the slow mix is up...
this is a slower, "ambient" version of the track. mix finalized on feb 10, 2015.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-slow-mix
the final mix is next, followed by the guitar concerto, which is starting to gain some more shape.
i was hoping to have this done by the end of december. it's currently seeming more like an end of february thing :/. but it takes how long it takes...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
i've made a change, here.
i've been uploading things as i'm done them, and having it update here via rss. so, anybody can hear things the minute they're finished. now, the reality is that none of you are listening to any of it anyways...
...but i've changed this so that uploads are subscriber only until the release is finalized. so, for example, i'm working on this untitled techno tune right now. i've got two more mixes left, i think. there's currently nine mixes up. at the moment, only bandcamp subscribers can access those nine mixes. when i finish the release and publish it, it will be fully accessible for streaming (and purchase) by the general public.
it appears that the rss feed will stop updating these, so i'll have to post them manually. what that means is that i'll be posting a lot of links you won't have access to unless you subscribe. but, eventually, everything will be accessible....
a little taste of the *actual* future of the music industry.
putting the price through the roof like this provides a strong disincentive for file-sharing. also, if file sharing does end up happening, it ensures that the few people that are actually paying are making up for the lost revenue. that's how markets work, and how it's gotta be if people want to just steal shit...
the result is going to be less sales, but a higher price attached to the dwindling sales. and, you're going to see other things happen as a result of that. artists are going to stop focusing on marketing to the masses and start focusing on marketing to the upper middle classes. this should have a positive effect on the quality of the music, but will likely come at a price of social consciousness. that's a balance we're going to need to grapple with.
the reality is that if there is no market in the masses, there will not be a product produced for them. the idea that a decrease in demand will lead to a sustained increase in supply is incoherent. if demand for popular music falls, musicians will seek out other career opportunities. you can't build an industry on the capitalization of pipe dreams.
i've been uploading things as i'm done them, and having it update here via rss. so, anybody can hear things the minute they're finished. now, the reality is that none of you are listening to any of it anyways...
...but i've changed this so that uploads are subscriber only until the release is finalized. so, for example, i'm working on this untitled techno tune right now. i've got two more mixes left, i think. there's currently nine mixes up. at the moment, only bandcamp subscribers can access those nine mixes. when i finish the release and publish it, it will be fully accessible for streaming (and purchase) by the general public.
it appears that the rss feed will stop updating these, so i'll have to post them manually. what that means is that i'll be posting a lot of links you won't have access to unless you subscribe. but, eventually, everything will be accessible....
a little taste of the *actual* future of the music industry.
putting the price through the roof like this provides a strong disincentive for file-sharing. also, if file sharing does end up happening, it ensures that the few people that are actually paying are making up for the lost revenue. that's how markets work, and how it's gotta be if people want to just steal shit...
the result is going to be less sales, but a higher price attached to the dwindling sales. and, you're going to see other things happen as a result of that. artists are going to stop focusing on marketing to the masses and start focusing on marketing to the upper middle classes. this should have a positive effect on the quality of the music, but will likely come at a price of social consciousness. that's a balance we're going to need to grapple with.
the reality is that if there is no market in the masses, there will not be a product produced for them. the idea that a decrease in demand will lead to a sustained increase in supply is incoherent. if demand for popular music falls, musicians will seek out other career opportunities. you can't build an industry on the capitalization of pipe dreams.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
suggestions to save on heating
jessica
hi.
i want to be clear that these are ideas to save on heating, not requests for maintenance. i've been here long enough to draw some conclusions.
the way i see it is that the basement is designed in such a way that it doesn't really matter what the source of the heating is, it's going to be high. about 70% of the basement is unheated, and the insulation is incomplete. so, there's going to be tremendous heat loss unless the unit is better insulated. i'm not talking about the windows, i'm just talking about the walls bordering the unheated areas. if it's -10 outside the walls, and there's cracks under the walls, that's just going to leak and leak and leak, whether you put a furnace in here or not.
