{"id":790,"date":"2009-08-31T23:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-08-31T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:23:18","slug":"new-original-musical-microblogging-powerless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"New original musical microblogging – POWERLESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Notice Uncle Leo hiding behind the guitar in the picture above.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/mpomy.com\/Music\/Powerless.mp3]\n

Powerless<\/strong><\/a> – this is more musical microblogging, very much in the spirit of Hector & Achilles<\/a>, but with better software.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it’s a better result.\u00a0 Anyway, the goal was to get both Guitar Rig and Reason running through Logic.\u00a0 That worked great, except I couldn’t quite figure out how to use the Logic instruments without triggering the Reason stuff.\u00a0 And the video tutorial I was working from sucked, so there was still a lot of trial and error.\u00a0 And Uncle Leo kept walking on the laptop – big surprise there.<\/p>\n

So this is a pair of Dr Rex rhythms coming through Reason (first one then both patterns), acoustic piano from the Reason NN-19 sampler (but using reverb and chorus from Logic) and a Thor patch called Alan Turnig’s Dream, also through Reason.<\/p>\n

Guitar was supplied by my old Travis Bean, still in need of some cosmetic repair work.\u00a0 Sadly, it was too late at night to run live out of the Lab Series amplifier, so I settled for a cheezy preset from Guitar Rig.\u00a0 You have to hand it too Native Instruments, even the feedback from the Bean’s high output humbuckers is faithfully modeled.\u00a0 Basically this is supposed to be a Vox AC-30 (2×12) with a bit of delay.\u00a0 I don’t like these digital models for guitar, but they are damned convenient, especially after hours.<\/p>\n

All other sounds were played on the Axiom 25 keyboard, which had to have its first hard reset because when I started all but three of the keys were non-functional.\u00a0 Fortunately the reset solved that problem.<\/p>\n

Hopefully there is decent volume.\u00a0 My old GarageBand efforts are usually pretty quiet.\u00a0 This may be quiet too because the meters on Logic weren’t peaking.\u00a0 To my ears, though, it sounds OK.\u00a0 I haven’t tried to automate any panning or really doing anything left-right at all.\u00a0 Sorry – no spacial dynamics this time.\u00a0 I try to learn that as I get more comfortable with the recording, mixing and mastering.<\/p>\n

This was really just an exercise, but I’m very pleased about it’s faithfulness to the original musical microblogging concept from Fretbuzz.net<\/a> – almost exactly one minute.<\/p>\n

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Notice Uncle Leo hiding behind the guitar in the picture above. [audio:http:\/\/mpomy.com\/Music\/Powerless.mp3] Powerless – this is more musical microblogging, very much in the spirit of Hector & Achilles, but with better software.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it’s a better result.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,453],"tags":[162,398,84,161,504,164,176,588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}