mikelogic303

"It's not very important what melody or baseline you have in a song." - Atmos You forgot the all important tweaking of knobs. Don't even have an idea what sound you're looking for, just keep playing around until the next hit pops up and slaps you in the face. Then hit "File" and "Export to MySpace". Sorted. Oh and it's a little known trick, but adding "killar" or "boom" anywhere in the filename will add an extra sub-bass harmonic to your track (courtesy of the Great Spirit of Music Production) which will indeed "kill" or "boom" any dancefloor on the planet

"It's not very important what melody or baseline you have in a song." well, I guess that's ONE way to go about writing music!

Yes of course, it is a universal binary. But I had many years previous experience with Logic on the PC. Cubase was the "in between" solution, until I could afford to jump to Mac. What wonderful designs and "colorful" pricing schemes they have at Apple!! miKe

Hi all, After careful consideration I'm switching to Logic and a MacBook. Therfore I can sell my Cubase Studio 4. It's up for grabs on eBay, ending this Sunday. No reserve. Posting from Germany, so to Europe the postage will be pretty cheap. Rest of the World, message me on eBay for postage costs. Included are original installation DVD, iLok USB dongle, printed manual and box. Check it out at: http://cgi.ebay.de/Steinberg-Cubase-Studio...1QQcmdZViewItem (or if the link doesn't work, Article No. 190232785179) Happy bidding! Regards, miKe

Hey AlieNed, nice one, thanks! Hope you enjoy the music! miKe

First ever Irish Psytrance album - Available NOW - Free download!! Artist: Kodama Wat [www.kodamawat.com] Album: Analogue Voodoo Release Date: 01.08.2007 Mastering: PixelFailure at SDR Studio, Berlin. Artwork: Optik Resonance [www.optikresonance.com] Dear Friends, philosophers and travelers of the world, After many days and nights of meditation, yoga and digital alchemy, Kodama Wat is proud to present his first album - Analogue Voodoo. This work plots a new direction within the Psytrance scene, traversing a sea of infinite harmonics, dipping into uncharted territories and finally journeying beyond the edges of acoustic perception and into the realms of ancient wisdom and knowledge. Hammering out vibrant melodic lines, stomping beats and razor sharp acid sounds, this album is the first of many to be forged in the pioneering style of Kodama Wat. Enjoy! Mike www.kodamawat.com

I propose a new standard for describing a "Live Set". How about: Live: Entire set mixed before in studio, replayed from harddisc, DAT, mini-disc etc.. Artists stand behind large mixing console and pretend to tweak levels or turn knobs live. That's great guys, we pay good money to watch you play with your knobs. Live Live: Tracks prepared before but mixing between tracks done live. Actually less work than a DJ does. Why not just burn a couple of audio CD's and save on haulling all that fancy equipment around? Well I guess that would look too "cheap". "Got to show off all that expensive gear. It don't matter, they don't realise we're not actually using it. No no, use the BIGGER mixing desk, yeah the 32 channel. Sorted." Live Live Live: Some parts actually played live. By hand, like a musician. You know, using those little black and white keys. Oh wait, that would require effort and dicipline. "They're partying, why can't we?" Or do you think that the current idea of "Live Set" actually lives up to the name? If you paid to see say, an orchestra and you turned up to the gig to find a computer doing playback and 30 or 40 people playing "air violin", you'd be pretty disappointed, right?

Future Sound of London: Papa New Guinea Mike Oldfield: Amarok, Ommadawn, B side of Sentintel single (Early Stages) Jarre: Oxygene part 4 Ennio Morricone: The good, the bad & the ugly and The Misson soundtracks Zoe: Sunshine on a Rainy Day Hendrix: All along the watchtower (remix)

So what folder do you find yourself always searching through while writing, Distorted Reality? Cuckooland? Heart of Asia? Some cheapo CD's you bought from ebay? All of the above? (like me!)