so, insulating the walls (and the place where the walls hit the floors) would be the first thing i'd do if i wanted to cut heating costs down here.
second, i might want to look at putting stops on the doors, as well. for the back door, it's just constant leakage. again: if it's -10 outside the door, and there's a 2 inch crack under the door, changing the source of the heating isn't really going to be the factor that makes the big difference in costs. it's blocking the drafts. with the front door, there's nothing to separate the cold coming in through the entrance, so it's going to suck the heat out as well. it's not realistic to put an extra door in, but putting a seal on the front door would probably also be huge.
third, it might be worth your while to run a vent from the furnace into the currently unheated part of the basement. that would both reduce costs fighting the draft into here and reduce costs fighting the draft into upstairs, and any stacking moving the air up [which i'm sure must exist].
i've had to turn the heat up a little, as the air in the unfinished part of the basement has plummeted. if the insulation through the walls was better, i'd be able to keep it at a lower level...
the landlord
Thanks, I am concerned as you are....I will considered your suggestions and will act on these as soon as I can with timing and financial recourses. Right now I am not able to act on doors until spring. I want to put new doors. Just keep warm the best you can. I will talk to you when I come by.
jessica
as i'm sure you know, it's going to get freezing this week.
i've crammed some towels in the cracks around the doors. it's obviously not as good as a rubber seal (and that back door is especially, like, *not* meant to keep out drafts), but i think it's at least a good experiment to try to see if it really helps or not. logic suggests that if you can feel a draft through a 2 inch crack up two sides of the door then obstructing it any way at all should make at least some difference. that said, i don't think towels are exactly the best at trapping heat, either. but i'll let you know if it actually keeps the heat in a little better; if it makes no difference, that indicates it's really dominantly a wall issue.
basically, i think this place was constructed with the assumption that the basement would be heated. just consider the walk back to the fuse box. that's a perfect sink for cold air, right. the only way it makes any sense to put a half-insulated wall right there with a bedroom on the other side is if it's taken for granted that the heat is on in the whole complex. otherwise, it's just a structural nightmare: the unit is heating a cold air sink.
so, let's hope the towels make a noticeable difference and the doors can consequently provide a noticeable decrease in cost.
(pause)
hi.
i don't want to bug you about this too much, i just want to update on the effects after blocking the doors and turning the heat up a little.
it seems to hold the heat in pretty well just about everywhere except the second bedroom, so i think putting weather stripping around those doors is a very good idea.
the second room has ceramic baseboards, and the first room has wood baseboards. the walls are about the same temperature in both rooms, so i think the walls are probably ok but that the baseboards in the second room are leaking. now, i don't want to jump to conclusions about conductivity because i think the situation is complicated by various factors, i just want to point out three observations:
1) the wood baseboards are closer to the ground and forming a better seal. so, it seems like they're doing what they're supposed to, while the ceramic ones are not.
2) the ceramic baseboards in that room are much, much colder than they are around the foundation. that is, the ceramic baseboards in the second bedroom are very cold whereas the ceramic baseboards in the kitchen are not so cold. so, there's exposure, there.
3) if you look around the basement, you'll notice that most of the walls have these black, plastic stoppers around them that form a seal to the ground. that black plastic is missing on that wall. it's just paint.
i'd have to *guess* that the cold ceramic is a symptom rather than a cause, and that the causes of the draft are the missing plastic around the outside and the incomplete seal on the inside.
it's of course going to be a lot easier to run some plastic around the wall on the outside than to replace the baseboards, so i'm just pointing that out as a possible approach.
other than that, i think the weatherstripping on the doors is the key good idea, and that the walls themselves are actually not particularly drafty, excepting the cold air moving in under the walls on the far side.
hi.
i want to be clear that these are ideas to save on heating, not requests for maintenance. i've been here long enough to draw some conclusions.
