Conny
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Posted : Oct 2, 2014 16:16:13
Anyone who knows of the making of Lifeforms.
I read somewhere that they used samplers.
How did they get these rare textures?
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Posted : Oct 3, 2014 01:28
indeed lots of samplers with very limited space to use maybe 2 MB/sampler. They are not just some great producers, they kinda invented the whole electronic ambient gerne in my eyes or better said ears. Its hard to find any interviews with them but there are some answers on this question.
I first heard them around 92 or 93 and it's still to me the very only electronic band that generate electronic works I call timeless. I love -ISDN- almost the same as 20 years ago. It is a magic album. Highly recommeded on a psychedelic trip. LIfeforms as well.
They use(d) a lot of modulars as well and also self created instruments most of them with electric circuits.
I found this interview quite interesting it's partly in swedish so you could absorb even more of it.
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Posted : Oct 5, 2014 23:52
yep .. one of them sufffers agoraphhobia.( i know that aint right), so he never goes out.
Hence the ISDN... thats how they managed to do gigs and stuff
did one in japan a wee while ago , using Big screen ...almost like U2 sized
Amorpheous androgenous is there more current project...awesome stuff
same style but will mostly real instruments.
the ISNESS is one of their finest moments in my book,along with Alice in Ultraland
perfect albums. up there next to Dark side of the Moon in my book
They reportedly have had an album as FSOL for quite a few years now...like kinda 10 maybe, im speculating as to the time i heard the roumor.......but felt it was too Futuristic really for people to get so they put it on a shelf
but as they never really givce interviews. ( sound on sound had them in a while back ,) i can only gues as to the validity of this roumour
An amazing desk, Great effects and a very savvy approach to sampling as well as a great ear. is how iwould say they get their sound
play around with your equipment. sample everything you like and then sit down and go through all you have and piece it together
i di d this as am experiment once wiht a friend, we sat for a couple of days and went throuhg every bit of audio we had rendered and all the shitt little tunes that never went anywhere and ripped out the midi. and fuck me . it aint thaty hard to paint with your own colours.
ill see if i can find it. probably be some really shitty mp3
we got a 23 min long piece of music that actually flowed like fuck and was completely origional from start to end
i shall return
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Posted : Oct 6, 2014 12:24
yes . found it...#SORRY BOUT THE SHITTY SOUND...ALL I HAVE LEFT OF THIS PROJECT
PASSING THROUGH.........( single tune in cubase....not a mix)
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Posted : Oct 6, 2014 18:24
pleas judge it on content rather than quality,
was a rendered rough and then we had a fatal hard drive accident....
i really wished i could go back and sort it out.......
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Posted : Oct 8, 2014 14:17
lovely sounds woodster Great work! Is it mostly your modular system? Can you describe what have you used and how you designed your drums? Are the drums /also/loops manipulated through some audio input? Really like it dude https://soundcloud.com/shivagarden
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Posted : Oct 8, 2014 15:01
Moar of it! Send it to Gaz or Brian Dougans maybe he releases it on FSOL label I think Dougans is from Glasgow.
Needs a better mix for sure. Sound desing and composition is higher level https://soundcloud.com/shivagarden
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Posted : Oct 8, 2014 18:43
no modular at all mate.
over the years of trying out plugins i wound up with a huge backlog of audio in random songs
most of drums was done using the audio tools inside cubase.
pitching audio up and down,(processed not real time,) like pitch envelopes
and the rest is just make up from 1/2/4/8 bar loops of rendered audio
theres a couple of midi files . like a bassline and a couple of chords, but its a total jigsaw..
one whole song in cubase (should have seen it/.......started at the top left and it went down to the bottom right. cant remember how many tracks.....but A LOT
no secrets really just building with bricks,
bit of audio, do a search, find the next bit and so on
took about 3 days in total to put it together ,
Cheers for the kind words
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Posted : Oct 27, 2014 10:50
Nice woodster77 im planning to record interesting segments from movies. But my main problem is how i can
find the tempo to all of these individuell segment and fit them to a tempo so i can aply drums to them.
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Posted : Oct 27, 2014 18:24
either stretch them till the peaks in the audio fit with the tempo markers on your daw or cut them up into individual pieces and resequencc them
old school way would be to
cut a 4 or 2 bar loop, trigger it twice then tweek the tempo till theres a natural sounding loop....but theres stuff thatll do the tempo calculating like the post above.
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Posted : Oct 28, 2014 14:41
ok, so your looking for peaks in the audiosamples
so that they will match the tempo markers Can´t wait until i get home to my daw...
Great work! Is it mostly your modular system? Can you describe what have you used and how you designed your drums? Are the drums /also/loops manipulated through some audio input? Really like it dude 
