interstellar was very nolan

The Bridge got canceled -- I gotta call that the GOAT birthday present.

Matthew Lilard was so fucking based on that show, Jesus Christ.

I forgot how I stumbled on this dude, but his music's pretty cool. Real Boards of Canada vibe to the synthwork. http://fennecsound.bandcamp.com/releases It's also free...

I'm still making shit. Not at as fast a rate as before, but I'll crank it out when I get the opportunity.

So I made a quick proof-of-concept beat using the FL Granulizer. I didn't know what it was or what it would be used for until like yesterday, and after messing around with it for a bit, I realized it might be useful for chopping samples.

Normally, the way I'd chop something is:

If it's a drum beat or something I'd want to loop, drop it into Slicex. It figures out the tempo, puts each slice into the Piano roll, sounds good -- cool. But I like reversing shit. And changing the pitch on shit. To do that, I have to clone the Slicex unit, flip the sample backwards, move the last marker to the beginning to not lose that first chunk, and then play with it. For different pitches, I have to clone it for each pitch I want to mess with. And each pitch has a different tempo going on. HOLY SHIT.

So Plan B is:

Go through the sample in wavePad, chop it up in chunks myself, save each one as a different wav file, load up a different sampler for each one, play around with it. If I want something reversed, clone the sampler and play with that. Not as bad.

But then I find this Time knob on the Granulizer. And I mess around with it. And it lets me start the sample WHEREVER I WANT. OOOOOOOH. I already have to power to END the sample whereever I want (set that ADSR envelope to a rectangle by cranking everything one way or another, end the note in the piano roll) so now I can just save one big ass wav file, and "chop" it by cloning Granulizers and adjusting the time knob to start it where I want. I can fine tune it inside the project instead of elsewhere. This is so fucking based.

So here's a picture of the grannies I made, each named according to a different part of the track I sampled (You've Got the Magic Touch by doo-wop group The Platters). 

You might not be able to see it from here, but I modified the FL template file I start every project as (the templates -> Minimal -> Nothing template) by opening it in the Projects/Templates directory and changing it to put in all the shit I normally put in. 4 samplers with an OOH from Otis Williams' Heart of Stone (from the Goodfellas soundtrack) mapped with 4 corresponding MIDI units to 4 tracks on the mixer (labeled 1 - 4) with matching Gsnap units. That's for when I record acapella stuff and need the pitch tightened.

Several tracks on the mixer prestuffed with the compressor (already compressing a bit) and Parametric EQ 2 (preset with very narrow Q).

An FL Keys and Directwave Suitcase for when I want to compose stuff and want to jump right to the notes.

15 or so samplers (now granulizers, lol), normalized, trimmed, with DC offset removed (whatever that is) and the ADSR envelope set such that everything is 0 except HOLD which is max. I'll collect a batch of samplers and drop them in sequential samplers, rearranging them so the drums (kick, snare, hats) are next to each other, the bass is next, and then whatever else is after.

Here's the link to the track I pooped out. I didn't bother mixing it or anything, I'm not really gonna do much with it: https://soundcloud.com/scrubnpuff/magic-touch

I got some new stuff on my soundcloud. Lately, I've been doing these weekly "flip this" challenges (http://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/comments/1 jmyuq/flip_this_challenge_parliament_funkadelic_
aqua/). They're pretty fun. I don't post the stuff on here because they're way more sample heavy than the stuff I normally do. Anyway, cheers.

Cat just chewed up one of my mics. It's not the good mic (the SM58) but it was the easiest mic for recording guitar. This mic I could put in the sound hole of the acoustic, or back of the amp for the electric, and it sounded great. It was small, it was light, and it didn't sound all that bad. But now, I gotta get the sm58 to cooperate. Which basically means: no more acoustic guitar. Ever. Unless I can get the built-in laptop mic to work. Ew. So irritated right now.

JUST heard this beat like 5 minutes ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMxCGtiddI

Are you shitting me? Fuck. Also Run the Jewels is dope. Listened to that thing like 400 times already.

That new QOTSA album - good shit.

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower, good shit

Ink Spots - With Plenty of Money and You
R Stevie Moore - Norway
Marlena Shaw - You Must Believe in Spring
The Departed soundtrack
Flockaveli

Oh, and Bill Evans - Explorations seriously makes my nuts hard. Goooooooood shit.

Under a new name: http://4cat.newgrounds.com/

Sorry I haven't put up any tracks in a while. I was watching The Wire. Damn good show. I also tried out making some Portal 2 maps: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656119800793 6079/myworkshopfiles/?appid=620&p=1 I have only 2 up as of right now, but I'll work on more over time. And new tracks. I'll put out new tracks at some point. And for BOULLIE, I'll try to put a gtr solo in one of them. Thanks for your time. Later.