OT, MD, MBase11, H8K, Virus, MoPho…
Great track. Excellent.
Thanks
Very nice
nice love the kick
nice deep physical emotional capturing tune you made! …very good EQed
Much appreciated!
-cheers-
Enjoyed that much. Thank you for sharing.
That driving bass is great. Very good track. Reminds me a little of some older Ital Tek. The pads are lush but not at all overbearing. Great mix.
Perhaps you could go over some details? Routing? Was this recorded live? Recorded how? Mixed? Etc.
Sounds great in my room… the sub is loving it.
great work sir! listened a few times already. look forward to hearing more
Glad you like it, thanks.
EDIT - warning: long-winded post…
I have a Software sampler by AIR, made for Pro Tools, with a library that includes some weird, abrasive electro drum stuff. I prepared individual hits of some of those, then loaded them into the MD. The original plan was to see if I could get motivated by sequencing the sounds in the MD; I’ve had those sounds around for years and never been inspired to do anything with them.
Instead, I triggered just one or two of the sounds in the MD, fed them into the H8000, then through twisting the MD parameters and selecting different H8000 presets, collected some interesting rhythmic soundscapes which I sampled into the OT.
The resulting sounds are a large percentage of what you hear in the track, with some of the usual OT modifications.
I then made a minimal pattern in the MD, and tweaked a kick setting in the MBase. One of the sounds in the MD pattern I routed into an H8000 patch, a harmonized multitap delay thing which I tuned a bit to sit “correctly” in the track. It’s that high-register, echo-y arpeggiated percussion thing.
The MoPho is doing a two-oscillator synth-y sound, and is also fed into that same H8000 patch, though you hear only the wet signal.
The bass and two of the pad sounds are from a multi in the Virus, sequenced by the OT. The bass sequence has an LFO modulating the volume, to make it pulse.
I made some scenes in the OT to control Rate (pitch) and filtering, plus the usual OT stuff like setting the playback rate down near zero on a couple of the tracks, but I only did a little bit of scene-slider moves.
There are seven OT patterns. OT is the master, and as you hear, there’s almost no variation in the MD patterns. After I got the patterns doing what I wanted, and got the sounds like I wanted, it was just a matter of manually selecting OT patterns for playback, with a touch of scene-slider action. Come recording time, all the work was pretty much done, and so it is recorded live, just by manually selecting patterns. That was the easy part, one take, no editing.
The Mbase is triggered by a MIDI machine, and its output fed into an MD input, so it can be included in beatwide parameter twists (but this track has none of that). The input machine for the MBase has its own dedicated output. The Virus and MoPho go into a Radial DI, then into a True Systems Precision 8 mic preamp, and those mic pre outputs, along with the OT and all the MD outputs go into a Speck LiLo console. I used console aux sends to feed the MoPho into the H8000. As you might guess, most of the mixing was done within the machines themselves; only a small amount of console fader adjustment was done. I fed the mix out into a 192 interface (old school as hell, I know) and recorded at 88.2.
For “mastering”, I did a little hi-freq shelf boost starting around 12k, a touch of compression, a fairly heavy dose of Sonnox Inflator, and a Massey L2007 brickwall limiter. I try not to smash anything too terribly hard.
Monitoring is via Barefoot MM27’s, rev1.
Thank you everyone for the nice feedback, and thanks for allowing me to geek out on the details.
I liked it, though it sounded a bit too bassy on my headphones. Could be just my morning ears though.