Idm (...again) Squarepusher How Does He Do It?, Greenways Trajectory? Options

[sir_dss]

Hello,

I have done a search for this already and haven't got a clear answer. I'm getting heavily back into turn of the century IDM. Go Plastic by Squarepusher is blowing my mind...especially the track Greenways Trajectory. The music still sounds modern and from the future.

How on earth would you do this sort of drum programming? What I've found online is that:

*** The IDM(Aphex/Autechre/Sqpush) guys keep their technique secret and may even be lying about things to add mystery to what they do

*** They have spent years developing their style.

*** They may or may not write their own code for algorithm/software/plug ins

I just want to know how you can develop these fantastic beats!

[mortalengines]

Well first of all, both of those guys are like, TOTAL GENIUSES....and they are probably extremely obsessive over what they do...... For all I know they sit around and completely mess with teeny little slices of audio: cutting/pasting/pitch shifitng.....I LOVE Go Plastic....I bought it about 3 months ago for like, 8 bucks. For what it's worth you can download a couple of free apps like LiveCut or SupaTrigga and if you slave out select parameters to a midi controller you can get pretty close. Ableton Live has Beat Repeat which is a neat toy as well if you slave it out to a midi controller. Reaktor 5 has a couple of modules developed by Tim Exile that will also do similar stuff to drum loops.


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[sir_dss]

Cool...I just got LiveCut. I'm using Mac OX 10.4 with Logic 7 and it seems to work fine.

Could you elaborate on how you use a midi controller with LiveCut and how that would work?

Thanks

Well first of all, both of those guys are like, TOTAL GENIUSES....and they are probably extremely obsessive over what they do...... For all I know they sit around and completely mess with teeny little slices of audio: cutting/pasting/pitch shifitng.....I LOVE Go Plastic....I bought it about 3 months ago for like, 8 bucks. For what it's worth you can download a couple of free apps like LiveCut or SupaTrigga and if you slave out select parameters to a midi controller you can get pretty close. Ableton Live has Beat Repeat which is a neat toy as well if you slave it out to a midi controller. Reaktor 5 has a couple of modules developed by Tim Exile that will also do similar stuff to drum loops.


www.myspace.com/mortal_engines