Song Update - Robotix v3

Ok last time I left this track I said I would tidy up the bass as it sounded all off beat. I think I may have recorded it live or something. Anyhow I reprogrammed it properly and rerouted the midi from Absynth to Reason. There are quite a few presets in the factory refill in Reason so it took me a while to decide on the bass sound (They all sound bloody good). I fed the bass through the scream distorter, I love the warm distorted sound that makes. I’ve shortened and tidied the mid arpreggiator bit (reminds me of “Move any mountain” by the Shamen) and turn stuff off behind it as I thought that bit sounded cluttered, the scale is now bluesy minor pentatonic rather than the eastern sounding one (The Harmonic Minor I think), it’s going through an autopan effect as well BTW. There are now trumpets in the higher bass bit, these again are from Reason’s sampler. I added a break down towards the end and a couple of fills done with groove agent, after the first intro fill I leave groove agent playing a programmed beat with it’s rock kit.

There’s a click when the bass comes back in, not sure why, will sort that out, tidy the arpreggiator *again*. Also I need to turn the scary sound back on, I muted it by mistake J. Then I’m done with this track, getting a bit bored of it TBH, may see if I can get some vocals on it but not that fussed right now.


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Song Update - Robotix v2

Tidied this up by adding compression on the 303.
Making the bass start before main kick drum.

A few enhancements:
Used the "Beat Repeat" Live effect one of the beat loops. This creates the random feel to the snare sound.

Added a solo of sorts using operator synth, the Live arpreggiator and the midi scale effect. I used the apregeggiator's hold setting to make it insanley quick, this makes a kind of sinclair spectrum loading sound. This was also fed through Live's compression device. I'm getting a better grasp of compression now thanks to various magazines and some books I've bought.

Going forward, want to make it shorter and put a breakdown in the middle. Do move higher bits on the bass. Also the Bass timing is a bit dodgey.


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Song Update - 1st Experiment v2

This is an updated version of my first experiment with my bass. Think I got guitar and bass in tune now. It is alot faster now. Still need to work on the structure, maybe a bridge. Also have some melodies to lay over the verse and pre- chorus. Maybe do using a different instrument or maybe guitar I just don't know do I.


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