posts tagged with ‘snow’

guide: making the Virus TI Snow work with Reaper

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

If you use Reaper, the (nearly) free DAW and own an Access Virus TI Snow (or the like), and you just can’t figure out how to get them to cooperate, read this short guide.

If you’re like me, you just want to turn on your machines and go! Most of the time, this works without a hassle, but in the case of the Virus TI (Total Integration) series of synths, it’s almost a necessity to use the software integration.  It’s a blessing and a curse; along with the deep editing capability comes the usual issues of mixing hardware with soft.  Although I have used my Virus TI Snow quite a bit in the past, I know I’d be using it a lot more if things just worked.

Don’t get me wrong–everything functions as the makers intended–but it takes a couple extra steps to get everything going in Reaper.
I’m writing this guide because it’s not as inuitive as it is in, say, Ableton live.   If you’re interested, continue reading after the jump.

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two new [d] tracks: except europa / sunridge

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

“except europa”
http://glitched.bandcamp.com/track/except-europa

“sunridge”
http://glitched.bandcamp.com/track/sunridge

I will be updating glitched.org this or next week with these two tracks. I really want to do a redesign and move everything to bandcamp.mu (which seems to be the best free solution to get your music out there). Also, it’s time to renew glitched.org again, so there may be a couple site hiccups.

Anyway, “except europa” is inspired by the movie, 2010: The Odyssey Continues. I guess this movie is what I’m all about (or what my music is all about): the future, fear of apocalypse, space, the good ol’ USSR, and malfunctioning sentient computers. I don’t know why, but monoliths compel me to make the eeriest ambient music. All Virus TI Snow, played live.

“Sunridge” is a “found song,” in that I had forgotten about it and came back to it, a year after recording. One day I was rummaging around the myriad temporary folders on my harddrive, when I came across a simple, two-track Ableton Live file. Surprisingly, all it needed was a little EQing and editing, and it was done. My friend says it sounds vaguely “Orbitalish”, which is never a bad thing; they were among my first influences. I think he says that because the Monomachine’s FM machine (dynamic type, I think) is used liberally and is reminiscent of early Orbital tracks. All Monomachine and Machinedrum.  By the way, the name of the track comes from some suburban development I drove by, the other day.  Has a nice ring to it: “sunridge”.

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short melodic pieces by [d]: computers dream

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

I haven’t updated this site for a little while because I post most of my happenings on twitter now (twitter.com/d01).

I will continue to post important updates here, so subscribe to the RSS feed.

Anyway, here are a couple recent tracks:
http://glitched.bandcamp.com/track/computers-dream

[d] – computers don’t dream (no longer available)

Both tracks were made exclusively with the TI Snow. Both tracks were recorded live, without sequencing. No beats in these because I’m still in the “honeymoon period” with the Snow. As you will hear, it’s a very powerful instrument with complex synthesis capabilities.

UPDATE:
I have uploaded the one of the patches that I used in “computers dream”. (Ok, it’s not the exact patch because I didn’t save it, but it’s a reasonable facsimile.)

Here you go:

airtram2.syx Virus TI Snow single patch.

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