the way i see it is that the basement is designed in such a way that it doesn't really matter what the source of the heating is, it's going to be high. about 70% of the basement is unheated, and the insulation is incomplete. so, there's going to be tremendous heat loss unless the unit is better insulated. i'm not talking about the windows, i'm just talking about the walls bordering the unheated areas. if it's -10 outside the walls, and there's cracks under the walls, that's just going to leak and leak and leak, whether you put a furnace in here or not.
so, insulating the walls (and the place where the walls hit the floors) would be the first thing i'd do if i wanted to cut heating costs down here.
second, i might want to look at putting stops on the doors, as well. for the back door, it's just constant leakage. again: if it's -10 outside the door, and there's a 2 inch crack under the door, changing the source of the heating isn't really going to be the factor that makes the big difference in costs. it's blocking the drafts. with the front door, there's nothing to separate the cold coming in through the entrance, so it's going to suck the heat out as well. it's not realistic to put an extra door in, but putting a seal on the front door would probably also be huge.
third, it might be worth your while to run a vent from the furnace into the currently unheated part of the basement. that would both reduce costs fighting the draft into here and reduce costs fighting the draft into upstairs, and any stacking moving the air up [which i'm sure must exist].
i've had to turn the heat up a little, as the air in the unfinished part of the basement has plummeted. if the insulation through the walls was better, i'd be able to keep it at a lower level...
the landlord
Thanks, I am concerned as you are....I will considered your suggestions and will act on these as soon as I can with timing and financial recourses. Right now I am not able to act on doors until spring. I want to put new doors. Just keep warm the best you can. I will talk to you when I come by.
jessica
as i'm sure you know, it's going to get freezing this week.
i've crammed some towels in the cracks around the doors. it's obviously not as good as a rubber seal (and that back door is especially, like, *not* meant to keep out drafts), but i think it's at least a good experiment to try to see if it really helps or not. logic suggests that if you can feel a draft through a 2 inch crack up two sides of the door then obstructing it any way at all should make at least some difference. that said, i don't think towels are exactly the best at trapping heat, either. but i'll let you know if it actually keeps the heat in a little better; if it makes no difference, that indicates it's really dominantly a wall issue.
basically, i think this place was constructed with the assumption that the basement would be heated. just consider the walk back to the fuse box. that's a perfect sink for cold air, right. the only way it makes any sense to put a half-insulated wall right there with a bedroom on the other side is if it's taken for granted that the heat is on in the whole complex. otherwise, it's just a structural nightmare: the unit is heating a cold air sink.
so, let's hope the towels make a noticeable difference and the doors can consequently provide a noticeable decrease in cost.
(pause)
hi.
i don't want to bug you about this too much, i just want to update on the effects after blocking the doors and turning the heat up a little.
it seems to hold the heat in pretty well just about everywhere except the second bedroom, so i think putting weather stripping around those doors is a very good idea.
the second room has ceramic baseboards, and the first room has wood baseboards. the walls are about the same temperature in both rooms, so i think the walls are probably ok but that the baseboards in the second room are leaking. now, i don't want to jump to conclusions about conductivity because i think the situation is complicated by various factors, i just want to point out three observations:
1) the wood baseboards are closer to the ground and forming a better seal. so, it seems like they're doing what they're supposed to, while the ceramic ones are not.
2) the ceramic baseboards in that room are much, much colder than they are around the foundation. that is, the ceramic baseboards in the second bedroom are very cold whereas the ceramic baseboards in the kitchen are not so cold. so, there's exposure, there.
