by djnarrative | 5 Apr, 2011 | Reckorder Tutorials
So our first studio session of 2011 was with the hugely talented Mike Freear of Alphadrive fame and was a thoroughly enjoyable and very productive few weeks in the studio which resulted in the aforementioned Slamboree. Things are looking like they will be getting increasingly more hectic in pushing forward with Slambo, but i wanted to drop a short post about a few of the things i learnt in the studio as this was one of the main ideas for the site and initial reckorder project. As i mentioned in first slamboree post - the music and set came together incredibly quickly within the first 3 days and that was largely a result from using existing material, working creatively with loop manipulation, and having a set goal to make tracks that could be adapt to live musicians with minimal rehearsal. Our 2 ways of working were really different with Mike on a laptop and acid pro and me on a ableton with various midi controllers. I'd also been getting heavily into sound design and synthesis and Mike was a ninja at manipulating loops. Regardless of the difference of approach the first thing that was essential to workflow was to : Maintain a well organised library This seems like such an obvious thing to say, but its amazing how out of control and therefore unusable libraries can become. Like a well groomed music collection, It can take days or even weeks of listening, naming and editing samples, sounds and patches, and getting rid of all the sounds that just aren't up to scratch for whatever reason. Both of us have...
