Re: [microsound] usefulness of compressors/mastering in experimental music

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

Kassen wrote:

> A very
> interesting exersise is building your own in some software language or
> system so you can take controll of parameters normally not accessible or
> included.

In "Derek's academy for computer musicians", this exercise would be 
mandatory ;-) Not only for compressors, but for all those different 
kinds of effects where people just download a VST and happily twiddle 
the knobs without knowing anything about what happens under the GUI.

A while back, someone was aksing if it made sense to make your own 
granulator [for example] in PD even where there were "ready made" 
granulators and other effects easily available. For me, there is so much 
more potential in knowing how something works because you've built it 
from the bottom up. Software, and the especially the visual metaphors of 
software [take a look at Reason, for example, or Flash], are so strongly 
deterministic in making art, and there is always some parameter, effect 
or trick which you will want but the person who made your program for 
you never thought of.

So this is my rationale for telling everyone to learn some kind of 
rudimentary programming, even if just through PD or MAX. In my mind, 
it's the difference between a software user and a computer artist.

</rant><and now back to our regularly schedualled thread on compressors>
d.

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"What wouldn't you do?"

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