Don't worry about where I come from: here I am, for love and hate. In transition: I will return... http://Stringbreaker.bandamp.com/ admin@bandamp.com http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5248.html Arrangement of a famous Mozart piece for synthesizers. A lot of early classical music has always seemed to imply delays and echoes even though the equipment did not exist at the time. Then again, you could call a church organ a pneumatic synthesizer as it uses stops to change the harmonics. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:43:32 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5460.html An attempt to lend a modern feel to an old favorite. I'd classed this one among my failures: Reverie worked a lot better. The overall feel I was attempting was of everything being underwater, yet clear enough to see through. Enough yammering on my part, let it speak for itself. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:13:18 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5247.html A scratch mix. This attempt was to use the echoes of the melody as a basis for the rest of the piece. I am planning to rework this when I have a bit more owl time. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:18:23 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5357.html Reposting the same piece by Tarrega. Trying to soften this one up a little w/o losing the texture. Still clinging to that vintage synthesizer sound: wish I had access to something truly modern and sophisticated, but if wishes were fishes I'd be all wet... Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:10:05 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6193.html Back for a bit after a long stretch in shadow. The theme for this composition is "tone color is everything". FL Studio, Sytrus and some compression. The idea is that the composition sounds like Chopin was trying to use digital effects on a piano before they were invented. Minimal enhancements bring this out. I may well be gone again for a stretch until May, but this is not due to a lack of desire to be here: I am relocating far away. I will have details later. The breaking of strings is the beginning of wisdom... Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:47:17 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/6200.html One more pass on this one, this time with an enhanced bass part. I don't know how I would percuss. this one, but I may revisit this in the future. Trying to work out the EQ and compression, but I am still new at the FL Studio controls. Practice improves, I hope... Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:26:38 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5459.html Another attempt to get a guitaresque feel into a synthesizer piece. Also, the video of the great guitarists posted after the recent crash made me think of this attempt. The almost warbling quality of this piece has always made me think of how electronic effects could enhance it. Maybe I will go back to this and clean it up a little more... Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:52:32 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5249.html From the Well Tempered Clavier. Trying for both a techno and a folksy sound at the same time. Based on thought experiment of what would JSB be doing if alive today with full access to modern equipment. The basis for this idea is that classical musicians always used the latest and best equipment they could obtain, so the obsession with classical music only being played on period instruments bothers me. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:36:15 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5326.html First of the failures. It was suggested that I let BandAmp decide if my attempts did not work. Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:53:54 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5361.html A corruption of a piece by Debussy. One of my failures. Cannot keep both the sweetness of the piece and the power of the rattling low notes. Being an anime fan I kept thinking about a giant robot, damaged with bits falling off walking through a snow covered forest. Images came complete with pushing down trees on the way. I'm not sure how to fix this w/o losing the more extreme tone color. Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:09:39 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5355.html This is a failed attempt to get effective percussion into classical music. The original FL Studio file was corrupted so I may not even try reworking this in a similar manner. At least the idea should get across for what I have in mind. Update: this is from the "Suite no. 4 in D Minor" - Handel had a Sarabande in several pieces. Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:19:59 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5281.html Finally, another original. This was conceived as a baroque synthesizer piece. It is a scratch mix: I am still smoothing out the changes. The echoes in this are intended as a compositional element, and are difficult to control precisely. I have thus far rejected three different attempts to give this percussion: it always sounds forced thus far. In any case I hope you like it! Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:28:03 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5241.html Not for profit or sale, this is my own rearangement of a guitar piece for synthesizers ala Tomita/Carlos. Arranged in FL Studio. I have made a number of arrangements of classical pieces and they are finally becoming interesting. Later I will bring some Debussy and a number of pieces by JS Bach. Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:12:07 -0400 http://forum.bandamp.com/Audio_Review/5339.html A lovely piece written for classical (nylon string) guitar. I have taken a few liberties with the arrangement, but it shouldn't interfere too greatly with appreciation of the melody. Again, I am trying to get across the implicit echoes of the piece. I always hear them when playing the guitar but too often thay do not show up without exquisitely high end recording on guitar. This is wa-a-a-ay too obvious, but better than compleyely absent. FL Studio & freeware VST's. Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:50:57 -0400