New Mikey tune — first flight of lots of New Stuff
Gracious. A fella gets going fixing one little thing on a music-making workstation and the next thing you know a year has gone by and about 42 jillion other things have broken and needed fixing. Meanwhile, no music has happened.
So today I just pushed through all the crud and said "dang it, today I'm going to produce a tune for the blog, no matter what."
Click HERE to listen to the result.
March 30th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Mikey:
Very cool! Tasty drum intro and nice keyboard work throughout. A funky fugue!
Was that lead keyboard line mostly improvised or written out?
What SW did you use to create the drum part?
Ken
March 30th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Hi Ken -- glad ya liked it!
The keyboard lead part is relying on an arpeggiator (just the vanilla one that comes with Cakewalks's SONAR Producer). The underlying track is improvised, but the software did all the hard work of spraying the notes out in that pattern. I'm playing riffs and chords underneath, but that's really just serving as "hints" for the software.
The drum track is produced by a VST plugin called Jamstix. I really like the natural drum tracks that it produces -- although I tend to fall back to Jamstix I, Jamstix II (the current version -- found at http://www.rayzoon.com/) and I don't seem to have as much fun working together.
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Way cool, Mikey. I listened here on the screen porch, looking at our waterfall - a perfect match.