Anheuser-Busch’s foray into the drinking-game industry has been aborted:
LINK: Anheuser-Busch Pulls ‘Water’ Drinking Game
“No, really, you’re supposed to drink water in this game!”
Here’s the best quote:
While it might seem odd for a brewery to market a water-drinking game, Katz said in an e-mail statement that Anheuser-Busch attached its name to “Bud Pong” in the same fashion the company sponsors
NASCAR races or Major League Baseball games.
I guess the plan for creating a national Bud Pong League (featuring water) are kaput.
The experimenting continues. This time I was working on new ways of sequencing drums. This sample has one instance of battery 2, playing the ‘Best of Absynth’ kit, being controlled by 3 midi tracks in Ableton Live. Different loops were bound to keys on my typing keyboard, but I didn’t get too crazy with these until later on in the recording. The synth melody is a simple FM7 patch that I whipped up.
The last minute has the BeatRepeat effect, with certain parameters mapped to midi knobs.
I like it, but my recent reliance on BeatRepeat is making me feel cheesy.
My entry for the last Remixfight.
I got one glorious vote!
I spent a lot of quality time with Reaktor over the weekend.
I had not previously explored the possibilities of its Snapshot-Morph feature (Snapshots are patches in Reaktor-parlance). You can specify two endpoint snapshots, and assign a midi-cc to morph between them — similar to the scene morph on the Yamaha An1x (and many others, presumably. I just happen to have this synth).
Anyway, applying this process to normal synths provides the expected results: radically shifting timbres and crap like that.
Applying it to something like a drum machine creates some warped, mutating grooves. Behold system presets of the drum machine Massive, being so morphed:
I did another Tapegerm song over the weekend. It’s noisy, and accidentally uses about the same “melody” as the G-day mix. Anyway, I think it has some redeeming value.
loops by Buzzsaw and the Shavings.
I stopped by Tapegerm for their first ever Tapegerm G-Day event and made a mix using the day’s loops to help celebrate.
Check out all the mixes, but in particular mine.
I love Tapegerm. If you enjoy working with loops you should definitely consider joining them.
By the way, it uses loops by Heuristics Inc., Mental Anguish, and the International Garbageman.
