Lynn
Nice job on this fun tune.  It looks like you did a lot of work to put all those screenshots up.  In spite of using headphones to mix, it sounds well balanced on my first listen.  Keep em coming.

Thanks for listening Lynn... Yeah, I took some time over those posts. I guess I should save them to my 'puter for when our songs disappear onto page 4 hehe...
 
I'm glad you think the mix is okay... Having read Tim's Jimmy's (oops... I'm getting names nmixed up... sorry) comments though, and messed again with the EQ, my "re-mastered" will hopefully be much improved 
 

daryl1968
very cool synkotron and nice playing.

Thanks Daryl. Don't ever ask me to pull that off in a live situation though  I'd get boo'd off stage LOL!
 
Thanks for listening.
 
 
Oh, everyone, because I'm not selling my music, I always stick a 320kbps version on SoundCloud for download. I'm not sure if that helps or not, but I've noticed that most peeps go for streaming (I suppose I do myself...)

I heard and commented on SC as well....great job on this one!!!!

Starise
I heard and commented on SC as well....great job on this one!!!!

Yeah, Tim, I spotted that, thanks 
 
cheers, and thanks for listening 

Okay peeps,
 
After much additional learning new stuff, and stuff, I've managed to put together a simple video for this tune.
 
It's an experiment really. I want to see if sticking a tune on youtube gets more "listens" than on SoundCloud.
 
All I did was capture the Hive VSTi interface of the main sequence track showing the envelopes working them faders and knobs.
 
Almost better than a still image, which is what some peeps do 
 
https://youtu.be/JCL2Yum11Y0
 

Hey synkotron,
I gotta say there a lot of interesting things going on from a musical perspective. I like how you play with the different lead 'voices,' it's like those two synths are having a little dialog. Did you perform those parts? If so, did you use a MIDI keyboard? I've always wanted to record a guitar lead and extract the MIDI using Melodyne, that will be a project for down the line. There's a lot of really good movement throughout the track, the only thing I would have suggested would have been to strip down the arrangement somewhere in the middle to give a little contrast. Once the drums come in, that texture and instrumentation stays relatively constant throughout most of the track. Don't get me wrong, I really like what was going on, it's a really cool jam.
 
I think the mix could benefit from a little added brightness. I think you could probably be more generous with high-pass filtering certain tracks. One thing that might work well is if you bus those pad elements and use the M/S feature in the Pro-Q and roll off a significant amount of the lows in the Side channel, that usually does wonders in terms of opening up the mix. You could also use a high shelf to brighten up the Side channel on the master bus, but since you have so many elements that are stereo, I'm not sure what the effect might in this particular track. Let me know what you think.

By the way, Hive sounds like a really cool synth, I was tempted to get it back in the Beta testing days but I tend to opt against buying new toys. Also awesome job documenting your work, I bet you learn a lot from doing that. With a little bit of polishing from the production side of things, I really think this track has some potential.
 

Nice piece, bass sounds OK here on the Adams. thanks for sharing 

Hi Amine,
 
I really appreciate the time you have put into listening and commenting on my latest tune 
 
Yeah, because I don't do vocals, I have to try and think of another way to try and make my music sound interesting. So I thought I'd have two lead parts going on. And yes, I did play them in, using my PCR-300 MIDI keyboard. I'm not very good so it allows me to bring notes (almost) back into time, and get rid of all those duff notes.
 
As for recording guitar... I'm waiting for Jam Origin MIDI Guitar 2 to be released. I've been playing with the beta for that and it's looking good... Better than any of the Roland hardware offerings.
 
My son listened to this and he said something similar to you regarding stripping the arrangement down a bit in the middle. It is a bit busy, I know. After spending over 120 hours in just seven days on this, I felt I had to get it out there, but, yeah, there is definitely room for improvement, on both the arrangement and the mix/master.
 
I'm noting you comments M/S, which is something I haven't explored yet, but peeps have been discussing it in the Techniques forum.
 
I did re-master the version on youtube, a little anyway, so that isn't as bad in the bass regions, I hope, but I will definitely look at the overall EQ again.
 
Thanks again for listening 

Wookiee
Nice piece, bass sounds OK here on the Adams. thanks for sharing 

 
Hiya Wookiee 
 
Thanks for stopping by for a listen 
 
It's funny how some peeps find the bass okay and others are mentioning it. Now that it has been mentioned I can hear that, but I'm not able to test on different systems at home. I suppose I could stick it on an SD card and go for a run in the car......
 
cheers
 
andy

Hey Synkotron,
 
You're welcome. I do think the sequencing of the two lead parts is very well done, it's quite engaging. I have Jam Origin' MIDI Guitar 1 but I haven't used it yet as I don't have my electric with me.
 
I know exactly what you mean by feeling you had to just get it out there. I've been there plenty of times myself. I think that was the right call. Sometimes you just have to move on to the next project. I do think you brought some really interesting ideas together from a musical perspective.
 
I do have some questions regarding your approach to sequencing. Do you jam around on the MIDI keyboard until you find something you like and then record? How much editing do you do after recording? Also how do you use quantization if at all? Let me know and thanks in advance.