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my brother used to make drill n bass tunes in cool edit. I wouldn't say he worked fast but I think it facilitated an attention to detail that's useful for that kind of music. his music was funkier and much less repetitive back then, for example. also I think when you're in that mindset, things gel in an organic way that they probably wouldn't otherwise.
I think the basic tricks when working with just 2 stereo tracks in an editor are:
-thinking a few steps ahead
-working with more skeletal, basic forms of your track before fleshing them out (because it's easier to add than subtract)
-making extensive use of copy/paste. the paste facility also needs some kind of "mix paste" ability of course.
-saving VERY often, and preferably several different versions of any loop or phrase.
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i started making electronic music in cool edit 11 years ago. it was one of the happiest creative times in my life--very simple and visual. burial's comments on "seeing the waveforms" in SF are right in line with my feelings from that period of time. i've been turning off the grid in live lately and i'm enjoying the results--organic, not quite so rigid. then you loop the results of buildng a few bars with quantize turned on and it brings the whole track back in to focus.
i just discovered untrue, and it's all i've been listening to for a week solid. i love love love the fact that someone comes along and makes something so beautiful with simple tools and everyone is in disbelief--there's no reason what he's doing is either impossible or improbable. the production value is audibly "low"--you can hear the aliasing of low-quality samples, but it doesn't matter. the result is a gritty sounding, emotional album. creativity prevails over techno-wizardry once again.
btw, from that wire article: many of the drums are built from video game samples and recordings of what i assume is a zippo lighter--he talks about sampling his lighter and i'd recognize the zippo sound anywhere. major photek reference there--he's not shy about divulging his idols. i think i'd like this guy a lot in real life.
