MOTM

> From: "David Bivins" <david@...>
> > Did you build these?  SNARE?  BASS?  How were they?
> <hangs head in shame>Er, not yet. I'm going to soon, though! I'll let you
> know--first is the ADV-Bass.

I haven't got Thomas Henry to reply to my emails.  How was your response
from him?

> > Do you want to reverse the whole sample or little snippets?  Do
> > you want the
> > MOTM to do this????
> It's hard to explain--I visualize it a little better. It's basically about
> reversing the actual samples (that make up a whole "sample") in a linear
> fashion so that the sample overall folds over itself. The user
> could dictate
> the curve by which it reverses, etc. This wouldn't really be a MOTM kind
of
> thing (although I guess it could be) but more of a VST Plugin kind of
thing
> or standalone digital module.
> This may be a better explanation. Let's say the samples comprising a tone
> are represented by the letters of the alphabet so that the tone is:
ABCDEFGHIJ
> Now we put it through the wringer thus: ABCDEFEDCDEFGHIJ
> Now we control the "curve" of the reversal:
> AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFFEEEDDCDDEEEFFFFGGGGHHHHIIIIJJJJ

What your are describing is extreme time-stretching.  The classic use of the
this effect in jungle/breakbeat/drum&bass.  It also is used in some other
genres of techno such as happy hardcore.  This is a full on digital effect
and will only sound the way you want it to as a result of the digital
artifacts that are created.  A snap to do on almost all samples and many
digital editing programs.

A friend created an effect on his Ensoniq EPS 16+ where he loops a small
sample (snippet) and controls the loop point with the mod wheel which gives
the same effect with more variations and controllability.

This only really sounds cool with vocals IMO.

This will never make it into an MOTM module methinks.

Ciao,
Todd

P.S.  Sample can have 2 basic meanings in my own common terms.  1) a sample
can be a collection of "samples" in time.  Examples are .wav and .au files.
2) an actual sampling of the level of sound at a given point in time.  a
44.1 kHz sampling rate would mean that samples are taken once every
forty-four thousand one hundredth of a second.  or a one second "sample"
would contain 44,100 samples.  3) and you thought there were only two.  a
sample of a sample.  a snippet of a sample.  people usually understand by
context.

sorry if this is too off topic or too simple.  please feel free to add to or
correct my definitions.