soundsuck ingoff
On a whim yesterday I was looking around online and was relatively excited to discover that Reason 4 has come out. I had already been doing some tooling around in my 3.x installation yesterday working on something of no import and it was just the motivation I needed to do some housePCcleaning. There is nothing really new, and nothing special. Here it is anyway.
Forewarning: No mastering/compression has been done to these files! You will have to crank the volume up much louder than you would for processed music to get the same effect.
Das Unterseesynthen (March 2006)
Nobody else in the world has heard this before. This was one of many attempts to understand the software through sheer persistence (coupled with stubborn inattention to the manual). It's a very simple non-song that consists of two synth modules who switch off at the half mark. The first starts off with a sequence that is intended to convey Morse code or just the general idea of electromechanical communication. It then proceeds into the closest sound towards a (sub) engine underwater I could have possibly coaxed out of a softsynth. The rest was an attempt to take it off into a true song that never materialized so it was left as a simple groove. I did nothing to update this track other than delete a few extraneous bars and throw in the fade to silence at the end.
Mael (March - April 2006)
I don't exactly remember where this came from but I'm just going to assume it started like 95% of my other projects and was copied out of an earlier file it didn't fit in (yet I was unwilling to ignore for the sake of finishing the original project…repeated mistake). I was originally working towards evolving the sound into a much darker, rougher atmosphere but never got there. To send it to a few people I chopped off the unfinished end with the first fade it still has now. However I have also thrown in a few trivial bars of what would have lain ahead was it to ever continue on course. To note: this entire track consists of a single synth module showing how much range one could coax from a device with enough toiling.
Something If (April 2006 & May 2007)
This is quite possibly a never before heard version of this track (whether or not you notice the changes). I am led to believe I never sent it out to anyone because I couldn't find any existing MP3 encodes laying around on my harddrive. The vast majority of the work was done last year however I took it up again for a couple weeks this summer making some notable improvements that previously stonewalled me. Still, it is not "done" in the sense that I am not satisfied - simply stuck at the limit of what I know to (or how to) do to make the necessary growth. I do know that proper mastering or compression would help this track greatly to bring out the sounds that get a little lost. Probably significant if not for anything else for merely being the most complete song I've made. Compared to the rest it actually has a real songlike structure to it instead of a just being a haphazard array of ear bleeding modules.
Something If (Outtakes Edit 1) (11-02-2007)
You read that right. Entirely put together yesterday. You can tell! When I work in a Reason project and I want to insert a new section I do just that, no deletion of the excess is done in most cases. Sections of song automations are gradually pushed further and further beyond the "end" of the song itself. However, the program and file still keep track of these changes even though they extend into a region that wouldn't normally be played. Hence when I let the song play past where I've place the ending fade out and the sound kicks back in it's usually an obscene mess of noise reminiscent of the recent music but not quite music itself. For whatever reason I kind of dug how it turned out in this project. Enough so that I spent about ten hours rearranging it enough to amuse myself yet no where's towards seriousness. It's not much but I find it interesting still.
Something If (Groove Extraction) (11-02-2007)
While working on the former I came across the fact that one of the synths was drowned out hiding sheepishly in the mix. I left it in the outtakes track regardless to further the insane clash of sounds. I just couldn't let it die though so I also copied it into a new file and gave it some ambient percussion to exist as a simple laid back groove. If I had the energy and or skill I would attempt to add more variety and turn it into something akin a loop for background music in a game.
Origins (April 2006)
It all started with a project blandly named "Bells". I wanted to try something with more of an organic feel to it and I started messing around with some of the presets set for bells because they reminded me of the wind chimes I always associated with forces of nature. As all things go I got further and further off track until reaching a series of projects named "Bells - Something". As the other synths I was working on took more focus from the bells they fell to the wayside and I began workings towards what would eventually turn into Something If. Here I dug up what I believe to be the last or furthest of the projects and muted all other modules to bring the focus back where it started. Very short but I still love how I managed to get the longer notes to carry without the feedback getting mangled.
Forewarning: No mastering/compression has been done to these files! You will have to crank the volume up much louder than you would for processed music to get the same effect.
Das Unterseesynthen (March 2006)
Nobody else in the world has heard this before. This was one of many attempts to understand the software through sheer persistence (coupled with stubborn inattention to the manual). It's a very simple non-song that consists of two synth modules who switch off at the half mark. The first starts off with a sequence that is intended to convey Morse code or just the general idea of electromechanical communication. It then proceeds into the closest sound towards a (sub) engine underwater I could have possibly coaxed out of a softsynth. The rest was an attempt to take it off into a true song that never materialized so it was left as a simple groove. I did nothing to update this track other than delete a few extraneous bars and throw in the fade to silence at the end.
Mael (March - April 2006)
I don't exactly remember where this came from but I'm just going to assume it started like 95% of my other projects and was copied out of an earlier file it didn't fit in (yet I was unwilling to ignore for the sake of finishing the original project…repeated mistake). I was originally working towards evolving the sound into a much darker, rougher atmosphere but never got there. To send it to a few people I chopped off the unfinished end with the first fade it still has now. However I have also thrown in a few trivial bars of what would have lain ahead was it to ever continue on course. To note: this entire track consists of a single synth module showing how much range one could coax from a device with enough toiling.
Something If (April 2006 & May 2007)
This is quite possibly a never before heard version of this track (whether or not you notice the changes). I am led to believe I never sent it out to anyone because I couldn't find any existing MP3 encodes laying around on my harddrive. The vast majority of the work was done last year however I took it up again for a couple weeks this summer making some notable improvements that previously stonewalled me. Still, it is not "done" in the sense that I am not satisfied - simply stuck at the limit of what I know to (or how to) do to make the necessary growth. I do know that proper mastering or compression would help this track greatly to bring out the sounds that get a little lost. Probably significant if not for anything else for merely being the most complete song I've made. Compared to the rest it actually has a real songlike structure to it instead of a just being a haphazard array of ear bleeding modules.
Something If (Outtakes Edit 1) (11-02-2007)
You read that right. Entirely put together yesterday. You can tell! When I work in a Reason project and I want to insert a new section I do just that, no deletion of the excess is done in most cases. Sections of song automations are gradually pushed further and further beyond the "end" of the song itself. However, the program and file still keep track of these changes even though they extend into a region that wouldn't normally be played. Hence when I let the song play past where I've place the ending fade out and the sound kicks back in it's usually an obscene mess of noise reminiscent of the recent music but not quite music itself. For whatever reason I kind of dug how it turned out in this project. Enough so that I spent about ten hours rearranging it enough to amuse myself yet no where's towards seriousness. It's not much but I find it interesting still.
Something If (Groove Extraction) (11-02-2007)
While working on the former I came across the fact that one of the synths was drowned out hiding sheepishly in the mix. I left it in the outtakes track regardless to further the insane clash of sounds. I just couldn't let it die though so I also copied it into a new file and gave it some ambient percussion to exist as a simple laid back groove. If I had the energy and or skill I would attempt to add more variety and turn it into something akin a loop for background music in a game.
Origins (April 2006)
It all started with a project blandly named "Bells". I wanted to try something with more of an organic feel to it and I started messing around with some of the presets set for bells because they reminded me of the wind chimes I always associated with forces of nature. As all things go I got further and further off track until reaching a series of projects named "Bells - Something". As the other synths I was working on took more focus from the bells they fell to the wayside and I began workings towards what would eventually turn into Something If. Here I dug up what I believe to be the last or furthest of the projects and muted all other modules to bring the focus back where it started. Very short but I still love how I managed to get the longer notes to carry without the feedback getting mangled.