Musicians' thread.

I miss my old Pioneer valve amp, was some late 1970s model, no pc board, wiring under the hood looked as can only be described as "string theory", had to replace the valves and then had some other hassles, gave it away and bought my monitors instead. Miss it, but haven't looked back.
 
Was just doing a track, it's still bare bones but at least I put the idea down and it's step in the right direction to get me making music again....it's definitely a song which would suite a video game
 
luxe said:
Heya,

I have been writing anything and everything since around 92, using software like the awesome Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker, Fruity Loops, and lately - Renoise (www.renoise.com) go look, and buy it. Been tracking under the name of Elemental the whole time, so there are plenty of my tunes all over the interwebs on a google search of elemental+S3m+.it

I have 3 tracks up on Soundcloud which I'd be happy for anyone to hear, comments welcome on the site or here :)

I use Roland Midi Keyboard, some Korg Nano****rols and pads and a Presonus Firebox external sound card.
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You got da rhythms ;)

I like Dirty Strings the best, you got a very nice retro feel out of it with lots of funky sounds. The others are a little abstract for me but that's just my taste, still think the rhythms are good and that hard-bass-synth that sweeps over in Flight914 is addictive. Your mixes just sometimes feel a little empty maybe? I keep picturing a lead vocalist or funky trumpets to fill in the mixes, but all in all good work on the sounds and placement, and I never would have guessed the tapping on the bottles.

Keep it up :)
 
I'm really enjoying this thread... Luxe, like the bass. Assagai, awesome tunes! uJochi, good recordings.

I play guitar. Had a few acoustics. Owned a sunburst Japanese Strat once. Played in a garage band. Sold it long ago because I couldn't afford a proper amplifier, at the time. Bought a nice Washburn semi-acoustic in the UK, which I still play when I get the urge.

Also, I discovered Fruity Loops in the late nineties. Spend many nights messing around. Had a few nice songs which only my good friends ever heard. Very recently I downloaded the latest FL Studio and a couple of VST's and started messing around again. This is my most complete song, so far (obviously needs a lot more work):

http://soundcloud.com/quantum-theory/song-5
 
Quantum Theory said:
I'm really enjoying this thread... Luxe, like the bass. Assagai, awesome tunes! uJochi, good recordings.

I play guitar. Had a few acoustics. Owned a sunburst Japanese Strat once. Played in a garage band. Sold it long ago because I couldn't afford a proper amplifier, at the time. Bought a nice Washburn semi-acoustic in the UK, which I still play when I get the urge.

Also, I discovered Fruity Loops in the late nineties. Spend many nights messing around. Had a few nice songs which only my good friends ever heard. Very recently I downloaded the latest FL Studio and a couple of VST's and started messing around again. This is my most complete song, so far (obviously needs a lot more work):

http://soundcloud.com/quantum-theory/song-5
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Nice tune.. i like the choice of sounds.
 
copacetic said:
Not even 10 tracks and it's Reason, so it will be such a damn mission to bounce them (Is it even possible?). Damnit, I need a new CPU!
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yeah you can bounce them quite easily.. but since reason has no audio playback you'll have to arrange the tracks in reaper (which is free to use btw) you can then rewire a slimmed down reason project into reaper and keep adding sounds.
But. my guess is that it's not cpu - it's asio, so what sound card do you have? And which drivers are you using?
 
assagai said:
yeah you can bounce them quite easily.. but since reason has no audio playback you'll have to arrange the tracks in reaper (which is free to use btw) you can then rewire a slimmed down reason project into reaper and keep adding sounds.
But. my guess is that it's not cpu - it's asio, so what sound card do you have? And which drivers are you using?
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It is definitely CPU, had a dual core in here recently and things were just peachy. Sound card is just a random on board card with ASIO4ALL drivers.
 
Making a little progress with a track. Zeus alone knows, perhaps I'll be able to post something at some stage. :D

I don't really know what genre it is, I am a bit clueless when it comes to that side of things.

It's kind of dark, hardcore dance track. Sort of. I think. :confused:

Perhaps when I finish it you guys can enlighten me.
 
copacetic said:
****IT!

I hate crash cymbals in dance music, how the **** do you make them sound non-terrible?! :mad:
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EQ them, and use better samples. I can mail you a bunch I have. Often a quick tish works better than a traditional longer cymbal drumkit sound.
 
nihilist said:
EQ them, and use better samples. I can mail you a bunch I have. Often a quick tish works better than a traditional longer cymbal drumkit sound.
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I'll take them, thanks. :)

Oddly enough, in this particular situation, I think I need longer ones. I've soaked them in reverb, song's busy playing, I am holding thumbs they will sound okay when they hit. :p

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Ergh. They sound so... mechanical.
 
copacetic said:
I'll take them, thanks. :)

Oddly enough, in this particular situation, I think I need longer ones. I've soaked them in reverb, song's busy playing, I am holding thumbs they will sound okay when they hit. :p
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Ewe goth male.
 
Also, is it a normal thing to do, to pump the main compressor on the main out, by side-chaining the bass drum? For dancy type music?
 
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