I look forward to messing with this when I've got a launching version of DB again. Are any of the other recent betas still online? I think I tried to download 1C7 but it wasn't there .... Otherwise I should probably go back and download the last standard release just to be carrying on with until the next beta comes along. Mike Carlyle wrote:
http://webpages.charter.net/mcarlyle/alive_basictracks.mp3 Note also that I pushed the tempo from 120 to 124 bpm when jumping into what will become the chorus part. This really adds some humanization in my opinion. When I first mapped out this song, I did it on real drums. When listening to tapes, I sped up quit a bit when it came to this same part.
Yeah, I tried that on one of my DB-based pieces ("Thunderbird"), though I only pushed the tempo to 122 on the choruses, I think. I also had a "speed up" and "slow down" measures of 121 at the beginnings and end of verse segments to keep that transition smoother. I think it sounds pretty cool. Also, my current version of "Afterburner" _doesn't_ use this kind of technique (since I assembled it in a real hurry!) and I think the feel of the drums suffers a bit for it. So it's a good trick :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/