Hey everyone,
 
Check out this beautiful time-lapse video of "The Other Side" of Las Vegas by photographer Yevgeniy Zakharkin. He made the video to a piece of music I've been working on that will eventually make its way (in an edited version) onto my next album.
 
https://vimeo.com/92964229
 
Enjoy the images and enjoy the music and we'd love to hear how you like it!
 
David

Really nice music! Maybe someday in the far future I will learn how to make crisp and clean and professional sounding mixes like this...

Thank you! I'll let you in on one little secret... I work 100% in Sonar. Have since I first started. The music doesn't leave Sonar until it's completely done. I know plenty of people jump between programs, especially when it comes to mixing and mastering, but nowadays, especially with the X versions of Sonar, I don't think there's really any reason to anymore.

Hi polarbear. Good to know. I am just slowly getting familiar with some of the features in Sonar X1. Do you think the ProChannel tools are worth delving into, or can about the same be done with other plugins that come with Sonar? If the ProChannel tools do have advantages, briefly, what might some of those advantages be?
 

You know what, I'm new to the ProChannel, but I'm loving it. Up until recently I did just use other plugins, but now I use a mix of both. ProChannel is great for just quickly messing with things, and then when I really need to dig in, I'll add a specific plugin to a track. But yea, definitely its worth getting into. Especially for little tweaks.

Hi polarbear. Thanks for the input on that. I will look into the ProChannel stuff. I haven't used it yet...

Hei David,
Really enjoyed that - excellent soundtrack.  The arrangement was not overly complex in a very good way - just the right balance everywhere.   Are you using soft synths for this ..?   Curious to know, as I am also currently working on a similar project at the moment, I have film including some time-stretch like yours, and I add the music to it  - how did you work, for example did you get the film first, then do the music, or the music came first added to the film?  And what export setting did you use, is 44000 / 24 bit enough for this kind of thing, or something more? 

Hey thanks so much.
 
It is all soft synth actually. I sometimes incorporate some real guitar or a percussion thing here and there, but yea this is all soft synth... A lot of Omnisphere... and a bunch of others.
 
I've been composing for a lot of things lately, and normally I do get the film and compose to it, but this case was different. I was collaborating with Yevgeniy on a few other projects and he asked me to make a song in advance that he could build his time-lapse around. So I just kinda made it with a bunch of change ups and sections so he'd have some spots to work with to build it around.
 
As for export settings, it's actually just 44/16bit.

Nice song and video! Good clear,clean mix!

thank you :-)