
=[ free motion machine ]=
- Format:
- Impulse Tracker 2.14v5 IT 2.14
- Size:
- 2059296 bytes
- BPM:
- 125
- Speed:
- 6
- Channels:
- 19
- Song Length:
- 30
- Samples:
- 39
- Instruments:
- 39
- Patterns:
- 29
- Tracks:
- 1
- Track length:
- 551
- SHA1:
- 942fdac71ecf5900aea6d7133ab2c59930a4bd1f
- MD5:
- cfa890783dbebbccd5d9525710b40dcc
Comment
= [ f r e e m o t i o n m a c h i n e ] = by jmph (Jay Hoeberechts) - 6/6/2014 - auckland I just started playing around with some loops, and this came out of nowhere. Finished in about a week and a half after I realized Flashback 2014 was coming up and they were accepting remote entries. I can't make the party but this is the next best thing! Fun fact: this will be my first proper party compo entry since Coma3 in 2001. Written mostly (probably 80%) with REAL Impulse Tracker under REAL DOS on REAL HARDWARE. No virtual machines or emulators! Fun fact number 2: the 909-like kick drum was made on a Roland MC-202. WTF! That's not any kind of drum machine, how the hell did I do that?! The *other* kick drum was a sample from an actual drum machine. From the Soviet Union. This tune is the -compo version- which means I had a 2MB limit on size to deal with! The 303 patterns alone came to like 10MB when I recorded them! That means I had to reduce the quality rather drastically and shorten the whole song a bit to fit everything in. Still manages to sound pretty good though! I encourage you to grab the full quality verison off either of my sites in the next little while: http://soundcloud.com/jmph-1 http://buzztunes.org/music/jmph <-- IT file will be here OR: The MIDI notation for the x0xb0x is still there, on muted channel 19 (insts 25 & 26.) Grab any acid bass machine you like, set it to MIDI channel 1, hit F5 and make the ACIEEEED yourself! * WARNING: IF YOU PLAY THIS MODULE IN HARDWARE MIXING MODE ON AN AWE64 YOU WILL GET SYNC PROBLEMS WITH THE 303 SAMPLES. * During the composition I found a NASTY surprise as I was using an AWE64 in hardware mode for simultaneous sample playback+MIDI out. I've done this on other tunes, e.g. 'Under a Foreign Sky' and was always really impressed with how solid IT's MIDI timing is. So I recorded the x0xb0x direct on my Roland S760 sampler as one long sequence and then chopped it up into patterns. But when I pulled the new sound files back into IT they went totally out of sync! So I tweaked the sample rate of each individual pattern until they were the proper duration (making changes of up to +-50Hz!) but then they were out of sync on *every other player*, e.g. XMPlay, Aqualung, Deadbeef... What happened? Is ITs timing actually bad? Was my use of 'swing' tempo the cause? Well, no. IT is still rock solid. It's the AWE64's fault. It seems it can't playback samples at truly arbitrary frequencies; they are somehow quantized (probably to be integer fractions of the card's native rate) and it hated my 12kHz (yuck) patterns. That took forever to figure out. The sync problems totally go away in IT's software mixing mode, e.g. with the SB16 driver. Annoying. That's my theory anyway. If I'm totally off base with my thinking here email me with the *real* reason. I'm curious to know. The hardware Interwave driver doesn't exhibit this problem either, but the GUS doesn't have resonant filters. Win some, lose some... Tools used in the creation of this tune: Impulse Tracker 2.14 patch 5 (DOS) SOX 12.18.2 (DOS) SamplEd 1.52 (DOS) FreeDOS 1.1 (DOS) Pentium 233MMX (DOS) Soundblaster AWE64 w/16MB - THAT QUANTIZATION BUG Roland S760 - creator of the samples iomega zip drives - three of them, for fuck's sake Roland MC-202 - kicks the drums & drops the bass Reliable x0xb0x - brings out the ACIEEEED Wavosaur (not DOS :( but totally bitching prog - under WINE) Schism Tracker (on my laptop, while travelling) "Advanced" Impulse Tracker tricks used: [x] Tempo 'swing' (A05A07A05A07A...) [x] NNAs & virtual channels [x] Pitch, volume & panning