Here's a moody, glitchy, downtempo tune:

http://soundcloud.com/syncretia/train-driver

http://www.syncretia.com/Tracks/New/TrainDriver.mp3

Check out more tunes at http://www.syncretia.com

Lovely track. Very well recorded. Nice choice of instrumentation to go with the nice melody. Love the glitchy percussion on here.

Nice work
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Love it! What did you use for the glitching?

I really like this tune. Nicely done. Good restraint.Kudos to you
LooseBruce

This is fantastic!

Please share what software/sound sources you used.

Very clean!!

Great track - reminds me a little of the stuff Synkro's doing (which I love)

love it. very inspiring

Wow, thanks for all the positive feedback guys. I usually don't post comments after these track postings but I do want to answer the questions.

I'm actually going to do a few tutorial vids soon so keep an eye out on http://www.syncretia.com . I plan to do a vid on how to get glitches happening.

-I used Kontakt for the piano bit with some ping pong delay
-The saw sweep is done with a Roland SH-2 analog synth but I originally did with u-he's diva which sounded almost exactly the same.
-I can't exactly remember what all the glitch samples are but I'm pretty sure I used glitches from this pack:

http://primeloops.com/loops-samples/product/glitch-cuts~61/

I use it quite a bit. It's good but honestly I just go for bulk; not quality. I mainly use these because there are heaps of samples. The highhats in Ableton are just as good but there's not that many.

-The high pad is Prism (A Reaktor instrument) I think

-The strings are Kontakt strings with a convolution reverb of tibetan monks chanting but I don't think chanting comes though.


-To do the glitches, I just create a drum rack in Ableton and drag lots of random percussive samples on.
-I just create a midi clip and put short notes on every 16th I think.
- I sometimes put a bit of swing on there
- I shorten the notes so I just hear clicks and beeps
- I bounce the audio from that track
- I throw an Ableton FX rack on the audio track
- Drag on random FX like chorus, ping pong, redux (bit crunch), etc.
-Then I just randomly slide between the FX.
-I also chop the audio sample up in to bits, reverse and transpose randomly and so on the make it sound wierder
-Oh, and I put fills randomly everywhere. A good trick is to have a quick succession of notes that are so fast that they create a frequency, and then keep doubling the length of the note until the sample gains its body back.
-Lastly lots of ping pong delay so the glitches bounce all over the place.

I mostly learnt this stuff from Mr Bill. He has loads of vids on this stuff:

http://mrbillstunes.com/tuition/video-tutorials/

Oh yeah. I didn't really want to spoil the mystique but I will anyway. The name of the song came from a radio article I was listening to about train drivers who have people jump in front of the train while driving. The piano melody came from the background music they were playing for the article. I raced home with the melody in my head and then the rest came together in about 2 hours. A couple of days later I cleaned it up and did the mixing and mastering if you could call it that.