I've got to say that I've had a much greater response here than I thought.

Well it was very skillfully done so the praise is well deserved. Seriously man, I cannot believe how powerful and clean the sound came through on my puny little speakers.

I'd definitely be into doing a collab if you're still interested. I could see us doing some intense industrial type stuff. I've been pretty limited to doing traditional instrument based stuff but have always wanted to play around with digital noise. Just gotta get my shiz together around here a little more first though.

Cheers, dude. You should post more of your stuff. I for one would be interested in hearing it and maybe learning how you go about things. 

I really like this Andy - you managed to keep my attention in the quiet passage at the beginning before the main theme. Great choice of texture sounds - very cool

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I really like this Andy - you managed to keep my attention in the quiet passage at the beginning before the main theme. Great choice of texture sounds - very cool

Thanks Daryl. That's some praise since the tune is eleven minutes long lol and I thank you for sticking with it. I suppose it helps that it is broken down into bite sized chunks though. Thanks for listening :-)


Beep, dood, yeah, looking forward to that collab. Perhaps in the new year sometime? I like the sound of your proposal and it'll help me move away from what I call "happy music." I've got an awful admission that I hate using the black notes on me keyboard, except for an occasional flattened seventh here and there haha. And I don't know about you but I'm still getting my head around X2 at the moment too.

Heh. Cool, man. Yeah, I'm really swamped right now but we'll get it going. As far as the black keys that's what the transpose functions are for. I know I'll be using that a lot when I start going all keyboard nerd on stuff. ;-p

Actually very much looking forward to hooking up my original DX-7 now that I have room to set it up. However I've been told I need to do a bunch of fiddle faddle to make it play nice with standard MIDI as it was built before the industry agreed on the set rules. I do however have my little Oxygen 25 too so if I get too annoyed I can mess with that and the internal sounds on the Yammie are still pretty epic too as well as the stuff on the data cartridges I snagged... two of which are the writable kind loaded with stuff some unknown lunatic programmed at some point in time.

So much fun to be had. Cheers.

Oh but for our stuff I'd let you deal with that end of things. I'd just embarrass myself if I tried to keep up with you. :-)

DX-7... LOL, I remember when they came out dood haha. I used to spend a lot of time in my local music store, drooling over the Moogs, Korgs and Rolands. They had what was an awesome synth at the time, a Jupiter 8, and I could walk up to that monster and instantly get the sound I wanted out of it, no problemo.

When the DX-7 came out, I said "what on earth is that?" and was told it was one of them new FM synths. Total lack of turny knobs had me well stumped and I tried for twenty minutes to get some decent sounds out of it. Walked away in disgust and swore never to get an FM synth, ever LOL.

I was so relieved when they started making all them newfangled virtual analogue things. I knew where I was again. Such a relief haha.

You're right though, sounds can be epic, and certainly sit there in the history of electronic music. I just can't do with me knobs...

Yeah, I'm not even sure what to do with the thing beyond just loading the patches (not even sure if that's the right term... lol) and hammering away on it. It's got some crazy chart screenprinted on it that supposedly details how the FM stuff works but I've got the manual somewhere (that I printed out from the web) which is likely a little more insightful. Just makes me curious what the heck this thing does. The old Moog type stuff intrigues me too but I'll have to settle for the virtual stuff that came with Sonar for now. I've got more than enough gizmos and doodads to keep me busy for a couple lifetimes I think now. ;-)

I listened to this yesterday, but didn't have time to comment by the time it finished ;)  I don't think I've ever made it to the end of a track this long on here before, so there's a compliment in itself I guess.

I only listened on lappy speakers, so can't say much about the mix other than that it came across very well all things considered. I think you might need to work on your promo skills a little - saying it's "as boring as hell" probably isn't the ideal introduction  ;) - I nearly decided not to bother, but then maybe you just employed some clever reverse psychology, because I did listen and I'm glad I did. Hints of JMJ, which can only be good. If you're into this kind of stuff and you don't have it already, you need to get Omnisphere - just made for this style and if that doesn't inspire something in you, nothing ever will. Absoultely awesome synth !

Anyway, enjoyed the tune - hopefully you'll come up with something else soon, which I look forward to hearing.  Sometimes when inspiration deserts me, I just do a couple of covers of tunes I like and the deconsruction of them, then learning how they are put together usually sparks off an idea or two. If it doesn't, then it's still good mixing / production practice (of which I need plenty, lol !)

Very cool! Just the kind of music I wish I could make, but it just doesn't seem to want to happen for me. The bits of Vangelis, JMJ and Tangerine Dream all worked in there... really cool.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

@paulo - Thanks for getting to the end of the tune, and even liking it by the time you got there. Like you said, the fact that you got to the end of a tune so long is indeed a compliment.

I have to admit that I'm a "glass half empty" kind of person, but it does sometimes work as a bit of reverse psychology and tempts people to find out for themselves how bad something really is.

I've heard plenty of good things said about Omnisphere but I've not looked into it yet, mainly on account of having two other quite heavy weight synths like Absynth and Tassman. Add to that synths like Ultra Analog, Twin and Chromophone and I'm kinda getting all synth'd out. But you've got me interested again and I suppose one more synth may just kick something off in my head.

@Mark - Thanks for listening :-) I've just listened to a couple of your tunes at SoundCloud and it's not that different to what I've done so you can't be that far away. I've got a load of tunes from ten years ago that I'm not even going to bother uploading until I've done some serious remixing and mastering. I think we just develop, as composers and musicians over the years and I've been creating stuff for nigh on thirty lol. The tune I've uploaded and linked here seems to be hitting the spot but it's not always been like that.