Since my CD’s of Reason and Pro Tools arrived, it won’t be long before I try to get the PC working with Mac Os X.
Yep, an Intel Core Duo PC, with a ahem “hacked” version of OSX. Which if it works I will gladly buy a license for.
How they do it god knows, but being able to put it onto cheaper hardware (but still good quality) is a godsend.
It’s going to help the recharge of my Electro stuff, as I hope Reason will plug into Live, and if I’m lucky Pro Tools will work as well.
Being able to open up as much as I like without killing the machine will help start the creative side racing again.
The I Book I have just can’t handle it anymore, so coming soon to a custom PC in China,
and then the Electro madness will follow not long after, keep watching….
I may even be forced, which is a good thing, to make completely new sounds, makes me less lazy….
Lucky I have my 606 ( which got me through Chinese customs because of the “notes” on it, to create some warped beats with.
Watch out ….
Paul Bishop
The Ghost That Walks
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Yet more and more revelations for me listening through the Red Bull Academy podcasts.
Wajeed talking about Detroit and how much passion he has for music, even above business, and going with what you feel.
Talking about the atmosphere of Detroit and what it means to make hip hop there, is something I understand.
Kirk Degiorgio did some of the same things I did. He went to Gratiot Avenue and knocked on the metal door of Metroplex.
I went to the same door and knocked on it as Transmat, I was just unlucky enough not to meet anyone there, but yes I have a photo from the wall like a picture from cyclists out of Tour De France.
Also after people here moaning about me using a laptop, Kirk Degiorgio uses it in EXACTLY the same way I do.
Processing the tunes in Pro Tools, importing them and warping each tune by hand in Ableton, then chopping up sections of the tune to allow them to mix and get creative. Cutting out bass and mid to make an acapella, adding percussion loops etc. Exactly the same.
Ectomorph does the same, and many Dj’s now use Midi controllers for the performance aspect, which I need to get hold of.
So more and more, lecture after lecture, confirming again and again what I’m doing and how I’m thinking IS right.
Just at a time when I am giving up on China, this has to be the strangest time for this to happen, but it’s happening….
More next time… Stay strong, no retreat , no surrender.
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Definitely felt inspired and rekindled again over the last few days, especially for making Electro again.
But after listening to The Red Bull music academy lectures, listening to some of my favourite tracks and what made some of my own really work.
Hank Shocklee (Public Enemy) really went into detail about it. I’ve realised it was what was making some of my tracks really work, and when the “character” of the sound wasn’t there, the tracks didn’t work. This means transients, background noise, layering and extra bits of sounds stitched together, movement and attack, different eq’d versions of the same or different sounds layered together. Not everything hitting exactly on time.
This is what used to make some of my old tracks really work, and then some just pale in comparison . But now I understand.
Colour, Life, Movement, Imperfections make the coldest electro sound like a living moving breathing thing.
I was right about trying to use valves and tape, and sad I had to sell them, but he talked about tape and the natural saturation and compression it gives you.
So now I’ve discovered the key again about what made other people sit and take note, so the door will be opened for me once again…
More next time…
Paul Bishop
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