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28th Feb 2015 16:24 - 10 years ago
Description : 'One Vst Track Challenge' song. Plugin used: MrRay22. https://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/183033/one-vst-track-challenge

Comments (8)

If you have time take a listen and give promenade2239 some feedback.

Oceanically
Oceanically 13th Jun 2015 20:17 - 10 years ago
amazing that this was all made with one VST. One instrument with so many different sounds. Very well done! :)
joecramer
joecramer 4th Mar 2015 21:18 - 10 years ago
Hey Alex.
I just wanted to tell you that i have almost all my midi/asio/usb driver/zoom soundcard/win8.1/microphone/onboard sound/mixer/daw settings AND ground problens reduced to zero.

If i was good in playing AND useing knobs with the mouse at the same time, i could do that now without any latency at all.

But you are right, when you said that equipment isnt all. I know people who have realy realy realy realy good stuff and i can“t enjoy any of there music at all and others only use an old children guitar and make unbelievebel music ......

Thanks for your help offering, dont needed it jet but maybe someday .....

stay tuned
joe
promenade2239
promenade2239 replied 4th Mar 2015 - 10 years ago
ok. thanks. glad I could help. we can talk anytime. alex
joecramer
joecramer 2nd Mar 2015 22:55 - 10 years ago
I wished my equipment would be at least so good, that i could play AND listen to the sound at the same time :) ..... I have so big latenz problems here, that i MUST play in midi piano and then use the vst :) ......

This track sounds so cool and in a way like free playing all the time. You use this vst very well and you made a few funny sounds with it. I like that :)

Overall it is a cool, calm and realxing number with nice things in the background.

Nice work Alex

stay tuned
joe
promenade2239
promenade2239 replied 3rd Mar 2015 - 10 years ago
Thank you Joe for nice comment!

I had the same midi latency problems as well. Asio driver helps a lot

www.asio4all.com

www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/installing-and-using-asio4all-for-windows/

It is not the matter of the quality of equipment at all - I am using only and old laptop and simple midi keyboard. Any sophisticated and costly equipment.

I figured out from your profile that you're using Magix MM. This might be useful:

www.magix.info/uk/how-to-solve-latency-problem.online-training.130215.html click the PDF to download.

Still I do not know what is the actual problem but I hope some of this will help.

I spent on this track over 4 hours (in 2 sessions), the reason why it sounds good is that I am actually a trained keyboard player and am familiar with the acoustic instruments. MrRay22 is an emulation of 70's electric pianos as Fender Rhodes, the Wurlitzer EP and the Yamaha DX7 FM. So basically I tried to play the plugin with appropriate keyboard touch as if it was a real instrument. I had to quantize many notes (as always). Also I used a lot of EQ effect and some Stereo Enhancer to get nice tone of the recording. I had some serious problems with laptop stability and with the plugin itself so this was not so easy to make eventhough it sounded easy at the end.

Good luck and please write me more detailed message if you still will have problems with midi.

Best to you, Alex
Philemonster1
Philemonster1 1st Mar 2015 17:54 - 10 years ago
very dope bra!!
breo
breo 1st Mar 2015 14:16 - 10 years ago
Really chilled out track there mate greate work. Thanks for taking part in the forum post.

Regards.

breo
doudei
doudei 1st Mar 2015 08:35 - 10 years ago
great stuff, it's extremely stylish and funky in a minimalistic way. love that you used a rhodes as the one vst, you made elements that work well together and i can completely relate to the tune.
that chick corea one is out of this world, he continues to be a great source of inspiration for me as well.
KingVortex
KingVortex 1st Mar 2015 03:39 - 10 years ago
Very nice track! Relaxing. I almost feel asleep :)

zzzzzzzz
Spivkurl
Spivkurl 28th Feb 2015 18:18 - 10 years ago
Hey friend! That is pretty impressive! I looked up the MrRay thing, and was surprised that it was like a rhodes emulator... because it made some surprising sounds in this track! To be honest it didn't sound like 14 channels at all, which I think is a good thing. Very cohesive and enjoyable listening experience!
promenade2239
promenade2239 replied 28th Feb 2015 - 10 years ago
Thank you! I have been using MrRay when creating epiano on my tracks for quite a long time. I had to layer it again and again to get the satisfying results. No difference this time. It's not sample-based but still very great plugin. Also the chord progression and my playing are quite simple here - that may be the reason for seeking interesting 'soundscape' instead. I want post some songs that are entirely live played (in opposite to 'produced') soon.
I just discovered this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqR9Qi_AAU and am listening a lot to this. That was also my main inspiration on this track.
Many thanks for your nice words! Alex

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