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[Music] Ventilate

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:06:52 +0000

Well, it’s been a fair while since I last uploaded a piece of music — over two months, in fact! So here’s my latest piece.

This piece actually started out as an experiment — I recently got my hands on all sorts of shiny new toys, and my DAW got an awesome upgrade, so I couldn’t resist seeing what I could do with them.

I managed to use all but one of the products that came with Komplete to make this track — FM8, Massive, Reaktor, Guitar Rig, Kontakt, and Battery. Much fun.

Visit the website to listen to the audio.

Hmm… For some reason, the version of this uploaded to thesixtyone gets some distortion on the bass during the intro section. I’ve tried uploading at various bitrates, multiple times, but it still keeps on happening. I think they must be doing some re-encoding. :/ Very annoying.

Songpack #1

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:41:17 +0000

[Download archive]

I’ve uploaded an archive of my music for easier download. This archive currently contains eighteen tracks, eight of which are no longer available anywhere else! The tracks included in this pack are:

Ambient
- Clockwork
EDM
- Falling
- Plus que juste un rêve
- Raining in the east
- Rebellion
- The call
- Twelve nineteen
Pop/Rock
- Evening with you
- Fallen embers
- Just to say
- Quiet rituals
- Standing on the brink of forever
Orchestral
- Dawn
- Ink and parchment
- Journey
- Untitled hymn
- Whispers of love (2008)
(Fun) Droopy the dragon

I may well create other ‘songpacks’ for download, so keep checking back. There’ll always be a couple of exclusive tracks in each pack, so it’ll be worth your while. I hope.

Download all eighteen tracks now!

Twelve Nineteen

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:22:29 +0000

This one’s actually been sitting on my computer for a month or so now — I just haven’t been able to render it to wave, because my system just wasn’t fast enough. Today, though, I got a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and everything just purrs along, barely touching the processor.

Anyway, about the music itself. This piece is basically me having fun with Kontakt — each of the eight instruments has fairly complex insert effect chains, a couple of send effects, and a couple of modulated group inserts, too. Basically, lots of effects, for some nice sound degradation.

Because I’m still not a fan of OpenMPT’s automation handling, I managed to find a nice little workaround, that I used on a couple of instruments: I modulate various effects using the MIDI volume. This means that working with the modulation is much more immediate, and it also means that I can modulate a couple of different effects simultaneously completely independently.

The piece is, hopefully, quite fun to listen to — it was definitely fun to write. Let me know what you think!

Visit the website to listen to the audio.

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Evening with you

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:40:06 +0000

Completed: Friday, January 23, 2009 (Download)

I admit, I didn’t envisage this track going quite the way it did. Comments and criticisms are, as always, more than welcome.

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Rebellion

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:05:57 +0000

Composed: Monday, October 27, 2008 (Download)

A glitchier, more off-the-beat track based around a C# pedal point. This one was fun to write, because I got to play with the various sound effect and drum kit libraries I have, and slice up some effect loops from my libraries, too.

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The call

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:05:17 +0000

Composed: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (Download)

This track tells the story of a conversation between two people, with very different characters.

It also tells the story of how my musical output soars when I have lots of other work to do for university. :/

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It’s quiet at home

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:04:49 +0000

Composed: Friday, April 18, 2008 (Download)

I came home one afternoon really stressed out: it hadn’t been the best day, let alone the best week. The house was empty; I dumped my things and sprawled on the couch. As I sat, I realised just how soothing a few moments of quiet can be. With the opportunity to simply relax, I felt all the stress begin to fall away. This song is how I felt when it was quiet at home.

Visit the website to listen to the audio.