another good one
Well - after a second trip over to the Remix Hotel - it turns out that other 'famous' folk can be just as cool and just as real as Chuck D, DJ Johnny Juice, and Professor Grif.
DJ Rap gave a presentation about Logic in Apple's room. Turns out she's super-nice and seemed rather down to earth as well. Complained a bit about her lack of starbucks - but hey - I can understand that. She played a couple of her tracks off her new album and showed the beginnings of how she would put together a track.
I think my favorite part was the non-technical advice. The advice like 'if you're just learning Logic, get used to the program without trying to make a music track.' Interesting! Makes sense too - kind of takes the pressure off of you to learn the program and come up with a bangin' track at the same time.
I learned a lot about some of the 'basics' that I think loads of the producers know who are making drum and bass tracks. Learning some of the technical was super helpful as well. I don't think I realized how important compression was to the sound of drums in drum and bass music. She mentioned that Roni Size told her he'd compress drums, resample them - and recompress those! Over and over. Up to 4 times - till they 'sting' like wasps in a glass jar.
I wanted to learn more about where the dnb producers get their samples. And she mentioned one maker of sample CDs - got to check my notes - can't remember off the top of my head right now.
But jumping places a little bit - I hit up M-Audio's booth earlier in the day and learned more about my brand spanking new trigger finger, and how it works with Live. Holy smokes I'm stoked - I didn't know it would do half of what it will do. I mean, software is the key to making it work at it's fullest level... and Live is going to be PERFECT with it! I managed to make some great little drum loops right in the session - too bad I couldn't save em and bring em home!
Ah well - what a good - inspirational day.
Thank you Remix!