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<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mus ... .mp3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Song"> Song</a><BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: Electronic<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects,Pulsar Mixers<BR> kensuguro<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> I wanted to do something that sounded very full and powerful. Like something that had an awesome grace to it.

Anyway, technically, this track uses heavily effected reverbs. Compressed, and then overdriven. Generally, alot of the stuff is overdriven and sounds ripped.

Hi there Kensugoro. The track has a lot of energy. I'm impressed with the way you maintain the momentum with subtle shifts. Lots of good noises in there. You ought to do something with it. Did you do it on expensive keyboards or Creamware softsynths? (Or a mixture of both?) (Or is it a trade secret?).

Awesome sound and texture.
Lots of nice little variations and tweaks to keep interest.

I really appreciate the positive feedback. I used a bit of sampletank2 for the sampled instruments (like bass), and all the VA stuff is from Cubase's a1 synth. It's a freebie synth, but it's usable since I can load as many as I want and have almost no performance hit. I'd like to use CW synths, but there's no way I can get enough DSP power. Oh yeah, I also used tapeworm (free) for most of the melotron strings.

The hats are from sampletank2, but extremely heavily treated so it'll loose that "got it out of a workstation" sound. I hope I've achieved that effect.

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Very cool track this, lots of cool details to keep it interresting, all sounds fits very nice together, making this a very rich and full sounding track.
Only thing I don't like, is the beat,and the sound of it, something other than a four to the floor thing would be nice.
A matter of taste I guess, but a very well made track

Skeet

Lovely clustered chords.

Hi-hats take too long to cover the upper spectrum. Perhaps you didn't want to attract the attention that way? What I really means is there's nothing above a certain frequency in this track. Did you do that on purpose?

you're right. I was trying to balance between having very little highs to emphasize the medium lows, or leaving it normally crisp. It was cool as I was mixing it, to cut it and emphasize the mediums lows where most of the clustering was at. Then, afterwards, it turns out the whole things felt a bit claustrophibic and squashed. I might go back and extend the highs.. not sure if I can do it and keep that "full" sound..

Only tweak the hihats.

wow. really good track. sounds really full. how long have you been producing music? do you have any formal training in music theory? or are you self taught? i ask because i am contemplating taking some classes. can you get by without training? or is it pretty essential?

well, I've been doing this for quite some time.. Fiddling around since middle school and more seriously since college. I did some formal training in traditional functional harmony and went on with computer music after that. About 10 years in total. I worked on my master's degree on music technology for 1 semester but quit because it was more research work than learning. I just quit last autumn.

I may or may not be in the position to say.. functional harmony is good to know.. depends what kind of music you want to do. If you're not too interested building songs from chords and har mony, like with no-chord break beats, and many other modern music styles, then you might be better off concentrating on the history of electroacoustic and 20th century music.

Once you get training, then you'll hear the difference between trained and the untrained tho. Which may or may not be good. Either way, when you're trained, you can break it and twist it, but you'll know the "standard" way of doing things. I'd say, take the classes. Partially to learn stuff, but also since classes bring together people, it's good to see how people do things differently.

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