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Electric Tech-Hop pt 2

July 7, 2009 in Music | No comments

I promise, I won’t update nearly this often in the future.

Last night I got around to playing with the electric hip hop beat I was working on.  I doubled the bass track with a stock Kore Player bass, and I cleaned up the guitar.  Also, I (accidentally) changed the lead synth sound, and I don’t like it as much.

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If I’m lucky, tonight I’ll add some more to it.

Also, I’ve been pounding away at remixing a PARPG track that Matt Becker wrote.  He did a good job with it, capturing the desolation and depression we asked for.  He did such a good job, in fact, that I can only spend about an hour remixing it before I have to work on something else.

When I get closer to a finished product, I’ll upload it here for your listening pleasure.  In the mean time, you have to deal with my hip hop.

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Electric Tech-Hop

July 6, 2009 in Music | No comments

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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