PREFUSE 73 How Does He Do It

To get the glitches go into the paramaters of a sound and set the decay to 'start' (not 'end' as it defaults) and increment the decay starting at the lowest till you get the desired glitch

Thanks that's a good tip!! Really that was the point of this thread to begin with but it got side tracked by gear stuff

I always thought that Prefuse's stuff sounds like it's made on an MPC and pretty much nothing else. It's just a big bunch of samples; some short, some long, some utra-short, some looped, some reversed... I never thought 'how does he do that on just an MPC?' It does sound like he puts a lot of work into it though. He puts a LOT of samples in one track.

whoa? prefuse switched to the 4000? i had no idea... if you check out his new projects he has a ton of old gear like rhodes, and other synths and organs... check out the new Piano Overlord EP and Savath & Savalas Manana EP coming out soon... its some of his best work.

- prefuse73.com

Ill second the Jan Jelinek's Loop finding Jazz records...... its great

i saw a pic of dude onstage with the following:

mpc
laptop
novation k-station

ah, the system 100 is dope too!!

Also, I don't know if he's just using samples from it or if he's using a real live one, but a LOT of his sounds come from an Elektron Sidstation. I have one and it is about the most recognizable synth out there next to a moog (in general). Just a thought....


Peace,

MANiK

keyword in greg's post. He, not they. only 1 person. dos, i dunno if we have the same definition of glitch...or maybe i'm just doing it wrong. i always thought glitch was rapidly repeated samples; you know, holdin down the button and it repeating very very fast, or slow, whatever you wanted. i still havnt figured out how to do that on my mpc1000

not that even f*cking matters, but for ya'll gettin' all tore-up over which mpc is using now....take a look over at www.prefuse73.com. in the photos section, you'll see an MPC4000 up on a chair next to his rhodes, and on the floor in the corner, his mpc2000xl. he bought the 4000 right after the release of 'one word extinguisher'. how do i know this, because he said it in an interview. again, i don't know why there is so much fuss, Scott Heron (prefuse73/savath savalas/piano overlord) has released stuff since one word/extinguished. if you don't know, then look. trust me, i run a record store....i gotta know!

peace

actuel

There's lots of different ways that people get "glitchy."

Some of the glitch pioneers would get a CD and scuff up the bottom of it...put it in the CD player, which produces the sound of the CD skipping and tripping out - and they would sample that.

There's lots of ways to fuuk up a sample with DSP, mis-using effects, abusing the timestretch function, mis-using sample editors, etc.

On a side note, yeah, I've also read a bunch of interviews with S.H. and I agree, he doesn't come off like the coolest guy around.

That's putting it lightly. His music doesn't grab me, it's like he's not expressing anything at all, just doing parlor tricks.

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not true with deeper tunes like perverted undertones- is a maturer sound though...

greg

yeah, perverted undertone...best kenny g ever. hehe i dont think its kenny g he samples but its badass whatever it is. But i want to hit glitchs like squarepusher, or at least thats what i'm trying to figure out.

I'm not the biggest fan of "glitch-hop", but I must say that I like some of the sh*t Diplo does with hsi drums when he does that glitch sh*t... I wish I could pull that sh*t off... I've tried Note Repeat and about a thousand other things... I mean it's actually more of a stutter so I figured Note Repeat would help (Cause it just sounds like a repeated drum hit interrupting the loop) but man that sh*t is hard to do and make it sound real and not lose the flow of the loop... At least I have problems with it... Like I said though it's not really my style...