On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 01:11:39PM +0100, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote: The descending bass followed by a IV-V-I is such a classic that it must have been used thousands of times. It's bound to sound familiar whatever you put on top of it. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e' questo!

On Sat, 08 Apr, 2006 at 02:55PM +0200, fons adriaensen spake thus: It has more than that in common with the mystery track. Maybe it just sounds obvious to me because I *know* where it's from. Here's a hint then: http:dis-dot-dat.net/pianopart.ogg That's the piano part I wrote while listening to the original piece. It sounds almost exactly like it. This was then used in my track, speeded up or heavily low-passed, with new pianos, synths, drums, etc. You can still hear it at the start quite well and at the end it's the jingly bell-like sound. James -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 11:49 -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote: I got in on this late, but I'm pretty sure you're right... I'm pretty sure this was the song we used in our wedding. Not this version though. Heh. I think it was used in that game, Dink Smallwood too. Dana

On 4/8/06, fons adriaensen <fons.adriaensen(a)skynet.be> wrote: Yes, for sure! But James said that the hint reminds the original and the first thing that came to my mind was the Moonlight Sonata. It seems that James took just the first part of the theme of the sonata too. This recalled something I got on my mind for some time... What would the great composers do with the ressources we have nowadays? I mean, I'm sure they would use these technologies, but how would be the results? Of course, this can't be answared but it keeps me thinking... Regards, -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------

On Sat, 08 Apr, 2006 at 10:09PM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto spake thus: Mozart would be making acid jazz. Bach would be pumping out drum and bass. This is 100% fact* James *May not be actual fact -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On 4/8/06, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net <james(a)dis-dot-dat.net> wrote: The hint was the key, to me... Hehehehe, my prize is listening to the music. And would be too much work sending it to Brazil. :-) Thanks for sharing it. It is a very good song and after I listened the hint and thought about it, Persona Grata sounded even better. The beginning is fantastic. The instruments were very well chosen. I would just make the drums a little less "hard". I mean, the kick with less atack or a little more smooth. But that is just me. The tune is great! Best regards. -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------

On Sun, 09 Apr, 2006 at 09:11AM +0100, Folderol spake thus: Bits of allsorts. Samples collected from magazine covers, mostly. I usually (like here) layer a 303 style kick for punch with a "real" kick for feel. I don't tend to use a predefined "kit" - I've colected so many samples (6.6GB), I just browse until I find the one that sounds right. It's all very scientific :) James -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On Sun, 09 Apr, 2006 at 10:57PM +0100, James McDermott spake thus: No, no metallica influence. Not directly, anyway - who knows how snippets of songs and background music from radios affects what we do? I would never intentionally listen to metallica, though :) -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On Sat, 08 Apr, 2006 at 10:21PM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto spake thus: The thyming title was a little clue, too. I have to ask: what are Brazil nuts called in brazil? Just "nuts"? Thanks for listening in enough detail to give good feedback. I don't tend to revisit tracks (although I might with this because of that duff note) but it all feeds into future work. James -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On Mon, 10 Apr, 2006 at 10:04AM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto spake thus: Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On Mon, 10 Apr, 2006 at 12:24PM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto spake thus: Woo! I learned stuff! In the UK, we call them Brazil nuts. They're nice covered in chocolate. Mmmm. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)

On Monday 10 April 2006 17:36, james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote: thus: Hopefully not with the hard, very hard, outer shells. Nigel BTW. Thanks for persona_grata. That is one really good track, and man the bass. I had to turn the bass knob way down on my DJ mixer out of fear of rattling the cones to pieces.