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

["Ricky Graham" <rock.guitar.guru@btinternet.com>]

I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing, Per.

Ricky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Toy Music Box was: new piece uploaded for sharing


> 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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