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Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:46 am
by 747Music
Kyla wrote:I recently had to return a tape deck because it wasn't shitty enough.
"Needs more coffee" poured on it.

Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:25 pm
by 747Music
Kyla wrote:I recently had to return a tape deck because it wasn't shitty enough.
Shoulda kept it and poured more coffee on it, like the bro's. "needs more coffee." lol.
Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:48 pm
by Cupz
If I pour coffee on my laptop, will I sound like boc?
Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:26 am
by 747Music
Cupz wrote:If I pour coffee on my laptop, will I sound like boc?
Weird. My first post that was days ago never showed up for me until now...
A quote from the old "Emotional Abuse" BoC interview:
"“[Soft synths] don't have the natural discrepancies that we like in real analog gear,” Sandison says. “Half of our synths have their guts hanging out. We can tweak the sounds by doing things like pouring coffee on them. Marcus will say, ‘It's too in tune, needs more coffee,’ so we pour a bit more coffee on the exposed innards. I don't think most software synths come with a ‘coffee’ setting — I'm just joking, by the way. Don't try pouring liquids on electrical devices, kids.”"
Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:04 am
by ScienceGuy
That's the first I'd heard of the Emotional Abuse interview, and wow,
what a read. Definitely their most informative interview on how they work. Highly recommended. And thank you, 747, for bringing it to my attention.

Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:30 am
by j8tes
a cheaper better way to get the BOC sound in ableton is to not strangle your CPU with plugins and just create a hardware send to a VHS player and then bounce it back

source: can confirm its 10000% better because i tried it. and it's easy as fuck. no excuses.
Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:23 pm
by drillkicker
A friend of mine agreed to give me his piece of shit tape recorder that he claims makes everything sound disgusting. I'm eager to hear how it impacts my recordings.
Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:25 am
by saturdayindex
This is a commendable effort in terms of how much time went into it and to the extent that the sounds (and carefully produced tracks) do sound highly similar to BoC's originals, albeit sounding obviously digital. I can't see this sound library being used for any serious production, but well done getting close to the original sounds.
Re: Instant Boards of Canada in Ableton
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 3:00 am
by 747Music
ScienceGuy wrote:That's the first I'd heard of the Emotional Abuse interview, and wow,
what a read. Definitely their most informative interview on how they work. Highly recommended. And thank you, 747, for bringing it to my attention.

My pleasure.
I'd still like to test out this Ableton pack some time for fun.