OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thread)

[3za]

perfect third

No such interval, in western music at least.

also i'm gonna have to give the golden ratio a try

I heard Aphex Twin used the golden ratio as a FM modulator on some of his ambient tracks. Probably a load of rubbish though..

none of this seems to offer a proper alternative to the 4/4 time signature

There already are lots of alternatives; 3/4, 5/4, 7/8, 12/8, and then the more adventurous 3.5/4, 4/10, and 3.5/10...

somehow all rhythm is working with even numbers with the exception of three.

There is lots of music out there, that use other odd divisions. It's just that 3 is the best odd number so it gets used the most

three isn't even that odd

3 is just as odd as 5,7,9, and even 13579. It's just better

something that breaks the boundaries of quarter pulse rhythms but still remains logical enough that you can dance to it, that your brain can predict what's going to happen next based on the maths involved.

Most people struggle to dance in time to a straight up 4 to the floor beat. How do you expect them to be able to be able to work out the intergal of natural logarithms when dancing, to find out where the next beat is?

every time i think something up and feel like i've just invented the wheel i look it up on the net and find out someone scientist already discovered it. so you feel like a genius somehow but at the same time you feel retarded for doing all that brainwork for something everyone else has already learned in school.

Standing on the shoulders of giants.


Hopefully the Admins/Mods, don't find this post to be aggressive, antagonizing, or trolling. So that I don't get a warning/banned from their precious forum. I Should really sig that, but they will probably just disable my sig, being the evil dictators they are. Trying to save this sick community, by cutting off a tiny blemish, but the cancer in this community is far more deeper than that. Someone should sig that, it's the most poetic thing I have ever said

[mthrfnk]

Yeah but tomorrow is Friday, which is half day at work. Which means PRODUCTION TIME AFTERNOON OMGZ.

[Artie_Fufkin]

Trying to save this sick community, by cutting off a tiny blemish, but the cancer in this community is far more deeper than that. Someone should sig that, it's the most poetic thing I have ever said

what point is there in cutting off a tiny blemish if you know it's deeper? you're a terrible doctor and a terrible poet, 3za, Ph.D.

so much depends upon
a doctor's misdiagnosis
glazed with sweat
beside the white brosteppas

sig that

Went to see a this West African dance company perform at my school and the polyrhythms in the drumming were pretty inspiring. Sometimes I would lose the beat in one time signature and get it back in another. There wasn't much melodic singing, but after a while, I started humming the pitches of some of the drums.

[wub]

Went to see a this West African dance company perform at my school and the polyrhythms in the drumming were pretty inspiring. Sometimes I would lose the beat in one time signature and get it back in another. There wasn't much melodic singing, but after a while, I started humming the pitches of some of the drums.

That sort of thing is always worth seeing if they have a CD for sale IMO.


Friday night and as the few kitten has kept me up most nights this week am not sure whether can be fucked to go out in which case it'll be a film session tonight.

Also this South London Ordnance XLR8R podcast is pretty amazing stuff

[Electric_Head]

Went to see a this West African dance company perform at my school and the polyrhythms in the drumming were pretty inspiring. Sometimes I would lose the beat in one time signature and get it back in another. There wasn't much melodic singing, but after a while, I started humming the pitches of some of the drums.

That sort of thing is always worth seeing if they have a CD for sale IMO.

I went to watch a group from the Niger valley in the sahari desert called erfan fintawa.
I've sampled them a fair bit in my music.
I chatted to the guys as well, down to earth, big smiles.
Serious nomadic tribesman just playing amazing music.
All calabash drums, water drums, calabash deep sub drum.

Also this South London Ordnance XLR8R podcast is pretty amazing stuff

Link?

[wub]

Also this South London Ordnance XLR8R podcast is pretty amazing stuff

Link?

