KVR Audio

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:42 am

This 3.5 minute dealy-bopper is an improvisational experiment to test a new set of sounds and events together. Me likes.

Although I was a bit over-caffeinated at the time, I think this turned out sort of spiritual for lack of a better term. Grab it while you can as I'll probably cannibalize this performance and integrate it into something that's more of a varied journey later on. I haven't listened to it in headphones yet, but I suspect it'll be fun. But not as fun as if you have a sub-woofer 'cause there's a nice dark lake living down there...hehe...

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herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:47 am

My kind of brooding.

Very Cool.

8)8)8)8)

TocTa · Post by **TocTa** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:11 am

very nice!
It's like brian eno in a sad day. btw my subwoofer greets you

wavephonic · Post by **wavephonic** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:12 pm

sat back and put my feet up on the sub and went deep with it,
some cool stuff happening around it to,
nice

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:35 pm

Thanks for listening, dudes.

I listened to it a few times at work today on headphones and the low-end holds up pretty good in phones, too. I love to feel the wash of it.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:44 am

Great stuff Shane, nice spooky sound track feel and wonderful atmosphere! Yeah, you're right about the lows.

runagate · Post by **runagate** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:27 am

Wow, that's genuinely kinda scary.
Absosmurfly excellent, Shame!

Touch_the_Universe · Post by **Touch_the_Universe** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:37 am

hehe, spppoooky. Good Production though I will give you that. What are you working with, hardware, vsti's, if vst give a list

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:07 pm

Touch_the_Universe wrote:hehe, spppoooky. Good Production though I will give you that. What are you working with, hardware, vsti's, if vst give a list

Thanks to all for listening!

As for the gear, see below.

One instance each:

Balthor Grand
Orca
Monkey Orchestra
Surge
Cameleon 5000

live playing on the chimes and wind rattles
+ samples of latency crackles + room ambience and floor creaks

Glaceverb, FLS Reeverb2, and SIR on master
Bionic Delay

controller: Axiom 25

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:17 pm

Shane Sanders wrote: Orca
Monkey Orchestra

Glaceverb, FLS Reeverb2, and SIR on master

Nice to see/hear Orca and the Monkey showing up already.

3 verbs on the master?

Love it!

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:31 pm

emdot_ambient wrote:
Shane Sanders wrote: Orca
Monkey Orchestra

Glaceverb, FLS Reeverb2, and SIR on master
Nice to see/hear Orca and the Monkey showing up already.

3 verbs on the master? Love it!

Yeah, the Orca has a nice there-but-not-there thing going on. I like how it changes over time while I ride the pitchbend.

For your own experiments, load up an instance of the Balthor Grand and use a steep attack, then find a nice low key. Yummy.

Actually, there's only SIR on the master, using a moderately subtle Sony DRE777 impulse of a cathedral. The way I listed them makes it seem like I meant all of them were on the master, but just wanted to clarify. The Glaceverb is definitely defining the 'sound' of this track, though. SIR just provided a final gel to put the chimes in an exotic space.

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:35 pm

Shane Sanders wrote:The way I listed them makes it seem like I meant all of them were on the master

Oh. But it's given me an idea

I could tell Glaceverb was the dominante one, it's very colorful what it does to sound, but personally that's what I like in a verb. Transparency? Naw, I want to change the sound. I tend to use reverb like a delay unit. If it's transparent, there's no point

Well, most of the time.

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:40 pm

Shane Sanders wrote:For your own experiments, load up an instance of the Balthor Grand and use a steep attack, then find a nice low key. Yummy.

Ooooooooh. Balthor Grand is from the Developer Contest!

I knew it rang a bell. I had to look it up on Google, as it wasn't in the db.

Of course I've downloaded all the DC plugs . . . and have totally failed to listen to any of them

Voting ends 10/31, so we gotta get moving on this!!!!

Thanks for jolting my memory.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:41 pm

Oh I forgot that there's a few seconds of Reaktor5 SteamPipe2 in there. It's just a brief breathy sound that shows up a few times.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:42 pm

emdot_ambient wrote:
Shane Sanders wrote:The way I listed them makes it seem like I meant all of them were on the master
Oh. But it's given me an idea I could tell Glaceverb was the dominante one, it's very colorful what it does to sound, but personally that's what I like in a verb. Transparency? Naw, I want to change the sound. I tend to use reverb like a delay unit. If it's transparent, there's no point

Well, most of the time.

For this type of music, I'm in 100% agreement. The space is half of the sound.

No Bright Days - new scorched-earth ambient