Break in the Road

May 3, 2004 12:09 AM

Take one part virtual minidisk, one part crazy dream, stir it all together with a dash of creativity and maybe you too can find a Break in the Road. It's actually kind of fun to play with. I couldn't produce anything that sounded to my ear like music, but I'm sure you lot can do better.
posted by willnot (7 comments total)

I used Builder, Carpet, Girl Hum, Girl Singing, WIndchime and Bass Practice, and it sounds pretty good!
posted by wells at 4:47 AM on May 3, 2004

I can't get the samples to snap into the mixer after I've downloaded them.
posted by Evstar at 4:56 AM on May 3, 2004

Great link...and one I was thinking of posting, darnit.

I used the radio and the scissors for a beat, the arcade and the busker for melodies, and the girl singing in the train station for vocals, and it sounded better than I expected it to.

Getting the samples to snap in is a bit of a pain and takes some trial and error. Try placing one edge EXACTLY at the line.

It'd be interesting to see what criteria the software uses to determine how "successful" or "musical" one's composition is.
posted by Vidiot at 7:00 AM on May 3, 2004

You can also place some pieces over each other, and you don't have to stick the soundpieces in their own 'section,' either.

What's a problem is that all of them don't seem to play in their entirety when I go to the club, even though the practice run in the studio seems to work just fine.

I got the crowd to love it, though! That was fun.
posted by wells at 9:14 AM on May 3, 2004

wells - some of them include dead air after the clip, so they won't just loop without gapping. like you said, you can sometimes creatively overlap to fix it but not always...
posted by caution live frogs at 9:43 AM on May 3, 2004

Is there some software that both this guy and Richard Linklater both use, or is he just totally copying?
posted by abcde at 2:12 PM on May 3, 2004

This is handy, btw, to roughly explain to someone the basic idea of how sequencing works.
posted by abcde at 2:24 PM on May 3, 2004