On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:32:02 +0200 Atte Andre Jensen <atte.jensen(a)gmail.com> wrote: I found the intro strange, but after that I enjoyed the track very much. Your singer has a very good voice. There is also an interesting blurring of the line between 'real' and 'synth'. At the end it becomes clear how it starts!

Grammostola Rosea wrote: Maybe, maybe not :-) Just renoise. No vsti, no vst, no ladspa, just renoise. Some of the synth sounds are based on samples or instruments I made with other tools, you know, the usual suspects. For instance the bell sound is ams, there's one fx sound (used as a filler, for instance in the intro) which is fast breeder, even an old om (pre-ingen) sound I made years ago has made it's way in there.

Grammostola Rosea wrote: Lot's of reasons. 1) The whole idea behind modlys is something mediative and abstract, soundscapes with a few words here and there. I try to cross a few borders, mixing pop, jazz, electronica, avantgarde, stretching the listeners patience and activating her imagination. I felt that could only be achieved through electronic music. 2) I've been making electronic music even before I started to play real music. There's just something about it. Everything not 100% acoustic was banned at "the bebop factory" and regarded as inferior. I guess modlys is one of my reactions to that and a way to move out of the shadows of my (fantastic) teachers. 3) Playing so much bebop as I do, it's like cleaning my musical soul. I love bebop and consider myself a bebop pianist at heart, but "all these notes" in a pretty pre-defined musical setting means it's so liberating to work with something else, to try to rid the melody of anything unnecessary and to compose and improvise in a style I (at least feel I) create and discover as I go along. 4) Finally, it's very difficult to live from playing jazz, esp bebop. I don't complain, I do have gigs, sometimes enough to start looking like an income, but no enough to keep me busy every day. Instead of sitting with "my hands in my lap" (as a Danish saying goes), I might as well do *something* with the creativity I believe I have inside. I hope that didn't sound too selfcentered, or "I'm interesting and important" or something along those lines. That wasn't the intention. It's just a little complex for me to give an honest answer, which I tried...

Very nice!

So how did you do the vocals? Are they recorded separately and triggered as samples in renoise?

Out of interest, what advantage does Renoise have over Schism tracker or Soundtracker when you are just using it for playing samples?