InterMetro Miami Breeze

[kensuguro]

I just moved (within Jersey City) and got all my stuff set up again. This time, we moved to a 2 bedroom, and I got half of the second bedroom. The construction of the apartment is pretty good, so I might be able to get a cheap upright piano without being murdered by the neighbors.

Anyway, my desktop housing all the pulsar cards died on me, so I decided to set Live up on my notebook to see if it'll work for me. I even bought me a cool vsti synth called alchemy from camel audio to sort of get in to the "native" groove. I wrote a simple, very orthodox sounding house tune, and so far, I'm liking it. I don't use any advanced MIDI functions at all, so if I can record and edit, then I could care less if it's Live or Cubase or Reaper. (reaper's MIDI is horrible) But anyway, overall, everything runs well, the effects sound pretty good, and the response isn't as bad as I remember it being. But then, last I checked up on native stuff was like 7 years ago.

I used lots of sounds from the free Proteus plugin. Heh, Proteus' sounds are still quite hip if you ask me. Especially the drums. Many of them have become classics! It's also nice that it's a multi-timbral, multi-out instrument. Really saves on ram and loading time to not have to load 6 instances of this thing. Before I figured out how to do the multi-timbral stuff in Live, I had 4 of these loading, and although it ran just fine, it took forever to load.

Camel Audio Alchemy is an interesting synth. It's much to complicated to make sounds on the fly, although maybe if I got more familiar it'll be possible. It's a granular / spectral / subtractive all-in-one synth. Very crisp, edgy sound overall. It's mainly a pad/soundscape machine though, as you'd expect from a granular synth. It'll be nice to get 2 days and learn this thing.

[dawman]

Sounds Nice Brotha' Man Ken.
I would love to hear what you do with the Camel Audio Synth.
That developer made excellent synths ( R.I.P. ).

[kensuguro]

oh dang, I didn't know he passed away. I think all of Camel Audio's stuff is top notch. I was originally going to get chameleon, but found Alchemy when I got to their site.