Your new music thread **formerly 'Music Production Thread'

[jonny5]

I'm sure this is old new to everyone but me, but i decided to snag the Korg M01 DS thing.

Good GOD it's a mini marvel!

I managed to throw this up in about 10 minutes on the train (hardly a master piece and no structure, but hey)
Sorry it's a vid ... with nothing happening in it, but you can get some idea for the sound

http://www.dcharlie.com/M01dcharlie.wmv

Oh I totally forgot about the M01! I'll have to look into that. I just got a Korg Monotron, the $60 analog synth that fits in your pocket It's awesome (but limited). The best thing about it could be the aux input which lets you filter any sound you want.

You can get some pretty gnarly bass tones out of it with a bit of tweaking and creative sampling. Also, it's fun to run external audio through it, as you can use the LFO to add some pretty interesting rhythmic movement to stuff, almost like a delay pedal. Only downside with it is the noise levels, which can be pretty bad, especially for recording.

I'm interested to try out the monotribe, but I will probably wait and try and get one used after the intial rush of people buy it and realize it doesn't make the music for you and flip them on craigslist.

Would have been nice if it had midi, but with its pulse sync it won't be to hard to sync up to other stuff with a bit of trickery.

[cools]

Trying to do a track a month this year. The only thing completed in June took a crazy amount of time, and although July's seen me do an awful lot of work the only one that I've (virtually) finished is this: http://soundcloud.com/rogalian/nsl010 (which took a few hours tonight, and simply needs a lot of listening and tweaking to polish).

[cools]

And now complete

[jonny5]

And now complete

I was totally listening to the first 3 minutes going "Fuck, this needs some sax!"

Then....Blam!

Well played sir!

[cools]

Think the breakdown sax needs a little more rearrangement but I'll give it a rest before doing so

[szycag]

Is that sampled sax or a sample based VST? I really want all the stuff like that I can get. NI Kore Player came with my MIDI keyboard and the upright bass on there is AWESOME

[cools]

http://www.dreamvortex.co.uk/instruments/

[szycag]

KILLER

[cools]

Think the breakdown sax needs a little more rearrangement but I'll give it a rest before doing so

Now finalised...

[jonny5]

Finally got around to uploading a live jam I did a few months back with my MC303 and ER1mk2, just before I sold them both.

http://soundcloud.com/jonny5-1/a02-u42

Couple mistakes here and there, but whatever.

[dcharlie]

I was going to get rid of it but i'm back in love with the MC505.

I also bought a monotron for my "portable" music stuff - i have hot spicy boner for it already. 3480 yen. Stupid awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn4D79Jgn_4

[cools]

Finally got around to uploading a live jam I did a few months back with my MC303 and ER1mk2, just before I sold them both.

http://soundcloud.com/jonny5-1/a02-u42

Couple mistakes here and there, but whatever.

I like it, very Orbital-esque.

Not sure if it's just me, but the mid-bass arp timing feels off?

[jonny5]

Finally got around to uploading a live jam I did a few months back with my MC303 and ER1mk2, just before I sold them both.

http://soundcloud.com/jonny5-1/a02-u42

Couple mistakes here and there, but whatever.

I like it, very Orbital-esque.

Not sure if it's just me, but the mid-bass arp timing feels off?

Maybe, I think it's just the off timing I used; it follows the kick if you listen carefully. Although, to be fair,the MC303 is certainly not known for the stability of its sequencer, even when locked to the ER1.

I traded the ER1mk2 for a Novation K-Station, which is getting a lot more use, both as a synth and I use it heavily as an effects unit for my vintage stuff like my Yamaha SK10 and Elka Rhapsody 490; I love my string machines!! I really like the ER1 and the electribe interface in general, but it had such a limited sweet spot as far as the types of sounds it could produce it was too limited to use for my more 70's-80's stuff. Plus it only cost me $100 and I traded it for a much more versatile synth that was worth more like $400-$600.

The MC303 got sold before I whipped it against the wall. Word to the wise, do not try and use an MC303 to sequence external gear!!! You will be ripping your hair out in frustration very quick! It's fun enough to throw together simple patterns using the internal sounds and jam with them and tweak them live, but the interfaced is so slow and often glitchy, it is very frustrating to try and do more complicated arrangements, especially when you are used to working with more well rounded sequencers like MPC's.

I miss my MPC!! Oh well, it is getting replaced this fall!

[emphatic]

Finished this remix of Delerium's classic tune "Silence" featuring the vocal talent of Sarah McLachlan last week and played it at a DJ gig yesterday. Had a nice response from the crowd. Now available from SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/dj_emphatic/deler ... -emphatics

[Udderdude]

Finally got around to uploading a live jam I did a few months back with my MC303 and ER1mk2, just before I sold them both. :lol:

http://soundcloud.com/jonny5-1/a02-u42

Couple mistakes here and there, but whatever.

