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2012-02-07T10:08:00.001-08:00

kravitz fly away ooh yeuh (3/4)

hard to handle (bc)

cannonball - breeders

ian ò#
Tandy TRS-80

Bombsquad Shout-Out

2012-01-31T23:49:00.001-08:00

Just what nerds can do when they put their minds to it is incredible.

Getting down with real nerds
has never been so easy, now
with the new Reason Platform
For Geeks who control the streets

As well as people tappin their feets.

This article is compete.

Level 6. The Desk Zone Dubbing Station

2012-01-22T22:52:00.001-08:00

So imagine that there is a videogame in Stereoworld, out there, and it's the type of game that happens when the Kid is alseep. Right when the lights are out, and his brainwaves are well into REM/Theta, the Lego Spacemen who came from the Cathode Ray Tube begin to wander the room, battling for control over the stereo.

Since there are cross-faders everywhere, buttons that turn things off, mixers, knobs, dials and many other obstacles, it becomes strategy to determine how to beat each level. I'm thinking about programming it into a videogame, if I could ever find the time. It would just take a little bit of focus, but maybe I'm almost there.

File Your Songs In Itunes By Tempo

2011-09-20T15:52:00.000-07:00

Two songs that are not at the same speed are more difficult to mash up. In fact, in order to play 2 songs simultaneously, they must be at precisely the same tempo. Imagine two trains, running side by side. You can't jump from one to another if one is going at 135mph and the other at 85. You'll fall.

First, determine the song's BPM by visiting the Space Pirate BPM Calculator [here].
There are many other options for determining the tempo, but this one is always available if you're online.

It's noted that the BPM field in iTunes is not easily manipulated. But there's another category called "Genre" which is of little to no use for a Space Pirate. I've switched many of the entries in my iTunes "Genre" categories over to the tempo, such that I can browse many of my songs, after I've determined their tempo, like this:

OK. Now you can see what songs will blend well with eachother, in your library, which will make it easier when you try to find parts that will match.

That's all for this technique. Thanks again.

Plug Your Music Collection Into Sound Editing Software

2011-07-21T12:14:00.000-07:00

Right click on the song that you wish to edit (ctrl+click if you're using a one-button mouse). An option appears which states "Show In Finder." Select that.

Now you will see the file in Finder.

You've got lots of music in your iTunes, much of it you believe that would work well as parts in newer works that you'd like to create. Remember to categorize it by BPM using the method described in the techniques blog [here].
This article will show you how to bring iTunes into Reason software, using Recycle. Once you learn it, this will change your music collection forever and grant you honorary SpacePirate status.

From this screen, you can open with the program that I'm recommending, Amadeus Pro. The reason that this is the software that I'm using is because it was easy to find and relatively inexpensive. It's also incredibly simple to use.

In Amadeus Pro (or any other audio editing screen, for that matter), you will find that the file is right in front of you, to copy and edit as you would a bit of text in a word processing editor.
The trick is to find the parts that will work the best with remixing. The parts that work best are sections of the song that have stripped-down parts, containing either no vocals, or only instruments, such as an introduction part that just contains the beat.

Here, we've located the introduction beat. Remember that the purpose behind sampling is not just to save time on creating your own beats, when countless humans that came before you have already made tons of drum sequences. The purpose is to use parts that people recognize, so that the music triggers a familiar sensation in their brain. The memory function that remixing activates is the reason why eximer technology is relevant.

Next, save the file in a place you can find it later, because it's going to be accessed in a few moments by a different program called Recycle.

Stay tuned!

Edit SoundClips In Recycle

2011-06-21T12:39:00.000-07:00

Recycle is a nifty program that makes sampling possible in Reason.

It takes WAV files, and converts them into RX2, which can be used with the Dr. Rex Module, inside of the Reason Software. That's like being able to make a Jpeg compatible with a NES Rom so that you can play it as a videogame. Very similar.

Open your saved document in the folder that you keep all your WAV cuts.

You are able to see, from this document image that this sound is choppy, meaning that it is probably stripped-down percussion. Which is helpful when you're editing.

Se the sensitivity of the slice feature up a notch or two, and the computer will automatically sense the beginning of a drum sound wherever there is a drastic increase of noise in the waveform.

