Re: Toy Music Box was: new piece uploaded for sharing

["Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>  I'm amazed that you came up
> with such an amazing bass drum sound using the music box.............any
> hints about what magic you created in your sound design for that one?

The low singing drum sound is one music box tingle routed through a
plug-in of Logic's called Autofilter. I used none of the beat syncing
functionalities, only the two basic ones Resonance and Cut-Off. With a
lot of resonance and cut-off a filter can be brought close to self
oscillation, which can sound like that :-)


> As far as that goes,  I'd love to hear your description of how you 
>created
> this marvelous piece of music.   It's just beautiful...........just the
> right balance of melodic composition, randomness and generated sound.


Well, that's kind of hard because basically it's just about fiddling
around. Before you fiddle around though, you have to learn the tools
and all aspects of how they can process different types of sound. Then
you "unlearn" that and fiddle around with whatever material you've
got.

Hmm... I can at least tell one thing without messing with the truth:
the "randomness" comes from the music box refusing to being cranked in
sync with a given tempo ;-))  I think that's what cool with it. Nasty
little bitch crap ting-a-ling thing, so proud to be out of time.
Stupid me tried so hard to crank it in time with precious
bee-pee-emms, but had to give that up.

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