Rivermen creative process |
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Rivermen is a duo based in UK and Sweden. Here we tell the naked truth about our songwriting, production technical problems and also some personal stuff. 
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Friday, June 07, 2002
Johan: Oh yes, I finally got the delivery of "Skinny Puppy: Puppy Gristle"! Man, what noise, it's great! Not for the faint-hearted, though. Or Send Us A Message! Johan: Spent last weekend in Paris with a couple of friends. Great weather, just relaxin'! Almost burned myself, which is not good for my tattoos... This week I have been upgrading my operating system, it went fine except for that my main piece of sequencer and sound generation software won't start anymore... it kind of throws a spanner in the mechanics as I was working on extending the song to fit in some "attitude atmospherics"... crap! I will get it sorted in the weekend and get the whole thing finished, there is not much left now... I too am looking forward to the release of Reason 2.0! This is one kick-a** piece of software, I remember back in the late 80's when I started fiddling with music technology I was dreaming of a situation where I didn't have to write down all the connections and settings I had to make for a song. Reason gives you a snapshot of the whole setup, wiring, mixer and effect settings, synth and sampler patches, automation, the works!! How times have changed... Or Send Us A Message! Thursday, June 06, 2002
hehe...It seems that the release of Reason 2.0 is close at hand. I'm very keen on trying a rewire-configuration with Cubase. Working mainly in Cubase and using the very interesting NN-19XT as a "passsive" sampler module via rewire. I Pretty sure this can be done. Sometime in a golden and not-yet-quite-here-yet future I hope the Propellerhead-guys (are there any propellerhead-chix hmm? prolly not;-)) implement some kind of HD-recording device into Reason. On a personal level it's been a lot of social stuff, going out etc. I really need to call J-man and make enquiries about the progress on "Bleak house". LUNCH!! ps. Ah indeed Where does drummers come from? The best drummers probably have deaf parents. Some drummers, I am certain, come from very remote and isolated areas with very few people. This theory explains their often asocial behaviour. Their lack of intellectual capabibilitititititititities (Argh I'm subjected to a bad-loop-conspiracy!) is most certainly due to the inbreeding of said areas. OK, sorry about these bad-drummer jokes. Next time I'll come down really hard on bass players, just to even the score:-) bye... Or Send Us A Message! |