Now it can sense the position of each of the sounds in the sample. Each will be able to be triggered by a note on a keyboard, with the slices at the beginning of the sample at the lower end of a keyboard once it's plugged into Reason.

Go ahead and export that sliced-out beat as an RX2 file so that it can be plugged into the software.

The important thing to remember here is where you're saving things, because in order for these files to be accessed later, they need to be held in a place where they can be located at a later time. Even if you have to write down on a piece of paper where things are saved, it's better than dismissing the importance of the step in the process when you click CTRL+S and it asks you where.

You can also manually insert these loop slice points with the mouse. This is a smart idea as well because the computer doesn't always get this perfectly right all the time, and you might find that a different point in the song is the part that you'd really like to trigger. The more you consider where the triggers are set, the more likely it is that you will have more fun playing around with them once they're in Reason.

Next: Importing and Sequencing Recycle Samples In Reason.

Sequence Your Recycle Files In Reason

2011-04-21T13:01:00.000-07:00

OK, so you've made it this far. There's just one more step to make your music interactive.
Open Reason, and Create a Mixer and a RX2 player. Should look like this picture to the left.

The top part is the mixer. One of the dials (actually the one on the far left) controls the volume of the blue thing underneath it. You can add an additional 14 devices to that mixer on the top, including other mixers, making Reason virtually limitless in the number of simultaneous devices being triggered.

The only limitation to Reason is that you need to install sounds that match the file types that Reason specifies. In this case, we are using RX2 files that were created specially in Recycle for the sole purpose of being imported into Reason.

Remember the TEMPO that was established way back in iTunes? You're going to set up this little box so that the tempo actually works out to be the same as the samples that you are about to import.

Now you're going to put in your sample. There it goes. The file has been loaded into Reason, and the next step involves getting your sample to sequence properly into the machine.

So here we go.

As you can see, I'm really just repeating the same 4 sections of 1/8 notes. But it sounds like the original drums from the song.

Space Pirate Website Music Calculators

2011-03-21T12:26:00.000-07:00

You can't rely on computers to determine your tempo for you, which is why you can use the javascript-built "tempo counter" BPM machine, to determine how fast your songs are going, and thus what songs are compatible, as they must be at similar tempos in order to coincide.

The BPM Counter is available [here].

Another nifty calculator that I didn't steal (one that I actually made) gives you an idea as to what length your sample needs to be, in order to fit into a block of time, depending on that tempo. For example if you have a measure of audio, and the tempo of your arrangement is 122 BPM, then your loop needs to be 1.967 (that is, 1 second and 976 milliseconds) long, in order to fit.

Good luck with these. You can find them all at SpacePirate.Co.Uk (search for Tools).

Part One.

2010-10-09T13:30:00.000-07:00

Balls to the Wall

2010-09-09T19:25:00.000-07:00

Uh, press play, yes what did I say?
I don't know. 'Cause I am the Space Pirate, Yo.
The Space Pirate knows. Space Pirate.

Space Pirate, don't try it.
You don't want to buy it. I designed it.

Space Pirate, you don't want to try it.

I designed it. I designed it.

Space Pirate, you can try it.

Look into the lies of the disguise, you see the Space Pirate.

You see the Space Pirate on the front of the stage
You wonder why he is quiet, All in a rage.
Inside his mind, Maybe he's mad or maybe he's crazy
Maybe he's just another Space Pirate
On the side of the street, on the side of the street
Why are you looking at me? You look like a Space Pirate
Looking at me,
You look like a Space Pirate
Don't even try it. I don't buy it.
You look like a Space Pirate. A Space Pirate.

Space Pirate died in the modern age
All these other kids riding on the freights
Does the space pirates of the age?
So listen to the man and the words of the sage.
You can't call him lennox lewis. I see this guy all the time and yes you knew this.
Seeing this man on the back of the train
Like an old hobo that you never knew his name

Eat the same bread and eat the same cabbage
Eat alot of bread when I'm rhyming in the place.
Let them see the earth from the way that the dirt takes them back to the place of their birth.
I think, yes.
I don't want to think stress, I think time is like irrelevant.
making the ball drop, it's insane splashing.
Never think about the time you had cash in your pockets

Why do you lace them, To play basketball son?

You might remember that game way back in the day...
And the laces are full of hatred.
Why do you lace them to play basketball?

