Re: [LAU] how to use linux to make music that sounds like peverelist dub-tech?

From: James Stone <jamesmstone@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Aug 03 2010 - 19:57:16 EEST

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:54 PM, James Stone <jamesmstone@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> I'm really enjoying RA.218 Peverelist (Bristol Dub-Tech Sound), more
>> than his acclaimed album release "Jarvik Mindstate"
>> http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=218
>> ( most recent entry from http://www.residentadvisor.net/xml/podcast.xml )
>>
>> How would one use Linux audio tools to produce tracks in the style of
>> the ones @ 43', 46' 51' and onward. How to sequence all the intricate
>> drum programs without worrying about the sun turning into a red-dwarf
>> due to the amazing amount of time it would take just to program a
>> minute of music (e.g.. @51:00)? Also at 35' "Joe -- Digest" is that
>> effect from a live drummers/conga players chopped up by something like
>> drumagog? Or is it just sampled congas sequenced? And what about
>> MIDI-beat synchronized audio effect plugins (e.g.. reverbs and echos).
>> Standard stuff with external efx equipment, what's the best and
>> easiest to use in Linux as a plugin w/ a sequencer like traktor?
>>
>
> I haven't had a listen to the music yet, but from your description I
> imagine it is the kind of stuff best done on a tracker.
>
> Open source implementations include
>
> Schism tracker, cheesetracker, milkytracker and soundtracker (all
> sample trackers only)
>
> Neil sequencer (a bit more complicated to get to grips with, but
> allows plugin synths and effects as well as samples).
>
> Closed source/proprietarty:
>
> Renoise - very nice program with lots of features - built in effects,
> and use of LADSPA/ native VST effects, and a very clever way of
> recording vocals/audio in realtime to new sample instruments, but with
> the big downside of closed source/non-free..
>
> My faves are Neil sequencer and Renoise.
>

.. by the way, Renoise is very stable, and has been used in a variety
of commercial music including the albums by the "Venetian Snares"

J
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