KVR Audio

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:28 am

Hi all

new song.

Albireo: inspired by the wonderful double star of the same name ( nice sight in a telescope)

http://www.wusik.com/song.php?id=929

Uses receptor recorded into Tracktion2 using a huge amount of unique plugins:

Harptime
M42 nebula ( with TC_Ambient sound set)Pads and algorithmics

WusikStation( pads and leads)
Eve One ( Epiano)
Eve( mellotron sounds and flutes)
EZ Poly ( pads)
Albino2( arpeggios ( lead
Richard Broooks VCS3 clone ( bubbles)

Comments welcome

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:19 pm

a Tech Note: The swirly flutes were played with a unique midi controller application called Music Mouse. ( by Laurie Speigel)You actually play the notes with a mouse. The screen has a grid in which you can assign scales and also the rate in which it moves in BPM. So you can get these really fast movements. Also used pitch bend at opportune times. Check out my music mouse page:

http://tamw.atari-users.net/mmouse.htm

Its for Atari and Mac, but I have a special version which runs in Steem ( atari emulator on PC)but in this case, I used my Atari Falcon to run it. Recently I re-hooked up Atari so i can control softsynths with it's many algo apps, and this is one of them.Great fun!

But really loved the sound of HarpTime here as well.It has it's own sound, and does not sound like a sample.

daniel-b · Post by **daniel-b** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:25 pm

Good music, good sound. I like it!

Daniel

m-bar · Post by **m-bar** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:03 pm

Real Nice sounds there!

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:29 pm

Hey Thanks!

Kinda Ozricky influenced as well. I like those Seaweed swirls!!

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:35 pm

flows wonderfully ...

Soniccat · Post by **Soniccat** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:45 pm

Nice track Tim, kind of reminds me of Afro-Celt Sound System which is a good thing. Has a very celtic feel and I love the flutish sounds running throughout. Well done.

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:42 am

Soniccat wrote:Nice track Tim, kind of reminds me of Afro-Celt Sound System which is a good thing. Has a very celtic feel and I love the flutish sounds running throughout. Well done.

Yeah..harp time gave it that celtic feel. It was kinda funny. I first started out with Epiano ( on eve one). Then after I did the MIDI part, I copied it to another track and added Harptime as a layer. The Epiano and harp sounded well togther and gave it another feel. Then did another harp time layered with wusik strings ( a multi on receptor) and that completed it.

That second flutish type sound was white noise additive being played by Music Mouse.

Scot Solida · Post by **Scot Solida** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:52 am

Nicely done, Tim. It sounds a bit like John Serrie or Greg Klampt, and that is a Very Good Thing. The E-piano gives it a sort of "Windham Hill, circa 1987" sound, but just when it sounds as if it might veer off into schmaltzy new age, the sequence vomes in and picks it up. The flute sound is beautiful. Almost sounds like a MIDI wind controller (I remember Music Mouse very well!), and it is that bit that gives it an Ozrics feel (not unlike some of the stuff on "Arborescence").

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:00 am

Scot Solida wrote:Nicely done, Tim. It sounds a bit like John Serrie or Greg Klampt, and that is a Very Good Thing. The E-piano gives it a sort of "Windham Hill, circa 1987" sound, but just when it sounds as if it might veer off into schmaltzy new age, the sequence vomes in and picks it up. The flute sound is beautiful. Almost sounds like a MIDI wind controller (I remember Music Mouse very well!), and it is that bit that gives it an Ozrics feel (not unlike some of the stuff on "Arborescence").

wow...I didn't know you knew about Music Mouse??

That is such a great piece of software and easy to use, yet it's an instrument and you have to practice to make it sound the way you want. Laurie still sells the Mac version ( as well as the atari) She gave me a special version for use in Steem ( for PC) but I mostly just use it on my atari.

Yeah..I guess I'm still into DX style new age piano :-)I like that sound.

On receptor, I made a multi that has the epiano and M42 algo swirls, and albino arpeggio, which I mixed in live as I was playing the Epiano part. So the arp is based on my Epiano playing, which makes it interesting.

The flute is being played in EVE one, but is actually a WS sample from the TSW set.Nice flutes!

anyway: glad you remeber Music Mouse..another fan, and we are far and far between!

n.y.a.h. · Post by **n.y.a.h.** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:40 am

a chilled yet inspiring track. nice work.

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:49 am

light, cheerful and charming are keywords that come to mind. The part you mention to be the music mouse sounds quite lush and piercingly beautiful

Great to hear a new track from you

vtx · Post by **vtx** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:07 am

its beautiful,
like something from the orient
the flutters and the clarity on the top end is exceptional
much enjoyed here...!!!

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:14 pm

mystahr wrote:light, cheerful and charming are keywords that come to mind. The part you mention to be the music mouse sounds quite lush and piercingly beautiful

Great to hear a new track from you

Thanks Mystahr

BTW: what kind of tracks do you need for the Katrina CD? ( saw your sig) would this one do?

envoy · Post by **envoy** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:16 pm

Nice Tim, it's a keeper for the KVR folder. You're one of those people that seems to be able to nail the New Age / ambient genre while still putting in some actual substance. Very skilled use of textures and patch choices.

I, too, remember Music Mouse, but I don't think I have ghost of a chance of using it: I used to have it on my Amiga!

Cheers,
Envoy

Albireo TC [Ambient]