thanks Sam, nice to be compared with them
but that's far beyond reality, haha.
It's a 'friendly' thingy this song but it's nothing experi-mentally or renewing.
But I take the record
Note: you better could have listened to the updated version which is
here! (I made a mess of it I guess).
He Chris, these are singing resigned nuns?
What's coming out of their mouthes, did they just finish a blowj*b or what?
Thanks anyway
Hm, about the song, I was thinking: a friend of mine felt some trouble with the 'hanging' trumpet note, coming out of the blue as he sees it.
Nestor (was it?) had about the same feeling, so maybe this is a true weakness in style.
At least I would rather delete the trumpet riff than the hanging note, cause I love the rithmic changing patterns it makes.
I must say to my defense
that I put some fill notes in the hanging trumpet cadanse, specially in the first two bars, in order to overbridge between the trumpet riff and the repeated note.
So you shouldn't really notice the change, at least it should feel natural, but may be that doesn't.
BTW, for me the real joy in this song is not in the trumpet but in the Virus, doing the filtering stuff all the time
Making music sometimes can be dancing on a cord, you have to put unexpected changes in a song to keep it interesting, and at the same time it should be 'natural' or 'logic', (even in an experimental setting).
It's a thin line between both requests.
I tried hard to filter the melody line of the trumpet, but the sound of it was already very narrow and very resonant of it's own, too hard to filter, so I could not really alienate it from 'live playing'.
I chopped the original line in slices in Phatmatic Pro, the loop slice editor of Bitshift Audio, so I made the two riffs a bit by myself, but I made them too realistic I'm afraid.
This 'conflict', the ratio between 'realistic' music versus abstract electronic music, is also the reason I decided my next song will be different from my last series.
It's getting too slow and tasty a bit
I commandd myself to make something more alienated, just to keep the balance
I will upload it soon, that's to say ehh one week, or two..., I'm on 3/4th I think.
I love the Phatmatic, I use it these days as my sampler, not alone for loops but for every possible sound that needs special editing and slicing.
For instance, the beat in this song is build from 3 loops, a mainloop and 2 'live' reggea loops.
From the mainloop I just used the bass and snare, and the other two gave me the hihats and some snare fills.
It's sooo handy you can slice a loop and you then change the ridm and use what you need from it, all in midi!
The new Phat version also offers metric slicing, following the logical partitions of the bar.
Perfect to do some tricks with ambient or non rhitmic soundscapes, you can filter the slices independently.
The new (coming?) version of Native Instruments' Kontakt sampler is able to slice too, I'll have to check this one day, but the GUI of the Phat is much better in handling than the Kontakt.
Recommended, the Phatmatic!
Thanks for reading my thoughts
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