David's Music Blog http://www.cutpaste.org/david David's Adventures Through the World of Music Creation and Sonic Exploration Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:27:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Busy busy http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/12/15/busy-busy/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/12/15/busy-busy/#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:26:23 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/12/15/busy-busy/ Okay, so I’ve been quite busy at the office with various stuff and haven’t had the time to compose, nor to blog about anything interesting. Sorry ’bout that.

Anyhow, I’ve written a new track and I’m now working on the lyrics for it. I might have got a female vocalist for it, so hopefully this will turn out to be something good.

The track is based around a couple of thick, layered, pads and a cute melody. The drums might sound Enigma-ish (in a good way) and there’s a Tangerine Dream-ish arpeggio in the background.

No title for it yet, but I got a couple of suggestions.

Sorry for entering a journal post instead of a blog post. Will blog more when I got more time on my hands.

Oh, the pads in the track are created in Kontakt 3 using waveforms bought at Galbanum. Since Rapture won’t start in my 3-bit version of Cubase 4 I just started creating patches in Kontakt 3. I’ve been using it too little. You can do crazy things with it!

It became a blog entry after all… ;-)

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/12/15/busy-busy/feed/ New Ypsilon 5 tracks http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/new-ypsilon-5-tracks/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/new-ypsilon-5-tracks/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:41:53 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/new-ypsilon-5-tracks/ Tada!

Preview three new tracks online at ypsilon5.com.

It’s time to get all the particles back where they belong…

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/new-ypsilon-5-tracks/feed/ The Journey of Sounds http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/the-journey-of-sounds/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/the-journey-of-sounds/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:27:16 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/the-journey-of-sounds/ Almost every song, track or project, I produce is a journey. A journey through sounds guided by inspiration and the machines I’m working with.

Some projects have a destination, or a goal, which I have a pretty good view of. I want it to sound in a certain way, not be short than a certain amount of time, have a specific feeling to it and so on.

I don’t have my mind set on the type of sounds I want to use - I only have a hunch. Therefor I most often let the machines guide my way through the creation process and a lot of sounds I’m using are tweaked presets that gives me inspiration while playing something when browsing through them.

I’m right now listening to the first track of the upcoming Pretorium album and I must admit that I’m very pleased with it. It would be fantastic to do a live show with loads of musicians. Live drummers, guitarists, bassists, a string quatet perhaps and vocals. Not sure that any label would be interrested though… but I’ll have a look around. It’s at least well worth trying - isn’t it?

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/20/the-journey-of-sounds/feed/ Pretorium album @ iLike http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/18/pretorium-album-ilike/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/18/pretorium-album-ilike/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:55:01 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/10/18/pretorium-album-ilike/ I’ve uploaded the complete Pretorium album Melodies of Illusion to the iLike site so it can be streamed. I did a quick (not kidding) cover art for it and if you think you can do a better one that suits the album, just drop me a line. Alright? ;o)

Melodies of Illusion is musical journey that started in late 2000 when I composed the track Falling Leaves after some heavy influences by a Bonzai Trance Progressive demo from late 1999. The journey was complete when In the Land of the Golden Butterflies was produced and put in the middle of the album to, sort of, divide it in to two pieces. That was early 2003. I later shortened the name to just Golden Butterflies.

A second album is in the pipeline - and that’s an even longer journey, now spanning over 5 years. Three tracks are not yet finished, but as soon they are you’ll find them too on iLike.

Now I just need to figure out how to sell the album for a few US$ over at iTunes Store. That’d be something!

Edit: The new album, which I just gave a new name, is spanning from 2004 until today. So that makes it around 4½ years, and not 5. And, if I’m lucky - only one track is remaining…

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]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/25/0x20/feed/ Love http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/love/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/love/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:00:34 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/love/ I’m in LOVE!

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/love/feed/ Mixing and remixing http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/mixing-and-remixing/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/mixing-and-remixing/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:10:10 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/mixing-and-remixing/ I’ve spent this weekend leaning over a Mackie Onyx 1640 mixing Joachim Rogalski’s upcoming EP. I’ve also done a remix of “Kosmopolit” which might be a bit weird if you’re not familiar with what I’m sometimes working with - but I got free hands so don’t blame me! ;o)

Besides that I’ve mastered Electro Nova’s EP, been fighting a bit with the 4.5.2 update for Cubase and seen Strangers in Wonderland live at Alcazar, Nalen.

It’s been a good weekend after all even though I’m a bit behind thanks to Cubase…

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/mixing-and-remixing/feed/ Cubase… http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/cubase/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/cubase/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:33:20 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/cubase/ I’m going to through Cubase out the window any day now. It’s full of bugs, it’s crashing right before my eyes and bouncing mixes might fuck up my UAD cards so I have to reboot to get it working again. It’s a piece of crap actually!

A few things:
When mixing down an arrangement to an mp3 file - do you think the mp3 tag editor actually works? Nope.
When adding the MIDI Intert “Track Control” - do you think those settings will be saved with you project? Hell no!
When mixing down different soloed busses - do you think that you will get anything that sounds? Well, sometimes…

What should I be using? I don’t have time to spend almost 3 hourse bouncing loads of tracks and then find out that they don’t contain anything except silence.

I’m right now bouncing a song for the fourth time hoping it will actually contain something that is audible… *sigh*

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/09/15/cubase/feed/ Skipping the opportunity http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/25/skipping-the-opportunity/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/25/skipping-the-opportunity/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:52:10 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/25/skipping-the-opportunity/ Arturia has a nice offer this month (and last too, if I recall) which I wrote about here. But I’m skipping that one in favour of an Akai EWI 4000s. I need to get back to the roots and find new inspiration and I think that can come from another way of playing music.

I’m also waiting for the Spectrasonic Omnisphere which seems to be a killer. So that’s on my list instead of the Arturia stuff.

A lot going on at the moment, so I’ll try to recap some of it later this week. Stay tuned.

]]> http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/25/skipping-the-opportunity/feed/ Ypsilon 5 on the web http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/14/ypsilon-5-on-the-web/ http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/14/ypsilon-5-on-the-web/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:14:57 +0000 David http://www.cutpaste.org/david/2008/08/14/ypsilon-5-on-the-web/ We’ve updated the Ypsilon 5 webpage with a flash based mp3 player featuring four tracks.

Tracklist:
1. Ground Zero
2. Titanium
3. Technetium
4. Beta Pictoris

The Ypsilon 5 logo (as well as the cover for the “Binary Sky” album) is done by Micael Forsberg over at Monowaste and the picture is shot by Estethia at Det Mystiska Hålet i Marken ‘08.

You can also find us on iLike and Facebook. I guess I have to take the horrifying step and create a page over at MySpace too?

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