Re: [-empyre-] microsounders / software

["Stasisfield.com" <john@stasisfield.com>]

> I visited the links offered here but could
> not find references to the software used by
> the microsounders to convert txt-to-mid or
> bmp-to-wav, and other computer aids they
> use to compose. Any hints? Thanks!


Sorry for the late reply on this, Nemo, but here is an explanation of 
the gear I use...

On the hardware side, all of the pieces I have offered on my Empyre 
page [http://www.stasisfield.com/empyre], with the exception of the 
Still-Life track, were composed on a special edition iBook (one of 
the late-period clamshell models). I've recently purchased a 12" G4 
PowerBook, which is what the Stil-Life track was composed on. I also 
use a Sharp MD-MT 15  portable minidisc recorder and a Sony ECM-MS907 
stereo mic for field recordings. Some of my effects are created with 
an original model Kaoss pad. Sometimes I use a Grundig shortwave 
radio during live performance, sampled with and manipulated by the 
Kaoss pad. I also occasionally play a beat up old Epiphone bass with 
purposefully detuned strings.

On the software side,  I use a combination of Peak and Felt Tip's 
Sound Studio for audio editing, some basic effects and final track 
mastering. For sound sequencing, manipulation and performance, I use 
Reason 2.0. In the past I used the shareware program SoundEffects 1.0 
for performance, which was very crude...all it did was record and 
play loops, with no real-time effects, so every sound I made was 
created as a loop and had its effects added before final performance 
or composition. I used the Kaoss pad much more back then. I have also 
used MetaSynth for sound generation (a program which converts visual 
information into synthesized sound).

> >

john kannenberg

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