late last year i picked up a second hand copy of the playstation2 music software “MTV music generator 2″.  i was surprised by a few of the quirks i discovered, most importantly it’s ability to sample with a singstar mic(!).  couple this with it’s nifty little sample editor that lets you trim, reverse, filter etc. and it’s stepped up to play a significant role in the recording of my next album.  so i thought i’d tell you, the intertron, all about it and it’s glorious quirkiness.

so apparently this game had a usb sampling dongle you could buy to plug in your diskman or walkman or horse or what ever we were using back then.  it was basically a usb audio interface for your playstation, which is pretty cool, but you’re unlikely to have one just lying around.  lucky for us, the software confuses the singstar mic dongle for the sampling kit which turns your ps2 into a sampler sequencer… and a pretty capable one. Continue reading →