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This should have been a Hallucinogen release rather than a Shpongle release. Or perhaps even Younger Brother, because that sound is all over this album.
It's good, but it's not Shpongle, which thrives in the lower tempos, away from the four on the floor.
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Ott - Skylon
in 2008
The problem with this album is, the opening track is nowhere near as good as Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack, and the last track is not even in the same league as Smoked Glass and Chrome. I mean, yeah, the Ott flourish is there, technically it's probably flawless, but the melodies are way, way, way too simple everywhere.
A Shower of Sparks shows real promise, especially for the entire length of the flute piece (and since this is the part previewed on the twisted site, I thought this track would be really awesome), but then that stupid female vocodized singing comes on and always seems to go somewhere, but the tune stays stuck, and stuck, and stuck.
Some of the other tracks have their moments. The Queen of All Everything is pretty damn good. But, seriously, too much of those female vocals all around.
Expectations were always high on this one for me. Blumenkraft is pretty much like nothing else out there. But still, even with those impossible expectations, I just wanted something really awesome, you know?
I say Ott should go back to the remix desk and bring up a Shpongle cocktail album.
Not bad, this one, but seriously, it's something Enigma or Massive Attack could churn out. Ott's way better than this.
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Quick, raise your hands:
How many know Chakra and Edi-Mis?
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You know what I want? A Shpongle-Ott collaboration album. No remixes, but entirely new tunes.
I'd prefer that over a solo Shpongle effort, even though a fourth Shpongle will most likely be very good.
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Does using 1 shitty Casio keyboard (no synthesizing functions, just preset tones) and 2 tape recorders with recordings alternated between them with each new part or instrument added count?
If so, 11.
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You can use the vocoder module as a makeshift spectrum analyzer. Split the output of your main signal (main mixer out) using a spider device and patch one of the connections into the vocoder. I don't have access to Reason right now, so I don't remember if you patch it in as a modulator or not. Good luck.
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Well, as long as someone doesn't come up with a program that gives you exactly what you need to make music and gives it a less than astronomical price, no one on this forum's gonna complain to the pirate-nannies. And I've been here for years and years to vouch for that.
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Well, they're different programs, really. And you'll probably prefer one working method over another, so, first download Live's demo, and learn it with its snazzy inbuilt tutorials.
Then download Cubase (gimme a W, gimme an A, gimme an R, E, Z) and read it's tutorial manual and work with it. It's certainly more cumbersome than Live, I have found, but I still prefer Cubase over Live. If you asked me why, I'd have no answer.
This whole which-prog-is-better debate is inherently personal, and there really is no one program that is for sure better than everyone else.
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Is not on the list.
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I bought Reason 2.0 from them when it came out. No problems at all.
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If you're using a sequencer, just use the mixer fader's automation track to draw in your silences, and keep copy/pasting them. That's how I do it in Reason.
There used to be an amazing piece of software a couple of years ago, Tuareg, available at either bambros.com or brambos.com or brambros.com or .org (I can't be arsed to check). I'd bought it, it was like a predecessor to the whole software studio thingie, and it had, among other things, a great gating unit for splicing, rearranging, silencing, cutting, etc etc of any sample/loop/song. Lost it in a crash.
Edit: checked anyway. It doesn't seem to be available on hitsquad.com/smm (Shareware Music Machine), which pretty much means it's dead. You could try p2p; I really think it's worth the 5 megs or so of download time.
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A cheap way of going about it is simultaneous crossfading and filter sweeping so that the frequencies of the first sound dissolve into the frequencies of the second.
Best way, though, would be vocoding if your vocoder unit supports wet/dry. You could keep the knob turned all the way to your source sound, then record its automation and turn it all the way to the modifying sound, of course, you'll need to keep playing the modified sound on a seperate channel and fade it in in sync with the wet/dry automation. You won't get very good results this way always, either, because morphing completely depends on the sounds you intend to morph.
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You people really don't have anything else to do, do you?
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Spring reverb with a little EQing to get the base frequencies in the mix again (cut the highs off bass drums, cut the bass off hihats etc) and very light phasing. You could use minute amounts of delay (set to 50-50 dry/wet) with an out of sync millisecond delay amount to add a bit of life to the beats.
