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==Disc 1: Hybrid Theory Demos== | ==Disc 1: Hybrid Theory Demos== | ||
The Hybrid Theory demos are mainly from the ''MPC 1000 Backup/MIKE MPC'' folder which consists of projects created with .snd files. It is an old file type that needs to be converted to wav in order to be open by regular media player softwares. These are some of Mike's earlier beats and it looks like he might have done some conversion at some point, which is why there are .wav duplicates of some of those samples in the ''Xero Current'' folder. There's also a lot of samples used across multiple tracks, arguably from a similar time period, pre-Hybrid Theory. They probably date from around 1997-1999 - given the presence of samples from "Coal", a demo from 1997, and the presence of Chester's vocal samples. The fact that there is no digital master of the ''[[Xero]]'' tape, indicates these demos are probably post-cassette demo. | The ''[[Hybrid Theory]]'' demos are mainly from the ''MPC 1000 Backup/MIKE MPC'' folder which consists of projects created with .snd files. It is an old file type that needs to be converted to wav in order to be open by regular media player softwares. These are some of Mike's earlier beats and it looks like he might have done some conversion at some point, which is why there are .wav duplicates of some of those samples in the ''Xero Current'' folder. There's also a lot of samples used across multiple tracks, arguably from a similar time period, pre-Hybrid Theory. They probably date from around 1997-1999 - given the presence of samples from "Coal", a demo from 1997, and the presence of Chester's vocal samples. The fact that there is no digital master of the ''[[Xero]]'' tape, indicates these demos are probably post-cassette demo. | ||
The discovery of those demos revealed working titles that had never been seen before for some songs. "Emo" is a fleshed out demo of "She Couldn't" that runs about 5:24 minutes, which is quite long for an Linkin Park song, created after Chester joined the band as evidenced by the appearance of the "Chazaaah" sample. "Siamo" is the Hybrid Theory EP version of "High Voltage", "Rendezvo" is the original long version of "Technique" and "SKY2" is very similar to the beat on "Crawling". | |||
Running a trial of Akai's MPC Desktop software, fans were able to read the project files and see what samples are in the same set. The software is able to understand the .snd files and play them back at the right speed, e.g. Mike MPC 2.snd sounds like a drum break from "Cure For The Itch" in the software, but plays back at the wrong speed in Audacity. Additionally, the samples are edited to a certain length, but can be reset to be longer by altering the start/end times. Typically there's an .APS file and an .ALL file that go together with the same name. By loading the .APS files, it's possible to view the song mode and export what is in the song view. The .ALL files can then be used to load the MIDI data/sequencing and to see the BPM for a track - for example, "Oh No" displays 95 BPM. The sequences will load with no sound, so in the track view each sequence needs to be associated with a program in order to be played. There may be instances where there is no song view or there are unused sequences (patterns); and some songs need to have samples manually relinked. | |||
"Tuff" doesn't have an .ALL file, so fans were able to load the samples but not sequences or songs and there's no point in exporting the individual samples as they are already in the folder. Other projects that contained only a collection of samples (even though those have an .ALL file) are "Beatbits" and "Drumz". For "Return", "Midnighs", "Swish", "Al_Intro", "LA" and "Ugh" there are no songs, only sequences. Since "LA" has 4 different BPMs, it was left as 4 different files. Some projects contained more than one version of a song. There are alternate versions of "Sad" and "Siamo" and two different projects for different versions of "Stick N Move" and "Hurry". A third version of "Hurry" seemed to exist, however only the .ALL file is available. | |||