Because we used to play it way back in the day
It was called Suicide, and that's what I say.

You'd have to run that gut to the back of the wall

And that was the way that the game was played

Because I Told you how to play suicide now begin

Just throw that ball against the wall.

LS Aristotle VS Space Pirate

2010-09-09T19:13:00.000-07:00

This is aristotle speaking to space pirate. Space pirate, can you read me?

Yes Aristotle, this is Space Pirate, what is up?

I'm not trying to blow up your ship. You just don't want to do the songs with me!

Well here we go. It's aristotle vs me.
I'm inside my ship. Dont look at me.

You didn't write this track. I wrote this track.

Space Pirate is Analog, too.

The same things upon the tape that you heard.
So why you always got to flip the bird, flip the bird, at me, huh?

I'm not, I'm not flipping the bird
And you are are understanding my words incorrectly.

You don't understand me, I'm Aristotle.

And you, your'e just a Space Pirate too.
So what are you going to do?

Space Pirate doesn't listen to what you say,
Space Pirate only does what he wants to do.
I'm stuck like glue to my ways,
In My Space Pirate Attire

Well let me tell you something...

I'm Space Pirate, I
I reside inside the side of \living my life
and you may never know me

the insurrection of the place from outer space
because i'm space pirate, you'll never find me
You never have corrections.

I don't have no corrections for you because I'm Aristotle
What are you to do?

Because I'm Aristotle, man, and you're a Space Pirate.

I'm the Aristotle Space Man, Parrot from the Land

Because I'm Aristotle, man, and you can deal with it.

From the top of the bottom
I know what's up because I like to rock em.
Rock who? Rock the crowd.
I play my songs great, and I play them real loud.
And when you hear the track, you can play it to them back.
When you play it in the car
Drive it home, Caddilac.

Caddilac is the thing that you drive
Because the Caddilac is big and it uses much gas.
Plus, it doesn't really go very fast.\

I got a TDI in my driveway
When I go to NY City.
I drive down the avenues driving really fast and plus playing all of my tunes.
And you can download them on the Stereomedia.
That is the name of the ship, yes yes believe in ya.

Space Pirate doesn't advocate this.
He advocates getting it from the torrents.

Don't get your stuff from the Torrents.
Torrents is bad, and torrents is boring.

Because the torrents are free.

This is me.

I'm space Pirate, telling you you can't see.
Get all of these sounds from the torrents
In your town, you know we get down.

Don't get your stuff from the Torrents.
Torrents is bad, and torrents is boring.

You don't even know,
I'm space Pirate I shall go wherever I go
Beacuse I'm Space Pirate.

Space Pirate, you should tell people to get stuff from the torrents.
That's not fair.

you'd rather pay for your music?
they're bluffing and stuff
They're taking your tax, and never giving it back.

Are you willing to let you push your buttons?

Yeah you push your buttons for them.

Well you know I like having a nice roof over my head and all that stuff.

Just Different Lyrics

2010-09-09T19:00:00.000-07:00

Search the airwaves.
you 're never going to find it.
your'e never going to know
youre never going to hear this
unless you know

who created it
where'd you get it from?
hidden on the internet, deep on my server.
never going to finally get the servos
when you get that silicon crystal

Then put it instrumental
make the beat, and the beat with a pencil
Click the pencil, tip tap,
tip tap when you're writing that?

On the instrumental, put my paper to the pencil
eventually i'll make a mental stencil printed on a paper
and then maybe you can read it.

In the meantime heed it, you, you can best believe it
that i stutter every once in a while, slip on butter
instrumental making the pencil
that's what i'm doing yes it's...
I want to be someone influential
cause i think that we have potential
At the society to do to.
Do something better things than to..
Do something that was posted to.
3000 thousand years before
thousand years before

Do something that the people did 2000 years before
2000 years ago, all the people wanted was a war.
But now we're much older.
We're a much civilized people.

But why do we have Evil?
Why is there still war?

We are still all of a war, and we are so galore
and we do so many things that other people do and blink
twice when you look in their eye
and they never think about what you are thinking about
Yes, that exists.

This is what I will tell:
I am a Space Pirate
Never look back because I am a real space pirate
Space Pirate Instrumental
Space Pirate Influential

Space Pirate Influential

Space Pirate has Influenza!
Space Pirate has bird Fluenza!
Space Pirate doesn't remember!

