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Hi all, here is an update that seems like it might really fit into a few different blogs... but so it goes! Some Reaktor Patches, my live set from march, and also a Life In General update. Re-posting the blog because of some dumb flaming that was on here earlier. Sorry about that. Also, I forgot to post the .ens files, and now i've linked to them.
Anyway lately i've been trying to learn how to do work with electronics and i've found it very satisfying, so I decided--I'm going to take my laptops off my studio desk and put all my soldering and electronics stuff there instead! So for these next couple months I think i'm going to take a break from my computer, work on learning how to do this electronics monkeyturd--and also practice more guitar, and write some guitar music for my Ricemutt live set. My bagger288 set is pretty much ready to go, so my ricemutt set is next. I have the electronics stuff pretty well down, but I want to add some live acoustic guitar to them.
here is a pic of my first, oh so exciting project:
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It's just an optical theremin made with a 555 IC and two photo-resistors. It sounds really awful, but at least it works, haha.
ANYWAY, Elisa is quitting her job, where she telecommutes from home, so we're going to cancel the inter-schlong and I'm going to work on those things instead of farting on the internet. It's very satisfying to be working on some stuff that's not on the computer, so I think i'm going to just take a break from computers for a little while.
Speaking of Live sets, this is my live set I played in a bar here in tacoma, in March:
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it's a 115 mb, 1:20 long file. This is what my live set sounds like so far--I didn't have too long to prepare for it--about 5 days! I was playing in a bar so I focused a lot on the drones and textures so I wouldn't alienate people too much with big walls of noise and beats. I used: my mac laptop running reaktor standalone--running into a mixer with some pedals on the FX send and also a TV plugged into it as well. Anyway, I have a bit to work on with that stuff, but I think adding live instrumentation will really make it gel together like I want it to.
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AS FOR TEH REAKTORs
before I go down the electronics rabbithole, i'll post a few of my reaktor things i've made lately here.
The first one is a delay patch. This is a delay with a 5 minute long buffer that stores everything you've been playing and recalls "grains" of what has happened in the past. The idea is to bring in longer, less frequent grains, and it sounds like little "fragments" of what played before are popping in and out. Thanks to wakax for this idea.
here is the .ens file:
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Here is what it sounds like, but this is def. a demo, haha. IT's pretty dumb:
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The next patch is a sort of harmonic detuning synth. There are six harmonics, and each harmonic is just a pair of oscillators that you can detune a specific amount of Hz. There is automation for the pitch and the amount of detuning for each harmonic. I got the idea for this from a friend's singing bowl, where I realized its sound was more about the phasing of all the different frequencies than the specific spectral/harmonic content of the sound.
The .ens file
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here's a pic of the interface: There is also a simpler "B" interface with simpler controls:
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and the sound:
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The last patch is a sketched out synth that was more of a proof of concept. It's a wavetable synth with 8 breakpoints, where each breakpoint is randomized in amplitude and time, so that there is a speed of and amoutn of randomization, and also a control for how fast the previous setting "morphs" to the new setting (basically an amplitude smoother/slew limiter).
The .ens file:
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here's how it sounds:
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and looks:
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Roshi
I'm not enjoying this blog again.
Just kidding
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jdg
yah dood wtf..
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ricemutt
don't ask me to explain myself, just move along
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jdg
if this disapears again, im gonna roll my fat ass down to tacoma and regulate
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KidQuaalude
jd "warren" g
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lematt
well, u seem pretty busy !
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SenorFrio
Thanks for these reaktors! I haven't tried them out, but I like the idea of morphing the wave tables w/ the smoother/slew limiter.
Would it be possible to pitch the wave into LFO range and convert the audio to an event output... It would be rad to create some weird LFO's and route them into Ableton. The delay is goooood o ooo o d.
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mlbot
no internets?.... we will miss you
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ricemutt
hehe i'm an addict, I wont' be able to stay away
i'll just be drinking more coffee at the cafe
free drip refills, haha
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