Fear?...

I'm seriously worried about Daft Punk. Busy P has confirmed they were working on their new album last year, taking their time, but I don't know what's going to come out of it. Human after all was, let's face it, pretty bad. What if this time they go for half an hour of white noise or just one note held for a whole track? I REALLY want them to go back to the way they were before, but the new album is coming out some time this year and I suppose I just have to see how it goes. But if it's REALLY bad, I might not buy it. That's a terible thing to say, but theyd better be good.

A Tutorial Moment...

If you have a microkorg XL and you're reading this... coincidence much!

Find a patch you don't like, go to page "utility - init.prog", select y or yes with knob 2 or 3 and then write (which should be flashing). go to oscillator 1, and change the waveform to pulse wave, and that's it! You might also want to put a bit of highpass filter on, for the crappy 8bit gameboy speakers. set common - assign to mono.

Also, an initialized patch with a sine wave (monophonic), some portamento and vibrato on the mod wheel. Lowpass filter, but with cutoff at 120 - 127 so it warms it up but you cant really hear. Thats a theremin sound!

again...sorry, I think

My microkorg XL was delivered 2 or 3 days after ordering. It's awesome. Fellow musician Jon Boutell (epyks.co.cc) has been helping me rewrite daft punk songs with slightly different lyrics. We've got "Atour le Monde" (around the world in French) "Cuban after all" (Human after all) and a slightly racist version of harder better faster stronger (which is going on HIS youtube channel if uploaded). I've been vocoding constantly for days, playing around, changing, writing my own programs. I've got theremin sound (problem 1 solved) and and 8bit sound i made myself (for techno into-ey things, sounds like a gameboy, with filtering to simulate the crappy speaker). I will post some more later on. Over and out, blogbitches.