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By MohammedNiyalSayeed (Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 05:14:58 PM EST) makin' poops, friggin' intense (all tags)

Update [2006-3-2 17:19:39 by MohammedNiyalSayeed]: Attention Tag-Trouble-Having Infidels: File under Rock or possibly SPEEDMETAL.

It's like "Tom Traubert's Blues", only crazier, and the vocals don't exist. I did them. Believe me, it's better without. There're some thresholds of crazy that even I dare not cross.

OK, I totally didn't do them. But I still maintain they would only detract, and that I'm not lazy.

And thus ends my entry to MFC Waits.

I'd tell you other shit, but I'm busy, yo. Busy doin' nothin'.

I will tell you, though, that today's poops: VOLUMINOUS!

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Um... by ana (4.00 / 1) #1 Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 05:36:14 PM EST

Interesting.

Still thinking, re: sending you vocals to whatever.

Can you introspect out loud? --CRwM

If it has a click track by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #6 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:18:43 AM EST

I can rock it, yo.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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I have just worked out the benefit of matching by cam (4.00 / 1) #11 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:26:11 AM EST

the bpm in a garageband file. The clicks match up to the imported wavs!!!! Who would have thought.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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Nobody but people who edit music by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 2) #15 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:50:32 AM EST

Back in pre-ProTools/pre-Garageband/pre-Logic/pre-Live days, I used SoundEdit 16 by Macromedia to record and edit. For every single song I'd do, I'd take the loop time, determine the bpm, then determine the time values for whole, half, quarter, sixteenth, thirty-second, and sixty-fourth notes (you'd be amazed how often 64th notes come in handy), then set to work on chopping and pasting and cutting and fading and applying effects and delay (all based on the various note values, naturally), and that shit took forever. Eventually, I built a database application to track all the various looptimes for each track, so I wouldn't have to recalculate all the time. Then I learned the majesty of using the correct bpm in newer, more capable audio editing apps, and now I'm totally spoiled.

I am much more likely to spend a day and a half obsessively chopping something to bits if it's matched to the bpm the project file is in, because it just *all makes sense* then.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Ah. by ana (4.00 / 2) #18 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:56:34 AM EST

Yeah, there was a click track playing as I recorded stuff, but I didn't think it ended up in the garageband file. I'm finding I really like garageband, the more I play with it. Though at some point I'll actually know enough to ask questions, and the world will come to an untimely end.

Can you introspect out loud? --CRwM
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: Yeh I finally twigged as to its use too by cam (4.00 / 1) #20 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 10:41:44 AM EST

I also know why mns pulls his hair out if the recording is off the click track or not to the bpm.
I am empathic now!
cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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I'm still working on... by ana (4.00 / 1) #12 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:27:49 AM EST

figuring out the click track thing. And creating something worth looking at/listening to, of course.

Can you introspect out loud? --CRwM
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: I think you used it last time by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #16 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:52:29 AM EST

Or if you didn't, then note values for the keyboard stuff were all quantized and on-note. Basically, turn on the metronome, perform and record to that, then it magically disappears when exporting as mp3.

As far as creating something worth looking at/listening to, I personally gave up on that long ago. If I make something I like, I'm generally pleased. I think the important thing is the making, not the product, per se.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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NOT AS GOOD! by Awakened Dreamer (4.00 / 2) #2 Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 05:51:36 PM EST

Not anywhere near as good as your tribute to the almighty Robin. You need to do another one of those. Pronto. Get to it. Don't hesitate. Go back through old CRwM diaries until you find a Robin Free Form Jazz Speak poem you can convert and get to it. NOW! GO!

I'll get to it, I'll get to it by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:21:49 AM EST

There are only so many hours in a day, you know.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Priorities, bitch. by Awakened Dreamer (4.00 / 1) #13 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:35:16 AM EST

If I can take time to make Mickey Mouse have an evil lightsaber, you can take time to make more Robin Jazz Speak music.

And speaking of lightsabers, you ever get yours?

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No saber yet by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #17 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:56:01 AM EST

I was going to wait until after I got home from vacation. And now I'm home, but it's the first of the month, so I'm finding myself swamped just taking care of monthly shit. Well, that, and some other shit.

There'll be another Robin the Self-Aware Robot song soon enough, and I guarantee you, it will make you feel dirty. So dirty, in fact, you won't want to be seen in the same room it's playing. You know, music like Jebus likes it.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: Again. . .PRIORITIES BITCH! by Awakened Dreamer (2.00 / 0) #19 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 10:00:41 AM EST

Do you want to eat, or do you want to be a Sith Lord? Come on damn it, get the right answer or forever will something mumble something haunt your destiny.
And music that makes me feel dirty is good. I still like that tune by Morbid Angel that sounds like a orgy is going on. Mom ran into my room more than once thinking I was watching porn when that was playing.
I didn't think to question why she would want to catch me watching porn until much later in life. Thankfully, by then I was too numb for it to bother me too much.

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I second that emotion! Get . . . by slozo (4.00 / 1) #3 Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 09:12:08 PM EST

. . . some free form Robin verse goin', and you're off to the races! I hear a german oom pah pah band making an appearance, somehow . . .

You internet people and your demands! by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #8 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:21:04 AM EST

It's a friggin' Tom Waits cover! YOU'RE WELCOME, INTERNET PEOPLE!

I'd love some Germanic horns, but, sadly, I own none, which makes the recording of them very difficult. Synthetic brass wind instruments have a long way to go.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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: Synthetic wind instruments + sythetic Robin = by Awakened Dreamer (4.00 / 1) #14 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:36:06 AM EST

YAY!

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Mine was pungent by miker2 (4.00 / 2) #4 Thu Mar 02, 2006 at 09:55:01 PM EST

with the consistency of half-set QuikRete.

Ah, sociopathy. How warm, how comforting, thy sweet embrace. - MNS

: +1, Semi-Solid by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #7 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:19:36 AM EST

I like the smell of garlic in the morning. When it's my own, that is. But that went without saying, until just then.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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That was really nice by cam (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 08:43:02 AM EST

You do good techno-ambient-pop.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic

: Gracias by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #10 Fri Mar 03, 2006 at 09:22:42 AM EST

I was particularly proud of how I integrated increasing prime numbers in the time signature from about midway on.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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