<div>Andrew, you re welcome ...</div>
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<div>Thank you, you!, for the good music and explanations </div>
<div>it s well appreciated and I take notes :) .</div>
<div>I didn t expect that you used Reason 4 cause in general I recognised when musician(s) use it but it wasn t the case for your album ... </div>
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<div>thank you for the sample of a Tampura, I love this sound ... </div>
<div>It was used in one song( i don t remember the name of it ) in the synthesizer compilation album ( i dont know if you know them: <a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r52/custodianguard/Album%202/?action=view¤t=Cover-46.jpg">http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r52/custodianguard/Album%202/?action=view¤t=Cover-46.jpg</a>), maybe one of your songs should be on the next one ( if there is one ) </div>
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<div>Cheers </div>
<div>Romain</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Andrew Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@bml.co.uk">andrew@bml.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2009/3/3 Romain Gros <<a href="mailto:xtechcode@gmail.com">xtechcode@gmail.com</a>>:<br>> All your bass<br>
<div class="im">> I don t like so much the beginning ( sound beat) but i would like<br>> to know which synth you used ( one with pan delay ) , when the big<br>> beat comes in the 3/4 of the song it s really nice ...<br>
<br></div>I agree - the idea of this one was to throw every 1980s cliche into<br>one track and see if it made sense. It's sort of the 'dub mix' on the<br>back of a fictional 12" single. The drums you don't like are DMX<br>
samples, plus TR-727 samples - both machines so cheesy that they<br>haven't bee heard much since 1st Jan 1990! There's also 808 cowbells<br>and the Fairlight orch5 sample - If I'd though of it at the time, I'd<br>
have thrown some syntoms in there too!<br><br>The sound you do like is a sample of a Tampura from the Reason factory<br>soundbank, fed through unison, delay, phaser, compressor and reverb<br>modules.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> 2: make me think of Matrix music .( melancholic sphere)<br><br></div>> B Castle<br>
<div class="im">> Really relax with a heavy beat (it s perfect for me to go to<br>> work ; ) , I love the bass you used ( make me think a bit of david<br>> bowie music "outside " period), Do you used the chaossilator at the<br>
> end and change the pitch in ableton or logic?<br><br></div>I'm very happy with this one, even though it's not my usual style. The<br>end was done by holding the last note (from reason's analogue synth)<br>
for a minute, this has a heavy delayed vibrato on it which you don't<br>hear much in the song, as it cuts off before it reaches 100% normally.<br>When I came up with the long ending, I planned that it would be the<br>
last track on the album, as I hadn't done the arrangement on 'bast'<br>then. The idea was to smoothly bend the last note down, inspired by<br>the ending of Schnauss's 'Stars' but I got as far as using a stepped<br>
descent generated by the 'curve' of a reason Matrix Seqencer and<br>decided that I liked it enough and time was running out.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> 4 Hic<br>> 5 Icemelt<br>> 6 TMD<br>> 7 U happy<br>> 8 Glisten<br>> 9 P R T M<br><br></div>> Bast<br>
<div class="im">> I like the experimentation of the sounds ( did you sample<br>> yourself the sound banks for the experiment part ?)<br><br></div>Sadly no, it's all heavily manipulated reason sounds. I don't have a<br>
microphone of any decent quality here to do my own recordings.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> then when it goes to the relax part around 3 min ( it s a genius<br>> evolution !! I love it !).<br><br></div>I'm really happy with this bit too.<br><br>> ...and finish with old computer games sounds .<br>
<br>My second try at making a long ending, this time I looped the track<br>for a minute with all plats playing, then used that as a sample in<br>reason. I was going to try a 'radio' style fade out, with high and low<br>
pass filters coming in and then an overlay of radio static, but in the<br>late night rush (this was the last track I arranged) I couldn't<br>quickly get the 2 filters to stop overlapping and cutting the whole<br>lot out, so I swapped the low-pass one for a scream distortion unit,<br>
which gradually reduces the sampling frequency, and simply faded the<br>result out in logic.<br><br>> Hic<br>
<div class="im">> this song is quite Hip hop/techno for me ... the techno is quite<br>> energetic :),<br>> Did you use a real guitar or is it samples ?...<br>> I really like the end of this song from 3.50. its genial ... waou ...<br>
<br></div>This is the track I had most trouble with, the version on Headmelt is<br>20 bpm slower than the first try, which was all techno and not<br>guitarry at all. I think I'll go back to this and make whole song like<br>
the end, which came about by accident, I dropped the audio for the<br>bassline onto the lead channel and it sounded good! The 'guitar'<br>sounds are reason analogue synths through Logic's guitar amp plug in.<br>
<br>> U happy<br>
<div class="im">> it seems tribal at the beginning :) and goes to a kind of acid<br>> electronic techno without BOOM BOOM BOOM but with a tribal beat ...<br>> cool ! this song should be perfect in a coffeshop in Amsterdam ;)<br>
> just before the end of the song, it seems chaotic(4.20 till 4.42)it<br>> gives me the idea you get shortcut in your cables settings lol but it<br>> doesn t disturb me . it s really well done<br><br></div>Thanks, I'm in two minds about this track myself, I think I've somehow<br>
made a very good job of creating a type of song I don't like, if that<br>makes sense! It should definitely be shorter, that's for sure.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> 9 : I like the fat drum sounds and the keys in the background...<br>> ( compare to the other song we can hear that you start to get a bit<br>> stuck with harmony-structure-creation ... )<br>
<br></div>You've hit the nail on the head here, this was arranged on the last<br>day, as a low point when I was convinced that I would fail to get the<br>album done in time. The structure is non-existant, it's just a mush of<br>
drums cut up by feeding them through 2 instanced of supa trigga, then<br>a little manual editing of the results. Originally I made about 8<br>minutes of this. promising myself I'd trim it (or better yet remove it<br>entirely) if I did hit the minimum length for the RPM challenge.<br>
Eventually, with Bast turning out to be 12 minutes instead of the 4 or<br>5 I expected, I only cut this one down a bit to make the whole thing<br>an hour long, which sounded like a good idea at 4am, but I think it<br>was a mistake in retrospect.<br>
<br>Thanks for all the comments, it's been really useful for me to get<br>another pair of ears onto this!<br><br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888"><br>- Andrew<br></font>
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