Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Ed,

Yes, of course there are still "live" foley artists out there, 
practicing their ancient black arts (I think some even wear dark 
cloaks.. wink) some even are doing sound effect library CDs for sale.. 
even Lucasfilm now sells their own CDs. Some scenes are very difficult 
to do without actual foley but they are few, and I don't do them. There 
is a great honesty and mystique that is the unique trade of the foley 
artiste... I however, like the clean, bright, stainless steel and neon 
future.. plus, it's easier to change stuff around in the edit!

Here's a simplified explanation:

A hit list is sorta a basic guide track to what I gotta do in a scene. I 
put the visuals in a track, then I watch it, placing 'hits' where it 
needs to be.. in the case of the boxing short, I used cymbal pads as 
head blows, toms for body blows, kick and snare for HARD punches. The 
MIDI track then created went into a track that was assigned to the 
Yamaha sampler that was loaded with various punch sounds, velocity 
varied the pitch and gave a unique sound to some of the hits.. I didn't 
want the old Kung-Fu sound of every punch and kick to sound the same.
I give the editor a CD with the timecoded AIF files for insertion into 
the edit. I also give them the individual samples used to construct the 
scene, just in case they need it.. sometimes edits change from when I 
saw it... I found it easier to do that after a director called me up 
looking for a flag sound I created, six months after I did my work... he 
needed it for a trailer edit.

I do more sound effect design and music programming than anything else 
right now... but some nasty problems has set me back sumthin' fierce 
this year... lightning strike... construction delays... chronic 
tendonitis.. to name a few...

gord.



emf wrote:

> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, distortion@r... wrote:
> I use the DTX as a trigger interface for everything from playing
> music,
> > to doing a hit-list for sound effect placement in sound editing,
> kinda
> > like how the old foley guys used to do it... great fun when I did a
> > boxing short!
>
> Gord,
>
> I'm not sure what you mean about the hit list. Did you insert the
> sound for, say, the right uppercut on the boxing short, or just mark
> it with, say, a gong for someone else? Also, are all the old foley
> guys out of work now, unless they have sound effect modules? I read
> somewhere not long ago that even Lucas has a room for traditional
> foley work. This is interesting stuff; we'd love to read more about
> it if you have the time.
>
> Ed 
>
>
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