Hey CC - Kurt Vonnegut was an american writer maybe best known for his fiction writing - he was an interesting guy and died about 15 years ago now - there's a newish documentary film called unstuck in time about his life and work - that was what made me revisit him and appropriate a few lines. Thanks for listening and the warm feedback

Thanks for listening Mark - im a thousand floor below you in the tower of song - ; )

Thanks for listening - yeah it's kind of black but given what goes down on the planet kind of true too : )

Hey Jynxz - Im crazy busy but not dead yet - hope you are doing well. Thanks for the warm feedback mate - hope to listen to your new one as soon as I can

Thanks for the tip

Go check out the new(ish)documentary film on Kurt - 'unstuck in time' - that was why he was in my mind - it was decades ago I read slaughter house five and breakfast of champions and Im not sure what else. He is an interesing character I enjoyed the film : )

Thanks for listening : )

Thanks for listening mate and the warm feedback - and btw Ive equally learned a lot from your many posts and tips and willingness to share your knowledge and experience

thanks buddy - recently saw the new(ish) doco on Kurt Vonnegut - worth watching - looking forward to hearing your new one

Thanks for the warm feedback mate - i'll go have a listen now to the track : )

Thanks Bod - I do like to try to find the boundary line and test it a little in the process of learning the software and crafting a track. I'm with you around bouncing the tracks to mostly bounce to audio and do + also double track usually more than half of my tracks, then treat them differently and pan them differently AND as I use mpc as daw I often use the half speed function - even doubled up which does as you suggest provide a quick pathway to alternative sounds that will fit with the original. I also like to add harmoniser, delay and or other effects, often on the last beat, hit or note of a phrase and blend them in a more or less subtle way. Thanks so much for your feedback to me and others I have found that your comments and ideas have been really helpful in my learning and experiments. In my other life my own work in therapy is based on building on what is already present and working and to try to pay attention to all of the elements that make up 'what works' and I think that attitude is helpful in tune craft too - whether it's for someone at your level of expertise or a relative novice like myself hey : ) Thanks Again

Thanks for listening and the warm feedback - much appreciated

Thanks Michael - will give your new one a listen now - : )

Hey Killick - thanks for the warm feedback - the electric piano is from Air - velvet - one of their presets then double tracked each track treated differently and panned left and right. The Vst sax is from decent sampler and there's lots of guitar in there too (with multitracked Neural DSP plugins on the guitars giving some lovely different sounds). The bass synth is from a modular synth present with some percs, there is another bass line using outlooks substance bass engine (as well as outlooks exhale) and then there is other percussion from Akai mpc drums ...

Thanks for listening and commenting mate - much appreciated
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Thanks for the warm feedback mate - see reply to V for the work around required for the distorted bass sound ; )

Hey - thanks for that - already played around with that sound a bit and wasnt happy with the result but I do agree. Part of the issue is that the track was built around it and its a modular synth that is constructed as a multi - so it has bass and perc's and a lot of the background rhythm goes when I cut it up - so I'd need to reconstruct that (pain in the arse) never mind hey - move on to the next experiment : )