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Kamoni's Machinedrum Sysex Meltdown Live Pack
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:21 am
by micah frank
I was sending sysex data to my Machinedrum the other day when suddenly it began blurting out the most digitally obscene sounds I have ever heard from it! I was a little offended and you might be too once you hear them. This is the stuff I love - when a piece of gear generates sounds that it could never create under its normal operating mode.
I took some time today to make a live pack from it. Here's a drum kit, some clips and then some live racks that cycle through samples repeatedly, simultaneously jumping between sample offsets every 10ms or so creating interesting transients. Here’s a quick mp3 demo and a download link for the Live Pack. Enjoy!
Here's the mp3 demo:
http://kamoni.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/gablitch.mp3
And you can download the Live Pack here:
http://kamoni.net/2008/11/22/kamonis-ma ... live-pack/
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:43 am
by sweetjesus
hey micah, thanks
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:54 am
by Tarekith
I had that happen to an EMu PX-7 on me once, always fun to sample that kind of stuff.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:06 am
by micah frank
it's like in the good ole days when you open a sequence and it sends a prog change to all your synths completely unrelated to what you had originally programmed - like the drum part will turn into a piano or something. sometimes the best tracks can come out of that. Somehow you don't get those kinds of accidents with software.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:38 am
by Tarekith
Yeah, at best you just get a BZZZZZZZZZZZ sound or a loud screech with software.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:40 am
by timothyallan
That's killer!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:10 pm
by madhattared
Micah, you are now in my google reader. I will never miss out again.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:15 pm
by eisnein
hol-e--cerap that is rawesome!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:17 pm
by Lux Libra
how cool is that ?!
Kamoni, would you mind to make a sample-only zip file ?
big thx.
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:26 pm
by roach808
Cheers!
Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:15 pm
by micah frank
m:o wrote:how cool is that ?!
Kamoni, would you mind to make a sample-only zip file ?
big thx.
Yup, that was next on my list. There's a link up there now for the .wavs only
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:43 pm
by micah frank
biddleee-bump-ump
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:50 pm
by beats me
Damnit, now people are releasing better sounding tracks based on hardware fuck ups than my tracks I try to actually put some thought into.
I have noticed that some of my favorite sounds are the brief digital vomit spewed out between preset changes in certain softsynths. If ony there was a way to freeze that split second and use it as an instrument.
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:06 pm
by The Phat Conductor
sick dude!, i'm all over it!
you da mang micah!
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:27 pm
by hoffman2k
beats me wrote:Damnit, now people are releasing better sounding tracks based on hardware fuck ups than my tracks I try to actually put some thought into.
I have noticed that some of my favorite sounds are the brief digital vomit spewed out between preset changes in certain softsynths. If ony there was a way to freeze that split second and use it as an instrument.
In some cases, you can record all changes between presets by doing a preset change.
But it has to be a single instrument preset, not a rack.
For example:
- Loop a MIDI Sequence in arrangement view
- Turn on record
- Load different Operator presets.
Parameters that appear in 2 consecutive presets will morph into each other.
You can do the same with Live's audio and MIDI effects too.