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| Games,
Jerry Carpenter,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F5
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OK kids, it’s time to put down those guns, lock away the flashy sports cars in the garage, and have those cute jumping creatures put to sleep. Because you don’t need to play games, I mean what have you got to show at the end of the day – a high score, or an end-of-level boss lying lifeless at your feet. Just imagine instead of such transient spoils, you had a bass heavy, over-mixed mind-blowing music track on your hands. All your own dirty work. Thanks Music 2000.
We’ve seen music packages before of course, there was that one with the dolphin – it was cool, but the music felt a little too out of control. There’s bags of stuff out for PC, but most of it’s over complex and meant for them thar ‘real’ musicians (your Q-bass and that), or it’s way too lightweight and restrictive – the E-jay packages which won’t even let you cut and paste samples across genres (those fascists). Jester Interactive’s first shot ‘Music’ on the Playstation, came out and won a lot of plaudits but didn’t get much of a release. Now they’ve produced a second version ‘Music 2000’, and it’s perfect.
You’re given a multi-track set-up to work with and a vast army of samples to pick and drop into your mix. You can also record snatches from you own CD’s to use. Give yourself an hour or so and presto – you’ve made something that doesn’t sound half bad. Up to this point no great shakes, but then there’s a whole deeper level of messing and mucking with sounds possible that really makes your hair follicles vibrate with excitement.
Muck with their riffs at a tonal level – suddenly the MOR sounding samples are sounding much more human. Chop up those imported sound snatches – haha, now You’re the Fatboy. Slide those BPM meters up and down, merge sounds which ‘The Man’ would approve of, go ballistic with them cymbals – perhaps sleep for a couple of hours then wake up and you’re the maestro, my friend.
If there’s only one sour point, it’s the realisation that the music biz has had it’s hands on way more complex set-ups for years and yet still the charts are full of crap. But hey – now you don’t have to moan about it, you can just make it yourself.
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