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BrianEnglish · Post by **BrianEnglish** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:54 am

http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/brian ... termix.mp3

Free 35 minute mix of originally composed music by me - shortened version of my CD for my recent live set in SF

if you want to buy a cd, www.recordlabelrecords.org/webstore.html

Short mp3 clips of almost all the tracks and information:
http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/bathr ... iteup.html

Let me know what you think...suggestions always welcome. Lots of original sound design (some modified presets too), field recording, primarily using Reaktor, Cubase, MAX/MSP, and a shitload of plugins.

Brian

***** EDIT *****
Here are some single tracks from the mix if you are on dial up or if you prefer to hear it this way:
http://www.mixchange.net/mp3/

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:20 pm

35 minutes? I'll give it a spin someday.

Listened to 4 of the mp3 excerpts and I'm very impressed.

Great stuff, man.

That trick you do with the sink water is very impressive too

BrianEnglish · Post by **BrianEnglish** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:34 am

Hey, thanks! Let me know when you get a full listen in.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:47 am

just looking at what you used to do this is intriguing!
I'll have a listen tonight, but may pass out before it's over. Certainly will give it another listen in the morning.

7 minutes in, don't think I can sleep.
Very cool stuff..some nice grooves. hehe, I like this.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:09 am

28 minutes in, this is great stuff..Too many to list, but it has been a very enjoyable listen. I'm definately gonna grab your cd.
Oh shit, that stuff at 29:30

and 31:40!

ew · Post by ew » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:20 am

bluedad wrote:28 minutes in, this is great stuff..Too many to list, but it has been a very enjoyable listen. I'm definately gonna grab your cd.
Oh shit, that stuff at 29:30

and 31:40!

That good, Gary?
I'm going to have to give this a listen, then...
Thanks, Brian

ew

Ocean Zen · Post by **Ocean Zen** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:47 am

Wow, this is some piece. Vaguely reminds me of the wonderful Orbital album, InSides

Good luck with this, I hope it sells well.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:04 am

I'm downloading this for tommorrow's coffee in the morning.

So what Reaktor ensembles did you use for this if you don't ming my asking? Reaktor's 99% of my workflow, and I build alotta junky ensembles ppl here seem to like for some reason..

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:45 pm

ew wrote: That good, Gary?
I'm going to have to give this a listen, then...
Thanks, Brian
ew

yes, I'm on my third listen. (2nd this morning!)

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:56 pm

I'm at about the halfway point - this is really well done, mucho variety, interesting transitions, quite a journey...

BrianEnglish · Post by **BrianEnglish** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:05 am

wow, I am honored that you are enjoying this so much! If anyone has any constructive criticism, that is more than welcome also!

http://www.mixchange.net/mp3/
3 single tracks from the mix posted above...

bluedad, I will give you a discount price of $8 including shipping for the CD since you gave it so much praise... hell anyone on KVR I will do it for that

you can paypal me at:

brian (at symbol) mixchange.net

The full CD has 20 tracks and is a full 74 minutes.

In terms of the patches I used, a lot of what is on it was done over a year and a half ago in Reaktor 3. I used a lot of the transform (i think that's what the menu is called) modules which had things like Resynth, a timestretcher, granular module, etc. A lot of the reaktor patches were just pre-existing reaktor patches or macros creatively chained together. For the difference tone song I built my own custom module to control the tones as needed.

I also used some patches built by Fluorescent Gray, which are free downloads at: http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/reaktor.html

If you like my stuff, you may also like his. Honestly I used so many Reaktor patches I can't honestly remember the names of all of them. I would tweak them, or use randomizers on them. One great patch was a mock ARP-2600 someone made that to me is more useful than Arturia's recreation because I could randomize any parameter, or constrain the randomness to certain parameters.

some of the spectral sounds were done on the Kyma, which is the best at that I've seen.

I know I said Reaktor in the title, but here is the actual list of stuff i used from my website:
Hardware used on album:
1978 Emu Modular Synthesizer
Kawai K5000s Additive Synthesizer
Symbolic Sound's Kyma X (hardware/software combo)
Minimoog Voyager 50th Anniversary Edition
Roland Juno 6
Yamaha SY77
AKAI MPC 2000
Digidesign MBOX
Eventide Harmonizer H3000S
Nord Lead 2X

Instruments:
Taylor 655 12 String Guitar
Martin D-45, 1958 D-21 Brazillian Rosewood
Bowed Psaltery
Berimbow
Thumb Piano
Yamaha Diskclavier
Harp
Flute

Microphones:
Neumann KMR82I Long Shotgun microphone
Neumann TLM103 Pair
Oktava MK012 Pair
AKG D112
Shure SM81 Pair
Shure SM57

Primary Software used (too many plugins to list):
Cubase SX/Nuendo
Native Instruments Reaktor
Native Instruments Battery
Steinberg Halion
Cool Edit Pro 2.0
Waves Restoration & Gold Bundle
MAX/MSP

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Some of the plugins include, Orange Vocoder, Bouncy, and Hyperprism.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:30 pm

awesome drum sounds on here man. WOW.

RonC

BrianEnglish · Post by **BrianEnglish** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:49 am

just sort of curious, which songs are you referring to rpc?

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:16 pm

BrianEnglish wrote: bluedad, I will give you a discount price of $8 including shipping for the CD since you gave it so much praise... hell anyone on KVR I will do it for that you can paypal me at:

brian (at symbol) mixchange.net

The full CD has 20 tracks and is a full 74 minutes.
.

just noticed this!
very generous, Brian
and a
BUMP
to this thread!

Free Rhythmic idmish music -original compositions in Reaktor