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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
New Integra-7 Demo
Looking for a Integra-7 sound demo that's something other than the usual reberb-drenched hip hop, trance, dance, or new age compositions most synth manufacturers (even Roland) create to show off their instruments?
Thought you did. You don't want a slick song created by some session musician who's far more talented than you. You want to hear something created by an amateur playa or basement Beethoven like yourself.
Well here you go. A nice little latin/blues number named "Hopin' Mike." It's designed to give you a taste of the new acoustic instruments featured in the Integra as played multimbrally. Pay close attention to how each instrument has its own independent insert effect: The organ sounds use a rotating Leslie-like effect and overdrive; guitars use chorus, flanger and distortions; EPs use keyboard amp and speaker emulations, etc. You'll hear this most clearly at the unison sections near the end.
This composition was recorded in Cakewalk Sonar X2 with audio coming from the the L/R stereo pair outputs from the Integra 7. The bit of reverb on the track comes from the Integra; the only audio effect used in Sonar is a little bit of compression to boost the signal bit.
If there's enough demand, I'll produce a different version of the song as fed through the Motional Sound processer.
Click here to listen to the demo.
If you're a Windows user, I recommend using Media Player and listening to it using one of the psychedelic background animations.
Thought you did. You don't want a slick song created by some session musician who's far more talented than you. You want to hear something created by an amateur playa or basement Beethoven like yourself.
Well here you go. A nice little latin/blues number named "Hopin' Mike." It's designed to give you a taste of the new acoustic instruments featured in the Integra as played multimbrally. Pay close attention to how each instrument has its own independent insert effect: The organ sounds use a rotating Leslie-like effect and overdrive; guitars use chorus, flanger and distortions; EPs use keyboard amp and speaker emulations, etc. You'll hear this most clearly at the unison sections near the end.
This composition was recorded in Cakewalk Sonar X2 with audio coming from the the L/R stereo pair outputs from the Integra 7. The bit of reverb on the track comes from the Integra; the only audio effect used in Sonar is a little bit of compression to boost the signal bit.
If there's enough demand, I'll produce a different version of the song as fed through the Motional Sound processer.
Click here to listen to the demo.
If you're a Windows user, I recommend using Media Player and listening to it using one of the psychedelic background animations.
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