I am thinking about releasing my Album on cassette and I have a dual cassette deck with dubbing capabilities. Just wondering if it is worth it, and where i can buy Bulk tapes WITH cases, it seems as if i can only find bulk without cases and i want to print out album art with them. Anyone have any opinions on this?
I'm pretty sure Timeheater or k9d did this some time ago. I seem to recall companies offering this service but it was relatively expensive. Hard to remember for certain, though.
i just want to mention my body looks weirder than usual because i'm wearing 4 hoodies because of something i heard as a stage technique in The Art of 16 Bars.
as for all of this business going on here
it sounds like you're going down the path of 'chipbreak for the sake of chipbreak'. i'd say a good 90% of people who make chipbreak are in the same boat, so i guess that's okay.
i've been doing this shit since '03/'04, because, as cheesy as it sounds, it's what's been in my heart. that's important to this kind of thing, to me at least.
here are some tips for avoiding generic chipbreak, although i'm pretty sure that isn't your goal:
there's hundreds of breaks, the amen is just one of them, and there's all kinds of variation on even just the amen. look up stuff like 'jungle breaks sample pack' 'drum n bass drum samples' etc on google.
you don't have to use just one break, i usually have at least 8 different breaks per track. learn to layer drums. have a steady, loud main beat, and use the space around that for chopping.
repetition is death. change things early and often. treat the lead melodies like a solo that lasts the whole song. change the key, the structure, the tempo, the feeling, whatever, as the song progresses. try to make something where, if you played the first 30 seconds and the last 30 seconds of it for someone, they wouldn't think it was the same song.
keep your ears open for samples, all the time.
use synthesis methods from all kinds of console hardware (i routinely mix pulse waves, PWM, FM Synthesis, etc), then mix that with more modern sounds.
don't limit yourself to ANYTHING. DON'T set out to do something specific. let the medium take you along with it. be ready to abandon ideas that don' fit, because forcing them won't work. i said this on twitter the other day while working on a new track: "the reason i love writing music is because you're constantly approaching a blank canvas and surprising yourself." so just constantly experiment with sounds, melodies, chord changes, etc. eventually you'll stumble onto something amazing.
put some heart into it.
i think that's all i've got. maybe this'll be a good example, maybe it won't, but it's at least what i think chipbreak should be like.
hope this helps at least one person.
There are parts in this that are just really gorgeous.
I mean mass transit. As in commuter transport. With "long distance trains" I meant really long distance, 1+ hour, european style trains (you ain't got that in the amerrikuz on 1 hour trips ;P). If you can use it awesome for you. For me, neither the ambient nor the available tools in such situation would inspire me to do anything worth my time.
However, I made I think all or most of Red October while jumping cities on Swiss and Dutch trains.
It used to be fine when I was a student and didn't have to travel on commuter services. Now the trains are too packed for me to do anything other than feel anxious/rage.
That isn't strictly true. For modes of transport without power sockets, you could use an MPC500 and those with power sockets (like some trains here in the UK, at least) you could use any MPC. Size and weight are a different issue, though.
Pre-ordered! I'm another +1 for a 5-pin MIDI version. One thing I'm not sure of after reading through the thread... will this function as a class-compliant MIDI device, or will it need additional software?
This will function as a class-compliant MIDI device on Windows and Mac OS X as well as Linux I believe. I have not tested it on Linux.
If it's Teensy based, then yes; it will work fine on Linux.
And I know that those arps and patterns can be very complex and you think they are only possible on a tracker, but I'm pretty sure a full orchestra with a clever conductor could play that just as well.
Yeah those 16th note triplet arpeggios (that span 3 octaves) at 220bpm while modulating duty cycle and hard left right panning are totally do-able.
yeah, you're limited by biology after a certain point. we're low frequency oscillators at best.