3) if you look around the basement, you'll notice that most of the walls have these black, plastic stoppers around them that form a seal to the ground. that black plastic is missing on that wall. it's just paint.
i'd have to *guess* that the cold ceramic is a symptom rather than a cause, and that the causes of the draft are the missing plastic around the outside and the incomplete seal on the inside.
it's of course going to be a lot easier to run some plastic around the wall on the outside than to replace the baseboards, so i'm just pointing that out as a possible approach.
other than that, i think the weatherstripping on the doors is the key good idea, and that the walls themselves are actually not particularly drafty, excepting the cold air moving in under the walls on the far side.
concerned about lack of response
To: infocchc <infocchc@cmha-wecb.on.ca>
jessica
hello.
i need a way to get access to the windsor city health center to confirm an appointment on feb 17th. i do not have access to a phone. can you confirm that i can get access through this address, or deny it?
the only other way i could contact the center is to walk, but it is a lengthy walk and it is very cold out.
cmha
You had an appointment Fe b 2nd but it was a snow day centre was closed. No future appointment was made with the nurse. You have an appointment With the doctor on the 17th of Feb.
jessica
thank you, that's what i needed confirmed. i didn't know if the centre was closed (although guessed it was) and didn't want you to think that being unable to make it on the 2nd cancelled the appointment on the 17th.
i don't have a phone number, but i have a voice mail box. i just don't carry the number around with me and never remember it. contacting me can either be done via this email address or via this voice box, which sends a text message to this email address.
jessica
hello.
i need a way to get access to the windsor city health center to confirm an appointment on feb 17th. i do not have access to a phone. can you confirm that i can get access through this address, or deny it?
the only other way i could contact the center is to walk, but it is a lengthy walk and it is very cold out.
cmha
You had an appointment Fe b 2nd but it was a snow day centre was closed. No future appointment was made with the nurse. You have an appointment With the doctor on the 17th of Feb.
jessica
thank you, that's what i needed confirmed. i didn't know if the centre was closed (although guessed it was) and didn't want you to think that being unable to make it on the 2nd cancelled the appointment on the 17th.
i don't have a phone number, but i have a voice mail box. i just don't carry the number around with me and never remember it. contacting me can either be done via this email address or via this voice box, which sends a text message to this email address.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
i'm not really feeling this ambient workthrough, either. the piece is a little too structured for it; i've had to cut the tempo in half, which defeats the point (building backing tracks for the final mix). and, to be honest, i'm not sure how i could work even more sound into this, anyways; as it is, i've got something like 250 tracks to work with in the mix down, and most of them are never going to make it there.
i don't want to just do it for the sake of doing it. i was mostly focusing on the intro, and it's created a contradiction: i need to slow it down considerably to kill the energy in the "bass", but that also means i'm killing the energy in the "guitar", which is what was driving me to do the mix in the first place.
that means i'm more or less going to have to restructure it, but then i'm forcing it, which rarely works out well. and wasn't what i intended.
i haven't abandoned it yet, but i do think that this is the likely outcome at this point.
i don't want to just do it for the sake of doing it. i was mostly focusing on the intro, and it's created a contradiction: i need to slow it down considerably to kill the energy in the "bass", but that also means i'm killing the energy in the "guitar", which is what was driving me to do the mix in the first place.
that means i'm more or less going to have to restructure it, but then i'm forcing it, which rarely works out well. and wasn't what i intended.
i haven't abandoned it yet, but i do think that this is the likely outcome at this point.
i'm having second thoughts on that guitar concerto....
as i was mixing it, isolated pockets jumped out at me as good places for acrobatic licks. i thought to myself, "i should go to town with this.". but, i'm not hearing a good way to tie it together.
i want to avoid overdubbing a "boxy" solo. there's certainly enough going on in the track already. so, i want this to be free and expressive, rather than based on repetition. the track is already based heavily on repetition...
the way i write for lead guitar nowadays mostly involves listening. i'll put the piece on repeat for hours, allowing thoughts to coalesce in my mind. then, i'll go about the process of converting what i'm thinking into a playable part.
i spent most of yesterday listening, and my brain is just throwing boxy patterns and sort of cliched lines at me. it was those cliched lines that jumped out at me, and that i think could be used to good effect. but, they need some flow to make it worthwhile, and i'm convincing myself that the piece doesn't really have the space for it. it's less that it's a mechanical techno song and more that it's just already full of notes and colours on those notes.
