Electric Tech-Hop

Over the weekend, my wife was awesome enough to let me take advantage of Native Instrument’s “Kompletely Insane Deal!” (Komplete 5 for a third of the price; my apologies if you miss it), loading my DAW with 65 gigs of professional-grade sounds.

To be honest, I’m a bit nervous about the complexity and potential of Absynth, Reactor, Massive, and most importantly, Kontakt, but that’s never stopped me before. And it didn’t! As soon as I had the samples loaded, I started pounding away at my keyboard, listening to the new sounds, and I must say, I was impressed. The stock sounds are of a quality I’ve never had on my computer, and I feel it will be quite awhile before I’m fighting with my software to get it to sound the way I want.

Speaking of sounding the way I want, as I was dabbling through Massive, I found a bass sound that I was completely inspired by, and I had to get the inspiration into Sonar ASAP.

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The drums are mostly a preset kit from Battery, with a single thing changed, bass from Massive, the guitar I recorded with Line 6’s Pod Farm, and the compton-esque lead is from the Kore Player.  It’s REALLY basic, and rough, but it marks a style of music that I’ve been unable to write, previously, so I’m excited.

Keep an eye out for the next steps, as I finish it.

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