Over the last couple of days, I have been obsessively occupying my time primarily with learning audio software. I now have a pretty good handle on Live and how to interface it with Reason and Audition (or Acid), a basic understanding of a couple trackers, (boy is midi a pretty simple way of going about things), and unfortunately Reaktor is still largely filled with mystery for me, as is PureData and Max/msp. I also got some more samples of percussion, and chopped them up and applied effects to them in Audition, to relatively good effect. Expect unusual sounds, which are not synthesized, and not really anything you might recognize.
Progress continues on the shotlist of ideas for content, and the content is definitely evolving in an interesting bioVSmecha direction, as hinted at in my last post, though the stylistic approach outlined in my treatment is very much unchanged. I have been reading Robert Short’s The Age of Gold as well. It is a trully enlightening book about surrealist cinema and theory. Tomorrow, I make storyboards, I get my proficiency at the music technology labs, and I schedule time for 3d animation.
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lots of luck jeddy! have funs… make sure to take pics and post rough stuff from the 3d animation shoots.
Midi is a wonderful tool. Sounds like you grasped it a lot faster than I. I would love to see how you are using Live to interface with other programs. I am very interested in using v drums to trigger ableton and possibly video- however not sure how to do this. As I am sure you know by now there are thousands of midi percussian sounds available in the MTL`s.