Re: [LAU] Music: Woxitron finalized

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:22:48AM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0200, t_w_@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> > hollunder@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> >
> > > > http://www.archive.org/details/woxitron
> >
> > > It's a fun track, thanks for sharing it.
> >
> > You're welcome!
> >
> > > I was curious about what else you got up there on archive.org and
> > > snooped around. I listened to 'free' and was kinda blown away by the
> > > sound. It's really cool in a way.
> > > I wonder what treasures are still lurking there.
> >
> > Heh, thanks. Never thought anyone could be blown away from the
> > sound of my old tracks, produced on a Korg M1 (1988-1994) :)
> >
> > http://www.archive.org/details/m1_free
> >
> > Back then I was always trying to get sounds out of the old lady it wasn't
> > made for. That track belongs to a series where I was obsessed with
> > more punch on the beats and bass bass bass, resulting in some rather
> > unfortunate mixing :)
> > I had no memory cards and no own computer, so making a new track
> > often meant erasing an old one. After recording to tape, if I was happy
> > enough with the result. Good times, nonetheless.
> >
> > Everyone's invited to dig for treasures,
> > just click on my name after "Author" ;)
> >
>
> Great percussion stuff!
>
> I have a question: where did you get your drum samples?
>
> Whenever I ask other electronic musicians about their great drum sounds, they tend to shrug and say, "use Battery".
>
> Of course, Battery is proprietary closedware, so it's of no use to me.
>
> Where do you (or anyone else) get great drum sounds?
>
> I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Hydrogen but the total of kits available for it seems to have topped out at about a dozen and stopped there.
>

I personally think that hand-programmed soundfonts with seq24
give a lot more flexibility than Hydrogen, but YMMV.

James
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