Taken with Canon g5X. Around Culross, Scotland.
Category: General
Wallace Memorial
only something – the genie coefficients
Found an old Yamaha QY70 whilst looking for something else. Used the NDLR and recorded direct into Logic. Added drums using the Drummer and Ugritone KVLT drums and added a vocal with Synthesiser V.
A couple of hours max plus time to edit the photo of the best birthday card. Ever.
MadWaves MadPlayer – Generative music device from around 2003
I found one of these in a drawer whilst I was looking for something else. I think I have another one somewhere.
It has an apparently common problem of the rubberised paint becoming what can only be described as “slimy”. But for its time it is a pretty interesting bit of kit. Basically creates up to 6 part generative music in a variety of styles with pretty much (I think) infinite variation.Including an FM radio that can (it appears) be sampled from.
This is a recording direct into Logic of a “TripHop” track (which is completely randomly generated, instantly) with a bit of messing around at the end in terms of regenerating the drums. Which was done in realtime as the audio was recording into the Mac. Just with a bit of compression and reverb added in Logic.
It will save created tracks to midi but does so to a SmartMedia card – I have an order in for a reader. Which should really increase the potential. There is a USB interface but it uses a proprierty cable that is long gone.
I do have a bit of an idea that if it was, even now, repacked in a form that looked a little less like a children’s toy (and perhaps the inbuilt track themes were updated a little), with a normal USB port and SD card support, it would still stand up.
And losing the slimy paint would be good (off to wash hands).