Catf1sh wrote:
roboctopus wrote:

I do!

http://roboctopus.bandcamp.com/track/th … -the-world

I recorded myself playing the chord progression, chopped it up, compressed the hell out of it, EQ'd, etc, and loaded the samples into LSDJ.

It's pretty noisy, but they do play in tune. I just think of them as a little more punk. I use some piano chords on another track on that EP.

If you're cool with bitcrushy fuzz, then sampled chords work. But it takes a lot of EQ/tweaking to get them to sound okay. They're really fun to use R and P commands on.

That's actually really cool, I wonder how sampling a bass would go. I'm pretty sick of triangle bass.

You have to roll off a lot of bass and treble to get kits sounding decent, You could try it but I think the bass would be quite lacking.

Doesn't Roboctopus sample guitar chords in one of his songs?

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Legit chill.

I've still not soldered my shruthi ...

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Ladytron just sounds like a square.
Depeche mode sounds like you might want to try some slow vibrato settings and maybe play with the volume column to get that atack and decay thing.
The Human league might need you to play with som high frequency vibrato to make it a bit more grating.
I can't think of much for the visage.

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Faceball was great except on the GB it runs at like 2 frames a second.

Always good to hear Yume Nikki samples.

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Gameboy wars if you're willing to deal with all the japanese.

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Might be because the last set of releases wasn't as well received. Fun while it lasted.

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If I wasn't extremely poor and moving to another country that's still just as far from the US, I'd be all over this shit.

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xX 8 BIT CHAMPION Xx wrote:

i keep coming back to this release...some parts of it are really weird but it is really well written. it surprises me sometimes: 'whoah, what was done there was great'

It's really playful. Has a lot of zan zan's weird musical sensibility in it. At times it sounds very Farside Virtual.

My favourite thing about these kids of videos isn't learning new techniques as such, but that you get a little poke into how other people put things together. Seeing things you already know about used in a way you wouldn't think about is always really cool. And way more useful and informative than like, a patch.

This was a really fun watch and I'd love to see this continue with more artists and in more formats smile

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I'll trade you Mayfair for a tricked out gameboy.

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http://ningen.bandcamp.com

I make downtempo, wonky, ambient shit with a lo-fi aesthetic when I'm not making chip or rock music. I'm also a regularly recurring member of John Richards Dirty Electronics Ensemble and I've played with Chris Carter (Formerly of Throbbing Gristle), DJ Sniff from STIEM, and Anna Meredith.

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That album is actually currently on hold because I'm having trouble getting it mastered because I'm so poor. I have the basically finished un-mastered version though.

It's not even out yet and I've already got the basics done for an EP that was going to follow it up tongue

I'm glad you're looking forward to it!

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I have a linguistics degree and I'm horrendously unemployed.

May be moving to holland in the future though so if anyone has any leads for work in the rotterdam area....