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Episode: 466
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Title: HPR0466: A technique for drum 'n' bass
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0466/hpr0466.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 21:10:11
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Hello everyone, my name is Sig Flub and I want to share with you a tiny program to help
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you generate the NB songs.
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So you can download this at http colon slash slash tmd dot fr e s h e l dot org slash d n b dot t j z.
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Before you get anything, let's play a song from this program so we'll be right back.
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Now, what's this song called?
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Now, what this does is, and then I described this technique very briefly on episode two of DemarBust.
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What this does is it plays a drum loop that sounds like this.
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Over and over again, and the keys, Q, W, E, R, T, Y, U, I, A, S, D, F, G, H, J, K are mapped to bits of where the sample is in while it's playing.
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So you push these keys together and it zores these bits together so that they are both one if either of them or both happen to be one.
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And that's where most of the choppiness comes from. It's actually kind of simple. There are two more techniques in here.
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Another one is you can press one of these bits and press the space bar. And when this bit is one, it's mute the audio.
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You get kind of like sort of sounds. It's kind of nice for coming back up on beats or something like that.
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If you have a really significant bit being muted, so you have a lot of time being muted.
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And the third technique is the position of the sample is if it's not linear.
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If it's a linear, the speed of it can be modified by the keys z and x.
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So if you have like a beat that goes, if you speed it up, it can kind of hear that.
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So if it's not linear, then the position in the sample gets returned to where it would be if it was linear, if that makes any sense.
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If you play with it, you'll probably get sort of an intuitive feel for what it's doing.
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So this is a scripts of sorts. The file has 2000, it has DNB, and also has testloop.wave.
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And what you want to do is run DNB with the argument testloop.wave, and it uses that file as a loop.
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Now, this script requires that you can compile things. It requires the STL development libraries.
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You want to type STL-config, and if you have this program, well, that'll probably work.
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If you don't have this program, you might want to do apt-get installed STL-double or something like that.
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And the other thing it needs is SOX to convert the sound file.
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And I hope you use this. I'm not really going to maintain it at all.
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So it doesn't work for you. You're going to have to fix it yourself.
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Like I know one thing it does is it's pretty much assumes that the audio buffer gets, it asks for, is what it gets.
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So maybe if you have a USB sound card, you'll have a really huge audio buffer, and it probably won't work.
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But you're going to have to fix that yourself. So, but you can use it, like if you can use it, you should use it.
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And if you make any music from it, please let me know, because maybe I'll play this music on the radio show or something like this.
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So take care, and if you want to email me about this, again, my email address is pantsbutt at gmail.com.
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So take care, and bye-bye.
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Music
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