New remix (Trance/Progressive House)

[Khazul]

Keenan and Anderson feat ENDC - Drift Away (Adam G Sunset Mix) (http://soundcloud.com/adam-g/keenan-and-anderson-feat-endc-drift-away-adam-g-sunset-mix)

Timo: really should add support for sound cloud tags (www.soundcloud.com) :)

[synthfiend]

what did you do the drums and bass with ? the machine drum ?

[Khazul]

ta :)

The bass was just chopped up from the original track. The drums were done in ableton live from a sample library.

Just posted another quite different remix of this track as well:
http://soundcloud.com/adam-g/keenan-and-anderson-feat-endc-drift-away-adam-g-club-mix-7

(Might have to click it twice - sound cloud seem to be having some issues at the moment - grrr!)

[waxahachie]

Very cool, good, I like it.

[spindlenine]

Khazul,

Nice remix!

Where do you typically find these remix competitions? I'd like to start following these so I can get some fodder for learning how to use my TI with Logic Express. It's so hard to find decent vocal tracks, and I don't have a vocalist to work with locally yet.

- max

[Khazul]

Cheers! :)

A mate gave me the remix pack to see what I could do with it - still waiting for him to tell me where he found it.

Usually I just come across them through people posting them on forums or emailing stuff to me.

[annikk.exe]

I'm not a fan of the genre, but.. nice production man. Sounds very clean and fat. :>


-Annikk

[edukcuf]

Where do you typically find these remix competitions?


You can find loads of them from all over the internet listed at http://www.remixcomps.com (http://www.remixcomps.com/)

Enjoy

[Khazul]

I'm not a fan of the genre, but.. nice production man. Sounds very clean and fat. :>
-Annikk

Thanks - I had worried that I had overdone the mastering compression for the mp3 dump.

[Merlot]

Khaz,

Great remix. Mix sounds good, maybe a little overcompressed in the cans I am wearing.

What equipment did you use? DO you still have the same setup?

[Khazul]

Khaz,

Great remix. Mix sounds good, maybe a little overcompressed in the cans I am wearing.

What equipment did you use? DO you still have the same setup?


Cheers mate - and long time no see etc :)

Yeh pretty much the same TI as main synth and use Ableton Live for production, though tended to make more use of abused samples as well new.

If its the club remix - then yeh - I knew it was over compressed - the bizarre thing is - alot of people seem to prefer it that way. :)


Not convinced myself, but there you go - lol :)

[Merlot]

Yeah, school had me bogged down for awhile, but now I actually have a little free time. I definitely don't mind it squished.

I looked at the studio and it actualy looks like it's grown since the last time I checked. Damn son, that's just way too many options for a guy like myself. I would sit around and play with sounds and never get a damn thing done. Wait...Oh, that's right, I don't get a damn thing done with software either. lol

[Khazul]

LOL - I know it kind of looks that way, but think about it - I have 5 subtractive synths, one of them does a whole load of wierd wavetable stuff, another does a whole load of cool shit with samples and another is a mono analog that is great for bass noises etc.

Then their are romplers for sample based sounds and drums and fx and prcoessing - that is way less option than someone with say 30 soft synths that they dont know how to use because they dant make up their mind which to use for any given task and so never focus on - lol :)

[Merlot]

Agreed. I just did a OS wipe and install last week and installed live and one soft synth. I am in the market for some hardware to get back to the root of it. Was thinking about getting the Elektron pieces. You still using the MD? How do you get along with it? Had one about 4 years ago, but needed to sell it for financial reasons. lol

[Khazul]

Agreed. I just did a OS wipe and install last week and installed live and one soft synth. I am in the market for some hardware to get back to the root of it. Was thinking about getting the Elektron pieces. You still using the MD? How do you get along with it? Had one about 4 years ago, but needed to sell it for financial reasons. lol

I still have my MD, but I keep thinking of getting rid of it as these days I tend to use single sample and sometimes chopped loops directly in Live (or live samplers).

If i was starting again with gear, my gear would probbaly just be virus ti, v-synth, LP or mopho and a kurzweil pc3x for painos and other typical rompler sounds. Leave all the rhythm to ableton Live.

While the MD is good - and great fun to program, I never really found I like using it exclusively - its character is too obvious and certain sounds are impossible to get out of it with the character I tend to like these days. also its a bit of a time pit when you are just trying to get stuff done :)

[synthfiend]

what about Stylus RMX, have you tried that..

[Merlot]

I could take the MD off your hands for the right price! Uhhhhh...with a student discount. lol

[Khazul]

what about Stylus RMX, have you tried that..

Yeh - was using that for quite a while and still use it, but after going all around the house with various drum machine, just eventually became easier and more flexible to do it all natively in Live :)

And RMX is a bit of a CPU hog.

[Khazul]

I could take the MD off your hands for the right price! Uhhhhh...with a student discount. lol

Be expensive over there because our prices are usualy way way high than yours - ugh!

[Merlot]

Yeh - was using that for quite a while and still use it, but after going all around the house with various drum machine, just eventually became easier and more flexible to do it all natively in Live :)

And RMX is a bit of a CPU hog.

I jsut hate the way live integrated their swing function. Unless I am missing something the amount of swing seems to be universal for each track. I am a logic user, so I definitely could have overlooked something.

[Khazul]

I jsut hate the way live integrated their swing function. Unless I am missing something the amount of swing seems to be universal for each track. I am a logic user, so I definitely could have overlooked something.

Thats all changed in Live 8 - you now have groove templates which including quantize, dynamics and timing controls which can be applied per clip as well as extraction of a groove template from midi clips and audio loops.

[Merlot]

that's good to know. Maybe it's time to upgrade then. Max for live looks great!