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Originally Posted by kbear

If I use the breaker method of sample manipulation and open a nice kick or bass sample file ( anything low end really ) with a text editor, what are good letters or phrases to "search and replace", and with what do I replace them with , to get a unique glitchy sound without the wave file turning into bollocks and being unplayable? :confused:

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Wow now thats an interesting and unusual question !

Cant say i have have tried that form of sample manipulation before (databending?) but according to a bit of reading i have done your better to use mp3 files over wav files. Theres no hard or fast rules or likely things to replace x with y to get z result, experimentation seems like its key.

Personally though i would think that editing it in a photo shop program would be a bit more fun than just a text editor :) I also imagine it would give different results too but still remain quite glitchy.

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Originally Posted by BentoSan

Wow now thats an interesting and unusual question !

Cant say i have have tried that form of sample manipulation before (databending?) but according to a bit of reading i have done your better to use mp3 files over wav files. Theres no hard or fast rules or likely things to replace x with y to get z result, experimentation seems like its key.

Personally though i would think that editing it in a photo shop program would be a bit more fun than just a text editor :) I also imagine it would give different results too but still remain quite glitchy.

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oh snap! that just made my day :D I never actually thought of turning it into an image then manipulating it, that makes for crazy possibilitys! even changing the contrast or drawing on it has to give wacky results :eek:

You wouldn't happen to know about how a image header binary would work for audio would you? I know if I just append a .png or jpg the it wouldn't open, i would have to use some sort of "its this big/wide/ppi" type thing on the wave data part, but im clueless with photos headers. :confused:

Now im off to go see if I can turn images of funny cats into soundfiles, that no dought will sound like ungodly howls and screeching of demon robots :p thanks for the advice!

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Originally Posted by kbear

oh snap! that just made my day :D I never actually thought of turning it into an image then manipulating it, that makes for crazy possibilitys! even changing the contrast or drawing on it has to give wacky results :eek:

You wouldn't happen to know about how a image header binary would work for audio would you? I know if I just append a .png or jpg the it wouldn't open, i would have to use some sort of "its this big/wide/ppi" type thing on the wave data part, but im clueless with photos headers. :confused:

Now im off to go see if I can turn images of funny cats into soundfiles, that no dought will sound like ungodly howls and screeching of demon robots :p thanks for the advice!

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This may be easily answered, but I'm still going to ask it here....I've been experimenting with the beatsmasher and the beatslicer (tpro) but I have a hard time understanding what each value doest exactly...could you (or point me at it) maybe explain that to me....

And how do i get the Bitches and Blow

What is the secret of life?

Why are me here?

Who am I?

Where are we heading?

What lies after death?

What is the real name of God?

work with those. I'll have more coming soon.

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Originally Posted by BentoSan

I'll tell you when we get to page 300

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Dammit... I thought it would have something to do with 'over 9000'?

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Originally Posted by fullenglishpint

bento revealed...

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1...06/gasmask.jpg

and the little brother...

http://reprog.files.wordpress.com/20...pty-child.jpeg

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are you my mummy

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Originally Posted by MRHISTAMINE

are you my mummy

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lol dude thats a kid(i think anyway) and its not me :p

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Originally Posted by Quenepas

What is the secret of life?

Why are me here?

Who am I?

Where are we heading?

What lies after death?

What is the real name of God?

work with those. I'll have more coming soon.

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The answer to all these questions and more is 42

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Originally Posted by BentoSan

The answer to all these questions and more is 42

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No it isn't