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another theremin-free experiment
Wire Mother, hahaha, I was hoping no-one would ask. Here's a full description.
I used Garageband and Amadeus Pro. I took three 4/4 MIDI drum loops and had each playing concurrently on different channels. I then slowed them down to 40BPM, which is as slow as Garageband will go. The loops were: Classic Rock Beat 01, Ambient Beat 01 and Deep House Dance Beat 06. I then reassigned the instruments they used from their usual drum sets to the presets Horn Section, Gorai Atmosphere and Orchestral Strings respectively. I dropped the pitch of the second track by 17 semitones and adjusted the volumes so that the first track starts at silences and increases steadily to 0dB by the end, the second track goes from silence to 0dB at the half-way point and then back to silence at the end and the third track goes from 0dB at the start to silence at the end.
Then I exported the result to Amadeus Pro, where I slowed it down to half speed without altering the pitch twice and then dropped the pitch an octave without altering the speed. Then I applied a bit of compression with the AU Dynamics Processor. The vocal track was the first piece of public domain audio I could find in a language that I did not understand. (i.e. anything except English.) I believe it is Italian because the file name auto-translates to "Interference Literary Snapshot." (I only discovered this after I had finished. It seems oddly appropriate. I have no idea what he is saying. Given the file name I guess something pretentious. :-) This I slowed down and pitch adjusted as with the other track (I *think* I halved the speed and dropped it an octave.) Then I reversed it, gave it a big reverb (AUMatrixReverb, Cathedral preset) and reversed it back again, normalised the volume and dropped it over the middle of the audio.
Finally I snipped out a couple of silences - one near the start, one near the end, and cut a few seconds off at the end to give it a more satisfying finish and a tiny fade-in and fade-out to remove start and end clicks.
For a change, no theremins.
very nice :-)
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