Comments on: Phase Shifter Plugin Like Instant Steve Reich

By: synthhead

synthhead — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:08:33 +0000

Updated the link. Thanks!

By: at0m

at0m — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:16:07 +0000

Corrected download link: http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge_2009…. (_49instead of _29)

Superb tool for shuffles commonly used in minimal!

By: synthhead

synthhead — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:31:48 +0000

We must sick the Frapp-ettes on you now:

By: synthhead

synthhead — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:29:48 +0000

We will sick the Frapp-ettes on you now:

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:58:17 +0000

what was I thinking, denigrating analog fetishism on a synth blog!?

By: synthhead

synthhead — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:23:20 +0000

Good points.

I'm not all for discarding the analog fetishism, though! The more analog and fetishistic, the better!

Bring on the Goldfrapp!

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:01:23 +0000

Yeah, I was mostly responding to the quality of that preview, which actually uses Piano Phase as a model.

I still think, though, that the process of phasing from two distinct analog tapes, mixed down to one analog recording, avoids many issues with digital phasing. This makes me feel crazy, because normally I'm all for discarding analog fetishism, but in this case, I think it makes a difference! (and I'm saying that as someone who has made digital phasing-based compositions)

By: synthhead

synthhead — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:51:15 +0000

Nick – good point – but a better comparison might be to Reich's actual tape pieces, like Come Out.

I agree that much of what makes Reich's phase music interesting, though, is a result of the way people don't accurately repeat themselves..

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:43:42 +0000

This is really neat, but shows the limitations of digitally-base phasing: when the two tracks are digitally/acoustically identical (as opposed to notationally identical or identical on tape), a lot of the brilliance of in-air mixing and dynamic interpretive gloss is lost. When the two parts play at once, they sound just like one part, played louder; if you did this on two pianos, it would sound like two pianos playing at the same time.

(Of course, it looks like there are features built in to this to slightly alter the tracks and offset this problem a little bit, but in my experience the improvement from that is marginal compared to analog phasing.)