ReWire Project

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been battling my computer… specifically, Komplete 5, and Sonar LE.

The issue with Komplete was my own fault; I opened (at least) one of the instruments as a plugin before I opened it as a stand alone version. I don’t remember that being written anywhere obvious in the installation manual or anything, but it’s what happened. And, admittedly, I’ve been fighting with this since the day I got Komplete. That is, until two weekends ago when I started the LLLOOONNNGGG process of uninstalling all NI products, and reinstalling them, opening them, updating them, and opening them again. It’s taken 2 weeks, because I have a life away from this particular computer (though you’d never know it.)

The issue with Sonar is simply this: it’s a demo version, and it’s not made to run in Vista. Yeah, I run Vista. So, it crashes unexpectedly, and without consistency. Luckily, it’s that time of year where both Christmas and my birthday fall, and hopefully I’ll be able to move away from demo products, or at least some of them.

Well, because of the battling, while I’ve been doing all this mucking around to get my computer back to where I can work on Violet Kiss (which I’ll be doing minutes after I hit Publish, get a beer, grab my guitar and stuff from the car, and… well… about 30 minutes to an hour after I hit Publish), I’ve been playing around with Ableton Live (Live Lite, to be honest… another demo product, but with A LOT better support).

I’m still not a Live expert, but I no longer hate the program now that I know 3rd party Live Sets exist. But one thing I can now do is ReWire Sonar and Live together, which opens up a new realm of possibilities — Live Lite is limited to 8 audio tracks, which just isn’t enough for large projects, but it IS enough to bring a smattering of Live-exclusive sounds into a larger, Sonar-hosted, project.

So, this is my first experiment with ReWire.

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All melodic instruments are played in Sonar, while the percussion is in Live. Sonar was the Master, Live the slave, though the only thing that really changed there was which program I used to bounce this down.

The music box sound is from Kore, and so is the reverse delay; The bass is from Massive. There are 3 different drum kits used, Carbonized, Latin Percussion, and a Bright British kick… everything but Carbonized was ran through a delay, and Carbonized has it’s own.

Also… regular listeners to this blog will recognize the melody from the Churches – New York track. I’ve been kicking this melody around for awhile, and I initially intended it for a PARPG song, which is where the music box tracks came together. Now I’ve pretty much kicked this melody around to the point of never being able to use it again (which isn’t a bad thing.)

As always, let me know what you think.

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