Any MMW fans here? Electronic music?

Vertflyer · 10th January 2012

I was wondering if anyone here are ever tried mimicking the feel, groove, or whatever of MMW style music using a sequencer. I am curious to hear how good or bad it turned out.

Meow · 10th January 2012

What is MMW?

Vertflyer · 10th January 2012

Medeski, Martin, and Wood

soundxplorer · 10th January 2012

I love the Shack Man album but that's about the only one I listen to on a regular basis. When you say "sequencer" do you mean software? Most DAWs have enough resolution to capture the feel of a performance, but it will still be up to the player to give that performance. So I guess I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by "mimicking" with a sequencer.

Vertflyer · 10th January 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by soundxplorer

I love the Shack Man album but that's about the only one I listen to on a regular basis. When you say "sequencer" do you mean software? Most DAWs have enough resolution to capture the feel of a performance, but it will still be up to the player to give that performance. So I guess I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by "mimicking" with a sequencer.

I guess that is the tough part. Trying to program in the feel. Not performing.

gremlin moon · 10th January 2012

I'm pretty well acquainted w/ MMW. I think the best, and by best I mean a relatively reasonable work flow, would be to use Stylus RMX and the RetroFunk EXP expansion that comes with the expanded version and make extensive use of the chaos, time designer and break things down into edit groups with different swings
and humanized feels (the funk and jazz presets to start with) etc...Then groove lock it to Trillian's(also by Spectrasonics) Arp while using the acoustic bass instrument -- which is sweet. Then for the "lead" sounds use your favorite sampled organ instrument and mellotron samples (Omnisphere -- also by Spectrasonics -- has some MMW style mellotron instruments -- look under the edgy underground category) and put it through ring mod set to be velocity sensitive. I would avoid the mpc pad beat method since finger drumming is distinctive. Again, I think this is the easiest way without performing and it can take it far.

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Vertflyer Gear Head Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 44 Thread Starter	Any MMW fans here? Electronic music? I was wondering if anyone here are ever tried mimicking the feel, groove, or whatever of MMW style music using a sequencer. I am curious to hear how good or bad it turned out.

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Meow Gear maniac Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Stupidville Posts: 246	What is MMW?

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soundxplorer Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2008 Location: West Texas Posts: 820	I love the Shack Man album but that's about the only one I listen to on a regular basis. When you say "sequencer" do you mean software? Most DAWs have enough resolution to capture the feel of a performance, but it will still be up to the player to give that performance. So I guess I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by "mimicking" with a sequencer.

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gremlin moon Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 821	I'm pretty well acquainted w/ MMW. I think the best, and by best I mean a relatively reasonable work flow, would be to use Stylus RMX and the RetroFunk EXP expansion that comes with the expanded version and make extensive use of the chaos, time designer and break things down into edit groups with different swings and humanized feels (the funk and jazz presets to start with) etc...Then groove lock it to Trillian's(also by Spectrasonics) Arp while using the acoustic bass instrument -- which is sweet. Then for the "lead" sounds use your favorite sampled organ instrument and mellotron samples (Omnisphere -- also by Spectrasonics -- has some MMW style mellotron instruments -- look under the edgy underground category) and put it through ring mod set to be velocity sensitive. I would avoid the mpc pad beat method since finger drumming is distinctive. Again, I think this is the easiest way without performing and it can take it far.