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Happy New Year All!
This is a track that quickly began to take shape after plugging the MIDI keyboard into Caustic. Once the main melody was in place I duplicated it onto another instrument to beef up the sound, and went from there. It uses a few ambient reverse vocal samples from the Aiva vocal pack and has been finished a couple of weeks, but I've been forever fiddling around with the mix(!)
I'd originally planned to use a 'Samples' PCMSynth in slot 14 and bounce some audio effects down to their own 'notes' in the PCMSynth, freeing up instrument slots. This began with a reverse reverb effect leading into the PadSynth sound. I intended to do this with the noise sweeps (which take up two instrument slots) but they ended up varying a fair bit throughout the track which would have led to a lot of audio data & effort.
By the time the track was finished I had used up all instrument slots, but hadn't really needed to use the 'Samples' PCMSynth, other than to add some sub-bass note samples. I also realised this idea would probably work better once the PCMSynth can support stereo samples, so maybe I'll try it again in the future...!
*Edit* 23rd Feb 2015 - New extended mix added at bottom of thread
Truly original!!
Very nice melody structure and best of all is that you kept your style in place.~
Would be great to hear sounds from you more often Sir Dan!;)
I'll try to remix this for sure!!
♬ Lu!G
Sweet as always DanSeb! Melody is great and the vocal samples complement the music beautifully.
Kilyjay
"sometimes it snows in April..."
Wow, brilliant track DanSeb! Really nice, polished layered sound...
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Thanks very much LuiG, Kilyjay and mindfool!
LuiG - I'm afraid 1 track a month is all I seem to be able to manage usually, although I do actually already have another track well it's way to being finished! I've love to hear a LuiG/L!feUp remix of one of my tracks!
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Again gives us an incredible production. Awesome to hear and great handling of the filters. Thank you very much for sharing the file and happy 2015
Hatarakimasu
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very nice haunting melody, and a lush clean mix.
Thanks a lot Hatarakimasu and Dan!
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I like this so much. Good sounding. Quite and clear good job.
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Great dance music
Elements of trance, techno, garage, dubstep - a unique sound
Get that gnarly sound back on the table.
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I like it. Your long mixing time has come to a perfect sound with a distinctive design!
♬ Aliens approaching...
This was a good track DanSeb! Original style of yours! Great job! :)
This is truly an amazing track! It sounded really good on the radio. Any chance you can share the aiva pack, it isn't available on FB anymore?
Good work !!...I wanna get on this level of creation
Thanks very much everyone for all the new comments!
It's been a pretty hectic time since I posted this - I became a father on 8th Jan when my wife gave birth to our beautiful baby daughter! Haven't had much time for Caustic since as you can probably imagine!
Mekanism - I might be able to send you a PM in the week, when I'm back at work
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Oh congrats to your lucky day! And you are lucky twice! You have Caustic in your pocket now!
2008 where my daughter was born, I had to take a break with music creation.(I must be alone in the house to create and listen the same pattern over and over again.) Caustic changed this.
♬ Aliens approaching...
I like the slightly off-tune effect you have in there on one of your leads..... Nice work on this piece.
Thanks EKT. She's 10 days old now, and over the past couple of days I have actually had a go at using Caustic on the Nexus 7 in one hand, whilst holding a sleeping baby in the other, and it works surprisingly well! I just wanted to prove to myself that when I'm a little less tired I can still make music, and with Caustic it is entirely possible!
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Cheers Jason
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Congrats on the Lil one! There were many nights where I had my daughter swaddled next to me on the couch and I was able to get some music time in, but the constant sleep deprivation makes it challenging. Good luck, and enjoy your new addition!
Second listen for this beauty. It gets better every time. On a side note, just noticed on your SC page that you live in Leicester, effectively making us neighbours :)
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Thanks mekanism!
As far as I can tell, the Aiva Harmony Vocal pack is still available on Facebook, I clicked the 'download' link and it took me to the Mediafire download page offering a 370mb download (link)
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Thanks very much laweffect. Oh yeah! I did my masters degree at NTU (2008-2010), so was there on a weekly basis for a couple of years. And I do still visit Notts quite frequently with work, as we deal with schools in the Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire areas
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I did my undergraduate course at NTU and also worked there back in 2008 helping roll out the new VLE, NOW - you probably used it during your course I'm guessing. What a small world it is!
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Haha, I was indeed there at the time VLE became NOW! It certainly is a small world!
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Thanks for the link, I use Facebook on mobile only so maybe that's why it didn't work for me. Cheers!
Very melodic and love the vocals. Really polished...nice work.
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Thankyou EKFlutter
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If anyone's interested, here is my extended mix of 'Memories' as requested by Calon FM's Simon Bailey during the show in which it was first aired.
I've added 25 bars to the intro, 16 bars to the mid section and 24 bars to the outro. Firstly I bounced the noise sweeps down to audio to free up a track, then tried a technique I'd read about online, whereby the main melody is transposed up an octave, heavily reverbed, and sidechained to the original melody to bring out some high end 'sparkle'. Similarly I also transposed the vocals down an octave and mixed the new 'male' duet voice in along with the original vocals to add some substance to that part.
This is the first time I've gone back and remixed one of my tracks, and now it's completed, I'm actually happier with this extended mix than the original, so I'm grateful to Simon for encouraging me to give this a go
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I can't get this tune out my head.......really catchy!!! Love the vocals & the mix is awesome
Thanks a lot Danny
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The extended mix always gives an awesome vibe to the whole song!;)
♬ Lu!G
Had to give this another listen, this tune is really growing on me....
Thanks L!feUp and Jason - hah, just spotted your name change! That guy did bite your head off a bit - it seemed a very angry response to a fairly innocent comment(!)
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Lol
♬ Lu!G