Lufthansa Terminal/Sentimental Hospital/Oh Mammy Look – 150609

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LUFTHANSA TERMINAL

• as promised a while back, I programmed MIDI drum parts in CE4 to replace the Loopology drum loops
• yesterday, I downloaded a free (and legal) version of Native Instruments Kore Player. Some really decent snare, hi-hat, crash and tom sounds – I used some of them on this session
• a lot of editing to do, but I am satisfied that the MIDI parts will work better than the original loops
• I can see myself replacing a lot of the MIDI parts for other tracks with the Kore Player sounds. The hi-hats on HALion One are rather weak and definitely need to be replaced. Before today I was going to have to record audio hi-hats off my Roland Juno-D or other synths, but now I can happily use Kore Player and keep all the drum parts within the MIDI realm, which gives me greater flexibility right up to the mixing stage. Go me!

SENTIMENTAL HOSPITAL

• a new track. Last week, I came up with an interesting bass guitar line using my Aria electro-acoustic which I thought I’d remember forever, but it seems I’ve forgotten it already…:-). All I can recall was that the tempo was either 3/4 or a very slow 6/4. I’m sure I’ll eventually come up with a new line every bit as good as the one I’ve forgotten
• I programmed a chessy MIDI rhythm track using a “hip-hop” kit in HALion One. Not much editing required (if any…)
• there’s a bizarrely African feel about the rhythm track – in a quantized sort of way

OH MAMMY LOOK

• had a bit of spare time so I started programming a MIDI Rhodes part. Didn’t get very far with it, but there’s enough there to be going on with for the time being

Busy day. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little bit more relaxed…

Regards,

djp

~ by happydaysinthegulag on June 15, 2009.