Evelate me

[mrlachatte]

This song is a really good mix.  For some reason in the past two days I've been on soulseek non-stop, picking up a bunch of remixes of tracks that I have.  I grabbed a colleciton of U2 mixes, there's several good ones, and this is definitely my favourite.  The dangers of having 4GB suddenly available, raw and waiting for me.  I'm anticipating the finish of U2 - Beautiful Day (Paul Oakenfold Perfecto Mix), as well.

I was talking to XColX today, discussing a bunch of music stuff, and I think I'll try to remix a song I like instead of starting from scratch the next time I sit down in FLStudio/Buzz.  I don't have the sustained creativity necessary to do more than 10 seconds of a song right now, and working within another song would help me along, I think.  I'm also thinking about picking up a really cheap MIDI keyboard for my composing.  I think one of my biggest stumbling blocks is the time it takes to input notes.  I take so long fiddling in Buzz's tracker interface with the weirded-out keyboard layout, and FLStudio's mouse-based one is just plain slow.  A keyboard would let me do chords really easily, I think I'm going to investigate the possibility of buying something cheap.

I'm looking for an acapella version of Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun now.  I wonder if it's out there...

Comments

[kvance.livejournal.com]

Buzz's midi is not great. Every generator has to write its own midi support, and many of them don't have it at all. Also, I'm not sure I've ever gotten it to record/playback to external midi devices like the sequencer it's supposed to be.. though you probably aren't interested in that.

One thing it actually does right is that you can assign any setting on any generator or effect to any MIDI control. So I can use the 40 knobs and sliders on my synth to control everything in realtime!

..heh, said controls are pictured above.

[http://users.livejournal.com/saike_/]

Yeah, buzz midi's support sucks big time. When I hooked it up there was a tremendous lag (like almost half a second), so I turned off the buzz sound and just did the riff on keyboard, and went to fix everything later on...

Although ... thinking riffs up on keyboard and programming them in buzz later works better than the frustrating MIDI stuff. Once you get used to the keyboard layout it isn't all that awkward anymore.

- Sai`ke