electronic back to acoustic drums, mic'ing drums fer reals in my own place, capturing music seeds as they appear and also switching my primary DAW from Sonar to Cubase not mention trying to do it all where every musical voice or role is concerned. The endless possibilities keep me inspired at every waking moment but it's all just too spread out so I'm working on reining it in. If you ever want any sort of drum work for a track or whatever, real or electronic kit but performed by a versed experimentalist, hit me up.
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Re: New Cactophage - "Crypsis" [Re: Viveka]
#20512808 - 09/03/14 02:21 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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The key to burial is listening to him with headphones. During my opiate stage I loved burial.
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Re: New Cactophage - "Crypsis" [Re: Viveka]
#20516368 - 09/03/14 08:26 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Viveka said: Yeah man I completely don't understand the Burial thing, there's barely anything happening on those albums. I think it's because he uses cartoonishly warped R&B or whatever vocal samples and it hits all those human voice response buttons and people can still put it in their "EDM" playlist. I also just realized a couple weeks ago that thousands of people paying good money and going to stand in one position and watch a "DJ" is a big thing now too. They don't even really move they just watch the "DJ" and mimic what he does. Throw your one hand up...now both hands this time...now jump! At least people used to dance to the awful stuff. But enough about stuff that sucks.
I'm impressed by your prolificity at this point. It makes me wonder what your workflow is and what sort of routine you have. I think it's fantastic that you use FLStudio for this stuff. And you said you just have one midi controller that you're really familiar with? You're sort of an object lesson in keeping the production approach simple and efficient to great result. I've been all over the place the last couple years, literally with a move, then building a studio in the house I'm renting now and routing 16+ channels of signal all different ways and switching my focus from electronic back to acoustic drums, mic'ing drums fer reals in my own place, capturing music seeds as they appear and also switching my primary DAW from Sonar to Cubase not mention trying to do it all where every musical voice or role is concerned. The endless possibilities keep me inspired at every waking moment but it's all just too spread out so I'm working on reining it in. If you ever want any sort of drum work for a track or whatever, real or electronic kit but performed by a versed experimentalist, hit me up.
Yer too kind!
Indeed, just my Akai mpk49 and FL studio. And my beloved alesis monitors. My workflow tends to be without much forethought or planning to it. I kinda just sit down and let my brain lay out whatever it has goin on the way it wants to unfold. I find FL incredibly intuitive, the songs kinda just flow out of me. Sometimes I'll start with rhythm, other times I'll just try designing a synth sound and then unfurling the song around that. Cannabis is also an important part of my creative rituals.
I'd like to incorporate more guitar playing in my future works though. Been kinda slacking on that recently, despite having the means to include it. Recording stuff is just a lot of work though haha.
Man I'd love to hear some of your work in general, and I'm definitely interested in collaborating on some stuff. If you've got any kinda stems or such lying around at the moment, even, I could give em a whirl and try and come up with something. Sounds like you're into some serious biz. Shoot me a pm!
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Viveka
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Re: New Cactophage - "Crypsis" [Re: propensity]
#20517639 - 09/04/14 02:37 AM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Righteous man, yeah I will keep a few coals under a cactophage collaboration. Would you want some raw drum parts or some fx'd out electronic kit stuff or just anything?...xylophone with tape echo, vocal tablature rhythms, a not so-Purdie shuffle on three pieces?...heck maybe a dropbox where either of us could throw just whatever would be good.
As you remind me of how great it really is part of me wants to just go download the latest FL package now. Is it still $100 with lifetime free upgrades? Yes it is so damn easy to use. That piano roll practically pulls music out of you automatically. And doing stuff like a pitch bend on a midi note is dead simple whereas I'm still trying to figure out the best/easiest way in Cubase. Other DAWs do a lot more but at the expensive of being a major pain in the ass to learn and use. Along with cannabis you ever use kratom when you're producing? I feel like it would be fantastic for sound design and sequencing and stuff(which I haven't done much of lately), although it isn't so perfect when you're tending to various studio tasks and instruments. Yeah I've got a pretty great little spot in this room now, soundproofed for any volume any time of day or night, still pretty guerrilla though.
I just pulled up an old dropbox account I haven't used in a while and it's been upgraded to a whopping 1TB and there's only about 50GB in it now. Sending PM...
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