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[paranomasia]

I've had an algorithm bouncing around in my head for a few years now. It's a method of remixing songs (more specifically, entire albums). It even allows for cross genre remixing. I'm finally getting to a point that it's capable of producing (some) decent sounding cuts

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[i_am_allan]

Listen to some Charles Ives, and perhaps some Darius Milhaud. You'll probably find you can be a bit looser in your matchings, afterwards.

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[squidb0i]

Well, for beat hunk disassembly and reassembly, granular synthesis with tempo match to host would work nicely, such as the one built into Fruit7. Or more generally applicable, there are many VST plug ins that do realtime re-ordering of the audio buffer, such as dBlue Glitch, destroyFX BufferOverride, etc. These can take their timing information, from the master tempo of the host application, allowing effortless on-beat automatic buffer whacking

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[paranomasia]

Yah, I started moving away from glitchy stuff when dBlue and LiveCut got popular. Their sound was too generic and it seemed like most of the people using them weren't even tweaking the parameters. That or they'd just throw it over an entire mix and basically kill anything decent that might have been there.

I'm delving into more of a 'macro-glitch' sound. Basically pushing common rhythms to ambiguity without true granular synthesis. The concept is a little goofy, but the general sound is close to Akufen. Kinda like microsampling but without the repetition of granular synthesis.

There's a command-line/terminal tool (not a plugin though) that analyzes the audio you give it, then splits it into layers based on frequency range and settings. Just a forewarning, it's NOT real time. It can take a few minutes to process a few seconds of audio. It's great for tearing loops to bits though! http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/2005/11/simple-demixing.php

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[squidb0i]

oooooh, nice!
I love SmartElectronix plug ins, but was unaware of this one.
Good score, thanks!
=D

[me_langel]

Many years ago I thought I could come up with a way to disassemble the music theory behind Metallica's song writing and have the computer spit out new Metallica songs that resembled their work in the 80's. I've never actually tried it out... But one would think that if you could accomplish that it would be applicable to any band. I think I always thought of Metallica for it because they have a very distinct style of thrash.