It is unclear what's the use of the binary files in the root of the ''MPC 1000 Backup'' folder, but it's unlikely that the samples inside the ''Xero Current'' folder were designed to be sequenced and exported together as there are no project files inside it. The folder contains loose samples of "[[Esaul]]" (''ESAULGUI'' and ''ESAUL_1''), "[[Part Of Me]]" (''noo_alar'' and ''partalar''), "Oh No" (''OHCYM1C'', ''OHCYM2'', ''OHCYM3'', ''OHKICK1'', ''OHKICK2'', ''OHKICK3'', ''OHMANSON'', ''OHSN1'', ''OHSNAR1'' and ''OHSNAR2''), "[[Pictureboard]]" (''PIC_2'' and ''PIC_3''), "17" by Smashing Pumpkins (''pmp_piano''), "[[Pods]]" (''POD_CYM1''), "[[Slip]] (''Slip_1'' and ''Slip_2'') and "Step Up" (''STEPDRUM'', ''STEPRE1'', ''STEPRE2'', ''STEPUPDR'' and ''stepupia'') - among others. Because "Pictureboard" was performed live, the strings sample is also present on ''[[Mista Hahn's Tasty Gas Station Breaks From The Orient]]'', Joe Hahn's live vinyl. Other Xero and Hybrid Theory samples are found in the ''NewFinishesA'' and ''Mike's Beats #1'' folders. ''NewFinishesA'' contains samples of "Part Of Me" (''partolar'' and ''partobuz''), "My Own Summer (Shove It)" by Deftones (''DEFKICK0'') and "[[Carousel]]" (''INDIANCH'') while ''Mike's Beats #1'' contains samples of "Technique" (''ANDSTRIN''), rough versions of the Carousel guitar parts (''BRADFMJ'', ''BRADFMJ2'' and ''BRADFMJ3''), "[[Coal]]" (''CO_'' files) and possibly "Pods" (''CO_Spimp'' and ''CO_Vast2''). ''STICKEYS'' on the ''Beat Bits 3'' folder is from "Stick N Move". Some of the samples are sped up. When slowed down, ''Stepupia'' is the harp on "Step Up" and ''Indianch'' is Chester's chant from "Carousel". ''Steppre1'' and ''stepre2'' are Mike's pitch-shifted vocals from "Step Up". ''JEFFPORN'' (a voice message from Jeff Blue) from the ''Xero Current'' folder is included in the tracklist as a bonus. | |||
One thing that's interesting about this overall collection is the presence samples of other artists. There's a sound labeled ''staind'', a lot of Björk samples, some EPMD sounds, a file named ''FATBOY'' (Fatboy Slim), others with the NIN prefix (''NIN_PDRG'' is likely "The Perfect Drug"), Deftones sounds (''DEFKICK0'' is "My Own Summer (Shove It)"), The Smashing Pumpkins, Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Paul Weston, ''LIONELCYM'' is likely from Lionel Richie, ''101strng'' and ''101strg2'' originate from "Madama Butterfly, Act II: Un bel di vedremo", etc. Mike had a tendency to use a lot of the same samples in his creations and would sample other artists as placeholder parts before replacing them with his own. It is known that the band had issues with "She Couldn't" and ''Hybrid Theory'' has no sample credits, so it's possible the song might have set the template for scraping samples that weren't created by the band. | |||
===Tracklist=== | ===Tracklist=== | ||
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==Disc 2: A Thousand Suns Demos== | ==Disc 2: A Thousand Suns Demos== | ||
The ''A Thousand Suns'' demos originated from ''MPC 1000 Backup'' root and ''MPC 1000 Backup/MPC1000 FILES'' folder. They have .PRJ/.PGM files which load the samples into the program, then the .ALL files loads the sequences for those samples. Like in the ''Hybrid Theory'' projects, there may be instances where there is no song view or there are unused sequences. This is true for most of this collection as "80 90s Drums", "Album4Snds" (4 versions), "Atari" (4 versions), "Aubrey707", "GMajor01" (''GMAJOR'' folder), "GMajor1" (''GMAJOR'' folder), "Iri", "Iridescent" (4 versions), "Lorax" (4 versions), "PacmannyNew" (4 versions) and "Rick 808" were the only projects with song view besides "80 90 #2", "Archbshop", "Snds1" and "Ree Keys1", which have song view but no sounds in the timeline. "80 90 #2", "Archbshop", "Autoload" (likely just the MPC's default starting state), "GBSounds1", "GBSounds2", "GBSounds3", "KeroDrums", "NRG iPhone", "Snds1", "Ree Keys1" and "Rygar" didn't have sequences to export, they are essentially just sample banks. | |||
80 90 #2 | |||
GBSounds1 | |||
GBSounds2 | |||
GBSounds3 | |||
