beat amateur: blue monday track

beat amateur · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: beat amateur: blue monday track

Here's the title track off my first release. The goal of this track was to experiment with the idea of layering distinct synth sounds to create a new overall sound for playing out a nice theme (heterophonic?) over which to sprinkle some pleasant melodies.

I tend to view this track and others from the album as demo-quality, given my software & experience limitations. Also, the mix setup was seriously lacking.

This one's for you, elektro80!

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elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject:

Hey, I like this one. At first the melodic stances sounds a bit strict, but after 30 secs or so this starts to sound just fine. I guess I was like starting to play along on a Fender Rhodes.. a virtual one.. hehe.. some jazzy stuff. This is very interesting and you should really explore this terrain more. I like the melodic excursions, they are far from obvious and .. yes.. I find this very exciting. And I love all those small details in there. Very Happy

The sounds themselves makes me thing about the early Larry Fast Synergy material.

I would like to know some about how ou made this one. gear and the lot? You say this is demo quality.. whatever that is.. any idea where you would take this if you were to produce it again for prime time?

elektro80 · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:56 pm Post subject:

Very nice laid back mood... Mellow... Relaxing...

I like the obtuse melody line...

I'm with Elektro on this..

beat amateur · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

I'm familiar with the MOD methodology. It's facinating. One of our members here, Static Probe Emitter, also uses a tracker. His music is quite exciting.

opg · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

Hey, I use ModPlug sometimes! I've tried out almost all of the tracker programs available, and this one was the most comfortable.

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:29 am Post subject:

I wonder... do you have some sort of midi output from this program? Or midi file export?

beat amateur · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:44 am Post subject:

I also found Modplug tracker the easiest to learn. Unfortunately its development seems to be slowing down; it's not as XP-friendly as some other trackers. I'm temporarily using Skale tracker on my friend's XP system but it's got some limitations.

Modplug does have the capacity to record Midi. However, the software's rate of playing notes might limit this function. It doesn't quite work like Cubase or other digital recorder/editor. I think you can also save your work as midi files... Idea

will look into this, since I'm trying to find a convenient approach for interfacing tracked recordings with live recordings.

mosc · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 11:57 am Post subject:

Do you think the "MOD" programs gave way to a particular style of music? Maybe some special sort of techno?

beat amateur · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 11:38 am Post subject:

I'm not the most active tracking scene member, but my impression is that it's used disproportionately more often to create video game music. Lots of trance as well, partly I think because synthesized sounds are much easier to work with... imagine which sound gets mangled worse when you speed it up or slow it down: a recording of a sax playing middle C or a single-oscillator sine wave at middle C. Despite this particular limitation, some people do create jazz and rock music by tracking.

Most tracking software provides a fairly useful way around the mangling problem by mapping multiple samples to a single 'instrument'. If you have a saxophone recorded at C-3, C-4, and C-5 you can map the instrument to switch over to the appropriate sample as you play through the octaves.

None of my existing work capitalized on this, which practically doubles the range any instrument can play. I just stumbled upon it recently and am making good use of a decent vibraphone...