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I posted an early version of this song sometime last year. I think I've actually been working on it (off and on) for almost a year now. It's changed quite a bit since then. While the drums are live (played and recorded by me), everything else is my synthesizers, with the majority of the sounds coming from the Kronos. I used Sonar as my DAW.

I was originally intending on adding a whole set of vocal tracks, but I just couldn't come up with anything (lyrically) that I was happy with. So I added a bit more melody to some parts so it flowed a bit better.


https://soundcloud.com/thefiltersaturat ... ls-release

Instruments:
Live Drums
Korg Kronos
Kurzweil PC3
Alesis Fusion
Roland V-Synth
Korg Prophecy

Superb

Pete

Hi jeebustrain,
excellent work !
Especially I like the drums part (I am also a drummer ) !
It seems that the recorded drums is a "real" acoustic set isn't it ?
I know how it is difficult to record correctly and with a great sound an acoustic drum set so congratulations !
What about the synth lead sounds ? Are they done with the Kronos or Prophecy or another one ?

Anyhow thanks a lot for sharing with us.

Cheers

Great Job Jeebustrain, Excellent playmanship. The only thing I noticed was the at the 9:00 min mark the transition was a little rough, I would smooth out that part. Other than that, great work.

Fantastic song, great chord progressions and use of sounds. The live drums are adding a lot of flavor to this track.

Thanks for sharing

levioter wrote:Hi jeebustrain,
excellent work !
Especially I like the drums part (I am also a drummer ) !
It seems that the recorded drums is a "real" acoustic set isn't it ?
I know how it is difficult to record correctly and with a great sound an acoustic drum set so congratulations !
What about the synth lead sounds ? Are they done with the Kronos or Prophecy or another one ?

Anyhow thanks a lot for sharing with us.

Cheers

thanks! Yea, it's an acoustic kit. After playing drums for more than 20 years, I've taken it upon myself to learn how to record real drums (instead of using synthesized ones). I like big kits, so it's a bit different close miking something like this than doing a small 4-piece. Regardless, it's a lot of fun and a huge learning experience. I have a friend who's an engineer who has given me some good tips.


regarding the synth sounds, the lead at 3:30 is the a sound I came up with on the Kronos, with the guitarish sounding riff underneath a stock patch on the Prophecy. At around 6:40, that lead is another stock patch on the Prophecy. That second lead was actually a last minute add, I think I was trying to channel Rick Wright (especially over the organ - which was a custom patch on the PC3)

Diego5150 wrote:Great Job Jeebustrain, Excellent playmanship. The only thing I noticed was the at the 9:00 min mark the transition was a little rough, I would smooth out that part. Other than that, great work.

Thanks man! Regarding the transition, it was actually totally intentional. The original version of the part before droned on and on for about 3-4 minutes and I wanted to cut it off abruptly and came up with that short transition (a variation on the intro), before going into the outro chorus.

Very nice! Keep up the good work!

It needs some more distinctive / interesting melody parts, instead of just repeated two- or four-bar chord progressions with layered chord / pad parts...but it is refreshing to hear a real interactive drum part, not just the typical drum-machine sampled snare on the backbeat...

jeebustrain wrote:

Diego5150 wrote:Great Job Jeebustrain, Excellent playmanship. The only thing I noticed was the at the 9:00 min mark the transition was a little rough, I would smooth out that part. Other than that, great work.

Thanks man! Regarding the transition, it was actually totally intentional. The original version of the part before droned on and on for about 3-4 minutes and I wanted to cut it off abruptly and came up with that short transition (a variation on the intro), before going into the outro chorus.

That is cool, I mentioned that because I just purchased Logic Pro 9 and while recording I encountered the same thing and I am still figuring out how to edit my audio.
Thank you for sharing your music.

Hi jeebustrain,
thanks for your answers.
Very impressive drum set ! With such a set I suppose it was a long long work to record it correctly !

Cheers

That is a sweet drum set by the way!!

jeebustrain wrote:I posted an early version of this song sometime last year. I think I've actually been working on it (off and on) for almost a year now. It's changed quite a bit since then. While the drums are live (played and recorded by me), everything else is my synthesizers, with the majority of the sounds coming from the Kronos. I used Sonar as my DAW.

I was originally intending on adding a whole set of vocal tracks, but I just couldn't come up with anything (lyrically) that I was happy with. So I added a bit more melody to some parts so it flowed a bit better.


https://soundcloud.com/thefiltersaturat ... ls-release

Instruments:
Live Drums
Korg Kronos
Kurzweil PC3
Alesis Fusion
Roland V-Synth
Korg Prophecy

a thoroughly pro effort and result. I think this is the best recording and performance I have heard in some time.

Haha awesome drumkit
Don't often see someone else using Sonar. Nice production!

Great piece and very well done!