LAST WORD with SKoT McDonald, FXpansion Technical Director

摘要

It was something dumb we were doing in year seven. It just sort of stuck, and people remembered me as 'SKoT with a K'. Originally I had an umlaut over the 'o'. Until some Norwegian guy came along and said, 'oh, your name is 'Skoot'. Our first family computer back in the '80s, was a Dick Smith VZ200. If you spent three days coding away in the built-in BASIC in its 8kB memory, you could make sine tones play your favourite nursery rhymes. It was 1995, and everybody wanted to be Nine Inch Nails. So my Computer Science honours project was to recover all the drums from industrial tracks. I'd do an analysis, work out where all the drums were and pull all the patterns out. Then get a simple expert system to learn all the rules of industrial drum writing, and automatically generate extremely average Industrial tracks.