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dburns · Post by **dburns** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:33 am

It's a delightful, happy, modern sounding tune...great!

You got great sounding results without much FX processing.

Thanks for sharing!

Quick question: What screen resolution and type of monitor did you take the screen shot on? You seem to fit a lot of details on the screen.

Thanks.

alexfalcao · Post by **alexfalcao** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:51 am

mkastrup wrote:From the MSEG thread and i picked up an idea which was given a full Zebra treatment.

I made a screenshot of the setup to give you an idea of how this arrangement was made:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/MK_Mec ... _Setup.png

and the track is here:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/MK_Mechanical.mp3

Have fun listening

/Michael

That's nice Michael,

I forgot about this thread.

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:35 am

dburns wrote:It's a delightful, happy, modern sounding tune...great!

You got great sounding results without much FX processing.

Thanks for sharing!

Quick question: What screen resolution and type of monitor did you take the screen shot on? You seem to fit a lot of details on the screen.

Thanks.

Hi Dave

I'm on a 24" 1920x1200, and as you can see i yanked the mixer sliders a good bit down to allow for EQ in the highs. Before the masterbus FX's it would peak around +4 db. I decided to go for strictly EQ highs instead of using exciter. The only lows i added was the one on the masterbus. Thats why its realtive clean sounding.

So in all most things have been given quite a lift around 5 to 10 Khz.

/Michael

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:51 am

I've been holding back on the new 2.5 version but finally gave it a try yeasterday. Since most talk is about XMF i forced my self to only use 1 OSC and 1 XMF pr. preset. In the end i ended up with dubbing kick,snare and hihat with sampled drums.

So this is 15 x 1 osc 1 xmf preset doing weirdos and corny music.

http://www.xsynth.com/demos/Z2_v25firsttry.mp3

/Michael

Lux Delux · Post by **Lux Delux** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:56 am

Sounds fantastic. Love the intro

mmmm 2.5 seems like a must have

porfiry · Post by **porfiry** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:15 pm

mkastrup wrote:So this is 15 x 1 osc 1 xmf preset doing weirdos and corny music.

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/Z2_v25firsttry.mp3

/Michael

Hellz yes.

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:42 pm

mkastrup wrote: So this is 15 x 1 osc 1 xmf preset doing weirdos and corny music.
http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/Z2_v25firsttry.mp3
/Michael

Thanks for this. Like those rock mod warped sounds going on there.
It's been real hard learning production, for me. All the music you do, makes it sound so easy, but it's not.

BTW, Hope you won't forget whose birthday's coming up October 7th.
A hero of mine, who is from your part of the world.

A man of great wisdom, could only say this.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:40 am

MCnoone wrote:It's been real hard learning production, for me. All the music you do, makes it sound so easy, but it's not.

If you hit a brickwall in production it might help with some analyze of the music genre your trying to create. This is the tough part and utterly boring work but it really pays of in the end. My work method is very old skool

where most people these days put down a GROOVE of somekind and then put on instruments i do the oposite, i put down the music first and then think about drums and rhythmic stuff. This way the music takes priority and the beat gets secondary, which is exactly what i want.

When i create sounds for a production i think in layers, i already know that the kick or bass have got to have the lowest frequency and i also know that the hihat must be the ceiling of high frequency. Whats left is the lower mids, the mids and the upper mids and the lower highs. All the frequencies must be filled out somehow. Each frequency range should have a sound of its own. If two sounds share the same frequency then i would need to PAN them left and right so they dont collide. All this dont have to be true but do provide a guideline for a decent workflow.

/Michael

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:48 am

mkastrup wrote: If you hit a brickwall in production it might help with some analyze of the music genre your trying to create.

Thanks for the advice.
I have been using just a hihat for a click track recently, instead of my normal routine of doing drums first, then bass. Maybe it will help me make better transitions that way also.
Thanks.

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:33 pm

mkastrup wrote: So this is 15 x 1 osc 1 xmf preset doing weirdos and corny music.

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/Z2_v25firsttry.mp3

/Michael

It makes me do this, is this normal?

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:51 pm

This thing is so great, hehe, it's destined to become a classic in the realm of Z2 demo songs.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:37 pm

Making me do the same thing as billstei.

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:52 pm

Okay but Howard dancing the same way I do is no test of normalcy.

5bongo5 · Post by **5bongo5** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:01 pm

mkastrup wrote:
Hey tboulette, maybe a picture can inspire you then Its a screenshot of the total setup for that tune in Cubase 4.

Wow, I really appreciated that screenshot! Really helped me deconstruct the arrangement while listening, and realize that this smoothly flowing piece was constructed almost entirely with relatively short building blocks. I have a lot to learn about composition and arrangement, and this was a nice eye opener! Wonderfully done.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:10 pm

billstei wrote:Okay but Howard dancing the same way I do is no test of normalcy.

Indeed not!

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