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2013/01/so ... n-ordnance

01 Intro
02 South London Ordnance "Revolver" (Hotflush)
03 Nautiluss "Depth Charge" (Turbo)
04 Scuba "Untitled" (Hotflush)
05 Unknown "Do the Vortex" (Audio Culture)
06 Nautiluss "Zero Gravity" (3024)
07 Locked Groove "Firefall" (Hotflush)
08 Furesshu "Lifted (Shifted Remix)" (Project Squared)
09 South London Ordnance "Lemur"
10 Altered Natives "Martyn's Friend" (Eye4Eye)
11 Stray "Get off the Stage"
12 Ivy Lab "Brat (South London Ordnance Remix)" (Critical)
13 Renaissance Man "What You Do When You Do What You Do (Sei A Remix)" (Turbo)
14 Dense & Pika "31" (Hotflush)
15 Ella Patrice "Rise of (Ms. Patrice)" (Aery Metals)
16 Outro

It's just a nice mix of chugging electronic music, made for a perfect commute soundtrack this morning

[Electric_Head]

Thanks Wub.

[wub]

Just bagged myself a copy of this;

[Artie_Fufkin]

That's pretty cool. Where did you get it from?
I love that phaser on the guitar. It's just like

They were selling jewelry and some hats that night, but no cd's. But I checked out their website and theres some free mp3s and a .zip of the music for $8. I checked out some of the mp3s and they seemed quite sample-able for 128kbps. Still sounded pretty good when I heavily limited it too. Not saying I would do that, it's just that I like to use limiters as sort of magnifying glasses. getme?

[Lucifa]

Well chaps, with the weather outside, a weekend of Eski production is the only natural choice.

will only emerge from my room for coffee and porridge

[Monosphere]

Came across this little gem this morning. Thought I'd post it. Probably won't give you any sacred wisdom to go by but it's a nice little look into a part of music that gets widely overlooked these days.

I grew up in michigan so my very first foray into electronic music of any kind was Detroit Techno. I actually saw this on one of our local access cable channels back in like 96 or 97 I think. It was probably what had originally got me inspired to try and learn how to make electronic music. It was pretty cool to see it again.

[wub]

Well chaps, with the weather outside, a weekend of Eski production is the only natural choice.

will only emerge from my room for coffee and porridge

Amen to that, it's just before 6am and the rain is lashing down.

How do you go about starting off an Eski tune, out of interest?

[OfficialDAPT]

All moved into my dorm room but classes don't start 'till tuesday. Did someone say production time?

[fragments]

All moved into my dorm room but classes don't start 'till tuesday. Did someone say production time?

Looking forward to a production long weekend myself. Enjoy

[OfficialDAPT]

All moved into my dorm room but classes don't start 'till tuesday. Did someone say production time?

Looking forward to a production long weekend myself. Enjoy

[antipode]

started a new tune with wen

mucky 130 violiny 2steppa

i really love subtractive Eqing, but sometimes i feel like im just making the mix worse and sucking all the life out of it by removing resonance from the sounds

[Lucifa]

Well chaps, with the weather outside, a weekend of Eski production is the only natural choice.

will only emerge from my room for coffee and porridge

Amen to that, it's just before 6am and the rain is lashing down.

How do you go about starting off an Eski tune, out of interest?

Generally start off forging out a bassline/focal point from that archetypal detuned squarewave set-up. Long attack, no release, so its got that dragging feel. Add in some filter action, variable parameters to make it interesting. Then I go about applying effects to make it sound desolate, bitcrushed early reverb, slight delays etc.

i've dedicated a folder containing samples purely of that vibe. Minimal blips and bloops to replace hi-hats etc., snappy claps. After that I'll look through my samples to either add some atmosphere or make the track distinctive. Will also flick through my pre-made synths or presets to search out something to completement what i have.

hardest part is stepping back and keeping it minimal. space is the key so i really try to not convolute it.

[chekov]

started a new tune with wen

mucky 130 violiny 2steppa

[Artie_Fufkin]

i really love subtractive Eqing, but sometimes i feel like im just making the mix worse and sucking all the life out of it by removing resonance from the sounds

I was thinking about this the other day. What if you had an eq that would automatically change the gain as you move the eq bands so you end up with the same rms level as you started with, making A/B'ing easier? That way you don't think all your boosts sound good and all your cuts make things sound weak?

noone got my william carlos williams joke

[wub]

Bump.

It's 7:20am and I feel frazzled.