Muzik 4 Machines - Live @ Pi Studio March 20th 2008/ESX DEMO

STEREO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7-MxuPhOAM&fmt=18
Forum: http://muzik4machines.com/Forum
Muzik 4 Machines Presents: Demo Esx/Liive @ Pi Studio march 20th 2008
Simili Tarnce performed by machines for machines(may be suitable for humans too)
Ok, this is kind of a demo to show how simple it is to make a song with the ESX (the song is REALLY LAME, but it's a proof of concept song, put together from scratch in 19 minutes minus a phone call, and jammed on for 7 minutes)
The timecode at the top right is the real timecode from the tape, to show you I didnt take 3 hours to edit that bass, but still like 4 minutes of turning a know would be pretty boring, especially since it's silent

there is a buzz from one of the DBX that uses a behringer mixer PSU, and the patchbay is dying and crackling at some point.




Artist...............: Muzik 4 Machines
Album................: Jams
Year.................: 2008
Genre................: Tarnce
Comment..............: Live Set
Type.................: Studio
Duration.............: 9:59 minutes
Number of Songs......: 1

Video Format.........: H.264/X.264
Bitrate..............: (1185 Kbps)
Size.................: 720x480
Frame Rate...........: 29.97
Audio Format.........: mp3
Bitrate..............: (192 Kbps VBR)
Hz...................: 48,000
Channels.............: Joint Stereo




------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes
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01. Demo ESX/Live @ Pi Studio March 20th 2008


drums: ESX
bass: TX81z
synth: MKS50



------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biography
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Muzik 4 machines is a band from Montreal, Canada, which produces electronic music with a grunge twist.




The band was formed in 1996 by TBA03 and was particularly active from 1999 to 2002. From 2002 to 2005, Tb concentrated on some solo works and third-party productions. As of late 2005, the band officially decided to get back together and prepare some new material.

It started as a 1 man project, equipped with a Portastudio, a guitar and a TR-707 drum machine, early compositions were a mix between early house and grunge music, mixing the 4 on the floor rhythm with loud fuzz guitar. As the technology evolved, so did the Project; recruiting performers and signers and buying, finding or building new gadgets and sound mangling devices. Computers were a revolution in the course of things, starting with trackers, evolving towards MIDI sequencers and then full blown audio sequencing.


The Music also evolved from simple riffs over a steady beat to more complex and mysterious texture in some works and at the same time exploded into full blown (at the time) modern Rave party music in others. The band got some good hits and even sold Cd's worldwide on the then underground mp3.com website that since closed.


Over the years, different styles were explored as the personel changed (house music, techno, drum and bass, rock, noise rock, pop, trance, urban music and some unclassifiable sounds). Performers including Luke, MisterW, YUL and DP participated to different Live events and special recordings (all available online).


Back to full housy-electro-Rock&noise lately, the band producing new material and making some videos.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Korg
• electribe
• esc
• kaoss
• pad
• demo
• tutorial
• mks50
• tx81z
• mfc42
• trance
• house
• electro
• yt:crop=16:9
• yt:quality=high

[HoweGavin]

I dont like your drums in this one, but your bass that comes in at about 2:30 is sick as f*** especially when u make adjustments on the machine above the esx (dont kno what its called but its sick)

Im surprised at all the equipment you have

my only advice is to keep things simple

[muzik4machines]

as you see in the clip, i made those drums in about 40 seconds jsut as a proof of concept, i even mention in the description that it's not meant to be a "song" but a demo of how easy the esx is to use

[toranamunter]

so using the ESX can you not have it triggering chords from external midi synths? I've got a yamaha A4000 sampler and a korg radias, I'm looking for a way to run them similar to your setup (i.e all hardware) but of course I need a live-oriented sequencer, any suggestions? looks like the ESX might not be the best way for me to tie it together?

[muzik4machines]

no the sequencer is monophonic

IMOHO, the best live sequencer is the emu command stations (xl7, etc) 32 tracks, polyphonic, pattern AND linear sequencing

if i could find one i'd replace the esx right away (would use it only for drums)

[andrewal7]

nice vid!

i ordered an emx on monday and im still waitin for it so it was pretty cool to check out this video. probly gonna get it today so im pretty pumped. i went with the synth instead of the sampler because i heard the esx was more drumish and emx was more trance based. is that true?

[muzik4machines]

thakns for watching

The EMX has 5 melodic parts (still mono), the ESX has only 2, sor since trance is a lot of layers of melodic things, i'd say the EMX could be better than exs for tarnce, but IMO, both lack a POLYPHONIC sequencer, as the music i'm supposed to make needs chords, not just bassline and lead, whick the E(S,M)X won't provide unless, on the S, I waste lot of memory to record a chord track (cant record only the chords, it would ruin a track per chord, pretty short sighted from Korg

[HoweGavin]

alright

I see

[RhythmDroid]

Nice work. Keep it real. Keep it hardware!