Tuesday, August 30, 2011
#m4mlive after #Irene - August 29th 2011 - Muzik 4 Machines
random youtube comment i found by googling some M4M typos this afternoon, i totaly didnt remember that
There once was a young man who bought his first electronic synth and soon after he started collecting all types of electronic machines. Playing in a small room till his fingers bled and his ears glowed red, after years in his techno abode he emerged with a smile on his face and hair like Dr. who. He now goes by the name MUZIK 4 MACHINES and his midi interfaces are wired to millions around the world; wanted by the FBI for his abusive tweaking causing uncontrolled dancing.
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Ableton setup(my personal convoluted method)
i posted a question on a forum and started talking wayyy too much, so i decided to blog it
ok, first let me explain a bit about my session and setup
i used to have all sequencing in the tribe, but to play the new album live, i needed linear sequencing so i exported the midi from logic to live
i really want to have each drum part on its own track in live so my column setup is something like this
kick - snare - ghost - clap - perc - closed hat - open hat - rev crash - crash - and so on*
(since i also work that way in logic it was a pretty easy transition
* for geeks only, of you don't care about the setup you can skip this part and not lose any info for the issue discussed, i just feel like talking about it :lol:
the actual live session is more like this as at the moment(because i'm SO gonna save and get a presonus 24 mixer) uses my soundcard (MOTU Traveler) as a submixer into the MOTU midi mixer
the motu inputs are kick, snare, stereo drums, er1 stereo, kaossilator, and 2 mics (talkbox and vocal) (drums are sent to out 1-2 and the mics to out 3-4
the mixing is not done in the card as there is no easy way to map controllers(mackie only) to the dsp mixer(which would be better than using live as a mixer)
the outs are then fed in the midi mixer
IN 1 - MOtu 1-2
IN 2 - Motu 5-6
IN 3 - TX81z
IN 4 - MKS50
IN 5 - DX200
IN 6 - NOrd
IN 7 - MOTU 3-4
IN 8 - (is just a vca, so it gets used as a volume for aux in 2, kaoss pad 3)
aux IN 1 - Kaoss pad 2 return
aux IN 2 - In 8 output
as for outs 7-8-9-10of the MOTU they are plugged (but not used) in the aux sends of the midi mixer with y plugs so i can have send from just the snare in the kaoss (oh yeh, aux 1 sends to kp2, aux 2 to kp3)
soooooo :lol:
mixing of those parts is done in live, plus insert fx on the talkbox (pumper and grain shifter)
so my session column is as follow
(ill go per line as the formating will be messed up)
1 - kick - mono - out 1-2
2 - snare - mono - out 1-2
3- drums - stereo out 1-2
4 - er1 - stereo out 1-2
5 - k01 - stereo out 1-2
6 - talkbox - mono out 3-4
7 - mic - mono out 3-4
8 - spacer
9 - sidechain signal for the live compressors on all -pler and talkbox)
10-VocalPler - stereo out 5-6 (for playing a capellas audio)
11-zikpler Stereo out 5-6 (for playing instrument audio parts) (both of these are legacy, i used them for live remix
12-DrumPler stereo out 1-2
13-AlbumPler steeo out 5-6 (additional tracks i cannot play live) (those 2 are only there for the album part of the set)
14-spare track (muted and disabled, for rejected/unused/not needed files i might need one day)
15-MIDI loopback 1 (when using the tribe as a sequencer, routing instrument part 2(MKS) in the nord(actually the reverse for technical reasons)
16-MIDI loopback 3 (Part 2 to vocoder (stupid pedal is channel 16 only)
17-spacer
18-Kick
19-Snare
20-Ghost
21-Clap
22-Closed
23-Open
24-Reverse
25-Crash
26-Closed 2
27-Open 2 (the 2 stretch part on the ESX)
28-Slice (pretty much unused as i havent figured out hot to advance steps on that track lol)
29-spacer
30-tx
31-mks
32-dx
33-nord
34-vocoder
there is about 500 scenes in the session but at the moment only about 250 are used, but as i transfer all sequencing data from the tribe (256 patterns, many will take like 10 scenes to hold all variations
some scenes will be exact midi duplicates but have diff vocalpler or zikpler (most remixes i do have pretty much the same backing notes, but diff words and stuff)
sooo, that was a long post, hope some peole will enjoy this geek tech talk
ok, first let me explain a bit about my session and setup
i used to have all sequencing in the tribe, but to play the new album live, i needed linear sequencing so i exported the midi from logic to live
i really want to have each drum part on its own track in live so my column setup is something like this
kick - snare - ghost - clap - perc - closed hat - open hat - rev crash - crash - and so on*
(since i also work that way in logic it was a pretty easy transition
