New Video - Tom's glitchy, techy basslines exposed in depth

Silwolffe · Post by **Silwolffe** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:29 pm

Haha, what a fantastic video tutorial. I loved it! Poor cat, though.

contakt321 · Post by **contakt321** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:26 pm

Thanks for the video!

Great technique that I will definitely put to work.

One question - why do it with audio as opposed to 9 midi tracks and muting them w/ say automation? I am guessing it would be easier on the cpu load but not sure.

Keddy · Post by **Keddy** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:46 pm

contakt321 wrote:Thanks for the video!

Great technique that I will definitely put to work.

One question - why do it with audio as opposed to 9 midi tracks and muting them w/ say automation? I am guessing it would be easier on the cpu load but not sure.

9 midi tracks = 9 instances of a VSTi + EVERY audio effect used. Little bit of a cpu load...

roach808 · Post by **roach808** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:26 am

" shut up sky, for fuck's sake....."

heheh, best part of the video for me hands down.

condra · Post by **condra** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:51 am

Great vid as usual. Tom you mentioed you had some of those one-shots hosted somewhere, do you have the link handy?

Cheers.

pepezabala · Post by **pepezabala** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:31 am

superduper. Love the little stutters and variations that you build at the end. And how you draw the nice bassline without thinking, checking or listening on it and it just fits for this style of music. You knew that line before, didn't you?

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:29 am

condra wrote:Great vid as usual. Tom you mentioed you had some of those one-shots hosted somewhere, do you have the link handy?

Cheers.

Cue large amounts of psy-trance from stable Condra.

kraze · Post by **kraze** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:54 am

contakt321 wrote:Thanks for the video!

Great technique that I will definitely put to work.

One question - why do it with audio as opposed to 9 midi tracks and muting them w/ say automation? I am guessing it would be easier on the cpu load but not sure.

Did you watch the full video? It's way handier to have it as audio when you're making the cuts and edits, especially if you're going a bit more indepth.

COSM · Post by **COSM** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:50 am

Thanks for the comments guys.... I just like to have it sampled down as I seem to be able to mangle the sounds much more creatively with wavforms... just my cup of tea but the same effect could definitely be done using synths... please try it and let me know how it sounds.

Out Of My System · Post by **Out Of My System** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:46 pm

Excellent video. Very inspiring!

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:53 pm

Nice video.

Has your cat ever shut-up when you asked it to ?

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:47 pm

I'm assuming the answer is no here, but is there any kind of plug-in or rack contraption that will do exactly what Tom is doing here manually, taking a chosen amount of tracks and randomly selecting which one gets sound output for different lengths of time?

Any way to make one?

Keddy · Post by **Keddy** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:12 am

beats me wrote:I'm assuming the answer is no here, but is there any kind of plug-in or rack contraption that will do exactly what Tom is doing here manually, taking a chosen amount of tracks and randomly selecting which one gets sound output for different lengths of time?

Any way to make one?

follow actions

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:14 am

in legato mode.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:28 am

Huh? I thought follow actions only pertained to switching clips in the same track and it's totally dependent on the length of the clip. This would be selecting random outputs of 9 different tracks (in Tom's example), while muting all others and at random lengths, not just play the next clip down after 1 bar and so on.

Am I missing something?