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--The post what you are working on *right now* thread--

Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:57 am

apologies for the amount of posts and threads in here, i get carried away :lol:

i realise there's a thread for everything music orientated to do with workflow and software etc but thought this might be a nice addition to this part of the forum as its a winner at another place i hang out and has garnered lots of advice, tips, constructive crisitcism and so on ... might be good to have a thread with forum members works in progress and sketches in :idea:

so if no one minds i'll start ...
was wanting to make something vaguely hip hop, mellow with crunchy electronica and ended up with this :lol:

no idea where its going just yet and am not entirely happy with the organ which was a last minute addition (might swap synths for that) :o

http://myuzyk.net/promo/Skywave_Systems ... _i_WIP.wav

only a minute or so of noodles and have been on cans so dunno how it fares on monitors

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Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:02 am

like it. lots of nice in and out (if ever a phrase there was) trickery. the drones coming in at the end sound cool also. could be a great tune if it's expanded a little more. what did you do it in?

Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:12 am

Live with padKONTROL and microKONTROL with various Ableton built in bits and third party stuff, few recorded snippets of audio done with my new mic, samples etc

cheers man, quite a compliment coming from yourself ... originally the track was going to be for a young MC i know to puts vocals with for my album but now i'm not so sure ... think it'd have to be altered a fair bit really and obviously extended out into a full song structure

might put it to rest for a few days and come back to it :)

Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:50 am

Great! :) Love the organic sounding bass sweep and the chord that comes in later. Finish it :).

Here's my most recent sketch.

Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:55 am

that's lovely! the vocodered vocal really adds a shimmer to what is a beautiful piece already

keen to hear the full thing and have you got any collections of your music available?

Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:57 am

Thanks man :).

I've never released anything officially except my OOT2 submission (last track), and here is a directory containing - mostly unfinished - music.

Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:07 am

i have the OOT2 disc so will revisit it over the weekend

going to have a nose around in the directory 8)

Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:10 am

working in Reason for the first time ever and enjoying it considerably.

working on a class project to score a short film with a girl from the dance department.

here's what i have so far.

http://kiwi6.com/file?id=9qlb2zj0

very rough draft, very very. it's actually in 3/4 time since there will be waltzing elements.

veryveryvery. i just made it about an hour ago.

Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:16 am

Short, but sounds great so far, will you add beats or will it stay a soundscape like this throughout the rest of the song? Both would work I think.

Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:17 am

sounds really good for Reason ... i used version 3 i think years ago and although i had fun messing about with stuff i never really got far enough into it to get real results

i have to get to bed soon, its gone 2am again

Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:18 am

My demo which I am currently gathering feedback for can be found here:

http://soundcloud.com/naturalysis/sets/ ... -demo-prep

Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:37 am

Here's a new one I'm working on called "Shiva". There are some bass anomalies that I need to square away. The bass frequencies reach down to 30-60 hertz that seems to be generating some atonal vibrations, so I need to smooth that out and then maybe add some background sounds. But other than that I am really excited about this one.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0n8hm1

Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:55 am

Hey, perfect thread right now. I've been a musician for years but am just getting comfortable with Ableton - your thread on VSTs was a great resource, in particular for leading me to KVR - and have just finished up the first track that I'm happy with enough to share out for feedback. Here's a direct link -

'Haunted'

http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/272872_0vkxh/Haunted.mp3

Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:35 am

jonnyjj74 wrote:Here's a new one I'm working on called "Shiva". There are some bass anomalies that I need to square away. The bass frequencies reach down to 30-60 hertz that seems to be generating some atonal vibrations, so I need to smooth that out and then maybe add some background sounds. But other than that I am really excited about this one.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0n8hm1


jonnyjj74, your song totally reminds me of late 80's early 90's Tangerine Dream! Awesome!

Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:28 am

Sorry for the plug but idmforums.com is a great resource for all things production related.

Johnny I just wanted to say I love your tunes, particularly "Blurry Nautilus" from Citrus Drop. Fantastic song.

Saturday Index - Tiddle

Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:59 am

Here's a little tidbit I scrounged up from the depths of my external hard-drive. I have a plethora of songs like this to pull out every once in a while.

Tiddle

http://rapidshare.com/files/187502622/Tiddle.mp3.html

Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:43 am

Woops, the track I posted above was apparently not set for public view. Should be good to go now, here's the link again -


http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/272872_0vkxh/Haunted.mp3

Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:23 am

sweet. i have a few old boardsy ones i must pull out. will try and post a few when i get back from werk.

Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:16 pm

I've been having a big mind blank lately. No inspiration, no creativity.

It's annoying. :(

Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:09 pm

mechanismj wrote:jonnyjj74, your song totally reminds me of late 80's early 90's Tangerine Dream! Awesome!
Thanks! I don't know that I've gotten that late into their discography. I've mainly just stuck to the early 70s material.
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