* for geeks only, of you don't care about the setup you can skip this part and not lose any info for the issue discussed, i just feel like talking about it :lol:
the actual live session is more like this as at the moment(because i'm SO gonna save and get a presonus 24 mixer) uses my soundcard (MOTU Traveler) as a submixer into the MOTU midi mixer
the motu inputs are kick, snare, stereo drums, er1 stereo, kaossilator, and 2 mics (talkbox and vocal) (drums are sent to out 1-2 and the mics to out 3-4
the mixing is not done in the card as there is no easy way to map controllers(mackie only) to the dsp mixer(which would be better than using live as a mixer)
the outs are then fed in the midi mixer
IN 1 - MOtu 1-2
IN 2 - Motu 5-6
IN 3 - TX81z
IN 4 - MKS50
IN 5 - DX200
IN 6 - NOrd
IN 7 - MOTU 3-4
IN 8 - (is just a vca, so it gets used as a volume for aux in 2, kaoss pad 3)
aux IN 1 - Kaoss pad 2 return
aux IN 2 - In 8 output
as for outs 7-8-9-10of the MOTU they are plugged (but not used) in the aux sends of the midi mixer with y plugs so i can have send from just the snare in the kaoss (oh yeh, aux 1 sends to kp2, aux 2 to kp3)
soooooo :lol:
mixing of those parts is done in live, plus insert fx on the talkbox (pumper and grain shifter)
so my session column is as follow
(ill go per line as the formating will be messed up)
1 - kick - mono - out 1-2
2 - snare - mono - out 1-2
3- drums - stereo out 1-2
4 - er1 - stereo out 1-2
5 - k01 - stereo out 1-2
6 - talkbox - mono out 3-4
7 - mic - mono out 3-4
8 - spacer
9 - sidechain signal for the live compressors on all -pler and talkbox)
10-VocalPler - stereo out 5-6 (for playing a capellas audio)
11-zikpler Stereo out 5-6 (for playing instrument audio parts) (both of these are legacy, i used them for live remix
12-DrumPler stereo out 1-2
13-AlbumPler steeo out 5-6 (additional tracks i cannot play live) (those 2 are only there for the album part of the set)
14-spare track (muted and disabled, for rejected/unused/not needed files i might need one day)
15-MIDI loopback 1 (when using the tribe as a sequencer, routing instrument part 2(MKS) in the nord(actually the reverse for technical reasons)
16-MIDI loopback 3 (Part 2 to vocoder (stupid pedal is channel 16 only)
17-spacer
18-Kick
19-Snare
20-Ghost
21-Clap
22-Closed
23-Open
24-Reverse
25-Crash
26-Closed 2
27-Open 2 (the 2 stretch part on the ESX)
28-Slice (pretty much unused as i havent figured out hot to advance steps on that track lol)
29-spacer
30-tx
31-mks
32-dx
33-nord
34-vocoder
there is about 500 scenes in the session but at the moment only about 250 are used, but as i transfer all sequencing data from the tribe (256 patterns, many will take like 10 scenes to hold all variations
some scenes will be exact midi duplicates but have diff vocalpler or zikpler (most remixes i do have pretty much the same backing notes, but diff words and stuff)
sooo, that was a long post, hope some peole will enjoy this geek tech talk
Monday, July 25, 2011
remix "contest" - Simulated Vacuum
the files are here
you can stream the song from here
or buy from iTunes
or even go as far as to buy a physical CD
someone asked me on youtube to have a go at remixing simulated vacuum, so i made those packs and thought, well, since they are online, why not share them with the community and see what sounds we can get from that :)
there is 3 packs, one is only the drum sound (cause i thought i had forgot to zip them with the logic session)
the MIDI plus sfx is a trimmed MIDI file ready to be imported in ableton live and the 2 stems are the "guitars" and the sfx/beep/solo (i won't even need the "guitar" in my live version, but it's there nonetheless
the Session pack is the Logic 9 session, audio files and all that is needed to open it for those among you using logic
you can stream the song from here
or buy from iTunes
or even go as far as to buy a physical CD
someone asked me on youtube to have a go at remixing simulated vacuum, so i made those packs and thought, well, since they are online, why not share them with the community and see what sounds we can get from that :)
there is 3 packs, one is only the drum sound (cause i thought i had forgot to zip them with the logic session)
the MIDI plus sfx is a trimmed MIDI file ready to be imported in ableton live and the 2 stems are the "guitars" and the sfx/beep/solo (i won't even need the "guitar" in my live version, but it's there nonetheless
the Session pack is the Logic 9 session, audio files and all that is needed to open it for those among you using logic
Saturday, July 23, 2011
see it on photosynth where you can pan and zoom
new toy (EHX V256)
and it's pedal board
