Caltrops - No Stairway to Heaven





	[quote name="FoK"][quote name="Entropy Stew"] This is why Absynth and stuff like <a href="http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/atmosphere.html">this</a> both scares me and gives me a raging hardon at the same time. The possibility-space there is so big, much moreso than most other synths, you could fall in. If I bought Atmosphere the first thing I'd do is sit down and listen to all 3.2 gigs of samples, dieing of starvation somehere at the 800th patch or so. After having started to play around with the creation of music, I went back to some mp3s I had lying around that I didn't particularly like and found new interest in them. I started to appreciate stuff that couldn't hold my interest before because I got a glimpse of the effort that went into making it. [/quote] It's funny that you mention <i>Atmospheres</i>. One of the guys I work for got a copy of that 2 months ago. He was having a slow period, and I swear to God he did nothing but browse patches for 5 weeks. Every couple of hours: "Hey, come listen to this!" Exactly what you're saying. He eventually ended up doing what I suspect most people do with every softsynth they didn't pay for: he has it around, when he needs a sound, he gets an idea of what he wants it to sound like, and then he finds a patch that resembles that sound. While it's great that he has that capability, it seems like a shame that these new toys make noises no one's heard, but the sonic palette is so vastly expansive that no one is really exploring the boundaries, since we're mainly just trying to figure out how to stand up. (Incidentally, this same guy managed to land a gig reviewing the <a href="http://www.ilio.com/vienna/cube/">Vienna Symphonic Library</a> for a magazine, so he got that shit, for free, legally. DAMN. It's going to to take him a year just to figure out how to work it: it has <b>45 Gb</b> of samples. [quote] I think the "turn it on and go" is more prevalent in dance music. Whambo + thud + bink + thweep. Done. Then, to top it off, the final song has too damn much repetition. I generally enjoy EBM, but even some of the stuff I like is annoying in it's repetetivosity. -/ES/-[/quote] When I say EBM, I'm really just thinking fondly of the bands I liked when I was young: Nitzer Ebb, BiGod 20, Front 242. I doubt I'd like it if I was hearing it now for the first time. Robot Disco, on the other hand (Adult.), is great and I'm just discovering it now. Basically, it's kind of punky in its idea that you can make one texture that's fun enough for a whole song (note: keep it short). THUMP-(clap!)-THUMP-(clap!). Still, though, the best bands in that category can't leave it alone anyways, and manage to complexify their tracks despite their best inetentions.[/quote]