the idea behind all the schizo stuff: take one kick and make every instrument of the track out of it, with almost no processing. you cut tiny pieces of the wave. stretch them, pitch them up, stretch again, chop, consolidate, bounce, chop again, until the waveform turns into something strange.
in ableton that’s slow. every round is one more bounce. so that night i asked for a tool where the waveform is the interface. you put a point on the wave and pull. fewer numbers, fewer knobs. layers you can see stacked, what sits over what. a sample you can stretch forever without baking it again each time. the original is never touched: the tool keeps your moves as a list and renders them from the source every time.
one more line from that night: this is for artists, not office monkeys with mice. and no midi.
two smaller machines came out of the same night. SEED·77 is a pack of raw hits, notes and noises to start from when you have nothing, 48 of them, and each one opens straight in SCHIZO·77. LAYER·77 makes a layer for any sound out of that same sound: more punch, or something a phone speaker can still play, or dirt. you compare against the original at equal loudness, so louder can’t fool you.
then i regrouped the whole shelf by what you came to do, because i was getting lost in my own tools.