[LAU] 1625 [music]

[Dave Phillips]

Hi Chris,

On 01/17/2019 10:56 AM, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Wed, January 16, 2019 8:23 am, Dave Phillips wrote:
>> No hour long recording, but here's the final version:
>> https://youtu.be/7f2RLTbbs9Y
> Very nice.  Do I understand correctly that  this is essentially an
> algorithmic style composition, in that once you setup the patching, the
> modules are generating the control "voltages" that determine notes and
> frequency, so it starts up and just runs without intervention?
>

Yes, that's pretty much the picture. The challenge is in setting up the 
modules, i.e. their programming. While the music itself is the result of 
more-or-less random procedures the sounds themselves are typically 
closely designed (read: I spend a lot of time tuning the modules to an 
expected behavior).


>> Edited and mixed with Ardour6. :)
> Nice to know that Paul hasn't broken basic functions with all his
> re-arranging of the guts.  :)

To be clear, that's Ardour6 very-beta, built from git sources.

> What type of editing do you actually do (assuming my understanding above
> is correct)? Do you listen through and pull out interesting segments and
> stitch
> together?  Or is it lighter weight than that?
>

In 1625 the editing was straightforward, just selecting and merging 
sections of two tracks. The synchronization was easy in this case, and 
the only other process involved was a normalization pass. Incidentally, 
things were done this way because Rack gets cranky when my patches hit a 
certain load limit. I designed the patch for a single performance pass, 
but it's too big a hit on my CPU (a 3.5 GHz 6-core AMD). Hence the 
multiple takes. In sum, for this recording I added a little more than a 
minute to the original by interpolating the "bridge" section.

Thanks for listening, Chris, and thank you for your inquiry as to how it 
all got made.

Best regards,

dp