sequencer circa Come to Daddy

Listening to flim for the first time in a couple of years got me thinking about how tracks around this time were sequenced.

I remember seeing a live pic a while back showing rdj using an MPC 60 for his live shows, was this around 97? cant find it now.

Would be interested to know, as some of the tracks sequencing gets pretty complex to achieve on an MPC 60.

lol, so is sickboy RdJ then? - if anybody should know, you should know, tompty! ;)

poppycock.

poptyping! num num num

  On 7/29/2011 at 10:45 PM, tompty said:

poppycock.

I like your avatar but sickboy is lame

Regardless , he knows the answer to my question .

  On 7/29/2011 at 10:17 PM, tompty said:

Listening to flim for the first time in a couple of years got me thinking about how tracks around this time were sequenced.

 

I remember seeing a live pic a while back showing rdj using an MPC 60 for his live shows, was this around 97? cant find it now.

 

Would be interested to know, as some of the tracks sequencing gets pretty complex to achieve on an MPC 60.

on the 1000 the "sequence edit" facilities are pretty good. copy, paste, move, replace, move back and forward, transpose, change velocity, change duration, etc. if you know them well and think ahead a bit, you can build up complex patterns very quickly by using combos of these e.g. a snare rush from copy+velocity used recursively. if the MPC60 has all that (never used it myself), it might not be as bad as you'd think.

that being said, i wouldn't be surprised if he used an Atari ST or a Powermac. Powermac is my bet -- i always kind of pictured it being made on a computer

Maybe it was a tracker. People forget about trackers.

When i was on xltronic i saw people rip into Grant from rephlex on all manner of things. No one knew it was Grant. I only knew cause I got his email by accident after asking for tech support on a synth. So it goes to show how little it matters if you are one of the cool kids on an internet forum. No reflection on real life and what you are doing.

  On 7/30/2011 at 12:43 AM, marf said:

Maybe it was a tracker. People forget about trackers.

i said Atari ST :)

  On 7/30/2011 at 12:43 AM, marf said:

Maybe it was a tracker. People forget about trackers.

 

When i was on xltronic i saw people rip into Grant from rephlex on all manner of things. No one knew it was Grant. I only knew cause I got his email by accident after asking for tech support on a synth. So it goes to show how little it matters if you are one of the cool kids on an internet forum. No reflection on real life and what you are doing.

i couldn't agree more!

also, there is no such thing as "cool kids on an internet forum". :) believe.

I dont understand marf?

I am saying sickboy is rdj not he contrary.

I think for Flim it might have been a Windows or Mac based Cubase + softsynths

apparently for Bucephalus Bouncing Ball it was Csound sampled into MPC-60

yes, it would seem he initially went mac, then switched to PCs (the vaio at gigs). perhaps some enterprising forumite will start a thread about "The Aphex Twin: Mac or PC?"

  On 7/30/2011 at 4:44 AM, TNT said:

 

apparently for Bucephalus Bouncing Ball it was Csound sampled into MPC-60

that would be really impressive if that track had been done with the 60. must have been an absolute master with the step edit function to get such complex sequences .

cheers

Probably either Pro Tools or Cubase.

  On 7/29/2011 at 10:17 PM, tompty said:

I remember seeing a live pic a while back showing rdj using an MPC 60 for his live shows, was this around 97? cant find it now.

SuperCollider would be my guess. Didn't he have a guy writing code for him at one point?

  On 8/2/2011 at 11:41 PM, cern said:

  On 7/29/2011 at 10:17 PM, tompty said:

I remember seeing a live pic a while back showing rdj using an MPC 60 for his live shows, was this around 97? cant find it now.

in one of the other pics there's an atari ST as well.

maybe it was both in combination -- the 60 could have been slaved to the Atari or vice-versa

HAB and Spotlight Remix were done on an Atari Falcon/CDP according to my info, it's possible that RDJ LP and CTD were too.

are we sure that's live? that's a hell of a lot of (expensive) shit to have w you on stage.

refer to this post:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/31639-rare-pics-of-rdj/page__view__findpost__p__1326800

  On 8/3/2011 at 2:34 PM, xy_politics said:

HAB and Spotlight Remix were done on an Atari Falcon/CDP according to my info, it's possible that RDJ LP and CTD were too.

Wasn't CDP more of a "plugin" type program for already existing sequencers/music software?

  On 8/3/2011 at 6:08 PM, Diao said:

  On 8/3/2011 at 2:34 PM, xy_politics said:

HAB and Spotlight Remix were done on an Atari Falcon/CDP according to my info, it's possible that RDJ LP and CTD were too.

 

Wasn't CDP more of a "plugin" type program for already existing sequencers/music software?

Yeah CDP is the software, and comes with soundloom+soundshaper (graphic user interface) for musique concrete activities.

atari falcon would just be a sequencer no? I imagine very limited sampler ability. How would anyone know anyway

There is simply no way of know what Richard uses. I only know he was user Panflet on Analog Heaven mailing list.

I can only guess on Bucephalus Bouncing Ball an eventide H3000 was used. Or some other high end digital delay with sampler option.