peter m. mahr's music with OASYS

peter m. mahr · Post by **peter m. mahr** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 1:27 pm

A collection of the "pedro del mar" tracks in which I used the OASYS

collaboration with Richard Courtel:
2k7 version 2010, preliminary version
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2010/07/24/2 ... d-courtel/
With the exception of voices everything OASYS.
(Real) Guitar to be recorded hopefully soon.

ethereal flow
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2010/03/26/o ... -joystick/
Everything started with the eight pads I am usually using to keep chord progression / ideas in mind. Most of the sounds I am using are self programmed. When I played the chords I had an idea about the pad. The „lead sound“ was clear from the beginning, it is a mix of the MS-20 solo sound and the Kirnberger flute Program. I always wanted to use the Vector Joystick in a Combi to fade between different sounds and vocals, or a choir should be one of them. Everything OASYS with the exception of Eric Persing's RMX, which contributed the percussion mix.

selve amiche
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2008/02/24/selve-amiche/
The idea came from Jaqueline who sang on one of the below songs already. I was tempted to give this lovely melody a try. The first recordings in new clothes were really boring .. lets be honest, terrible and even worse with no sould or feel at all. After Andreas sent me a drum track and I imported them into an already existing DPS24 project where only the dry vocals survived. I sync’d the MPC4000 and added the Voyager Bass. Suddenly it started to have a certain groove and kick. That was the moment OASYS joined the party. I just pushed the Record+Play buttons and started playing one of my modified E-Piano sounds, live without thinking about harmonies chords at all... I just let the finger move whereever they wanted to go to. After listening I decided to have a sleep and record with fresh ears everything – more or less – „perfect“. What a disaster, „pure frustration“ nothing sounded anymore the way it sounded the evening before. So I decided to leave the „old“ version and work on that one as it sounded nice to me. For the intro I used a downpitched KARO sample and for the lead „Synth Sax – pmm“, a modified factory sound finding itself in a combination of Delay and Reverb to suppoert the pitch bending.

collaboration with Ebse:
1073
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2007/11/04/k ... -wavedrum/
Named after the distance that Ebse drove from Hannover to Vienna to meet in Vienna! All sounds OASYS beside Wavedrum loop taken from Eric Persing’s RMX library. Unfortunately with clipping and some more weaknesses – responsibility „pmm“

two MOD-7 demos
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2007/10/12/g ... udio-demo/
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2007/10/09/a ... od-7-demo/

live performance irandom sounds & KARMA
max_C dedicated to my son Maximilian
http://blog.petermmahr.com/2007/09/13/o ... omizer-ii/

... and more in work

Peter

jazlover · Post by **jazlover** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:39 pm

Peter, I absolutely enjoy the sonic landscapes you create. After bathing in each tune, I am ready to solo over them. They each truly transport you. I love your experimentation, discipline and technical expertise. The Oasys is the right instrument for you. Stay creative, thank you for sharing!

Akos Janca · Post by **Akos Janca** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:00 am

Dear Peter,

I'm "green with envy".

It's perfect! The pads, the leads - living, evolving, interesting sounds.

I still haven't got MOD-7

but now I want it even more.

Let's not forget to mention your very nice website. Please do continue.

Best regards,
Akos

curvebender · Post by **curvebender** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:39 am

Very nice Peter, I am impressed.

SoulBe · Post by **SoulBe** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:51 pm

like Your soundscapes very much

best regards
SoulBe

peter m. mahr · Post by **peter m. mahr** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:16 pm

Hi guys,

have been busy the last days and therefore could not reply.

Thanks a lot to all of you for your nice feedback, which is pure motivation to me. This sometimes helps me in situations in which I am not sure..... but

that's a different story.

But there was one sentence which to me has a very special meaning.

> They each truly transport you.

.. if this is really the case for at least one other person, then I know that it was really worth all the work, ...the efforts, the years. Music to me is one example, but to me the best way of non verbal communication. There is no real control over it, but at the end to know that on the other end it is.. decoded.... understood, completely independent of all the theory ..... that is really.. great! Thank you.

Peter

Charlie · Post by **Charlie** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:59 pm

Cool to have them collected in one thread!

Keep on creating!!

minnkorg · Post by **minnkorg** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:23 pm

Hi Peter,

Very nice....
Flute like sound reminds me of Sting's "A Thousand Years".
Keep up the good work.

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:36 pm

Peter -

Just listened to 2k7 - that's absolutely brilliant. Magnificent, Congratulations. I'm looking forward to your other pieces now (too bloody busy and only now getting around to listening to music posted recently - I like to listen to it properly!).

One question (please feel free not to answer this!) - how did you achieve that humanesque echo effect which appears at 00.49, 01.00, 1.29 (among other locations). I'd be very interested to hear how you achieved that sound. As said, please feel free to not divulge that technique with absolutely no offence taken.

I sincerely hope you are putting this music out far and wide. I'm not one who subscribes to giving music away free - I'd much rather package my music into a substantial enough format to attract sales (even in these times) and your music is definitely highly valuable. Phew! Awesome.

Kevin.

peter m. mahr · Post by **peter m. mahr** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:28 pm

Thank you guys. As mentioned previously - that's motivation!

@ charlie - how long will it take you to start a thread like that here?

@ minnkorg - have to listen to that track and check from when it is.

@ Kevin - first let me thank you for your very nice words here and the blog entrys. Especially what you wrote in your posting here, the last paragraph - much appreciated !!!

Concerning the vocal effect. Of course I would let you know... if knew. But RC added this sound and I will ask him what exactly he did.

Peter

RC-IA · Post by **RC-IA** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:21 pm

hello guys,

thanx for the kind words

Kevin: it's basically a chopper effect (you could achieve this with a gate too). But i don't remember if i did it right on the oasys (maybe peter can check with the oasys file, the effects used on one of the samples' track) or if i prepared it externally, on my computer and reloaded it in the oasys.

And yes, peter is a very talented composer with tracks that have a real soul, it's a pleasure to "work" with him. Hopefully we will find some time to continue our collaboration.

thanx again

richard

Kevin Nolan · Post by **Kevin Nolan** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:54 pm

Hi Richard -

What do you mean by a chopper effect - I'm not familiar with that. And is this an OASYS sound or an external sound? And - is the effect controlled by contollers and if so how?

Cheers!
Kevin.

RC-IA · Post by **RC-IA** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:14 am

kevin, as i said i don't remember if i did it inside the oasys or outside on my DAW and reloaded the sound in the oasys. Only peter can tell this sionce he has the oasys file. I sold my oasys 2 years and a half ago, so sometimes it's hard to remember some of its effects.

Imagine a square wave. Imagine that your voice sample is going through a lfo square wave controlling the volume of your sound: this will "slice" your sound depending on the square wave length: so it's an alternation between a zero volume sound and a high volume sound. To resume, chopper is kind of virtually slicing a sound using its volume.

you can imagine a gate too. You put sound through a gate that is closing and reopening (more or less fast)

billysynth1 · Post by **billysynth1** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:57 am

Very nice Peter. At first i was only interested in listening to the Mod7 pieces then i read Kevin's comments about the 2k7, and im actually listening to it while i type this. Excellent work.

Now im angy again at Korg for abondoning further production on this synth. It pis..s..es me off we dont have brass and reed PM

Billy

peter m. mahr · Post by **peter m. mahr** » Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:02 pm

Billy,

.. probably I would not say it that way

, but I agree. I would have liked to get a brass / reed model for the OASYS, too. The one in Korg's Propecy was nice to play with. But as we all know, this is a very theoretical discussion and leading to nowhere

Thanks for your feedback.

Peter