My favorite little sequencer has a new update, perhaps inspired by its redheaded stepchild Littlegptracker. Details:
2009-07-14: v3.9.a
* bugfix: instr copy/paste works again (broke in 3.9.3)
* make it possible to change pitch of pu1/2 sounds without
retrigging, by omitting instrument number.e.g.
C-3 I03
G-3 I–
Chipflip tackles the tangled family tree of circuit bending. He writes:
But I also think that chipmusic and demoscene practitioners could learn a lot from the conceptual and noisy ways of sound art and circuit bending/”building”. It is funny how circuit bending, chip music, and the demoscene is sometimes presented as related to each other, even though they are so different. Chip music is (too often) about 4/4 happy bleep pop and using default samples of LSDJ. Demoscene music is (too often) about perfectionism and competition. Circuit bending is (too often) about tech-concepts and predictable noise.
Yea I have to say my favorite musical acts tend to be the artists that transcend the obvious ironies inherent in their platforms and become figures greater than their platforms. Think of People like Dan Deacon, Little-Scale, or Depreciation Guild. Once you make the journey into the world, and get over the novelty at the end of the day, you still have to create captivating and interesting music and art.
PDF_Format writes:
So for a while now, i’ve been in #pdf_lessons on esper.net, and have given some lessons. Megabass on LSDJ, for instance. This weekend, and following week, i am scheduling lesons every night. Every night, at a time posted in the channel (all times EST, because that’s my time zone), there will be a lesson, on the topic posted in the channel, run by one of the operators of the channel.
Topics:
and general other information on other things by other people who know about them. I will post a schedule as it is confirmed by the teachers of the lessons. But if you want to learn any tracker, or trick, or skill, come into the channel, and there will be a guided lesson, followed by general Q/A afterwards. Stay tuned, and tell your friends.
For more info
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And my Favorite:
In order to bring you more in depth coverage on how the tools behind the blips and bleeps are made, we asked musician Lazerbeat to sit down and chat with some of the innovators and creators of the scene. Here is part one of his two part interview with PSPSEQ developer Ethan Bordeaux. PSPSEQ is a “a free homebrew application for composing music on the Sony PSP handheld game system. PSPSeq contains both realtime synthesis and sample playback capability, along with multiple FX modules of widely varying types for modifying instruments in countless ways.”
LB: So, Hello Ethan, thanks very much for doing this.
ECB: You’re welcome. Happy to get the good word out on PSPSeq.
LB: Before we get into the details of PSPSeq, tell us a little about your background with programming.
ECB: Sure no problem… my day job is as an embedded systems programmer. I was hired by a company called Analog Devices where I first started off supporting their DSPs and then later on was transferred to a group where I wrote software algorithms for them, specifically for cell phones. Been doing that for the past 8 years or so. Mostly I work on speech and audio processing algorithms. It’s fun but when you’re doing that kind of work you are only writing a very small piece of the overall system. I wanted to do something where I owned the entire project; audio, UI, documentation, etc etc.
LB: Did you start programing as a hobby or was it something you learned specifically with a view to a career?
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