Four songs

Sorry to 'dump' my stuff on you good folks here....
I haven't posted in so long due to the fact that I've been slowly building my upgraded system along with some new 'toys' including Sonar 7.

http://www.sonicmusic.net/One.mp3
"One": A re-creation of a song I did back in the early 80's. All parts were played one at a time live with no midi sequencing.

http://www.sonicmusic.net/A_Hard_Days_Night.mp3
"A Hard Days Night": Yes, that one.

http://www.sonicmusic.net/Space_Station_3.mp3
"Space Station 3":
10 tracks of Prophet~5
Taurus (freebie)
Z3ta (2 instances)
Dimension LE
Kontakt
Neil Armstrong
Alan Holdsworth

http://www.sonicmusic.net/Time.mp3
No guitars were harmed during the process since none were used.
(The squashed/crunchy mix was intenional)

If you've made it this far, thanks.

Poly

Poly, always good to check out your tunes.

One - very solid; reminds me of Bill Bruford's solo work of that era. Just a little bit dated, but you've made up for that with a great performance.

Hard Day's - wow, brilliant. Sounds like a gene splice of Lennon / McCartney with Steely Dan. I'm usually skeptical of folks doing Beatles tunes, but this really works! Love the re-voicing and the arrangement; could have even gone a little deeper into the R&B groove on the verse, but overall it's fantastic!

That's all the time I have right now; I'll save the other two for later.

ORIGINAL: ed_mcg

Poly, always good to check out your tunes.

One - very solid; reminds me of Bill Bruford's solo work of that era. Just a little bit dated, but you've made up for that with a great performance.

Hard Day's - wow, brilliant. Sounds like a gene splice of Lennon / McCartney with Steely Dan. I'm usually skeptical of folks doing Beatles tunes, but this really works! Love the re-voicing and the arrangement; could have even gone a little deeper into the R&B groove on the verse, but overall it's fantastic!

That's all the time I have right now; I'll save the other two for later.

Thanks for the listen Ed!

Yea, I know "One" is dated...but then again, so am I
It was more of a challenge to keep my ear chops up. Transcribing this song which was done before I had midi was pretty tough

The Beatles thing was done for a client that was looking for Beatles songs that would be unrecognizable without the lyrics.
I've reharmonized many standards over the years, but this was the first time I've ever done something like this!

Best,
Poly

ORIGINAL: Mamabear

I especially liked 'Hard Days' Night.' Cool recreation of that one!

I like what's going on in 'One' too. Good production!

I'll have to catch the other two later--ran out of time.

OK, I had time: last one: no guitars were used? How'd you get that sound?

Thanks for the kind words Janet.
On that last song I used two electric guitar patches that came with the Kontakt 3 library. It responded very well to live playing.

Best,
Poly

Poly,
The sound on One may be dated, but, like yourself, so am I, and I have always liked that sound. Reminds me of Mannheim/Fresh Aire.
Nice performance on that. Sounds like you were pretty busy!
Space Station 3, yeah very Jarre. That was a fun listen.
Time, to me seems even more of a throwback, to the 70's, like Three Dog Night. Well executed, though.
I'm a big fan of playnig synths live, and hope to someday play on this level.
These four songs represent a wide variety, and each of us has our own favorite. My personal favorite is One, but we all have different taste.
I think that is one of the truly great things about this.

ORIGINAL: RobertB

Poly,
The sound on One may be dated, but, like yourself, so am I, and I have always liked that sound. Reminds me of Mannheim/Fresh Aire.
Nice performance on that. Sounds like you were pretty busy!
Space Station 3, yeah very Jarre. That was a fun listen.
Time, to me seems even more of a throwback, to the 70's, like Three Dog Night. Well executed, though.
I'm a big fan of playnig synths live, and hope to someday play on this level.
These four songs represent a wide variety, and each of us has our own favorite. My personal favorite is One, but we all have different taste.
I think that is one of the truly great things about this.

Thanks for the props Robert.
I was a little hesitant to post 4 songs at once, but I felt they covered so much ground I'd take a shot.
I was weaned on jazz and had most of my training in the bee-bop vein, but got a dose of reality in High School when I got in a rock band that played a lot of Alman Bros.
I was used to the jazz keys...Bb, Eb, C, G, F etc.....but all the songs we did in the rock band were in A, E, B, and sometimes G. It was a good dose of reality and made me a better player.
I would think age has a lot to do with who liked what song

Thanks again.
...especially for the Three Dog Night reference as they were one of my favs as a kid.

Poly

I'd love to listen to your songs, but the links aren't working for me, neither on Chrome nor Firefox.