Doesn't remember anything about the rhymes or the tracks he brings.
To the table when you're listening to
The mixtape on the mic.

I ruined this track.
You want the original? I can't give it back.
I ruined this track with my voice. You want you. You have a choice.
Beacause alive upon the internet on the itunes

Yes, never forget about the people that came before us
Because you don't want to start a warr-us
Because I don't look like a friggin' walrus.
Because I know I ate a whole bag of walnuts.

Because I know this stuff is potent.
Because I know shit is floating in the ocean.
Because I know we have to get out of the situation, yes, no doubt.

In the meantime I'd like to make a rhyme
About some things that I'm doing with my mind
it is so hard to find words to find words
To explain how I feel

Because in the meantime, so potent in the rhyme

Thinking the time, you thinking all about that.
Back in the days, and the days were wack.
Just another damn kid up on the street, guess guess what I did?
Wrote a boo-book and I wrote two more.
inside of my head, and started a war.
Four on each and every side.
Every part of it. Every part of the ride.

Thinking about what I'm doing with the music?
Rappin over beats, that's what I'm doing.

I made my own home, so you can't get me
you can't have it. In my home.
All alone and then the lights in my room, no jive. Just this.
All I know to do is rhyme and exist.

And if you have a clue
Of what I'm here to do,

I can make a whole bag of food.
I can be real, real rude.
And my bosses,
Pimping out, my bastards.
My brain, it thinks much faster than them.
So grab your pen.

Cause you never thinking fast cause that's what I am.
Never looking fast cause that's in my eye.
Never can you walk, cause this is the new fly.
Wise guy, and them
I want a marathon full of marijuana
Digging it up from the dusk to the dawn
Why'd you think this is a marathon?
On and on and on and on and holder...
Better hold better hold that fast.

Someday I'll take my car real far
Across the country, that far.

That would be wack,
to do something I'm on a mission

To do something different.

Analog VS Digital

2010-09-09T18:26:00.000-07:00

Available on the Album "SP VS LSA"

You can't control everyone with your simple lies
Yet still on TV and Internet you advertise...

You found your way, and by that I surmise
That with my attack it will come as a big surprise.

You'll find these tapes inside of my spaceship.
As a bitter reminder of why we were so equipped.

We had so long to plan it on our side.
And that's why it is a big surprise.

Your internet keeps us so damned confused.
With the Price is Right and you know you can never lose.

We're stuck like this to the movies like the glue
And you never know what one sniff will do.

So I quarantine myself on my space machine
in a place unheard an you know never seen.

I built this ship, it's my analog dream.
for a way that you know the baseball has the seams.

Unravel the sports. Unravel the courts today.
I would remix them, one day, the way they play.

We'll change the rules. The old ones are the fools
if they believe that things will always stay.

You cant control, you cannot stop this change.
And I am the one who is inside the internet.

We hand out change and quarters for the machines.
Phil Cutler's and Jimmy Day's analog machines.

we'll give them things that no one will ever see
like Casperelectronics built by my friend Pete.

I'll freestyle on every single one of the CD's
We'll put it on shelves and make kids all say "Please."

We'll thank them in the karma. Spread the disease!
But it's not a disease to anyone that sees.

The analog machines, they are the vaccine
For the world we live in, full of digital machines.

Full of digital machines.

The Analog Man

2010-09-09T18:18:00.000-07:00

doing the best he can with what he's got, that's the realm of the analog man.

The Analog man is good.
The analog man thinks about others.
The analog man believes
that all men on earth are like his brothers.

Do they know us
Do they know our souls do not go?
Do they recieve the sounds?

Gotta break my neck, got to break my leg.
Just because I'm dreaming...

Avenues when I'm walking
Freestyle tapes get the mixtape, it's straight.

Inside a earthquake... Got to Demonstrate...

Yes yes and you know I'm corrected.

Toes on the nose and you just dont know.
Operation OSS: Operation Skateboard Success.

When you cross across the cross-fader...
Freezer is what you're doing
I choose to escape with a way of the fate,
Sometimes i

Get down with the instrumental
Townofnewhaven.Org:

The representation I'm making on, awww yeah..

Oh yeah. Aww yeah.