I like it.

[cools]

Finished this remix of Delerium's classic tune "Silence" featuring the vocal talent of Sarah McLachlan last week and played it at a DJ gig yesterday. Had a nice response from the crowd. Now available from SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/dj_emphatic/deler ... -emphatics

Nice work

[emphatic]

Finished this remix of Delerium's classic tune "Silence" featuring the vocal talent of Sarah McLachlan last week and played it at a DJ gig yesterday. Had a nice response from the crowd. Now available from SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/dj_emphatic/deler ... -emphatics

Nice work

Thanks. My remix originally is @ 130 BPM (like the accapella), but I used MixMeister to put it at 138 bpm to fit my DJ set. Unfortunately, this changed my groove quantization a bit, so it's not 100% compatible with most professionally produced trance tracks, but slightly off. I think the track is better @ 138 bpm though, so I'm gonna stick with it for now. I have an idea though on how to just timeshift the accapella then re-insert it into my track and set the BPM higher and keep the groove intact. Stay tuned.

[szycag]

btw cools, your track is awesome. all you guys are talented

[cools]

Finished this remix of Delerium's classic tune "Silence" featuring the vocal talent of Sarah McLachlan last week and played it at a DJ gig yesterday. Had a nice response from the crowd. Now available from SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/dj_emphatic/deler ... -emphatics

Nice work

Thanks. My remix originally is @ 130 BPM (like the accapella), but I used MixMeister to put it at 138 bpm to fit my DJ set. Unfortunately, this changed my groove quantization a bit, so it's not 100% compatible with most professionally produced trance tracks, but slightly off. I think the track is better @ 138 bpm though, so I'm gonna stick with it for now. I have an idea though on how to just timeshift the accapella then re-insert it into my track and set the BPM higher and keep the groove intact. Stay tuned.

Pitch up!

[null1024]

An OHC track, yes, but I love this.
I had to do strange things to get the pitchslides working right because you can't change instrument without starting a new note [and resetting the sample phase -_-].

Song: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6443934/dangerofthecow.mp3
Source XM: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6443934/dangerofthecow.xm

[Udderdude]

Hey now, I'm not that dangerous, am I? :P

Goddamnit, I really need to get back into FM stuff.

[TonK]

I picked this up, can anyone offer any tips on how to get started?

Seems pretty cool.

[jonny5]

New track up. Little Nanoloop song I did waiting for my bus back from NYC last week. All done with the internal sound engine, no samples.

http://soundcloud.com/jonny5-1/elektroshitz

[TomuS]

Finished a new Mega Drive track today: Down With Them!

[jonny5]

Finished a new Mega Drive track today: Down With Them!

Nice work. I really enjoyed this song! The groove was great!

[emphatic]

I thought that ReBirth would run on Windows7, but it seems I'm wrong. I want to run it with Reason, but it just disappears as soon as I close the "Benchmark test". I'm starting Reason first, and also adding a Rebirth interface module into the Reason rack, but no dice.

Is there another standalone app that can render acid basslines, or are there some special stuff I need to do to get ReBirth running? When I installed it, I kept a copy of Reason's ReWire.dll so it wouldn't be overwritten by the old one (from ReBirth), so that's not it. I also tried running it in compatibility mode and as an Administrator.

Edit: Nevermind, I found this guide: http://www.onetriberecords.com/rebirth_on_windows.pdf

[jonny5]

New track up.

http://soundcloud.com/infinity-curve/only-us-left-now

I made a new account for my more synthy soundtrack type stuff.

Would love some feedback on this.

[Siren2011]

http://soundcloud.com/infinity-curve/only-us-left-now

This is bloody incredible. Track downloaded and on repeat.

Your other work doesn't grab me like this track does. If you make 7 other great ones like this one, I would pay for the album. I'm sure plenty of the boys here would do the same.

[jonny5]

I've been working with mostly hardware synths for the last year or so, and I tend to just jam out and sequence stuff.

I've only recently started actually recording the jams. Most of my old tracks were all MPC sample hip hop with soft synths. I'm running all hardware now and it's way more fun. Everything is right there in front of me and I can just go at it!

I made this song last saturday over the afternoon. Once I had it all sequenced I just tracked it into Ableton and spent the day sunday mixing and mastering on the laptop.

Sorry, make that I spent most of the morning mixing and mastering and then I spent like 5 hours straight tweaking the tom rolls.

Glad you like it.

Tell your friends!

[Udderdude]

jonny5 is stocking up for the zombie apocalypse .. :P

I like it, btw