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Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't speak protools :/ bIz ------------ http://www.groovetronica.com - "Well, it hasn't made it into our playlist, I'm afraid. It's summer so there are no djs here to listen to and play music, so we're just playing automated music right now." ------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Stahl" <alex@pixar.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:56 PM Subject: Re: OT - dynamics processors Re: Hearing parts that aren't there (was: Re: the function of some music) > Perhaps the Eventide Omnipressor plug-in? I used to play through a > hardware Omnipressor and seem to remember it could turn your dynamics > upside down. > > (or write your own with pluggo....) > > > At 12:54 PM -0700 6/6/03, sserendipity wrote: > >On a vaguely related note, I've been looking for a software based dynamics > >processor with a >negative< ratio controls - not fractional like an > >expander, but actually negative. If any such beast exists, please let me > >know. Dbx used to make a hardware one. > > > >This would allow you to make the quiet parts loud, and the loud parts quiet. > > > > > > > >bIz > > > >------------ > >http://www.groovetronica.com - "Well, it hasn't made it into our playlist, > >I'm afraid. It's summer so there are no djs here to listen to and play > >music, so we're just playing automated music right now." > >------------ > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Greg House" <ghunicycle@yahoo.com> > >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:27 PM > >Subject: Hearing parts that aren't there (was: Re: the function of some > >music) > > > > > >> --- Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > >> > Brian Eno's notes on one of his earliest > >> > ambient albums (Music for Airports, I think, but I > >> > don't have it in front of me) describe another > >> > important aspect of ambient music. Eno was in bed > >> > recovering from having been hit by a car, and a friend > >> > brought over an LP of some very quiet 17th century > >> > harp music, put the record on and left. After she had > >> > left, Eno realized that the volume on the stereo was > >> > set much too low, but was not feeling up to getting > >> > out of bed to fix it. As he listened to the record, he > >> > could only hear the loudest notes, and had a sort of > >> > epiphany regarding another way of listening to music > >> > in the context of ambient sounds. It wasn't that he > >> > wasn't listening attentively, but rather, the 'local > >> > soundscape' was an integral part of the listening > >> > experience. > >> > >> Interesting, I'd never read that. But this happens to me >periodically, in > >fact, > >> it's something I actively do to stoke my creativity. My car stereo >has > >this nifty > >> "feature" of resetting the volume to some standard (very low) level when > >the car > >> is turned off. Some of the music I listen to is recorded at >relatively low > >> volumes and at the stereo's "standard volume" I can't hear anything but > >the > >> loudest notes in the music above the noise floor of the engine and >the > >road. > >> > >> What I find happening sometimes is that my mind starts filling in the > >pieces to > >> construct a more complete musical piece. But they're not the same pieces > >from the > >> original music! I hear new rhythms, new melodys, and textures that aren't > >there. > >> Just something my mind formulates while trying to make sense of the little > >bit of > >> music it's periodically hearing. > >> > >> It happened by accident the first time, and I was surprised to find a song > >I knew > >> well playing away when I raised the volume of the stereo...and kind >of > >> disappointing, since I was enjoying what my mind was formulating on it's > >own. Now > >> I actively persue finding that magic volume, where I'm hearing enough > >information > >> for my mind to hear and start working over, but not so much that it starts > >> latching onto the original song. It doesn't hurt in this discovery that my > >car is > >> becoming a noisy bucket of bolts, so the noise floor is much higher then > >it used > >> to be. > >> > >> Greg > >> > >> > >> > >> __________________________________ > >> Do you Yahoo!? > >> Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > >> http://calendar.yahoo.com > >> > >> > >