Z-Contest-2004- ZDmin

[John Cooper]

This file has expired and is no longer available here. The owner of the topic can re-upload the file, or post a link to an off-site file. <BR><BR><a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: Electronic<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects,Pulsar Mixers<BR> copyright © 2004 John S. Cooper<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> Hey guys,

It's 1 am, I'm an hour overdue, so I guess I'm done I haven't reached 160 bars yet, and haven't managed to use all of the samples (I didn't get to Nestor's voices at all unfortunately!!) Eh well, it's not about quantity, is it?

This was a really fun and challenging project for me- I tried to work in a completely different way from my usual method, and in a different style. I spent a lot of time chopping up bits of people's audio, and recombining them in different ways, pitch shifting them, etc. Not many effects used- mostly delays, an AutoWah, some distortion and filtering, and of course the Vorb I had planned to go back and set levels better, and add some reverb here and there, to smooth out some of the rough bits, but I ran out of time. The song just kind of ends...

I did this primarily in three four-hour sessions. There was an additional hour or so a few weeks ago where I just listened thru all the samples, and thought about it...

Thanks again Nestor for the suggestion to do this. And thanks Chris, Ken and Nestor for all the cool samples!

Cheers
-John

[Nestor]

Hey John, here it is! Wow, very creative man! It reminds me those funky bands of the 90s. I particularly like this 3th part, were you find your guitar melody, it comes exactly at 136. I don’t know how you achieved it, but I can clearly hear some nice trumpets emulations, I whish this would be much longer…I hope you come to this one day, and go farther…

Tell me, which of the samples have you used to create this sort of ear band effect and which effects have you used for it? I would like to reproduce it to try out the effect.

I was anxious to listen to your work having listened to Chris already, it is dead interesting to see how we all came up with so different things using the same samples, as I said to Chris.

Much fun. Thanks John for your participation here.

It just rests to hope Ken can participate as well.

[John Cooper]

Good morning! Thanks for the review Nestor.

The "trumpet emulations" you hear are just a couple notes of Ken's hyperkinetic brass-lead part, extremely time-stretched. I also pitch shifted down a couple steps for the second instance.

You asked how I created the "ear band" effect, but I'm not sure what you're referring to-- please let me know!

BTW, did you recognize your guitar and bass parts? I had a lot of fun cutting selected little slices of all your different bass and guitar parts and recombining them into new parts, with pitch shifting, reversing, etc

Time to listen to yours and Chris's tracks now!

-John

[ChrisWerner]

Hats up, you made your prediction true.
You really worked in a total different way like I or Nestor.
But interesting we all three start with the same pad.

You really shuffeld the samples upside down and the Vorb does an cool job and you was the only one who worked with pitch shifting.
From my view John created the most experimental sounds from our sample pool.
Sorry, but sometimes I feel that your version sounds like an elevator music but I like it very much.
It is fascinating as amazing how different our tracks has developed.
Who judges us now?

It was great to work with your recordings and I hope it wasn´t the last time.
I´ve really enjoyed this contest.
cheers

[John Cooper]

Haha! Elevators! Farthest thing from my mind.

I wonder what elevators would play this kind of music?

-John

[paulrmartin]

I do like this one a lot!
Quite a different approach to choosing and mixing bits and pieces of sound.

Very tasteful

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Paul R. Martin - Are we listening?

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