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Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:20 pm
by OfficialDAPT
wub wrote:OfficialDAPT wrote:Haha that'd be too easy then! Is there somewhere I can download the previous sample packs?
I've got most of them going back to #5, I think...but they're not online outside of an active contest for storage reasons. Can have a dig around next time I'm on the studio machine if you want some old ones to mess with?
Can't provide any historical data on who created them or what the winning submission from them was, however.
I'd love to mess around with some if you can find em. Who created them or who won doesn't really matter to me.
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:26 pm
by wub
No worries
Won't be tonight, however...there will be two kittens waiting at my apartment when I get home

Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:35 pm
by fragments
Back to teaching on the 14th of January...didn't get many classes. Only 4...ramen noodle budget...good thing I worked the spendy spirit out of me over the holidays...advantage is way less grading, courses start at noon, lots of time for music

Ton o' new gear to learn and play with while I'm starving this winter ;p
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:37 pm
by wub
^^ It annoys me your SC page is currently empty, you do good work.
What do you teach, btw?
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:45 pm
by ehbes
Been listening to burial for the last two days without opening reason. The most impressive part for me has to be how the lofi crackle interact with the drums.. It's not just layered over the entire beat it sounds...
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:46 pm
by fragments
wub wrote:^^ It annoys me your SC page is currently empty, you do good work.
What do you teach, btw?
Thanks man. I really appreciate that! I'll have a new EP out soon-ish (self release).
Freshman fucking English (how to write an academic essay)
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:49 pm
by wub
ehbrums1 wrote:Been listening to burial for the last two days without opening reason. The most impressive part for me has to be how the lofi crackle interact with the drums.. It's not just layered over the entire beat it sounds...
Random idea...Reverse ducking. Like instead of having how you would with sidechaining where something 'drops' whenever the kick hits, have it do the opposite and only play when the kick hits, give a nice long release on the sidechaining device and you have this bed of lo-fi snap crackle & goodness that only plays when triggered by a drum.
Could even automate the release on the sidechain to vary the response times over the course of a track.
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:50 pm
by fragments
Actually, totally forgot...
http://idmfbeattapes.bandcamp.com/album ... thropology
Check this out, some pretty good tunes on it. Got my tune Summer's Gone on there

Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:51 pm
by wub
Nice, will have a listen later

Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:10 pm
by ehbes
wub wrote:ehbrums1 wrote:Been listening to burial for the last two days without opening reason. The most impressive part for me has to be how the lofi crackle interact with the drums.. It's not just layered over the entire beat it sounds...
Random idea...Reverse ducking. Like instead of having how you would with sidechaining where something 'drops' whenever the kick hits, have it do the opposite and only play when the kick hits, give a nice long release on the sidechaining device and you have this bed of lo-fi snap crackle & goodness that only plays when triggered by a drum.
Could even automate the release on the sidechain to vary the response times over the course of a track.
Might give that a try later, been meaning to try and get my head around CV and this seems like a nice way to start
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:13 pm
by ehbes
fragments wrote:Freshman fucking English
I have to edit freshman papers.. I know this feel
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:19 pm
by OfficialDAPT
fragments wrote:Freshman fucking English (how to write an academic essay)
College or High School?
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:25 pm
by chekov
dougriley wrote:stuck at work today thinking of techniques to clean up the snares in the sample pack comp

noise removal on audacity is the one

Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:25 pm
by fragments
ehbrums1 wrote:fragments wrote:Freshman fucking English
I have to edit freshman papers.. I know this feel
Haha...man...I've been involved in the Freshman writing program for fucking ever...I was a writing tutor as an undergraduate and eventually the student-manager of the writing center, taught it in grad school and now do it for a living.
Big ups though man...that's some tough work, I know!
BTW...def going to download that EP you have out....I just listened to your tunes for the first time not long ago

but damn...lush atmos my man! I'm usually not a huge fan of ambient, but I dig your stuff. Big textures.
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:29 pm
by wub
I need to have a rant about psychedelic rock tomorrow...can someone remind me later?

Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:30 pm
by ehbes
Ah thanks fragments means a lot

Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:31 pm
by fragments
OfficialDAPT wrote:fragments wrote:Freshman fucking English (how to write an academic essay)
College or High School?
College. Thank god.
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:33 pm
by ehbes
Oh I thought you meant HS, those are the papers I have to edit.. Some kid spelled the same word two different ways in the same sentence and both were wrong...
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:38 pm
by fragments
ehbrums1 wrote:Oh I thought you meant HS, those are the papers I have to edit.. Some kid spelled the same word two different ways in the same sentence and both were wrong...
Oh ho ho. See the thing is, that kid won't learn anything all through high school and I will have to deal with the same shit when he gets to my class ;p
@wub: why the psychedelic rock rant? I'm all for such a rant personally as that's what I grew up on...will try to remind you.
Re: OfficeSteppers '13 (aka the offtopic but still prod. thr
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:08 pm
by antman
Slowly losing confidence in myself. Cant finish a single WIP because I realize it sounds like shit after a while.
Fuck.