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==== using the free wave editor Audacity or a paid for one such as Sony's SoundForge you can do seriously interesting things to your music - stuff you could never plan.
=== This is the creative art of "realising when you've made a good mistake"
* Output your tune as a Wav or some file you can open in your chosen package - then mess about.
* SoundForge has an advantage over Audacity in that you can manipulate one chanel at a time (eg left without effecting right)
* (someone may know better than me here, and there are creative ways around this)
* Try and select the first beat of a bar (just in one chanel if you can) and "reverse" the selection.
* this gives you a cool prebeat noise that jumps through your head as the beat hits.
* Reversing anything makes nice noises
* adding reverb, then reversing gives you "preverb" an echo of whats about to happen
* you can reverse your track first, add reverb and reverse back so that it's playing forward but the reverb is preverbing.
* effects like chorus flanger phaser can all be used on tiny sections of the music. Make use of the LFO and individual beats can be given mad sounds.
* copy a section of your tune t a new document - apply a crazy effect and then fade the whole thing out.
* go back to your tune and fade in the section you copied - now paste and mix the effected faded out sample over the non effected faded in sample and you are left with an effect fading in over time.
* building on and mixing these ideas you can turn simple stuff into the truly bizare.
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