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Re: Drift

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:36:40 AM UTC-5, bloomer_au wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:33:36 PM UTC+10, Daniel Kruszyna wrote:
> > BLuRry 
> >  wrote:
> > > Maybe we should pester Antoine for his awesome playback routines?
> > 
> > It's actually using the Electric Duet player.  This decision was made pretty
> > early on to keep things familiar for potential musicians.
> > 
> > -- Daniel
> 
> The main agony for Antoine was that when we started testing the songs in the context of the demo, I kept complaining that my song was emitting a bunch of hiss on one channel whenever there were rest notes, instead of that channel being silent as it was when played back in the Electric Duet's editor. After much agonising and examining of the code, he found the way to reproduce that, which apparently was not contained in the duet's player routine itself. I think that's why it was hard to find? But he can correct me if I told this story wrong.
> 
> I think both Daniel and I have our own perceptual type tricks that can make the tracks sound like they're playing more than 2 voices at times. I noticed Daniel has a fair bit of octave-bouncing style like C64 Sids sometimes used. I use a lot of timbre changes really close together and often scoop out fractions of notes to poke in a percussive sound in an octave far away.
> 
> - Wade

That's pretty impressive that you got that old routine to do new tricks with clever composition.  I cut my tracker teeth on Electric Duet.  I think I was like 8 or something and I did a simple take on "Camptown Races."  But after growing up through mods, s3m, XM, Impulse and Buzz and now using ReNoise, I can't imagine how you could edit songs of that complexity with the electric duet UI.  Kudos!

-B