Month: September 2010

‘Everything Burns’ prototype

So one of the songs off the album I’m working on is called “Everything Burns.” The melody and structure for it came to me in the middle of the night and kept me awake for hours and then tried to do a runner in the morning, so I did a quick rough of the verse/chorus

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OMG

So I needed to make a synthetic bell sound for a project I’m working on and thought I’d do a little ditty just to let you hear what I’m talking about when I say ‘synthetic bell’. But as I started playing I realised, with no small amount of horror, that what I was dredging up

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Private Lessons

So I’ve modified my usual synth patch to not reset the attack envelope on keychances and added a little bit of portamento to give a rather nice sliding effect. Here’s a little tune to demonstrate what I’m talking about. The chord progression is based on a song called Private Lessons by Kevin O’Neill, Peter Ward

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Adminy Stuff

Ok, so Mr Daniels pointed out that there was no obvious way to login, register, or anything like that. So I’ve re-added the meta widget. It’s over there, on the right, at the top of the sidebar.

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The Shipping Forecast

There’s a strangely beautiful poetry in the BBC’s shipping forecast. I reckoned it needed some music. There’s two versions here – the first has some electronic treatment on the voice and some listeners have found it doesn’t sound quite right. The second version has a simple reverb applied. See which you prefer. John Dow –

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