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Some hot tips for electronic music producers:

EXTRA "VCA LFO" ON ALL YOUR SYNTHS

Get a cheap Behringer ultra tremolo pedal, this is a pedal that does a LFO
effect over the volume of the audio you put through and has a bunch of
different LFO waves. Just connect it to your synthesizer (Synth out - >
tremolo pedal -> mixer/whatever) and hey there you go:you basicly got a new
LFO that can do all kinds of cool tricks over volume. Leaving the synthesizers
internal LFO's free to do other stuff!

You can of course use any other tremolo pedal but the Behringer
is the cheapest (21 euros) and has cool waveforms like a square one so you
can get those trippy ambient arpeggio like effects.

You can do this "trick" too with a Vibrato pedal, this will create an "extra
LFO" over pitch. The Behringer Ultra Vibrato only has a sine wave however,
if there is a vibrato pedal that has a square wave that can modulate the sound
deep enough you can get crazy arpeggio like effects in theory. I am not
sure though if any vibrato pedals with square waves exist?!

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BADASS TAPE SOUND

For this you will need a tape or cassetterecorder with pitch control, this
is not really that common but with a few trips to different thriftstores
or swapmeets you should be able to score one of those. There should be
knob somewhere that sais "pitch" with + and - which you can turn.

This is a good trick to "warm" and put tape sound over a a digital computer
recording. Take the tapedeck with pitch and connect it to your computer
audio card. Open the wav/AIFF or whatever you have in an audio editor,
select the track and pitch everything up The more you pitch your stuff up
the more lo-fi the end result will be. Now record the computer audio on the
tape (with the pitch on normal speed). Rewind the tape put the pitch down
roughly at the pitch were the recorded computer audio is at its normal
speed again...the tape sound should be really heavy smirched with all the
high frequencies dissapeared and a real swampy low end heavy sound...
record this into the computer and hey presto: magic badass smudged
tape sound!

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USE EXOTIC SCALES

Are you stuck making melodies? Step out and use some exotic scales!

If u are new to music notes, u don't need to learn to read notes,
just know which keys are which. Each octave consist of these 12 notes:

   C#  D#     F#  G#  A#                    C2#  D2#
  C   D   E  F   G   A   B  NEXT OCTAVE -> C2  D2      etc.etc.etc

The notes with # are the black notes

Some scales you can use:

Japanese / In Sen Scale
C C# F G a# C2

Arabic Shahnaz Scale
D S# F# G A A# C2# D2

Romanian Minor Scale (gypsy melancholy)
C D# F# G A A# C2

Chinese Scale:
C E F# G B C2

Some more scales in the next issue!


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And here is a HOT tip from our Swedish connection DATA THOR:

HAND CRANKED ARPEGGIATOR/SEQUENCER STEP TRIGGER

Certain handicap bathrooms in Sweden are equipped with an ALARM which you
can press if you  happen to end up on the floor for whatever reason.
This alarm is sometimes
triggered by an external trigger box, which is hooked up to the alarm via a
normal guitar jack. If you hook this trigger up to, say the SH-101 EXT CLK
IN, suddenly you can hand crank your arpeggios, adding some sweet sweet
FUNK DRAMA to the mix.

It looks something like this:
       ___________
      / ____      /\
     / (____)    / /
    /___________/ /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    \____________/

Addendum: It is of course wrong and immoral to steal, especially from the
handicapped, so make sure that nobody sees you.

(EDITORs note: technically you won't be stealing FROM handicapped but yeah
the owner of SHADOW WOLF does not propegate stealing alarm buttons from
handicapped toilets you can probably buy it for 20 swedish Kroner at the
Swedish toilet store or NOS stock from SAAB factory)

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