Backlash

My first completed project using a combination of my Juno-G and VSTs. My biggest problem at the minute is that the Juno doesn't really have enough memory out-the-box for this type of thing...so my mixdown involved making wav files of little sections of the Juno-G stuff and stitching them together on the PC with the VSTs output as well. So the quality of the final result isn't as good as it should be...that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! Guess I need to buy some ram for the Juno.

amazingtunes.com

A friend at work told me about amazingtunes.com (about) so I've made myself a profile and added some of my tunes..

http://www.amazingtunes.com/users/ianr

It's probably come at a good time cos I got a strange e-mail from the MAGIX Community today about some upcoming changes as they've "decided that a more precise thematic direction for the community is in order" !?

...let's just see what happens!

Oxygene

...part IV, I think!



It's pretty rough - it's really just something I was mucking around with to get to know the workings of my new keyboard! Done entirely on the Roland Juno G. And a very very cheesy ending...sorry.

Roland Juno G

I've just bought one of these! :-)

Club Foot

A cover/remix type-thing of the Kasabian song. (It's an amazing song in the first place - so I couldn't go far wrong with this one!)

"Sonar"

I've splashed out and bought myself Virtual Guitarist 2 (Steinberg)...This is my first attempt at using it!

In the air tonight

This song seems to be everywhere at the minute...chocolate adverts, greatest hits albums, compilation albums...so I decided to jump on the band wagon!

A little bit of googling and I discovered that he'd used a Roland CR78 for the electronic drum pattern. Then I found some free CR78 drum samples here. All the rest was done using VST instruments & effects either from the Computer Music magazine DVD or downloaded from other free sites.

Still - isn't it amazing how they got that gorilla to play the drums :-)

A Work in Progress

Still needs a bit of work before it's the finished product, but I'm going to leave it for a while and move on to something else.

Dr Who?

There's probably millions of versions of this out there...but I just felt like doing something I could have a bit fun with!

Moonglow after Midnight

I've been working on this one for quite a while - it was starting to sound overworked so I thought I'd better wrap it up...for now anyway!

Waiting in the Shadows

A little bit experimenting with sound effects in the middle...I'm not too sure about that bit now though. As for the rest - the drums are sample loops from the Computer Music magazine cover DVD and the synth sequences in the second half are from Crystal (a free VSTi).

The MAGIX Community

I've been looking around for quite a while for a kind of music equivalent of flickr. Somewhere with a friendly, laid-back attitude where you can post your music to get feedback and give feedback on other people's work. I came across the MAGIX Community. I've created myself a profile here, and posted one of my tunes...let's see how it goes!

Tubular Bells (In Progress)

...the first 4 minutes.



This is obviously going to be a big project so I'm just going to post what I've done so far and probably do something else for a bit so I don't get too sick of it. Not sure I've mastered the guitar sound yet though!?

The only thing that's true

Ok - maybe a little cheesy...but I enjoyed it!

I've also switched to using Podium from Zynewave. There was a free version with this month's Computer Music magazine, and I was finding that CMusic crashed when using some 'non-Computer Music' plug-ins.

Trance - CM Studio Tutorial

Trance isn't especially my thing, but I did this following the tutorial in this month's Computer Music magazine. I learnt a few things about using the software so it was still worthwhile!

Everybody's Changing - In progress

I started this one, but it's been a little while and I haven't done any more on it, so I thought I would post it as it is and update it if/when I get round to finishing it. The reason for choosing a Keane song was so I wouldn't have to deal with the guitar sound problem again! ;-)

Jenny Was a Friend of Mine

I thought this would be a fairly easy one to do. Getting a guitar sound was quite hard though.

First Mixdown

A short, not especially interesting piece...really just to work out how to use the software. Done entirely with the free software from the DVD on the cover of Computer Music magazine.