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Old Apr 10 2008, 2:09 AM
nhomas nhomas is offline

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Listened to SaxoSex. Love it. Really delicious sounds you're getting out of those 'verbs. Sounds pretty crazy. Messes with my sense of space. Try listening with your eyes closed; it's a real trip.

Now for OMG. Didn't enjoy this one as much. There were some really great moments (my favorite was the line at the very end); however, given that the interest in this sort of music is primarily timbral, I felt that the music didn't have enough variety of timbre to hold my attention. It sounds like most of the variations were generated by playing different slices of the sample at different pitches. If I were making this piece, I might have incorporated more effects processing: flanging, distortion, filtering, ring mod, etc., to create more timbres. If your software can do it, feeding samples into a (modular or semi-modular) synthesizer can give you a lot of new sounds, because you can use the synth's filters, envelopes, LFOs, etc., to process the sound. This doesn't violate the rule of using only the sample as a sound source, as long as you don't use the synth's oscillators or noise generator as sound sources.

Also, in the future, consider putting your files up on a website which will allow easier access; preferably playable in the page itself. I expect you'll get more feedback.
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