it's a pretty convoluted chain but it works(only downside is the v256 synth has no mono and/or porta mode
the mics plugs in the v256
the main out of the v256 goes in the line selector return 1
the synth out of the v256 goes in the pedals then in the ls2 main in
the ls2 main out goes in the mixer
the loop 1 send goes into the talkbox amp
loop 2 is a loop back to have a volume control on the synth
that way i can: use the vocoder like normal OR
use the internal synth as a regular poly saw synth OR
send the synth in the talkbox, put the mix to dry on the v256 and also have a talkbox
talk about overusing a piece of gear lol
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
some history
someone asked me something on a forum and i started digressing, so here is a short history of how i distributed/shared my stuff and gained some exposure for pretty much nothing but time
at first i was just giving away everything on my website(mp3) it got crawled and got me thousands of hits from mp3 sites like bee and a lot of russian agregators
then when i started making lots of videos i used mininova for a long time(since the dawn of the content distribution thing) and gave everything away for free, all the time
then i started using recordunion.com (a&r code 480a116f8e, it will give you 2 free uploads] and got my music on itunes and stuff(amazon, deezer, djtunes, juno, spottify, napster, etc), got me a bit of money and some exposure
being on amazon, i managed to make an artistcentral page for the band
last month i decided to sell physical cd's i first went to cafepress cd on demand and followed the path to the closest thing there was to the original cd maker and signed up with ccnow.com, was a 40$ investment (only the second time i had to pay for anything to distribute the stuff)
i also use heavily the social networks like twitter, facebook (fan pages and profile) google plus(ask me if you want an invite if necessary)
a page on last fm with free downloads is nice too and i still keep a myspace page active
i'm also very active on youtube, with over 1.5k subscribers and over 1 million total views
still i'm looking for help too for the sending of presskits/radio play/international booking
at first i was just giving away everything on my website(mp3) it got crawled and got me thousands of hits from mp3 sites like bee and a lot of russian agregators
then when i started making lots of videos i used mininova for a long time(since the dawn of the content distribution thing) and gave everything away for free, all the time
then i started using recordunion.com (a&r code 480a116f8e, it will give you 2 free uploads] and got my music on itunes and stuff(amazon, deezer, djtunes, juno, spottify, napster, etc), got me a bit of money and some exposure
being on amazon, i managed to make an artistcentral page for the band
last month i decided to sell physical cd's i first went to cafepress cd on demand and followed the path to the closest thing there was to the original cd maker and signed up with ccnow.com, was a 40$ investment (only the second time i had to pay for anything to distribute the stuff)
i also use heavily the social networks like twitter, facebook (fan pages and profile) google plus(ask me if you want an invite if necessary)
a page on last fm with free downloads is nice too and i still keep a myspace page active
i'm also very active on youtube, with over 1.5k subscribers and over 1 million total views
still i'm looking for help too for the sending of presskits/radio play/international booking
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Muzik 4 Machines Old School, Plastic CD Store is now open
http://muzik4machines.com/store
Muzik 4 Machines Old School, Plastic CD Store is now open
special introductory price of 4,44$ per single CD (about half of the download price, it's a real bargain)
I sell at cost because the goal is not to make money, it's to have those plastic discs travel round the world in cars and old boom boxes
Magasin officiellement ouvert avec 5 albums pour commencer, plus a venir a mesure que les fichiers seront en ligne, special d'ouverture a 4,44$ par cd dans un mailer (au cost, le but étant de faire circuler du plastique plus que de faire de l'argent)
iTunes: http://bit.ly/fB0L9V
Home: http://muzik4machines.com
Store: http://muzik4machines.com/store
Twitter: http://twitter.com/muzik4machines
Podcast: http://muzik4machines.com/2ztc7w
Youtube: http://youtube.com/muzik4machines
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Musik.For.Machines
Monday, June 27, 2011
Solo Circuits Cessna 172
Transistor Casino featured here :) en vente ici http://itunes.apple.com/album/microprocessors-for-mammals/id444765786
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