Actually, it’s 10 through 6 today. Today’s vid, just released today, comes form Computer Music magazine where they review (what they consider to be) the top 10 soft synths out there. They play samplings of each one to give an idea of the different sounds. Sweet honey butter to my ears!
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Friday Electronic Music Blogging – NIN & Anime mash-up
If you know your anime and if you know your Nine Inch Nails, then you will probably dig this video. It is a mash-up of scenes from Akira, Lain, and Ghost in the Shell with Nine Inch Nails’ “The Becoming” from their The Downward Spiral album. This video is so perfect with its selection of anime scenes to go with the NIN lyrics; it’s such a great meld. [Warning: some explicit language]
The (remixed) music of potty training
Based on the audio taken from a video of Katie taken by her Grandpa John, I have created a highly silly remix of my niece’s paean to potty training rewards: the Jelly Bean. I revealed this song to her and her mom (my sis-in-law Shalina) over the weekend while Tiana and I were up in the Bay Area for Tiana’s 10-year high school reunion. I think the utter silliness of the song went over pretty well.
Friday Electronic Music Blogging – Spyrofunk strikes back
Today’s video is another one from Spyrofunk (myspace page). He shows you how to rig up some settings to make a really sweet-sounding “typical electro bass line.” The first few minutes might seem a bit tedious at first, but by the last 3 minutes, he’s set up a really convincing groove, as you’ll see. This setup would work equally well for both live performances as well as recording the scrub in the x-y controller as an automation clip.
Recommended Music: Otsu Vihara
My friend Andrew has created a new music track under his Otsu Vihara project called “Karuna.” If you like heavy electronic music in any form, I highly recommend you turn up the volume (or put on a good pair of headphones) and go take a listen by going to the Mannequin Oddio Media Myspace page. The track will start playing automatically…
Friday Electronic Music Blogging – Vocoder Edition
For now, these videos will lean toward the FL Studio software (formerly Fruity Loops), as that is the one I mainly tinker with. Today’s video is a tutorial on how to use the vocoder in FL Studio, which is really easy to set up, and makes up one of the staples of electronic music effects.
Friday Electronic Music Blogging
Many people in blog land have ‘special’ posts on Friday. Some people do “Friday Cat Blogging,” and others do some very rad “Friday Metal Blogging.” I’m going to see if I can try my hand at posting various videos having to do with electronic music and electronic music creation, seeing as I listen to far too much of it and have at times dabbled, myself.
This video is of ‘Spyrofunk’ using FL Studio to do a simple, but highly impressive scratch by Portishead.