neil (spatialize)

I haven’t checked out the new Puff Dragon yet. It’s really ambient I think? But I always enjoyed the Sazanami album. I’ve also been enjoying the new Pan Electric. Quality stuff that rewards repeat listenings. Nicely spread out and unhurried. Beyond the Radar has been the best received and best selling Spatialize album so far i would say. I think people have noticed that the album has taken things up a level and as an artist it’s nice that people seem to recognise this. 😀 But yes 3 artists with a similar approach to music I would say. First time I heard Puff Dragon and Pan Electric i felt like I was listening to a musical brothers.

I haven’t checked out the new Puff Dragon yet. It’s really ambient I think? But I always enjoyed the Sazanami album. I’ve also been enjoying the new Pan Electric. Quality stuff that rewards repeat listenings. Nicely spread out and unhurried. Beyond the Radar has been the best received and best selling Spatialize album so far i would say. I think people have noticed that the album has taken things up a level and as an artist it’s nice that people seem to recognise this. 😀 But yes 3 artists with a similar approach to music I would say. First time I heard Puff Dragon and Pan Electric i felt like I was listening to a musical brothers.

New album innit. http://www.spatialize.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-radar

Find the DDT 900 aren't very "live" sounding. Be nice to have something with s little more phizz

Find the DDT 900 aren't very "live" sounding. Be nice to have something with s little more phizz

https://experimentsinsilence.bandcamp.com/album/suspended-form A 70 minute album in two parts which combine seamlessly to create a single long-form work of suspended ambience. The first piece is based around sparse treated piano and electronic textures which sit deep within a meditative soundscape. Ishq then steps in for the second half of the journey with a remix that delicately deconstructs the original sound palette into an even deeper minimal space. This is a contemplative and beautiful minimal extended soundscape which adds a new dimension to the Experiments in Silence discography. A limited edition CD release is available via the Virtual label at ishq.org/release/Experiments%20in%20Silence/EIS02

Hey johnny I'm getting well into this iOS thing now. Just about wrapped my head around it. For me Samplr and Korg gadget are the most useful apps so far. The Korg ODYSSEi is really really nice although I can't run many instances of it on my iPad Air 1.

Agreed Beyerdynamic are nice for studio production. However I often find when I have worked on something on headphones and then move to speakers there is usually a lot of readjustments to be made. It doesn't seem to matter which headphones I use. Definitely open backed for studio use though, closed back for djing. I would say that sound sculpting and getting the core of your tune together is better on speakers. I think where headphones come in for me is during the arrangement part when you can pop a laptop on your er lap and get stuck into creating an interesting arrangement flow.

Got it sorted now. Thanks for the backup Johnny

I've got the files in the iDensity document folder but I can't work out how to put an audio file into one of the 6 granular streams in iDensity.

Actually I can export from iDensity but j can't work out how to import

I'm just finding my feet with all this. Can someone answer a question. Assume I've recorded a file in iDensity or FieldScaper...how do I get that file into my computer? I would prefer to transfer via USB cable, and not via dropbox as the wifi signal in my studio is very weak.

Does anyone know anytjing equivalent to the Akai synth station ? That was designed for iPhone but has the old 30 pin connector and not the Lightning connector ..

Johnny j got iDensity for the iPhone after your recommendation. It's just what I was looking for. Thanks.

Don't forget Gregg from Hermetech Mastering! He did my 2014 Spatialize albums and a fine job he did too.

I think with the older producers (and I include myself in this) music was a little harder won with more basic technology. You had to construct a track from core elements. Just managing a studio (what with atari, samplers with floppy disks and a room full of synths) and getting it all to work together was quite a feat and would only be done by people who really had a massive interest in producing music. It was hard to be a dabbler in those days and even harder to release music. Samples weren;t that amazing and were in a low bit rate so you had to be able to construct your own stuff, or be adventurous in sample searching. Now you can literally drag and drop and few samples and have the bare bones of a track and the means of releasing is easy. Plus there are millions of amazing synths sounds on tap too. So some of the basic elements required in track building get skipped. I think a lot of the difference lies int he lost art of sampling. When you sample something - even a synth pad - and play it back at different scales on a keyboard, you get really unusual and unique things happening. Samplers aren;t used so much now what with the flexible audio side of a DAW. The sampler was once the heart of the system, functioning like a hard disk recorder really, and tracks would be made up of a slew of interesting, unique and self made sounds. I think that's the key difference. With th above poster mentioning about more simple music - well once you had managed to get a well cool groove going with your army of synths and samplers then you wanted to milk it. All the glitch effects which completely drown out most people's productions at the moment would have taken weeks to achieve on a sampler!

basically looking for the ability to make unusual ambient sounds and bounce them into audio on an iphone. maybe synth sequences too.

Can anyone recommend something for iphone?

https://soundcloud.com/experimentsinsilence/encrypted-transmissions-album-excerpts and here's a ten minute overview of the album

Encrypted Transmissions shifts the mood from the pure atmospherics of the debut album to an ambient electronica style. While deep basses, slow pulsing synths and low key beats provide a rhythmic structure, the arctic atmopsheres and fractured textures add a darkly beautiful edge. Additional sound design and a remix comes from Matt Hillier of Ishq and there is also some cross-fertilization with Spatialize, blending and bending embryonic audio from Neil’s other project into more experimental directions. 150 Limited edition CD copies available from July 3, 2016 Sequences, atmospheric manipulations, oscillators, rhythmic devices, mastering – Neil Butler Additional Sound on Tracks 3,4,6 and Remix track 10 – Matt Hillier The Number Stations – Voice samples track 2 Vox Samps Tracks 3,4 – Jacqueline Kersley Cover photography by Scott Howse CD layout – Matt Hillier Dedicated to the all the unknown purveyors of sound www.experimentsinsilence.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com/experimentsinsilence www.soundcloud.com/experimentsinsilence

Have you tried the Sony Inflator? You can use it for sheer volume, or you can just use it at approx 30% and it adds a subtle saturation and body to the whole mix.

ah it's ok. I've got rock bottom by robert wyatt on now... phew that was a close one..

Nothing. I'm not listening to anything at this moment.

i would have thought that in a live situation you wouldn;t be able to detect the "sound" of the mackie very much. I've had my mackie 1202 vlz for 20 years now and i used that for dub delays / mixing live etc and had no problems. Still usedin my studio for porting synths in and out of the computer. I do think that sometimes the internal signal architecture of the mackie is a bit weird though. What about the Roland Aira Mx1? Nice lights on it

Yeah I used Tokyo dawn slick eq recently mastering an album. Nice interface. Good sound.