i'm going to listen some more this morning, and will make a decision around when the sun comes up. i need to clean this morning, i'm past due. if it doesn't come to me clearly, i may turn to trying to write it out as somewhat of an aid.
but, i don't see the use in just piling on flashy riffs. if i don't get some more lyrical phrasing (or at least a semblance of it) in the next few hours, i'm going to put it aside. i may revisit it, though, before the single is closed. it's an idea that i want to work. i'm just not entirely confident that it's going to...
as i was mixing it, isolated pockets jumped out at me as good places for acrobatic licks. i thought to myself, "i should go to town with this.". but, i'm not hearing a good way to tie it together.
i want to avoid overdubbing a "boxy" solo. there's certainly enough going on in the track already. so, i want this to be free and expressive, rather than based on repetition. the track is already based heavily on repetition...
the way i write for lead guitar nowadays mostly involves listening. i'll put the piece on repeat for hours, allowing thoughts to coalesce in my mind. then, i'll go about the process of converting what i'm thinking into a playable part.
i spent most of yesterday listening, and my brain is just throwing boxy patterns and sort of cliched lines at me. it was those cliched lines that jumped out at me, and that i think could be used to good effect. but, they need some flow to make it worthwhile, and i'm convincing myself that the piece doesn't really have the space for it. it's less that it's a mechanical techno song and more that it's just already full of notes and colours on those notes.
i'm going to listen some more this morning, and will make a decision around when the sun comes up. i need to clean this morning, i'm past due. if it doesn't come to me clearly, i may turn to trying to write it out as somewhat of an aid.
but, i don't see the use in just piling on flashy riffs. if i don't get some more lyrical phrasing (or at least a semblance of it) in the next few hours, i'm going to put it aside. i may revisit it, though, before the single is closed. it's an idea that i want to work. i'm just not entirely confident that it's going to...
Saturday, February 7, 2015
untitled (orchestral mix)
i wanted some orchestral textures in the final mix, so i started playing around with some midi files and decided to do a full blown orchestral version. mix finalized on feb 7, 2015.
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i just finished this orchestral piece. but it's going to be an even longer wait for the next video, because i've decided i must work this into a zappa/keneally style guitar concerto. i'll then take those guitar parts and put them into the final mix. but it pushes it back at least another week.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-orchestral-mix
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i just finished this orchestral piece. but it's going to be an even longer wait for the next video, because i've decided i must work this into a zappa/keneally style guitar concerto. i'll then take those guitar parts and put them into the final mix. but it pushes it back at least another week.
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-orchestral-mix
the orchestral mix is uploading; the rss will update.
i've decided i absolutely have to turn this into a guitar concerto, as well. so, that's the next mix that's coming up: the orchestral mix with a guitar solo over it.
i think the guitar concerto calls for a specific influence from mike keneally...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiRLvlGIaI
stunning record, btw. highly recommended.
i've decided i absolutely have to turn this into a guitar concerto, as well. so, that's the next mix that's coming up: the orchestral mix with a guitar solo over it.
i think the guitar concerto calls for a specific influence from mike keneally...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiRLvlGIaI
stunning record, btw. highly recommended.
creating a bandcamp subscription service
so, this is the way i'm doing this...
if you want to buy a specific thing, buy a specific thing. i'll make a few bucks off of it.
but if you want to pay my rent, i'll take that too :)
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/subscribe
yeah, i'm fishing for big donors.
listen. i consider what i do to be significant art. $800 for a painting is pretty cheap. $800 for 100 paintings is practically giving it away.
i think that that may be one of the longer term changes in the collapse of the music industry. that's how this used to work before it was commodified: artists had to rely on donors.
does that open me up to suggestions? well, i dunno. pay my rent, and maybe we can talk about it.
