ThiagoNaka

COOL! I´m very glad to hear u liked my track. It was really special doing this remix, as the original is one of my all time favourite. I´ve just missed a fuc*ing female voice sample that I couldn´t find(I saw and re-saw the movie)! lol Thiago Naka aka SMS

I wouldn´t be bother to try this sheet... My 2 cents here: I bet this heet is very usefull. But I guess u could use this sheet by yourslef to provide a better service. Like offering to new artists some marketing service. Maybe spreading this sheet, could get back to u many more contacts for your radio, then selling it..

Artist: Skulptor Type: Álbum Name: Natural Label : Wired Music Release date: Jan/2007 Case Type: Jewel Mastering: Sonic Vista Studios(Ibiza) Tracklist: 1.-The Strings (8:13) 2.-The Great Escape (11:37) 3.-Sonic Boom (8:09) 4.-Northern Lights (8:30) 5.-Force of Gravity (8:38) 6.-The degrees of Freedom (8:30) 7.-Scream 4 Life (8:06) 8.-Beautiful (8:53) 9.-Soaring (8:31) Intro: “Natural” is Lipe Forbes´s second album. After some sucess releases as a High End Records former, he moved to Wired Music. For those who knows his music, this album shows a more mature style from Skulptor. From massive techno leads, throught electro groove to pop vocals:it´s still here mixed with trance music. But much more well structured, and with a finest and very singular sound quality. I don´t know for sure the BPM`s, but as fas as I remember the range here is from 142 to 146. I can say it´s a full on album, but expect something different... Skulptor brings here two great guitar players also. Roberto Votta is a classic music player, and gave a smooth feelling , with flamenco influences. Eduardo Foo is from rock and metal music, and gave the power from the chords and tripping solos. And I´m very glad to have a colaboration here, finishing the album. Review track by track: 1.- The Strings: maybe my favourite track. I love the bassline here. Starts with a sample from a scientist who made “The String Theory”-awesome theory btw. This a groovy track, starts with some lead layers, to become a great melodic tune! At the break the first guitar touch with Roberto Votta, then Eduardo with his solo. And the after break is fu**ing groove, at least for me who loves power offbeat bassline. Expect the typical Skulptor´s chords and fx´s. 2.-The Great Escape: the hit of the album. With vocals from BT, this track is a big epic trance track. Starts with the lyric, some pianos and violins. The track starts in a experimental way. The bassline sounds “squared” at the begg, and then the famous sine bassline; also some freak fx´s. But this is pure trance music: melodies, chords, vocals, mixed with some twisted leads. The track has a big break, full of vocals, and the climax shows the typical K-BBB transposed bassline. A big hit for sure! 3.-Sonic Boom: imo this is the twisted track of the album. A lot of sample work, and the Skulptor´s tecnoish leads. The track changes itself a lot... I like the after break when the music is at climax with a massive bassline changes to a powerfull groove one! 4.-Northern Lights: here psy trance mixed with uplifting trance. The tracks starts with a great buildbup, with pads, effects and melodies. At the middle of the track, a change, and a epic melody shows the style of the track. The power K-BBB bassline after the break for sure can make a lot of ppl dance. 5.-Force of Gravity: one more track with BT samples, here other fav for me. It has the same trance touch from The Great Escape, but here the music is much more minimal. And also the lyrics here sound great! Nothing much to add, awesome smooth track! 6.-The Degrees of Freedom: My fav trackname here... lol... It´s a full on tune. Nice leads and fx´s, with a great break buildup-I like the melody mood here. For sure the powerfull break of the album. Kick-Bass-Melody really “in tha face”. 7.-Scream 4 Live: Again Lipe with a more experimental track. Groove bassline, smooth melodies, and nice guitar touch at the beggining. Eduardo Foo starts with some notes, but at the break an awesome and inspired solo! And I say inspired, cause the guitar solo(from 4.23 to 5.40) is the real first take without solo-structure briefing or sample work after recorded . It´s 100% Foo´s trip.The track here becomes massive, with more layers, and when u think the track is over, it changes to a powerfull full on. 8.-Beautiful: Mixing BT´s vocals and twisted background, here Lipe made a massive track. U can hear he can change the track a lot, and it does not sound wrong. Progressive melody, trance lead, psy trance bassline, pop vocals... It´s all here! 9.-Soaring: To finish the album the track that I made with Lipe and Roberto Votta. After bunch of complex music, this tracks sounds very minimal imo. Straight bassline, a lot of fx´s but not so much melodies layers together. Playing some flamenco influenced guitar, Roberto gives the touch for the epic break. Maybe it´s my track, but I really liked how the melodies fits each other after the break. Conclusion: Very solid album. If u read the review u can think this is one more full on album, with vocals, “high tech” production, guitars and all this progressive influences.... But it´s not! Skulptor´s style is really unique. I think I can´t say any artist that could sound similar to his style or sound. Reviewer order of preference: 1(!!), 5(!!), 9(!!), 6(!), 7(!), 3, 2, 4, 8. Note from the reviewer: U realise that I know Lipe, and been at his studio a lot of times during this album making. I hope I made a critic review, but it´s a fact I like his music.

I think u want to make very fast sounds right?? Like a tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr in a very short of time??? If so.... Practice with "audio cut"+"Time strechting"!

First I think u could use the sample direct on the arrange... But mixdown the vst track is not a bad thing at all!

Well, I don´t think Cubase is soo hard also... I read the "Getting Started" pdf file from Cubase SX, and after that it´s only practice... I will give u my personal tips for begginers(once u are on the arrange, with no tracks): -With right button on mouse u open a dialog box. First the most important are "Add audio track" "Add midi track" "Add FX track"... -To load an audio file to the arrange: "Add audio track"... Then go to File->Import->Audio File. DONE! -To play some chords on some vst: first open the vst box(F11). There u can load any vst u have installed... Load for example the a-1 synth from Cubase. Then "Add midi track"... Go to chanel config(on your left) and on "out" conection, chose the a-1 synth. Then choose the pencil tool(u will see lots of tools, like pencil, rubber, scisors, etc) and draw an event. Double click on the event so u are at piano roll. Just draw the notes u want! -To view the mixer, F3. There u can load insert fx´s and use the send fx´s(I will explain later)... -To use the send fx: "Add fx track"... Load the fx u want. Go to the mixer, go to the chanell u want, press the "e" button on the chanell. So u have the full chanell config. On your left it´s the inserts fx. On your right u can use the send fx´s(fx track u loaded) -To view the "trasnport panel" where u can set the bpm track, press F2. NOTE: to change the bpm, u need to fix the bpm! -PAY ATTENTION: 1)To move the boxes, check what´s the meaning of the box where u can chose from "Bar/Beat/Use Quantize"... For me it´s where Cubase is FAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR better than Logic. 2)Press "j"... It´s the snap function. When it´s lit, the box will move according to the "Bar/Beat/Use Quantize" option. When not lit, u will fell that u can put the box wherever u want. I don´t use this function often! I think that it´s a good start! There´re a lot of things more to discover... Hope I helped!