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by polymer
Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:39 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: what vst's do u like for atmospheres
Replies: 11
Views: 1752

Re: what vst's do u like for atmospheres

Aphakanal - Automat AU
Does some crazy granular + modulation atmospherics
by polymer
Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:02 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Old Laptops. What to do with them?
Replies: 32
Views: 5191

Re: Old Laptops. What to do with them?

Use your old laptop to scan SETI data(SETI@home), who knows it could find an alien signal.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
by polymer
Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:42 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: What's The Most Realistic Text To Speech You Ever Used?
Replies: 6
Views: 5003

Re: What's The Most Realistic Text To Speech You Ever Used?

Vocaloid does virtual singing, I'm not sure if it functions as a text to speech just as well. http://www.yamaha.com/about_yamaha/research/vocaloid/ "VOCALOID-flex is an improved version of VOCALOID that includes the capability of synthesizing natural-sounding speech. Good speech synthesis is ev...
by polymer
Fri May 20, 2011 3:14 pm
Forum: General Music Production
Topic: Rapture Check-- NZ/Australia ???
Replies: 54
Views: 4680

Re: Rapture Check-- NZ/Australia ???

Nothing Happening here in N.Z
They ain't gonna ruin my Birthday with a Rapture!!
by polymer
Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:03 pm
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: shoegaze/dream pop sound
Replies: 60
Views: 24647

Re: shoegaze/dream pop sound

These are my mates from Napier
They sound like an instrumental My Bloody Valentine crossed with Godflesh.
No singing just delayed guitar+bass+drums
http://www.munarecords.co.nz/Jakob08/blog/
by polymer
Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:09 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Application to extract samples from audio files?
Replies: 22
Views: 4905

Re: Application to extract samples from audio files?

Try AudioSlicer
I use this on large samples, it chops them up (usually successfully) into chunks where the audio is silent.
Does the job for me pretty well


http://audioslicer.sourceforge.net/
by polymer
Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:39 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Anyone here do any dub production?
Replies: 3
Views: 1059

Re: Anyone here do any dub production?

I remember when Mad Professor came to N.Z to remix a local band and I asked one of the band members what delay unit he used - Alesis Midiverb so its not the gear more how you use it. Check Paddy (Pitch Black) youtube tutorials on dub he's the king of dubbed out madness. He uses LIVE delay on 1 chann...
by polymer
Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:02 am
Forum: General Music Production
Topic: NZ Earthquake
Replies: 10
Views: 2316

Re: NZ Earthquake

Tom said on facebook that he's ok , he is without a place now as its been red taped and unsuitable for living so thats not too good.
by polymer
Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:45 pm
Forum: Tips & Tricks
Topic: audio files combined
Replies: 13
Views: 3760

Re: audio files combined

This is from the ESI 4000 EMU sampler Is granular or spectral similar to this I don't know. "Transform Multiply This unique function merges two sounds together in a way that accentuates frequencies common to both sounds while discarding uncommon frequencies. Because of this characteristic, Tran...
by polymer
Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:52 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Build-in Wave Editor
Replies: 10
Views: 4992

Re: Build-in Wave Editor

I'm in the same boat as I don't like Audacity at all/ I use Wavepad but this is buggy as and crashes 75% of the time.
try this out Rogue Amoeba - Fission the demo fades and degrades the sound but it has a nice layout.
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/
by polymer
Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:59 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Mysterious Random
Replies: 13
Views: 3756

Re: Mysterious Random

You are quite right about computers not being able to produce a proper random number
they have invented a new way of creating a true random number device at a quantum level

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... thing.html
by polymer
Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:27 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Any suggestions for Field Recorders?
Replies: 26
Views: 7262

Re: Any suggestions for Field Recorders?

Good site I found has a run down of all the field recorders
Still makes it hard to decide which is best though

http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable- ... ml#samples
by polymer
Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:23 am
Forum: Ableton Live
Topic: Tascam portastudio (tape recorder)
Replies: 29
Views: 17668

Re: Tascam portastudio (tape recorder)

these apps are just getting silly now


//www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/12/09/n ... -recorder/