In Reason (2.5 onwards), chain your drum device through a RV7000 (it has two nice dub presets, and try out the plates as well), split the signal using Spider (group bass parts together, high parts together), chain it through two two-band EQs, one for the highs and one for the lows(most will say use EQ as the last in the chain, but to get that dubby effect it's necessary here). If you're really anal, try introducing a slight delay between each signals set to 100 percent dry with very short millisecond delays to get that Bob Marleyish twing. Patch through to a phaser, and tweak the phaser till the phase is only just noticeable. Delay is, as I said, optional. Good luck.
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Philip Glass.
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Juno Reactor - Rotorblade
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The only thing Ott's work has in common with Dub are the rhythmic reverb-phased organ stabs.
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned Tuareg.
Granted, it's just a rather amateur sample sequencer cum synth, but I've never been able to get Reason to sound as outright fat as that baby.
(In case you're wondering, I actually bought the fat version after a while. And only gave it up after discovering Reaktor.)
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Tell me about it. For a long time I was worried that some Bollywood fellow would hear Ott's album and sue him for using that sample. But then I learned it's on a Spectrasonics compilation, so it's probably licensed.
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Okay, I've tested saving the files as both 24-bit and 16-bit WAV files and they still won't open in the samplers. Is there a setting in Reason somewhere that I have to change?
Thanks, Amygdala. Actually, since I wanted to put a mono track in both channels I sort of used your advice in reverse by splitting the stereo track of a mono sample, then copying, as Colin suggested, the right channel info to the left. Problem solved.
I hadn't tried to load it into Redrum, but when I did after you mentioned it, it worked. So why not a sampler?
Holy shit. Wait, wait: are you saying that you try to load that sample in the sampler using the browse patches button? The one after the name in the top left side of the nn19? Since you can load a sample in Redrum just fine, that's the only alternative I can think of. Just like automating panning and mixer functions, though, trying to load samples through the load patches button is also one of the oldest known Reason bozoing. That's not where you load .wavs.
What you do is, on the piano box of the nn19, where it says *** no sample ***, right click, and select browse samples. Then browse to your sample and load it. By default it runs for the whole key-length with c3 as the root key.
It's a bit different in the NNXT, and I'd suggest you learn how to do that from the manual. It should be in your Reason folder.
(You do have the manual, don't you?)
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If I may--and this is coming from someone who's seen this kind of argument every friggin' week for the past however long--say so, then the simple problem is that with mp3s, nobody gives a fuck about being called a thief. Basic morality, indoctrined ethics, they just don't work.
It was the same with illegal cable channels. Tip the cable guy twenty bucks and get five times more shit to choose from.
As long as people don't feel ashamed for downloading files illegaly--and I'm stressing the word illegaly--there's nothing the music industry can do about it.
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Uh, I'm glad the reviews are up again.
One thing: those "alien sounds" traveller mentions in Smoked Glass and Chrome are Hindi--an Indian language.
The main verse is from a Bollywood song:
Ao huzoor tumko sitaron mein le chaloon
Dil jhoom jaye aise baharon mein le chaloon
Translation (I've changed the syntax to make it sound better in English):
Come with me into the stars, sir
Come with me into winds where your heart will dance
The Phoolon ki mala (garland) bits are from a shloka (prayer)--it was used in Are You Shpongled? as well.
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Ah, reminds me of the good old days of Goldwave. Now that was on hell of an audio recording app.
As Colin said, save it as a 24 bit file. Should work.
And also--I'm asking this in a don't-kick-my-ass-for-askin' way--have you tried loading the sample on a redrum channel and seeing if it works?
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I created 10 forums, 2000+ threads and 18000+ posts in the database tonight. Looooots of work and programming.
This is now done !
yet not publicly visible
There are probably a few duplicate releases with the existing ones and the new ones, so there will be a few more days of "merging" before all is set visible to all members.
All by yourself? You have all my respect.
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
in 2009
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It's not about how they play it live. It's about how it sounds.