A collection of Klee musics

EdisonRex · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

Fonik, I really like that too. The second thing I did after powering up the Klee was to clock it with the Binary Zone. However clearly it takes some thought on the gate triggering.

Anyway that was very cool.

fonik · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject:

this is a video with the same patch as in the first one. i just wanted to try something with the audio quality.
in fact the camcorder and u-tube is so new and exciting to me, i have to try it out! bounce

however, especially the 2nd half of the video demonstrates how nice it could be to control the klee with a 2nd simple sequencer: the baby10 controls the base frequency of the CVs AND the pattern load. this way the changed patterns are loaded in sync.

Scott Stites · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

Excellent video, Fonik! You were doing something I've always wanted to try - synchronizing external load with a divided clock signal, bravo! That's a very instructional and nice sounding video, keep'em coming!

I snagged this one yesterday about nine minutes after it went public, I think - just happened to log into YouTube at the right time, and there it was. Haven't been able to comment until today because of a series of honey-do projects.... Laughing

Thanks for posting this!

mosc · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:

Fonik, nice video.

Comments, not just to Fonik:

Let's make more use of stereo spaciality, even in demos.

Why don't some of you guys join in the New Years Eve streaming event?

Scott Stites · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

YouTube converts stereo files to mono (unless that changed recently with their new "HD" format). Generally speaking, the compression slobberknocks the audio.

AFAIK, Vimeo provides higher resolution audio; stereo I believe.

mosc · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject:

Scott Stites · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

Well, looking at it a bit more, it is possible but one has to jump through hoops. Any stereo file I've uploaded gets converted to mono. I've read several conflicting things about the whole issue - the upshot is, if there is a way, it's not just a simple matter of using your video editor to make a video and just clicking "upload".

Not sure this SW works anymore for YT or not, but at the time this was uploaded, it worked. Read the comments on it:

fonik · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

maybe OT somehow.
however, there might be, or might have been ways to get stereo work on youtube, but it is something that youtube obviously does not want to happen. you will have to hack YT. i won't do this.
just my 2pence

EdisonRex · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:38 am Post subject:

Not hacking YouTube, but if you add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, most of the time the sound is a lot better.

fonik · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:18 am Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

Scott Stites · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

The last few videos I posted, I just mixed down to mono before uploading them - I figured why give the YT compression a chance to further jack things up? Dang.

OK, so, this "&fmt=18" - can one somehow put that into the embedding script that is on YouTube?

mosc · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

fonik · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:57 am Post subject:

Here's a video with mainly Klee and a little Appendage. I should have done this with something that wasn't, like, ten minutes long, but there you go: I uploaded it to three different video sharing services. I uploaded it to YouTube, Vimeo, and Sonic State. I don't think any of them rendered it in Stereo. I think Vimeo and Sonic State have better audio, but....man, the Sonic State one went waaaay out of sync.

The only thing stereo about this is the Klee voice is running through the Dim C in stereo. At 5:37 I bypass the Dim C and it goes mono. At 7:46 I un-bypass the Dim C and it goes stereo again. On the original MPEG video, this is pretty dramatic/obvious. I just don't hear it on these videos.

If I can't get the Sonic State one sorted, I'll probably just delete it, but for now here are all three (once again, a ten minute video is not good for comparison, but that wasn't why I originally made this video):

YouTube:

Vimeo:

Klee Sequencer and Appendage Touch Ribbon: Bit Shuffling from Scott Stites on Vimeo.

Sonic State:

sduck · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

Here on my mac I've got them all in stereo - the youtube one after adding the &fmt=18 thing on. Sounds great! Excellent music and video!

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

Guess I better get a Mac. Laughing

Thanks SDuck - I'm curious, on the Sonic State one, does it have the lag on the audio (on mine, the audio is well behind the video). I can tell right at the beginning when I flip the merge switch and it gates the VCA on, causing the note to sound. On mine, I can see the switch get flipped, then perhaps a second or more elapses before I hear the sound.

fluxmonkey · Joined: Jun 24, 2005 Posts: 708 Location: cleve

geez... wonder what you could have done if you weren't holding the camrea too...

and... that mass of wires behind yr klee... is that thing still on breadboard?!?

you da man. have a great new year!

b

blue hell · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject:

For Klee : listen to http://radio.electro-music.com:8050/ NOW Wink

seraph · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject:

Paul's set was cool Exclamation

blue hell · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject:

Yup, he should post a recording!

Scott Stites · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:

No! No! No! No! Shocked

You guys should post a notice when this thing starts. Like at the top of the page or something...oh....wait.... Embarassed

Craaaappppp! I missed it - I hope he posts a recording. Damn! Does this streaming get compiled into a recording, maybe as a CD release? That would be nice...

Yeah, Bbob, that pile of wires actually connects to the boards behind the panel. As God is my witness, I had them all neat and orderly, then during proto we had to change some things, and as trouble-shooting goes on here in the threads, I just left them...unhinged. Some day, I'll carefully bundle them up and make an honest Klee out of it.

blue hell · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject:

sduck · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

Scott - yes, the sonic state one is really delayed in the audio.

Dunno if it's a mac/pc issue - I've seen debates about this kind of stuff before - it may be a browser issue also. And yes, I'm kind of liking how the mac thing works in general - after years of being a pc hotrodder and windows fanatic, about 3 years ago I just kind of got tired of fixing the things several times a year, and the inevitable registry bloat that would kill an active windows install. I've had 2 cheapo mac laptops since then, and they both still work perfectly, as good as day one, even the old powerbook which my 8 year old abuses constantly.