I wanna be like BT

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:43 pm

I'm going to go and sample some rain, and then quantize it to perfect 256ths.

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:05 pm

BassTooth · Post by **BassTooth** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:15 pm

wait, did he seriously do that?

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:21 pm

yes, he seriously fucking did.

And he's coming out with a new glitch plugin. My guess is that the people he's got working for him decided to write a plug to do all the OCD manual glitch work he has them doing for him.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:47 pm

So sasha has people warping for him.
BT has people chopping for him...

Screw it. I'll hire somebody to crash Live and bitch about it to Ableton for me.

Applicants must have a crashlog of 3,6 mb or bigger

Caymus Cab · Post by **Caymus Cab** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:50 pm

Not really into BT, but quantizing rain to perfect 256ths?? any audio clip on the net I could hear this on?? And would anyone know how he did this..or is there an article somewhere to describe this, sound very interesting.

thanks

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:56 pm

Caymus Cab wrote:quantizing rain to perfect 256ths?? any audio clip on the net I could hear this on??

His latest record, "This Binary Universe" has lots and lots of rain all over it. Very dramatic. Yeah.

And there are lots of articles describing how he quantizes all his audio and how much he hates the awful timing of midi. This stuff (technique) is indeed interesting, albeit seriously anal.

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:02 pm

"This Binary Universe"????? I hope you're joking......

jb61264 · Post by **jb61264** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:09 pm

nebulae wrote:His latest record, "This Binary Universe" has lots and lots of rain all over it. Very dramatic. Yeah.

I was just going to buy TBU this weekend...the price finally came down to where its fairly reasonable than when it was first released.

BT has a stutter effect that everybody says you can find information about on the internet...can something similar be accomplished if one uses Sampler...I saw the Sampler video and it looks like if you drag the sample end selection you can get the repeat stutter effect...could you map different lengths of the same sample (but at different lengths) to different keys to give you the capability to do something similar?

theshaggyfreak · Post by **theshaggyfreak** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:42 pm

I recently saw This Binary Universe live (the BT and Thomas Dolby tour). It was quite a good show although the live version of TBU had much different dynamic than the CD/DVD. It's a good disc, though, and I enjoy it quite a bit.

sgx · Post by **sgx** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:53 pm

theshaggyfreak wrote:I recently saw This Binary Universe live (the BT and Thomas Dolby tour). It was quite a good show although the live version of TBU had much different dynamic than the CD/DVD. It's a good disc, though, and I enjoy it quite a bit.

Hey did you see it at SONAR in Baltimore? I was there too. Might have bumped into you.

It was a great show. I saw him on the Movement in Still Life tour and that was more mind-blowing but mainly because that music fit the concert/club venue better than the largely downtempo TBU did, but TBU was cool. It was interesting how they substituted the string lead parts for the herdy gerdy

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glu · Post by **glu** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:56 pm

hoffman2k wrote:So sasha has people warping for him.
BT has people chopping for him...

this is true. and Reznor (NIN) has his brainiacs synthesizing and programming for him. Many artists don't do as much work as they might have when they were up and coming. I think there are many explanations for this.

hire some help to do some chopping/fx/ programming etc ? Why not? It's a form of collaboration. Anytime that I have worked with someone else it has always stretched me in some way.

The caveat I have is when stars pawn it off as only their own work and not a collaboration, or work for hire programmer/engineer arrangement.

nuperspective · Post by **nuperspective** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:57 pm

he might be anal, but this binary universe is one of the best albums of last year for me. well worth a listen.

replicant6 · Post by **replicant6** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:10 am

I agree. I went and bought This Binary Universe and I think it's brilliant. He does some pretty amazing work on it!

R6

BassTooth · Post by **BassTooth** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:50 am

i also went out and bought BT's "This Binary Universe". my mom said she really liked it and it sounded like something she would buy. so i gave her the cd....

I wanna be like BT

I wanna be like BT

oh yeah