My brother is an anaesthesiologist who writes songs. Is his name Kenny G?  :s0225: :s0717: I would expect that it is a combination of some biological and environmental. My dear old Da was trained as a Cathedral Organist/Choirmaster/Harpsichordist. Pretty full-on stuff. He played Baroque and some Cl...

Hi I am confused by your talk of export and then processing. Do you not do your mix Finalizing (mastering) for the export - why would you export and bring the wave back in to process again? That sounds like trouble to me. If your exported 'master' is not sounding right then there are really two plac...

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Why is you feel you suck at mastering? What is it you feel this track should do or have that it doesn't now?

R8 is the first time I have really used ReFills, samples etc. It puts them on a lot more of a level playing field with the instruments. 8.1 is really all about Discover and now I have seen the latest vid with the 'pulling to time' bit I have a far greater sense of how the Discover thing could be gre...

I like the article and agree with all of it really. His points do mach a lot of what happened at PUF. We had a very vocal few who I'm confident weren't "power users" claiming to be the voice of the user base and "rightness" itself. They then took to attacking everything and everyone. I did think tha...

Hi Mr Mode

This is nice. Moody but nice. 

UPDATE I broke out my Flanger again and I did find use for it. One of my frustrations is that for a Flanger I can't get it (or anything else I ever use) to sound like the old yellow Ibanez pedal I had in the 80's despite the claims. The Rate method is odd and somewhat erratic and yes CPU can be a ro...

Just shows the level of realism that Props put into designing every part of Reason to make it have the variability of the real world

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i have the uhe Flanger and to be honest i don't use it. I try it every now and then but I just don't get results from it. I have heard similar comments from others. Also uhe blotted his copybook somewhat with some comments about abandoning RE. I don't know how that ended up but I don't think he is c...

This is a nice minimal rolling landscape. I too would like to hear a focus like a little melody but not too much to swamp the vibe.

Who needs a studio

The internet has been great in that my latest album is technically as accessible as Phil Collins latest but it doesn't work. People know who Phil is so they search for him and notice his new record. They don't know who I am so they pass me by. In a record shop I would buy some records from people I ...

Just starting a Trial. It seems to have a different sound which is good. I can live with the GUI. However, what frustrates me is that the LFO doesn't go slow enough and the Delay has no CV access and is limited to a few steps. Seems a shame as limits some uses like Jet Flanging. A great shame as it ...

My 90's started with my take on EBM Industrial (with strong New Wave influence) as Aeroplastic Voice https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-anger I made a couple of New Age albums https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com/album/ages-new and then swapped to what I called Proto-Techno und...

It is because a DDL (and all software delays are really DDL) is really a row of samples set to play back at the 'root' pitch which is defined by the current tempo and delay time. Each sample is recorded now and played back later at now+ n samples ( n defined by tempo/delay time). When tempo changes ...

With speakers I don't think it is quite so much how much (or little) of the Frequency is there but how it balances up with what is there. No matter how much a mix may seem to be all about the width of Nikki Minaj's bass it is only the illusion of the mix. It is really the middle-to-top of the mix th...

This may give you a start

http://benedictroffmarsh.com/2013/08/11 ... ing-music/

Simple is the answer as is harnessing the Sine wave.

scifunk wrote:Only rough:   

That is far more usable whilst staying exciting

This looks almost good enough to abandon Reason for. I love using one synth for everything. It appeals to the Zen in me.

I'm gonna be the dissenter here as while the first definitely looks more exciting I think the second is going to make far more sense in use, esp if those knobs are in order of use. I think the first breaks the flow which makes it seem all funky but will see the user darting all over the place. That ...

Yes, you just need to turn BPM Sync off or it will jump from steed to speed in a blocky fashion rather than smoothly.

Interesting song. I quite like it and the subtle yet complex backing stays where it should.

Hi All

I posted in the original thread with Part 1 but thought maybe a dedicated thread would be good too. Part 2 walks through the EQs and Pans in particular as I have been asked about these before.

http://benedictroffmarsh.com/2015/01/24 ... ce-mixing/

Hi Bouwie I like the song, it is ambitious like a 10cc record but I feel there is something about the mix that is strangling it. Overall the sound is dull and balance between instruments is off. Shame as this is a really good piece of work. I think you should either take this to a good mix engineer ...

Thanks I'd be interested to do games (prefer movies) but everyone seems to want "orchestral" in their rendered content these days. Me I like the synthetic sound with the synthetic look but orch samples do sound more grand. Besides how do you even find someone to talk to in a company like that? I fee...

Mr Trap I think you are missing the point in a big way in that FM is about creating waveforms not having them there already. FM is additive (or multiplicative) as opposed to Subtractive. If you want Saws then use Thor. FM is a very different way of synthesizing and if you aren't ready for it or simp...