"Those that love law or sausage shouldn't watch either being made"...but in this case, extremely fascinating.
But how much of this technology existed in 1997? How did Prodigy really make the track?
But how much of this technology existed in 1997? How did Prodigy really make the track?
You can do this with sounds you make yourself (The Prodigy frequently samples their own synthesizers) or to anything you play in.
The sequencing would have been done with a hardware sequencer (unlikely) or a PC tracker or MIDI sequencer (more likely.) Record the outputs onto tape for mixing at the studio.
One of the better DAWs at the time was Opcode's Vision (still is, tho they went out of business back then)(Live didn't exist, Pro Tools didn't have MIDI worth mentioning) and the first decent plug-ins were just being released... nothing worked together and crashes were frequent.
Very tedious ... not to dis this production which is madly skilled. I'm still not convinced that Prodigy did all that in software.
Think of it as sound "hacking". Before samplers all we had were tape loops and synths. Samplers were a ton of fun because suddenly you could play any sound, including people's voices. It was a revolutionary new approach in the late 80s & early 90s...
I'm an ooooold geri-raver...
I'd love to see someone reconstruct some other tracks (like Public Enemy's "Fear of a Black Planet", 1989) with readily available consumer software like Apple's GarageBand.