but, music can't be free. musicians have bills to pay. so, we can either all pay a little, or the wealthy can pay a lot. and the latter is likely to lead to a deficit of access, if it takes off.
i don't have any plans to take down the per-album purchases. but if things continue as they are, we may have little choice but to look for wealthy donors and tell the masses to fuck off.
if you want to buy a specific thing, buy a specific thing. i'll make a few bucks off of it.
but if you want to pay my rent, i'll take that too :)
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/subscribe
yeah, i'm fishing for big donors.
listen. i consider what i do to be significant art. $800 for a painting is pretty cheap. $800 for 100 paintings is practically giving it away.
i think that that may be one of the longer term changes in the collapse of the music industry. that's how this used to work before it was commodified: artists had to rely on donors.
does that open me up to suggestions? well, i dunno. pay my rent, and maybe we can talk about it.
but, music can't be free. musicians have bills to pay. so, we can either all pay a little, or the wealthy can pay a lot. and the latter is likely to lead to a deficit of access, if it takes off.
i don't have any plans to take down the per-album purchases. but if things continue as they are, we may have little choice but to look for wealthy donors and tell the masses to fuck off.
Friday, February 6, 2015
bandcamp just set up a subscriber service...
well, there's (almost) fifty of you. i think a couple of you have bought a few things. you tell me: would you pay for a subscription service?
my concern with this is that i plan on releasing a very large amount of music in the next 12 months, as i push through the discography. i know i'm behind schedule, but i'm on the cusp of a very fast string of releases. but the fact that i'm behind schedule is kind of what i'm getting at. if i assume 25 releases over the next year at an average of $4 a release, that's $100. now, what if i only finish ten? see, then i'm ripping people off. and, what if i get more than that done?
if i was in a more conventional circumstance where i expect to release a record and a single or two every 12-15 months then i'd see the option as worthwhile. as it is, i'm uncomfortable with the uncertainty.
i already have a "pay more" option that provides the ability to send me cash if you want to send me cash. btw, feel free to send me cash if you'd like. i don't push the point, i want you to enjoy the music, but i could certainly use it.
you tell me though: would you put money down up front for what could be hours of music? i'm not going to tell you to wait, if you'd like to do it right now :)
the more i think about this....
...would i pay this down? no. well, there's maybe an artist or two i might put it down for. but, that would be the extreme exception.
i like the idea of having the kickstarter-type option, though. i'll think about this later...
well, there's (almost) fifty of you. i think a couple of you have bought a few things. you tell me: would you pay for a subscription service?
my concern with this is that i plan on releasing a very large amount of music in the next 12 months, as i push through the discography. i know i'm behind schedule, but i'm on the cusp of a very fast string of releases. but the fact that i'm behind schedule is kind of what i'm getting at. if i assume 25 releases over the next year at an average of $4 a release, that's $100. now, what if i only finish ten? see, then i'm ripping people off. and, what if i get more than that done?
if i was in a more conventional circumstance where i expect to release a record and a single or two every 12-15 months then i'd see the option as worthwhile. as it is, i'm uncomfortable with the uncertainty.
i already have a "pay more" option that provides the ability to send me cash if you want to send me cash. btw, feel free to send me cash if you'd like. i don't push the point, i want you to enjoy the music, but i could certainly use it.
you tell me though: would you put money down up front for what could be hours of music? i'm not going to tell you to wait, if you'd like to do it right now :)
the more i think about this....
...would i pay this down? no. well, there's maybe an artist or two i might put it down for. but, that would be the extreme exception.
i like the idea of having the kickstarter-type option, though. i'll think about this later...
