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Audacity? Any Good?
by Felix Atagong 20 May '03

20 May '03

I wanna make my own non stop Orb-System7-Badorb-Aubrey collection for in the car but am still looking for a good freeware (!) sound editor that can mix, put some Star Trek samples on top, etc... I found Audacity: is that any good? Or do you recommend something else... I don't need a professional mixing system with 64 channels (unless if it is free, then I don't mind), and it should be able to run on XP... Felix

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search my discog!
by -> rachel 20 May '03

20 May '03

hey Kidz! just a quick note that I've moved my Orb discog here: http://www.backsideoftheorb.com/ so please update your links. more importantly, thanks to the ultra-fabulous colonel32, it is now searchable!! woo hoo! i've received quite a number of scans and additional info which i'll be putting up as fast as my little fingers can get to it, so it should be developing into quite a comprehensive little site! as always, comments/bugs/corrections are always welcome.. =) rachel ------------------------------------ Rachel's Orb Discography http://www.backsideoftheorb.com

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Re: [Orb] search my discog!
by Bbbrooo＠aol.com 20 May '03

20 May '03

very nice indeed - glad to see that you are still linked to theorb.com bbroo

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OT Acid and equipment questions.
by Alan 20 May '03

20 May '03

I use Acid quite a bit but I create my own loops for it. I just wish I had an actual sampler that worked that well. My SP-808 is really neat and all but I have to distill my stuff down to sets of four loops. That is a severe pain in the ass. Worse than Thrash when he's drunk. Well, maybe not that bad. Thrash doesn't come with built in step modulators... Why would Sonic Foundry sell Acid?!?! Sony will just fuck it up just like they made my cel phone suck ass. They'll make it unstable and more expensive. Fucking Japs. The instructions will shortly be unreadable. They'll probably bring in a crew from Yamaha to write it. Back "in da day" I had a Yamaha DX-7 drum machine which was virtually impossible to use unless you had completely read the manual which was often times utter jibberish. Worse than my Roland products (I always get a headache trying to figure out the finer details). I'm thinking about getting one of those Allen & Heath Xone 646 mixers. Anyone used one? Does anyone know what the mixer is in the Groovetech studio? www.psychicreform.com Money does not equal speech. Corporations are not people. Watch your overcoat. "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a slow death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham

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RE: [Orb]
by angry troll [OT] 20 May '03

20 May '03

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5.1
by Alan 20 May '03

20 May '03

I would think that anyone worth a shit in the electronic world would be mixing in 5.1. It's the only way you can tell the difference between them and a kid with Acid dj... www.psychicreform.com Money does not equal speech. Corporations are not people. Watch your overcoat. "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a slow death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham

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Toxygene
by Felix Atagong 20 May '03

20 May '03

Gel-sol wrote: "I thought Toxygene was pretty terrible... (...) Orblivion has some tracks with balls on it." I can't agree more, Toxygene was an absolute favourite on my Greatest Hits-collection I copied on tape for my car. It's one of those silly tunes you like to hear when driving from Belgium to the south of France (together with Perpetual Dawn and LFC). Well every album by The Orb contains some excellent tracks and Orblivion and Cydonia are not that bad as some people are made to believe. Pity that the Greatest Hits collection was IMO so clumsily mixed, that's why I wanna redo one for myself, including some tracks of of Aubrey, Badorb and System7. Felix

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Speaking of Material
by Edward Halley 19 May '03

19 May '03

Just received the Material "Mantra" promo 12" in the post today. Here is some additional catalog information. The promo cat. # is 12AXMDJ1 and comes minus the picture sleeve : ( Rachel and Lazlo can take note. The site looks great Rachel. fvll

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mono mixing
by Alan 19 May '03

19 May '03

I saw U2 play the Superdome on their Pop tour. Their mix was mono but the sound system was a big ball of speakers so for some of their effects (extremely cool sounding... effective, even) they would bounce sound off the roof and walls. That was really neat. After you mix like Phil Spector are you going to kill some has been starlet because she won't give you a rim job? >Quoting Alan <alanevil(a)bellsouth.net>: >> I would think that anyone worth a shit in the electronic world would be >> mixing in 5.1. It's the only way you can tell the difference between them >> and a kid with Acid dj... >Fuck your fancy 5.1, i mix my next album in mono like Phil Spector and Aunty >Aubrey's 1. Yaah. >ta, >Simon www.psychicreform.com Money does not equal speech. Corporations are not people. Watch your overcoat. "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a slow death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham

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A word on Toxygene and "Little Fluffy Ass"
by DAN G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 19 May '03

19 May '03

Little Fluffy Clouds is what it is and I'm sure that if I hadn't have heard it a million times, I'd dig it deeply enough. It sounds like an old-school Edison vinyl nowadays, but it's difficult to pull it away from the context of my experience with it. ABTU is a fine album indeed, and if you need proof, put on "Into the Fourth Dimension." Skip LFC and you've got a really good album there, even though LFC, like I said before, is surely good, though tired. As far as the accesibility of Toxygene with respect to the difficultness of Orbvs Terrarvm: Who cares? You've got to look at this thing on a case to case basis. The Orb brings their skill as musicians and engineers into almost everything they touch. It's like pornography: you know it when you see it, and sometimes it's predictable, and sometimes it's kinky and weird. One track might be for calm midnights, one might be for tooling around, being stuck in traffic, or getting loose on the floor. You've got to hand it to them: they've covered all the bases, and even invented a few on the way. Accessible? Maybe. But I'll never forget the sound of it, live in NYC, sweaty and shaking. You can't dog a steady pulsing rhythm, no matter how high above the rooftop you might like things most of the time. Terrarvm is great - Orblivion is great - ABTU is great - UFOrb is great - Pomme Fritz gets me smiling, and even - dare I say - Cydonia, when the time is right. So quit yer bitchin' about accessibility. Even the most accesible Orb track has some pretty heavy shit going on it, and it's difficult to explain to the insensitive. If they were that accesible, they'd be doing duets with Kelly Clarkson. That, my friends, is about as accessible as the sunlight in an open field. Think about it. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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