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Old 05-18-2020, 09:26 PM   #1
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Hi, everyone!

I'm planning on using this thread as a unified place to share my music with all of you. I make genre melding electronic music. My inspiration comes from just about any genre you can think of, from classical music, jazz, 70s/80s rock/pop, and even world music. I do every single step, from composition to mixing.

Today, I released my new track, “Railroaded”. It was made using almost entirely stock and free plugins. The only paid plugin I used was Ozone Essentials for stereoization, mid/side eq, and limiting. If you enjoy it, make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel, as I will be releasing a production breakdown next Tuesday (May 26th). YouTube and Soundcloud links are below.

https://youtu.be/yX3MGX4EDR8
https://soundcloud.com/user-493520958/railroaded

To keep this post a bit cleaner, I think it makes more sense to just link to the playlists for my music instead of linking each individual track.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...MZiHXU2fDg6hsk
https://soundcloud.com/user-493520958/sets/my-music

Thanks for checking out my music! If you have any questions at all regarding how I do things, don’t hesitate to ask. I’m always happy to help out in whatever way I can.

Have a fantastic day!
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Old 06-10-2020, 08:07 PM   #2
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Hey, everyone! New song "3-4-5" is out!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT9zb12bYFo
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-493520958/3-4-5a

I'm really excited to say that this one was made on Linux! I had a lot of fun messing around with metric modulations and polyrhythms. I hope you enjoy!

And in case you're interested, I released a three part series breaking down "Railroaded": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3M...MZiHXU2fDg6hsk
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I listened to both Railroaded and 3-4-5. Not my cup of tea but both are very well done! Thanks for sharing!
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Great choice of sounds, really tasty and elaborate production.

I'm looking at breaking it down vid aaand how do you actually dock the project notes? That's much cooler than just having them annoyingly pop up on project load.
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I listened to both Railroaded and 3-4-5. Not my cup of tea but both are very well done! Thanks for sharing!
It's all good. Not everyone has to like everything Thanks for checking it out!

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Great choice of sounds, really tasty and elaborate production.

I'm looking at breaking it down vid aaand how do you actually dock the project notes? That's much cooler than just having them annoyingly pop up on project load.
Thanks man! I appreciate it!

So the project notes I'm looking at comes with the SWS extensions. I can't remember if the one that pops up at the beginning is from SWS or not. Anyway, if you go into the extensions dropdown, there is an option that just says "Notes". Just click that and dock it where you want it, and you're all set.
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Old 06-30-2020, 05:51 PM   #6
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Hello everyone! I'm back with a new track!

This one is a remix of the song "Self Checkout" by Underbelly (the guy who runs the You Suck At Producing YouTube channel). This one was a lot of fun to make, chopping up samples and all that stuff. I can't say that every single sound is from the samples unfortunately (the middle sections uses them heavily, while the beginning and then end use them more to inspire the melodic material), but I did learn a lot about the process while doing it.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrrLae8jBeY
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-49352095...-boelter-remix

I've also released a couple more tutorials. I did one about using reverb effectively without detracting from the mix, and another talking about some of the rhythmic techniques I used in "3-4-5". Once I get a few more videos under my belt, I plan on starting a thread dedicated to those in the appropriate forum. Once that happens, I'll stop bugging you about them over here

Thanks for listening!
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Old 07-05-2020, 11:21 AM   #7
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I watched w/ interest your "Breaking It Down: Railroaded - The Composition" YT video. I wish more composers would be as giving as to how they create(d) their music.

I thought for a time, "this isn't Reaper, what is this DAW" until the version showed at top-of-screen.

Do you do anything w/ notation in your efforts?

Thanks.
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Old 07-05-2020, 12:16 PM   #8
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Hey, thanks for checking it out!

Yeah, my reaper theme is almost unrecognizable from the regular one. I turned on the standard v6 theme for a second, and my eyes almost started bleeding. I completely forgot what reaper normally looks like. I'm using the Concerto Tagi theme if you want to try it out

I generally don't use notation when I'm writing my electronic music, although it's something I've thought about and want to experiment with. I imagine that it might be a really interesting way to allow for the final product to feel more like a performance where people are playing together. But it's generally just a faster flow to work directly with the sounds in reaper. I usually spend 20 min improvising a part on a particular instrument, and that tends to be pretty close to the final version that makes it in (maybe adjusting a note or two and quantizing). That said, I am wanting to start messing around with microtonal concepts similar to what Jacob Collier does (where it's not about including microtones into the scale, but instead modulating between microtonal keys), and Daws really aren't designed for that type of work, so it requires a lot of work arounds (such as automating the tuning of instruments manually, or duplicating instruments and having one tuned to microtones while the other is normal). From early testing, I'm finding musescore much easier to work with, as it allows me to manually set the tuning offset for each individual note.

I do use notation when I compose in a classical style though. I have some experience writing for orchestra, as well as chamber. I don't tend to work nearly as quickly in that setting, however, so very little of what I've written is finished, and I haven't had the privilege to get any of it performed yet.

Thanks again for your interest!
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