Thursday, February 5, 2015
i'm still alive. i really think this ought to be done by the next sleep. really. seriously.
it's close. and i've got a while before sleep, still.
this melodic line is eating so much of my time. it's the same line i spent two weeks on for the first vst mix, comparing guitar synth outs for. and i suspect it's going to be messy when i get to the ambient mix, too. then, when i mix the final i'm going to have fifty parts to squeeze into thirty seconds...
i'm stuck between a pizzicato string part, a harp part and a full string section. and i'm considering just blowing it up for a simple vibraphone line. but the point is that it's supposed to be overblown, so i want these intersecting strings and horns.
so, i've got lots of hair to pull out, but i expect this to be done in a few hours.
when it clicks, i'll know it.
this is something composers could really not do until recently, swapping parts in and out like this.
you have to think beethoven was just like "this is going to be a harp" and that was the end of it.
did he ever write anything for harp? never mind, back to work....
it's close. and i've got a while before sleep, still.
this melodic line is eating so much of my time. it's the same line i spent two weeks on for the first vst mix, comparing guitar synth outs for. and i suspect it's going to be messy when i get to the ambient mix, too. then, when i mix the final i'm going to have fifty parts to squeeze into thirty seconds...
i'm stuck between a pizzicato string part, a harp part and a full string section. and i'm considering just blowing it up for a simple vibraphone line. but the point is that it's supposed to be overblown, so i want these intersecting strings and horns.
so, i've got lots of hair to pull out, but i expect this to be done in a few hours.
when it clicks, i'll know it.
this is something composers could really not do until recently, swapping parts in and out like this.
you have to think beethoven was just like "this is going to be a harp" and that was the end of it.
did he ever write anything for harp? never mind, back to work....
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
reacting to a criticism of the time machine
"this sounds like it was done in fruity loops."
lol. those are live guitars. also, the drum machine work is highly geeky. while a passive observer might hear a warp records influence, it's actually very influenced by phil collins. it was scored out linearly in classical drum notation...
i haven't worked much with fruity loops, but i think it would have difficulty producing a detailed, scored piece like this. the time signatures are shifting all over the place.
fwiw, the first part was written in noteworthy composer (which is an ancient scorewriter, sort of like finale) and sent to vst in cubase. the second and third parts were constructed in a wave editor out of heavily cut and processed samples from the first part.
lol. those are live guitars. also, the drum machine work is highly geeky. while a passive observer might hear a warp records influence, it's actually very influenced by phil collins. it was scored out linearly in classical drum notation...
i haven't worked much with fruity loops, but i think it would have difficulty producing a detailed, scored piece like this. the time signatures are shifting all over the place.
fwiw, the first part was written in noteworthy composer (which is an ancient scorewriter, sort of like finale) and sent to vst in cubase. the second and third parts were constructed in a wave editor out of heavily cut and processed samples from the first part.
i keep saying this is almost done, and it keeps not getting done.
i've got a temporary mix uploading to the scratchpad. it's close, but still a ways away - i really just have to convince myself of some levels, and mix in the orchestrated jazz guitars that transition the track. well, it's not going to be guitars, it's going to be cut up strings and horns. there's no guitars in this mix, but i'll be using aspects of it in the final mix (which has lots of guitars).
i'm uploading it now because there's a possibility that my appointment today may not end well and i think i should get up what i've got done.
as always: comments or suggestions are encouraged, but expect me to ignore you.
it just takes a long time to mix, like, oboes and flutes and stuff. instruments come up and out of the mix. i mean, it's a hundred fucking pieces, here, i'm not slacking it's just that thick....
i've got a temporary mix uploading to the scratchpad. it's close, but still a ways away - i really just have to convince myself of some levels, and mix in the orchestrated jazz guitars that transition the track. well, it's not going to be guitars, it's going to be cut up strings and horns. there's no guitars in this mix, but i'll be using aspects of it in the final mix (which has lots of guitars).
i'm uploading it now because there's a possibility that my appointment today may not end well and i think i should get up what i've got done.
as always: comments or suggestions are encouraged, but expect me to ignore you.
it just takes a long time to mix, like, oboes and flutes and stuff. instruments come up and out of the mix. i mean, it's a hundred fucking pieces, here, i'm not slacking it's just that thick....
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