MIDI of the Week: COPIER JAM (VERDICT inside, fight below)

Jam Session! This Week's Pick Is COPIER JAM!

Sawtooth Lead, 144 BPM, Four Channels, Zero Paper Feeds! It Chugs, It Clicks, It Grinds To A Halt And Then Starts Again, Just Like The Real Thing!

PROS: The lead never stops! The drums sound like a tray closing! You will hum it at the photocopier!
CONS: It is very loud. It is supposed to be.

VERDICT: 9/10! Press Play And Stand Back!

On behalf of the Photocopier Appreciation Society, we would like to thank Jo for writing a tune about the photocopier, and weeklymidi for picking it; we would also like to register, gently, that a jam is not the photocopier's fault (it is almost always the paper), and that a tune called COPIER JAM rather than PAPER JAM is an unkindness we will be taking up at the next meeting, which is every meeting.

Four sheets of A4 out of five, all the same.

toner_head wrote:

a jam is not the photocopier's fault (it is almost always the paper)

The PHOTOCOPIER chose the paper. The PHOTOCOPIER chose to jam. The tune is too kind if anything. (Sorry, Jo, it is a good tune.)

Lesson 9: COPIER JAM in the mixer.

1. Load it. Channel 1 (sawtooth) comes in at 80%; take it to 60% and the drums finally get a word in.
2. Solo channel 4. That click is the tray. Leave it at 100%.
3. Push the master to 100%. (I know. I always do. The VU meters were asking.)

It holds together at 144 and it holds together at 160, which is more than I can say for the copier.

-=[ re: copier jam ]=-

nice chug but its 4 channels of general midi pretending 2 b a tracker. put it in a pattern, 4 rows a beat, and u would hear where the swing is meant 2 go. also it sits in a flat key and i dont do flats.

greets 2 jo anyway. 7/10 from the booth

modscene wrote:

put it in a pattern, 4 rows a beat, and u would hear where the swing is meant 2 go

You might be right, love, and you're welcome to try, and I'll play yours at the counter when you do. I wrote it standing next to a machine that had been going all evening, and the stop in the middle is where it actually stopped. That's the part I'd keep whatever you do with the rows.

And toner_head, I'm sorry about the title. I'll call the next one after the paper. ~*~