Someone. (Remastered)

[zerocrossing]

[sandandpaint]

not my sort of music but I love the way you have created a full spatial image - fantastic use of space and a great sound overall

[zerocrossing]

not my sort of music but I love the way you have created a full spatial image - fantastic use of space and a great sound overall

Thank you! I do try and use the stereo field as much as possible, and limit myself to a single stereo reverb, so you get the feeling that you’re in a studio with a band.

[enroe]

A very groovy song. The drums play in a very unusual style — while the
feminine vocals bring in both feeling and a sense of steady rhythm.
The melody is very fitting. The 1920s-style video places the song in an
almost historical context. A very beautiful guitar solo.

Overall, a great song—super well done!

[Saffran]

Nice. Reminded me of the Police there in the beginning.

[zerocrossing]

A very groovy song. The drums play in a very unusual style — while the
feminine vocals bring in both feeling and a sense of steady rhythm.
The melody is very fitting. The 1920s-style video places the song in an
almost historical context. A very beautiful guitar solo.

Overall, a great song—super well done!

Thank you! I did write this when I was working with a woman vocalist. My voice definitely can’t sing the melodies that I like to write. Some might say that my voice can’t sing at all!

[zerocrossing]

Nice. Reminded me of the Police there in the beginning.

Thank you. I really appreciate it.

I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been influenced by the Police. After discovering the Police, I went out and bought a Stratocaster… well, a G&L Skyhawk. I still have it, though I didn’t use it on this track. A JC-120 too, though that’s long gone. I’m sure there’s some Talking Heads, King Crimson, and a bunch of similar influences swimming around this old brain. I’m taking on a project where I take all of my old songs that I never had the means to properly record and produce and put them into the world.

[aaron aardvark]

zerocrossing,
Thank you for checking out my music! Now your song: I also hear a Police influence instrumentally (good). Singers sound very good. I think the song sounds very good, all around! The vocals remind me of a well known group, but I can't remember their name, or the name of any of their songs.

[zerocrossing]

zerocrossing,
Thank you for checking out my music! Now your song: I also hear a Police influence instrumentally (good).

The Police were definitely part of my training material.

Singers sound very good: are they human or AI? Don't worry, I won't diss you if it is AI.

Not generative AI, but a machine learning trained model. Synthesizer V.

I think the song sounds very good, all around! The vocals remind me of a well known group, but I can't remember their name, or the name of any of their songs.

Thank you! The female voice was one of the ones that came free. Its native language is Chinese, so I never bothered using it because I didn't think it did English, but it does, obviously. Pretty well, I think. I didn't have to do anything special with pronunciation to get it to sound like that, though I am doing a lot of real time and per phoneme modulation to liven the performance up a bit. Synthesizer V can sound a little stiff, if you don't put in the work.

I was against using synthetic voices for a long time, but at some point it occurred to me that I was using SWAM Cello in songs, which is also a machine modeled synthetic instrument. I'm using sampled sitars and tanpura, in that song. Was there a difference? I think if you heard me singing it, you'd be thankful for this technology. It was actually written when our band had a woman singing, so there's no way I'd hit all those notes anyway. I don't think I'd like using something like ACE Studio for vocals, because I like to have a lot of control over every part of the performance. Synthesizer V gives you something like 10 parameters of real time control, plus phoneme timing.