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What instrument does Mark Foster start playing at 1:41?

Posted on 7/12/13 at 1:12 pm
Posted by bobbyray21
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 7/12/13 at 1:12 pm
Notice he's not playing the keyboard; he's just tapping his fingers on something.

Pumped Up Kicks - live on letterman


You can maybe see what he is doing better here at 0:27

If the answer is simply a "a synthesizer", then let me rephrase to ask what it is he's doing on said synthesizer.

That's it. I always wondered what the hell he was tapping on, but never asked.

Posted by TheDoc
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Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 7/12/13 at 1:33 pm to
It's a midi-controller/sampler keyboard

You program a sample into it and its triggered by whatever button you choose

Posted by bobbyray21
Member since Sep 2009
9490 posts
Posted on 7/17/13 at 4:26 pm to
quote:

It's a midi-controller/sampler keyboard

You program a sample into it and its triggered by whatever button you choose


Thanks.

I think that stuff is really interesting. How does one turn a snippet of music into a midi file?
Posted by 3xlsugrad
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 7/17/13 at 4:34 pm to
quote:

I think that stuff is really interesting. How does one turn a snippet of music into a midi file?
One does not simply turn a snippet of music into a midi file.

ETA: I apologize for being too damn lazy to make a quality meme for this.
This post was edited on 7/17/13 at 5:05 pm
Posted by TheDoc
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Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 7/17/13 at 4:39 pm to
quote:

How does one turn a snippet of music into a midi file?


he could have essentially taken just a part of the recorded version, made a wav file of it and converted it to a midi file and then used his midi controller to trigger it.

a band here in baton rouge, prom date, use to use nintendo controllers and stuff to trigger MIDI files. even had the nintendo track pad.
Posted by bobbyray21
Member since Sep 2009
9490 posts
Posted on 7/17/13 at 5:10 pm to
Interdasting.

I was messing around on craigslist the other day looking to see if there were any free hand jobs for the taking and then i meandered over to the music equipment for sale portion and saw some people selling synthesizers with widely varying prices. I googled some of them to just read up what they do, and it was like focking reading hieroglyphics. Most people that are as "in" to music as I am have at least dabbled in making it and can probably intellignetly converse with others on the subject.

I can't.

Where does one start? I think half of making electronic music is stealing the right music to sample or tweak into something else. In that sense, I think I might be good at it in that I think I have a good ear and a lotta music to draw from. But I wouldn't know where to start.

Anybody on here make electronic music, and want to teach a course entitled "Making BobbyRay21 the World's Greatest EDM DJ For Dummies"?
Posted by 3xlsugrad
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 7/17/13 at 5:11 pm to
quote:

I was messing around on craigslist the other day looking to see if there were any free hand jobs for the taking
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