envelopes [x] MIDI instruments [x] Resonant filters [x] Volume column effects [x] Volume column pans [x] Fake side-chain compression [x] Simultaneous MIDI & sample playback w/filters (AWE64 only!) Try all that on Protracker 2.3D! Samples from: own synths (ACIEE... oh I've said that already.) kb6.de Saga Musix (*stellar* 909 clap) Modarchive Waveworld Bluedistortion Beatluxe Some "48KHz SAMPLES!!" pack, which I downsampled to 36KHz to be an ass h0ffman (that one bass, yeah, I just couldn't make my own because yours was *so perfect* for what I wanted... so thanks!) ** WARNING THIS IS ALMOST THE END OF THIS WALL OF TEXT ** If you would like to contact me with any feedback, questions, comments, hate, love, or ambivilence about this tune or any of my other songs, please don't hesitate to! Try jaymph@gmail.com Or leave me a message on Soundcloud (address above.) This song is released under Creative Commons 3.0 by-nc. You are free to share, use, play, chop, sample, remix, spin, process, convolve, mashup, or ignore this song in any non-commercial, not for profit way you see fit. Just give me proper credit and we're cool. Sample ripping and remixing are encouraged! Send me what you make if you do. :) Hope you enjoyed it! - jmph.2014
Instances
Source | Name | Folder |
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scene.org | Free Motion Machine by JMPH.IT | parties/2014/flashback14/music_tracked/free_motion_machine_jmph.zip |
Links
Samples
# | Name | Used in | Size | ||
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1. | MC-202 kick | 1 other modules | 63336 | ▶️ | |
2. | LEL DR8 SOVIET KICK | 1 other modules | 2047 | ▶️ | |
3. | Percussive loop | 1 other modules | 75600 | ▶️ | |
4. | |||||
5. | Hat loop - left | 1 other modules | 138240 | ▶️ | |
6. | Hat loop - right | 1 other modules | 138240 | ▶️ | |
7. | Yamaha snare | 1 other modules | 16654 | ▶️ | |
8. | DR220A rimshot | 1 other modules | 2712 | ▶️ | |
9. | Reverby 909 clap | 9 other modules | 17436 | ▶️ | |
10. | Techno stabs - left | 1 other modules | 69120 | ▶️ | 61%:
you
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11. | Techno stabs - right | 1 other modules | 69120 | ▶️ | 65%:
you
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12. | |||||
13. | (I suck at organizing | ||||
14. | samples so there is | ||||
15. | nothing here) | ||||
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17. | Earth-shattering sub | 1 other modules | 29330 | ▶️ | |
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20. | (mind the gap) | ||||
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23. | Waldorf filter sweep | 1 other modules | 627840 | ▶️ | 91%:
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28. | Ravey bass | 3 other modules | 11224 | ▶️ | |
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30. | 303 pattern 1 (HOLY SHIT | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
31. | 303 pattern 2 LOW QUALITY | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
32. | 303 pattern 3 RESAMPS! | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
33. | 303 pattern 4 Had to meet | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
34. | 303 pattern 5 the 2MB | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
35. | 303 pattern 6 compo limit | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
36. | 303 pattern 7 - sorry for | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
37. | 303 pattern 8 the grit! | 92466 | ▶️ | ||
38. | 303 pattern 9 Or maybe | 92152 | ▶️ | ||
39. | 303 pattern A it's good?) | 92222 | ▶️ |
Instruments
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- c [ f r e e ] 0
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- ( Here be MIDI insts )
- ( 303-type on ch.1 )
- ( 303 w/glide )
- check out my other
- tunes on:
- soundcloud.com/jmph-1
- buzztunes.org/music/jmph
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- more rambling
- jmph.2014.auckland