Comments on: Break in the Road

Break in the Road

willnot — Mon, 03 May 2004 00:09:12 -0800

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.

By: wells

wells — Mon, 03 May 2004 04:47:40 -0800

I used Builder, Carpet, Girl Hum, Girl Singing, WIndchime and Bass Practice, and it sounds pretty good!

By: Evstar

Evstar — Mon, 03 May 2004 04:56:47 -0800

I can't get the samples to snap into the mixer after I've downloaded them.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Mon, 03 May 2004 07:00:48 -0800

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.

By: wells

wells — Mon, 03 May 2004 09:14:57 -0800

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.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 03 May 2004 09:43:16 -0800

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...

By: abcde

abcde — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:12:48 -0800

Is there some software that both this guy and Richard Linklater both use, or is he just totally copying?

By: abcde

abcde — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:24:57 -0800

This is handy, btw, to roughly explain to someone the basic idea of how sequencing works.