5 Oct
2022
5 Oct
'22
10:18 p.m.
Hi David,
I'm really impressed by the feedback in this list!
Guess I must be weird, but it didn't seem
depressing to me.
Let me say it Solomon: The sound originates in the ear of the listener ;-)
In fact I had a somewhat dark atmosphere in my mind as I love to listen to that kind of
musik.
Maybe I just
like that style of music? I do really like Kraftwerk. Nowhere near as
melancholic as Rachmaninoff!
However I am happy about both comparisons, even if I would never dare to make them
myself.
I have a couple of songs in my collection from a Russian band called
AcousticBoot. The text in their band information in the old MPS3 is in
some character set my system can't display! Band name "Àêóñòè÷åñêèå
Áîòèíêè" and a song title "Êîãäà ìû áûëè íà âîéíå (íàðîä)"
Hmmm, I tried just to pronounce this, but have failed miserably...
("When We
Were On War" according to the English filename). They're much gloomier
than yours!
In german we say: Was nicht ist kann noch werden - means "What is not yet can still
become". Wait for my next songs;-)
Seriously, I'm not going to overdo it, but I like a certain melancholy in music.
How did you make the instrument sounds?
In general? A lot of the bass sounds where done with Odin which I really like for that.
The stepped LFO for example was the base for the intro sound in 'In der Nacht'.
This DX7 like piano sound was made with ZyAddSubFX and I used it in some of the songs with
slight modifications as some kind of 'signature' sound.
After I fell in love with the U-HE Diva, I used it for most of the pads and lead sounds.
Even though it is not as flexible as ZynAdd, it is much faster to create sounds with it -
at least I found it much easier. And when I did not come to he desired results, I fell
back to ZynAdd.
All drums are done with the great great Geonkick.
But please don't ask for a strategy. Often I just played around, had an idea and found
something completely different. So chance definitely has its share in the songs;-)
All the best
Holger