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The Defining Part: Effects Chains
“I have loads of saved effects chains that I use constantly, created by myself, so I always think about these like my main plugins in a way.” Tom VR I was playing around with one of my piano sounds, but on the tiny keyboard, which isn’t the best for improvising because my hands can’t travel Continue reading
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Database: Sub Focus On Drones
“This tends to be something I start with a lot: I make drones in the key of the song that I’m working in. The way I normally do them is that I record a long pass of me playing an instrument. There’s one I made from a bleepy square wave patch in Serum which is Continue reading
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A.I. In Music: Notes On patten’s “Mirage FM”
I recently listened to Mirage FM, a recording by English musician and visual artist patten (Damian Roach) made using sounds from Riffusion. Riffusion is a website that generates audio based on user prompts, adapting Stable Diffusion‘s text-to-image generator to reconstruct music from a database of spectrograms. (Spectrograms are two-dimentional representations of audio’s frequency, amplitude, and Continue reading
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Book Review
My book, The Creative Electronic Music Producer, was generously reviewed by Hugh Robjohns in Sound On Sound. You can read the review here. Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: wt Robina’s “Technical Manifesto For The Deviant Sound Engineer” (2021)
“Sound is a complex, immaterial phenomenon. It is not what it seems. […] “Sound is the impression of a thing (an object) which happens to exist independently from it; it’s free from the presence of the object that is perceived as its cause. Sound is a by-product of almost any action, though it is neither Continue reading
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