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Crush

Jonathan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:05:02 +0000

I think I’ve taken this one as far as I can now. Spent some time Friday night and Saturday working on a couple of extra layers – the offbeat muted guitar and an additional distorted guitar. I’ve also replaced one of the drum tracks with BFD2. Oh, and it has a name now – “Crush”.

Ready for mastering?

New tune (untitled as yet)

Jonathan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:24:07 +0000

Still need to mix a little and then master (overall level too low).

I’m oscillating wildly between love and hate for this one, but here you go – latest scribblings in Cubase.

This uses a couple of bass instruments from “Orca” (free from FXpansion) – Closing and Deepening. Many thanks to @rozz3r for the nudge to download Orca. I’m also using Green Oak’s Crystal (Phased to Meet You and Trouble), LinPlug’s FreeAlpha along with the usual HALionOne suspects, Prologue and Groove Agent ONE drums from Cubase 5.0.

I think this piece really lifts with the drum ‘n’ bass rhythm change at 2’20″, but ask me later today and I’ll tell you I can’t stand that section!

As ever, would really love any feedback!

BFD2 – Now the fun really begins

Jonathan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:46:04 +0000

Between reading and writing emails and various other day to day activities, I’m installing 55GB (yes, you read that correctly) of audio samples and the BFD workstation from fxpansion. I’m really excited about creating loops with this program. The demos on the fxpansion website are truly unbelievable and the interface – from the screenshots and YouTube videos I’ve seen looks brilliant.

One thing I should aim to do is drag the Roland TD7 out of the attic and start playing some of the drum parts, rather than using the grid editor in Cubase to compose my loops (I still prefer this method to using the Axiom 49 from M-Audio for drums, though I do use the midi controller for bass and lead parts).