KeroDrums | |||
NRG iPhone | |||
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"Album4Snds" is a mashup of "Wretches And Kings", "Waiting For The End" and "Burning In The Skies". | |||
"Iri" (Short for “Iridescent?” Mostly drum sounds that I don’t recognize, but shares BPM with final version.) | |||
"Iridescent" (Sounds very little like the ATS version, and is faster at 140 BPM.) | |||
"Lorax" (Very ATS and the most extensive of the bunch with 15 files.) | |||
"Packmanny" (“Blackout” demo - earlier version?) | |||
"PackmannyNew" (“Blackout” demo.) | |||
"Rick 808" (Single .WAV file - sounds like the hi-hats from “W&K”, and the BPM matches. Rick is likely Rick Rubin.) | |||
"Rygar" (I think this is just from when they tracked the various “W&K” guitar samples | |||
"Shoeboxer" (Doesn’t totally sound like it, but has rhythmic similarities to the intro of "Burning In The Skies".) | |||
Left Right..... that was shown on the Making Of ATS DVD. Chester screamed ''Left to right, what are you worth, show me what you got!!!! yeah yeah yeah yeah''. Haha. | |||
I just remembered something. At one point Mike or Brad or somebody in the band said that Iridescent's title was actually taken from a separate song that never went anywhere but they liked the title so decided to use it in a different song. So this Iridescent probably is that song. | I just remembered something. At one point Mike or Brad or somebody in the band said that Iridescent's title was actually taken from a separate song that never went anywhere but they liked the title so decided to use it in a different song. So this Iridescent probably is that song. | ||
===Tracklist=== | ===Tracklist=== | ||
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==Disc 4: The Hunting Party Demos== | ==Disc 4: The Hunting Party Demos== | ||
The demos from The Hunting Party were all created at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California. Inside the | The demos from The Hunting Party were all created at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California. Inside the ''larrabee'' folder were found three Maschine projects named "Morelllo 1", "Morelllo 2" and "Morello Chop"; and everything else is an Ableton Live project. Some Ableton projects however are missing all of their samples which made them useless. Most of them are just a setup of some virtual instruments or samples, but no actual MIDI information or any other audio. "[[Plato|PlatoDrum]]", "[[The Glistening]]" and "[[The Summoning]]" are missing the sounds and all three of the "LiveToys Project" sessions (inside the ''Morello Jams'' folder) are empty even though there are many sounds inside the project folder. | ||
Despite not having files inside its project, raw MIDI files for "The Summoning" were found in a different folder and included in the compilation. MIDI is a Musical Instrument Digital Interface file. Unlike regular audio files, MIDI files don't contain actual audio data. They are basically instructional files that explain how the sound should be produced once attached to a playback device or loaded into a particular software program that knows how to interpret the data. It explains what notes are played, when they're played and how long or loud each note should be. Because of this, they lack the actual sounds used in the song and the notes are played by a standard virtual piano. | Despite not having files inside its project, raw MIDI files for "The Summoning" were found in a different folder and included in the compilation. MIDI is a Musical Instrument Digital Interface file. Unlike regular audio files, MIDI files don't contain actual audio data. They are basically instructional files that explain how the sound should be produced once attached to a playback device or loaded into a particular software program that knows how to interpret the data. It explains what notes are played, when they're played and how long or loud each note should be. Because of this, they lack the actual sounds used in the song and the notes are played by a standard virtual piano. | ||
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