i've aborted the idea of finishing the vocal wave. what i have could be reworked to include the vocals, but i'd consider it kind of weird to cut up his vocals and try to sequence them together in a logical manner at this point, considering i haven't spoken to him in years. remixing stuff is one thing, but the time window for that kind of collaboration in absentia has long passed. that's an idea for the imagination.

that means i'm stepping back from my developing idea of clarity as alternate rabit demo, because now it would just be the rabit demo plus or minus a few tracks. the clarity single just got a lot smaller. three tracks.

focus now is finalizing clarity. i'll have to stop to take snapshots in two or three places, but finishing the track - completely - is the next thing in the chart for sure.

zen

this was constructed purposefully as a slice of absolute absurdity, and it's really the only way to make sense of it.

the core of the mix was created mid december, 2001. it was slightly remixed on october 5, 2014.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/zen

clarity (redone original demo) (initial upload)

i'm actually temporarily stopping with clarity, because i didn't finish it until a little later.

the next thing up will be that #9 monstrosity. it's likely that i'll upload without modifying it, but i want to listen with a nonsleepy set of ears to determine if there's any way to finish it.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/redone-original-demo

actually, forget that, it's not streaming properly.

it seems to be in a weird file format. i'll have to see how cubase interprets that. if not well, i may be better off streaming it to 16 than converting it.

actually, i took the file down because i'm uploading it.

i just uploaded a temporary mix of clarity to the sketchpad.

actually, this isn't going to require cutting after all, that's not how i did it - i went along and pasted the sample a dozen times in a way that just mildly overlaps with the end of itself. so i don't have to worry about finding the perfect cut, i can just go along and find the place for the next sample by ear.

this should be fairly simple to construct very similarly, minus the improved sound quality.

and, in fact, i'm going to use cool edit for this part, as i think the blurry sound of the mix is an artefact of it. the song needs to be blurry.

i downsampled too, lol. i remember now that the noise was too intense, otherwise. it was a trade off between losing some of the subbass and softening some of the mid-high noise generators.

i may be able to mix the subbass back in, but one thing at a time....

i mean, now that the thing is downsampled, it will sound like 16bits if upsampled back to 32. so, i could then take the original file at 32, lowpass it and mix it in to bring some of the kick back.

that's a mixing stage thing, right now i'm reconstructing....

the fadeover happens to coincide with a bass beat. i'm almost certain that's what i did in the first place. so the syncing issues i was concerned about for this part are really non-existent.

the eyeing it out part has more to do with comparing the level in the waveform of the mp3 with the level in the reconstruct. how much did i amplify the fade? what percentage did i use for the paste over? i'm lucky that the possibilities are binary, as it allows for a finite number of possible choices. i can be confident it's extremely close to the original.

uploading clarity loops to the scratch pad

i'm tired of sorting through the page and finding the sketchpad link, then going through a captcha every time i post the sketchpad link, so i've put the link in the about section and will refer you there when i speak of the sketchpad.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessica-Murray/41134747113?sk=info

so, i've uploaded a sample of the drums in 32 (i think it's 24, but it reads everywhere as 32) bit audio, and if you can play it without downsampling you can hear how thick they are. that got lost in the mix. my abilities to upsample are now much greater, so i should be able to convert this into a much better sounding mix.

going from scratch is consequently the best way to do it.

even if it's going to require some crucial dicing skillz.

so, i have an early instrumental mix of clarity to build on, but it's in mp3 and i'm not entirely happy about the mix - partly because the samples were in 32-bit and it's lost. depending on how different the result ends up, i may upload it but i think something would be missing from the source if i were to rebuild around that source. unfortunately.

so, i'm going to rebuild clarity from scratch, which means relooping. i have all the loops, but some of them are going to need to be re cut which is going to create something asymmetric. i'm ok with this, as it may improve the piece slightly to process the files more separately. the initial mix was done in cool edit, which is an intriguing but messy tool; i'm going to be remixing in a proper multitrack interface in cubase.

if it's a disaster, i'll have to rebuild from the mp3. i'm hoping i surprise myself with the accuracy of the recuts...