Hey Ash! :–)
I'll snatch the USB midi host from you if it's still available. I'll send you a PM.

If the Piggy midi interface is still available I'm interested!

I've heard rumours Random will play there…

seablue wrote:

one of my favorite albums is manual göttsching's (of ash ra tempel) "E2-E4."

Yes, truly an epic piece of music (in the literary meaning of the word). Randomly found it while on free-leech on Oink a couple of years ago.

On a more general note, I'm not very comfortable with calling krautrock for "electronic music" or "electronica". Sure, some bands are almost entirely electronic (like Cluster, for instance), but to me, krautrock focuses a lot on guitar, drums and experimental recordings of sounds too…

Of course, Welle:Erdball are famous! Never thought they sounded anything similar to krautrock though, nor does the songs you've linked to sound anything like it. How do you mean?

Their production is very uneven. I like some albums a lot, but some are quite crappy. Saw them live in Stockholm a couple of years ago though (Covox and I hung out with hundreds of synth- EBM- and goth-people the whole night – we were the only blonds in the whole venue!), and it was a fucking amazing show!

Also, don't miss Rockmonitor's C64 tunes. Some have a very "krauty" feel to them, for instance Nebula.

Any one know of any more chip-related music which is influenced by/sounds like kraut? Or any modern music for that matter? The most obvious example I've seen in the last couple of years is Baltic Fleet's song "Black Lounge", which extends beyond being only influenced by krautrock. I would rather call it a tribute to Neu!'s "Hallogallo".

I'm a long-time krautrock fan. My favourite bands/artists is probably La Düsseldorf, Neu! and Walter Wegmüller. And anything Michael Rother is involved in is bound to be good.

It is funny how many of the original german krautrock bands consisted of seemingly shuffled compositions of just a handful of people.

BBC made a documentary about krautrock last year, called "Krautrock - The Rebirth of Germany". It's a typical TV documentary, but a nice introduction, with interesting interviews with many of the central figures of 70s krautrock.

Brilliant, thanks!

Wow, amazing update!

I like the play song-options, sounds like a flexible idea. In fact, I like everything you've mentioned in this update smile

tacticalbread wrote:

J. Arthur Keenes - Pamplemousse
Smiletron - :]
Nullsleep - Electric Heart Strike
cTrix's blip CD
Spamtron - Never Say Die!

You should look beyond 2008. You might find something wink

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WTF? NO SUPER MARIO?!

*Leaves the Nullsleep fan page on Facebook*

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In addition to adding swing/groove, I tend to use delay commands for "grace notes" as well. Just small detail in leads mostly, to make the melody more jazzy somehow. For instance, a fragment of one of my melodies could be like this (D0X = delay note by X ticks. xx = kill note):

00 E-5  --
01 --     --
02 --     --
03 F#5 D03
04 G-5 --
05 --     --
06 xx    --
07 --     --
08 C-5  --
09 --     --
0A --     --
0B --     --
0C xx    --

And then again, if the delay command could be used in combination with the kill note command, that would be great.

Otherwise, in response to your original question, I agree that it would be easier if you could set volume in the pattern editor as well. In what way have you run out of bits to add? Technically hard to implement more commands?

Then another question: How does the pitch bend work? Simply bend up/bend down, or some kind of slide-to-note (legato) command as well?
In some trackers, the legato command can be used not only to make an audible slide to the note, but also to avoid the instrument to re-trigger. So for instance if you have a looping volume envelope, and just for the sake of example, a looping pulse wave modulation as well, it can sometimes be irritating to have the evenlope/pwm loop re-trigger on every new note. Some trackers handle this by removing the instrument number in the editor (or instrument "0"), and as I said, some (though mostly sample-based trackers as far as I know) do it with the slide-to-note command.

Really excited about the project, looking forward to try it hands on smile

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I hope I understand you correctly when you say pattern commands. You mean commands put in the effects column, like most trackers?

If so, my first question is: is there are kill note command? And if yes, is it possible to kill a note with more detail then on a certain step, in other words, on a given tick of a step?

Also, I often use Delay Commands when tracking. For instance if the speed is set to 06, each step would be divided in to six ticks, and the delay command would enable you do shift the note on the given step up to five ticks forward. If the "kill note" command is placed in the note column, and not the effects column, delay and kill note could be combined together for what I asked for first: kill note with tick precision.

I hope my sentences makes sense to you smile

Cheers!

Oh, I've missed this one. Downloading now, looking forward to hear it smile I like your style!

SAMWAVE wrote:

Wave Kicks are by far my favourite althogh the volume of them seem far too low, pretty shore there is a really nice one on the LSDJ patch Book that shirobon taught someone.

If you can't get the kick any louder, you just have to turn down the volume of everything else. You might loose some resolution depth of fade outs etc, but it can be worth it if you really feel you need a louder kick.