Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Week 4 Creative Computing - Logic!


NIN Ripoff Attempt MP3

In order to explore logic a little and demonstrate a MIDI sequenced project, I decided to try to shamelessly rip off Nine Inch Nails a little. Listening to them afterwards, this project sounds no-where near as aggressive, but I don't think it's important.

I created most of the original MIDI data by hand and quantized it for a horribly rigid sound then edited it to add some new material. I created the (barely audible) triplet by changing the grid spacing to 1/24. The hat build is obviously manual. The drums were created from 2 instances of Ultradrum, one of which was distorted. The synths were slightly edited presets of the ES1 with some distortion for a bit of extra grit.

The bell sounds are FM, and there is a piano, an organ with a fast rotary speaker and another with a slow one.

Reference: Christian Haines. "Week 4 Creative Computing - Logic." Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, 19 August 2008.

1 comment:

Lisa Lane-Collins said...

Hey, Passionate Indifference, that'd make a great band name. Yeah yeah :-D Imitating songs using MIDI, no where near as fun as making up new stuff (see Lisa's imitation brand Boys Don't cry bix)