Hi ya, I think that sound is done with a phaser or other time based effect (flanger etc). Plus of course the delay! But the phaser comes after the delay, therefore each delayed hit has a slightly different sound. Get on to kvrvst and you might even find a delay unit with this effect built in. later, miKe

Always first thing in the morning, when I'm fresh and have the most energy. Then until I can't anymore, or realise I havn't been outside all day, which is usually around 8 or 9pm work, dicipline and more work! Then you re-work the last work and start work in a new direction. But never work the same work too much, otherwise you will over-work yourself and the work which you are working on will turn into a big lumpy gooey pile of audio mush.... (in other words, I don't spend too long on the same track. Start Monday, finish by Friday. Keeps me from just sitting around and "pushing buttons" as Jikkenteki pointed out very well!) take care, miKe

Hey ya, yeah I like to get the hell out of there and come back with a coffee and some chocolate, YUM! My other favorite thing to do in the studio is turn it up real loud on a friday night when I've got the mix just about playable. Only to annoy the neighbours and those noisy feckers in the beer garden below my flat you understand. Zen and the art of being louder! Other than that I just use Albino. And RMIV for drums. Used to use ES2 with logic, but then jumped ship to Cubase. I chucked out most of the hardware that was following me around. And tons of free overdrive, amp sim, tube emulation and dynamics plugins from the net. peace, miKe www.kodamawat.com

There are many styles of goa bassline, and this is quite confusing. You can listen to a more melodic style track (GMS etc) and the bassline is solid, but not exactly what you would call "sub" bass. The kick being the real OOOMH. And then on the other hand you listen to a really full-on track and the bassline is almost as loud as the kick. The kick being this little TICK TICK TICK WTF do you do? well, it depends on the style of music you are making. And the particular track. You have to decide. But generally, the kick drum should have the most bass energy. So in order to not let the bassline and the kick drum bump into each other, we are going to use some EQ to make a space between them. The kick you add say, 4 or 5 dB at 60Hz (using a Q less than 1 always for adding EQ). And the bass line, we subtract a couple of dB at 60Hz (using a Q of greater than 1, probably more like 5+). For the bass you can also add a little at 120Hz, or around 250Hz to give more body. Anyhow, so now you have just your kick and bass synth, no effects, no compression. If you cannot get it to sound almost 100% at this stage, head back to synth land and start fixing it there. Don't bother with compression or other plugins until you get this right. Most professionally made dance music is quite simple, they just know what waveforms to use and how to tweak it in the synth until it sounds right. OH, and put on a commercial CD of whatever style your music is in, start A/B comparing it. That's the thing. There is no right or wrong goa bassline. It just depends on the rest of the track, which is why I always leave the bassline to the last. A bassline is there to glue the rhythm parts to the melodic parts. If you have lots of melodies, then you might want to use the cutoff to dull down the bassline a little. If you have no melodies, just loads of samples (modern full-on syle, yawn), then of course you have loads of space to have this big fat "I'm a lead synth but I'm also a bassline", with the cutoff pretty high to let the mid/high frequencies out. Anyhow, I've probably, hopefully, confused you as much as myself! later, miKe PS: an example of a bassline which fits "under" lead synths (ie. with low cutoff) can be found in the Burn Cycle track on my website: www.kodamawat.com

Greetings all, Thought I'd try and get some feedback on my efforts. Please feel free to give any criticism, good, bad or indifferent, I won't take it personally My latest track is called Burn Cycle, you can download it from: http://www.kodamawat.com/Audio/Kodam...B192kps%5D.mp3 Enjoy! miKe __________________ - [ k o d a m a - w a t ] -

Greetings all, Thought I'd try and get some feedback on my efforts. Please feel free to give any criticism, good, bad or indifferent, I won't take it personally My latest track is called Burn Cycle, you can download it from: http://www.kodamawat.com/Audio/Kodam...B192kps%5D.mp3 Enjoy! miKe - [ k o d a m a - w a t ] -