https://soundcloud.com/arcanor/dream-together
 
This song is a recent collaboration with my friend Paul Frick.  It's kind of a dance/electronic song, but with a funk beat and heavy guitar lead in the middle.  Vocals by vocaloid Avanna.
 
Your comments and criticisms are always welcome.  Thanks for listening!

Super well mixed as usual. I waited for the snare to come in, and when it did, the transients were clipped just right. It nicely drives things along. Guitar soloing reminded me of prog rock so I guess this is downtempo prog rock!
 
You strike a sweet balance between atmosphere and groove on this one. Very well done!
 
cheers,
-Tom

Very well mixed/produced/performed song Walt......it was a nice treat on my H-phones. Good job as always!! :)

Very nice Walt! Love the laid back groove you've got going. Guitar solo was pretty nice, was that you?
 
BTW, if you ever get tired of Avanna, give Blue a try. Once you figure out how the legato phrasing works, its pretty good as long as you don't try to get her to sing too fast.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

@emeraldsoul: Thanks Tom!  I hadn't thought of prog rock, but now that you mention it, it's obviously been an influence on me.  Glad you liked it!
 
@Mesh: Thanks Mesh!  Glad to hear it works in phones, since I didn't actually mix that way on this one.  I should have tested it with phones on, but forgot.  I appreciate your diligence. :)
 
@dcumpian: Thanks Dan!  Yeah, I had some fun with the guitar solo.  I do want to try to do more guitar leads in my music.  I feel like it's something I am not too bad at, but I need to work at it more so I can successfully execute the ideas floating around in my head.  My hands are never as fast as my brain!  But on this one I think it came out pretty well.  And thanks for the tip about Blue, I will check it out!

Hi Walt,
 
Nice work by you and Paul
 
How on earth does Vocaloid Avannah work? I've done a bit of googling and drawn a blank. It appears to be a stand alone app. But how are the vocals produced? Are they samples? Or do you provide a phrase and note?
 
I'm intrigued...
 
cheers
 
andy

@synkrotron: Hey Andy, thanks for listening!  The vocaloid editor is indeed a standalone app.  It's a bit painful to use, but I've been muddling through.  As far as I can tell, there's no way to input a melody directly from a MIDI controller, so you need to play and record your vocal part melody in another program (like your DAW), export the MIDI data, drag it into the vocaloid editor, add lyrics to each note, tweak notes/durations/phonemes as needed, render the vocaloid audio, export to a WAV file, and finally import the audio back into your DAW.
 
It's not as fun as it sounds. ;)  But that's the price you pay for having a vocalist on demand.

Blimey Walt... You did a good job with that then
 
I think I may have given up on that...

synkrotron
Blimey Walt... You did a good job with that then
 
I think I may have given up on that...

Yeah, I did. Hence Blue...
 
http://realitone.com/blue/
 
Regards,
Dan

Thanks for the link Dan... Sounds great that, but, alas, I don't have Kontact... Does sound very impressive though