From the wiki page: "It exclusively used drum programming, leveraging Toontrack's EZDrummer software synthesizer with the "Drumkit from Hell" Expansion, instead of traditional acoustic drums". I would never have guessed.
Its true, although its a factoid that IMO gets far too much focus and completely undue scrutiny/judgement. I hear people yammer all the time, "Omg caTcH thiRThY-tHRee UsEs pR0gr@mmeD dRumZ oMG" like it somehow makes it lesser (not saying you're doing any of this just taking the opportunity to shamelessly vent a bit). Drumming-wise, C33 isn't even particularly technically difficult compared to a LOT of other stuff they've done. And to the extent that it is, do the same people that basically show up for "Bleed" and nothing else actually think Tomas would struggle to record C33's drums start-to-finish, or have anything to prove by doing so? They play large chunks of it live anyway. It really shows ignorance of a (hopefully) small-but-loud section of the fanbase with regards to how DAWs and recording works - regardless of how the drums actually ended up in the recording, they had to be come up with by Tomas playing them himself, or otherwise he would have still needed to learn to play whatever he composed in the sequencer. So really this just boils down to the tired "drum machines have no soul" crap. So IDK what it says about the band other than that they're willing to experiment with DAWs/programming in order to get a bird's-eye/composer's view of their music and make something altogether greater than just the typical album full of songs (and on top of that, they were actually needlessly open and honest about it even though Tomas is such a skilled drummer that nobody probably would have known the difference either way; like you said, you'd never have guessed). Everything the band does is amazing and has its own special identity, for sure, but C33 is simply the only "album" capable of being greater than the sum of its parts (and it totally is).
there is nothing like the Primordial Entity that is Meshuggah
This is my first listen and it's already a 10/10 for me
soundtrack to my life
Still my personal favourite album , absolute work of genius .
This album is perfect to me in everyway. The slow parts aren't even boring at all.
Nice job on the transitions. I can pick them out in every other full C33 vid I've found on youtube, but here they're completely inaudible :)
It's my first time hearing this album. Just started "In Death - Is Life"...
This is really something special.
Broke my neck. ..
From the wiki page: "It exclusively used drum programming, leveraging Toontrack's EZDrummer software synthesizer with the "Drumkit from Hell" Expansion, instead of traditional acoustic drums". I would never have guessed.
Its true, although its a factoid that IMO gets far too much focus and completely undue scrutiny/judgement. I hear people yammer all the time, "Omg caTcH thiRThY-tHRee UsEs pR0gr@mmeD dRumZ oMG" like it somehow makes it lesser (not saying you're doing any of this just taking the opportunity to shamelessly vent a bit).
Drumming-wise, C33 isn't even particularly technically difficult compared to a LOT of other stuff they've done. And to the extent that it is, do the same people that basically show up for "Bleed" and nothing else actually think Tomas would struggle to record C33's drums start-to-finish, or have anything to prove by doing so? They play large chunks of it live anyway.
It really shows ignorance of a (hopefully) small-but-loud section of the fanbase with regards to how DAWs and recording works - regardless of how the drums actually ended up in the recording, they had to be come up with by Tomas playing them himself, or otherwise he would have still needed to learn to play whatever he composed in the sequencer. So really this just boils down to the tired "drum machines have no soul" crap.
So IDK what it says about the band other than that they're willing to experiment with DAWs/programming in order to get a bird's-eye/composer's view of their music and make something altogether greater than just the typical album full of songs (and on top of that, they were actually needlessly open and honest about it even though Tomas is such a skilled drummer that nobody probably would have known the difference either way; like you said, you'd never have guessed). Everything the band does is amazing and has its own special identity, for sure, but C33 is simply the only "album" capable of being greater than the sum of its parts (and it totally is).
One syllable, one vowel.
Thank you so much.
maka me qoom
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Is this the best meshuggah album and song all in one?
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