Always with us making of

Always With Us The tune I actually started in the 80's but thought it might be time to finish it off. Call it procrastination; fermentation's a better word... Here' the clip:


Here's how it started:




Here's some of the in between bits:

VSTi's

The original chords and preliminary notes

Way in the background I used piano in LMMS

 

Would you believe the lead guitar was partly inspired by pan pipes? I like the vibrato sound, so I tried to find something that emulated that sort of sound.

Blessings

Tim O

Radio Waves -some of the making of

Radio Waves - mainly 'spy surf' but with some Eastern instrumentation for a bit of spice.



 I needed to occupy my mind (waiting on reports of a relative in hospital), so I finished off this half baked idea over a few nights.

Basically it is a 140 bpm surf guitar tune but i wanted to contrast an Eastern sound with a Western sound in one tune.

Besides playing my trusty old AXL strat copy (which I still like the sound for the surfy stuff), I played real live bass but I thought a Nay, Oud and Tabla sound would make it kind of interesting, though they are instruments from different areas.  The only loops I used were the Western drum
loops otherwise I attempted to play (via midi keyboard) these VSTi's:

The mixed down tracks:

Tabla percussion I programmed

A short clip playing around with the Eastern and Middle Eastern instruments via midi keyboard:

Making of 'Coming Home'

Here's a few minutes of the making of 'Coming Home'

It was really an experiment between using a PC (which is my main method) and iPad which I borrowed. I liked the combinations of sound it produced. The drums are loops and some of the pipes (reversed) but the rest I played or programmed.

Whatever it sounds like to you, I'm personally happy to have extended myself again. I enjoyed the experience on the whole, besides the usual frustration, agony and ecstasy of making music ;-)

I also downloaded Ripplemaker by Bram Bos which was a lot of fun to play around with. I have always respected and used much of his software over the years which is always 'friendly' to the user.

Here's some pics:

And the clip taken up at Anstey Hill I had to wait everytime someone walked past before I filmed the little model. I'm sure someone spotted me and shook their head. The things we do for creativity ;-)