Hi, Michael!
On Tuesday, 29. January 2002 20:25, Michael Stutz wrote:
> They're vinyl tracks mixed together for interesting effect ...
> as distributed on MP3:
> Anyone doing this sort of thing with Linux, or direct with
> digital files?
Is that legal at all ??? ;o)))
I did something similar several years ago on my 386 in a wave
editor, with very crappy results ;o).
What I learnt from it was that nowadays, musical recordings are
just huge chunks of data, and all you need to create them is
software and data, not real instruments which you have to play
in real time.
There is one big technical problem with this sound recycling:
With each cycle, the amount of chaotic noise will increase. So,
in order to hold some level of quality, it will be necessary to
add some fresh sound, too.
Tracker software, like "The Real Soundtracker" (GPL) can help
here,
o to produce the refresh sound,
o to mix the recycling sound sniplets more easily and
o to unmix other peoples songs (if the source code is
available)
Problems with trackers are IMHO,
o that the samples have to fit in the RAM
o that you can hardly compose stuff that sounds like played
backwards, and
o the very strict time raster.
At the moment I don't make recycled music, but maybe I will
restart that as soon as there is a huge base of free music to
play with (and that uses a sane license). To recycle proprietary
music is fun, of course, too, but it propably renders the
results undistributable.
cu
Thomas
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