Adventures in the virtual studio

This was mixed last night, it took about 8 hours solid. I was listening to A live Nina Simone album and a gem of a song came on - "See Line Woman". It's a very sexy, rhythmic and repetative song almost like some kind of tribal chant, perfect for a dance remix. In the process of making this I have learnt in detail how the complex beat warping works. It's a time consuming process to sync each bar up but worth it. An amazing feature of Ableton. The intro beat is a Reason rex loop chopped up a

Hi this is a song heavily influenced by DJ Krush, in particular the double bass sound in Ha Doh. I've just used my bass guitar with modulation to create the weird effect. This is my first use of the amazing PSP Vintage warmer VST. It is used on the whole mix with a preset. Reason is used heavily through out, all the beats are Dr Rex. I figured out you can save the midi rex info from Reason into a file then load that into Ableton. The scratching effect is also from Reason and is heavily choped

Ok last time I left this track I said I would tidy up the bass as it sounded all off beat. I think I may have recorded it live or something. Anyhow I reprogrammed it properly and rerouted the midi from Absynth to Reason. There are quite a few presets in the factory refill in Reason so it took me a while to decide on the bass sound (They all sound bloody good). I fed the bass through the scream distorter, I love the warm distorted sound that makes. I’ve shortened and tidied the mid arpreggiator

Tidied this up by adding compression on the 303.Making the bass start before main kick drum.A few enhancements:Used the "Beat Repeat" Live effect one of the beat loops. This creates the random feel to the snare sound.Added a solo of sorts using operator synth, the Live arpreggiator and the midi scale effect. I used the apregeggiator's hold setting to make it insanley quick, this makes a kind of sinclair spectrum loading sound. This was also fed through Live's compression device. I'm getting a

This is an updated version of my first experiment with my bass. Think I got guitar and bass in tune now. It is alot faster now. Still need to work on the structure, maybe a bridge. Also have some melodies to lay over the verse and pre- chorus. Maybe do using a different instrument or maybe guitar I just don't know do I.powered by ODEODownload MP3