I've added two tracks to my Twisted-player!
Grippy v2.4
Grippy v3.1b
It's been 8 months since I made music. Last time; my ide-controller died and took with her two of my drives... I've just uploaded two monitor-mixes from the recording sessions. Everything was lost except this two bounced tracks and some score-material... This seem to be my curse! I play and program the tracks "live" while looping the song. In v2.4 I've had just added some guitar and reverb when random instruments and effects started to get corrupt. I moved all files from the system disk to one larger and defragmented them. It worked fine for a couple of days. Then while recording som stuff with my XioSynth I noticed the guitar-amps only used the default fx and not the ones I had knobbed myself. I save my files and reboot; then while shutting down I get the bluescreen of death, and my PC then hangs after the bios.
The onboard IDE/SATA controller had a burned chip, and my audio-harddrive was not readable... I booted up in another XP on a SATA connected to a PCI-controller and viewed the disk in hex: There were big holes in the data, just as if one had run high voltage throug the plates! I recreated the partition and the files. All that was stored on the drive that past week - was beyond damaged..
The main idea of Grippy was at first inspired by some music by Scandy (from Combichrist), but when I began working on it; I got another idea - to morph the drum beats from drum machines to become an acoustic set. This again gave me the idea to do the same thing with tb303 vs metal-el.bass and synth vs guitar! I guess the genre would be something like psyprog or...
I usually use my '71 Ibanez SG for the basic guitar picking - and enhance the rest with the help of my headset, my computer, and lots of hardware-knobs!
On this song I used my daughter's 2/3-sized guitar (Morgan Legend Series Strat), with IK's Amplitube (Hendrix), a GMedia PhatBoy, and a Novation XioSynth 25!
It is not really mixed at all. While recording I use a Sennheiser HD600 headset, but inbetween I bounce a downmix of the tracks and listen to it om my studio monitors, or my mp3-player.
The acoustic guitar sound early in the track (it's really plucking on a Yamaha Electric Concert Violin) supposed to be crystal-overdrive and distorted (I hate it), but the harddrive died minutes after this downmix!
I still got the main scores, but I'm not sure if I should give this one another try.
I don't know if I should let it stay dead - or dig it back up and give it new life?