yeah, that's the last version of this. it'll be coming down in the next few hours, as i get the vocal melody in.

so, i need to figure out how to use melodyne, next. i've never pitch shifted my own voice (i've never had to), but i did use some more crude methods to modify sean's voice back in the day. that's not really the goal, though...

what i want to do is convert the vocal melody line into a synthesizer part, then vocode it back into the vocal part. i suppose i could write it out, but because i'm not the best singer i'm hoping it will let me microtone it precisely. that is to say, that i'm really looking for the audio to midi capability in order to ensure the vocoder is NOT in tune. i know, i'm always overcomplicating things, but i wouldn't be me if i just did it the easy way.

right now, the goal is to leave the synthesized section in the instrumental version.

first, i need to actually get the vocal melody in...

i'm going to have to play with this, but i think it should be possible to convert it to raw frequency.

yeah, i'm noticing it. what i'm experiencing is that hits from certain countries in the former soviet union and east asia especially (but countries outside the "first world" in general) get erased by some kind of software that is probably designed to prevent hit buying. i can't speak for you but i'm certainly not buying hits, i just get a lot of traffic from international news agencies (and a flip through my public google+ profile will make it obvious why).

basically, it seems like what youtube is doing is saying "if you have a high amount of traffic from outside of europe and north america then you must be buying hits, and those hits will be erased.". which is heavy-handed and counterproductive. i can get behind schemes designed to prevent view buying, but the algorithm seems to be making things worse by hyper-americanizing the site. i mean, i don't even live in the united states...

that being said, i can get my head around some bad implementation. bugs. fine. but, it seems to be getting worse and not better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d09EwcYc5k

this is close to a final mix. there may be some minor mix adjustments, and there will be a central vocal part, and there might be a guitar solo at the end, but if you want to say something that i'll almost certainly ignore, your time window is almost closed.

uploading stuck.. to the scratchpad

i'll probably update this several times over the next few hours. the edits are localized to within the first 1:30. the thing is i'm at the point with the track where it requires so much processor speed real time that i simply can't reproduce without bouncing (which i hate doing), so i'm forced to mix it down just to listen to it....

https://googledrive.com/host/0B5JfVE9XTZikMS1zek9ER0xSU1E/scratchpad/

i just gotta say it one more time...

i don't care if you like bland, repetitive techno. i don't. really.

just stop deluding yourself into thinking it's futuristic or defines a generation or something. it hit it's peak of creativity about 1993 and has been cycling in circles ever since.

techno, today, is a *retro* fashion. k?

there's a number of rock forms that only make sense when placed after techno, as fusion only makes sense when positioned after jazz (but in a real sense was also both the end and high point of jazz). where we're standing in 2014, we've even managed to exhaust just about any kind of interesting electronic hybrids, which happened some time in the mid 00s.

so, it's like.....sorry, kids, but techno is something that already happened, and you missed it. why don't you take some time to explore some more contemporary forms, instead of getting lost in a concept of the future that is properly dated to c. 1983?

here lies techno. while there was initially much promise, and many victories, the end was meandering and dull.

rip.

techno.
(1975-2005)