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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!

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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.

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.

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. :/

Heart and soul

Barry van Oudtshoorn — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:57:16 +0000

Composed: Saturday, July 5, 2008 (Download)

I decided to take a break from my more serious musical projects (and my studies) and write a piece based around the very first duet I learnt on the piano. I wanted to make something fairly cheesy, but still fun to listen to. It kinda morphs from cheesy chip into cheesy fifties jazz.