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the Ant

By Henrik Sjørslev on August 10, 2014 7:03 pm

This week I´m out of town, but I´ve managed til create this little piece of music.
I guess I´m in a melancholy state of mind, but all melodies that came out was filled with infinite sadness;). Once again I´ve recorded all vocals and vocal sound through my telephone, and instead of trying to make it sound like lyrics, I focused more on maintaining the mood and melody.

TechFacs.:
I´ve used quite a lot of Logic´s build-in sample ESX24 to create the melodic vocal bits.
Synths/Arps are a combination of Logic´s RetroSynth, and some of Arturia´s for the V-Collection.
Drums are played with sound from Logics. Vocals are recorded with Improvox and some additional reverb.
Mastering made quickly in Final Touch from Positive Grid.

Sad SynthPop,

August 11, 2014 12:40 am

kineticturtle

Sad is fine! Great textures.

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August 14, 2014 10:28 am

Perplex On

gentle groove and nice tunes. I like it sad. Nice work on the vocals (is this done with iVoxel, Harmony Voice or sth. similar?) I like it a lot.

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August 14, 2014 7:05 pm

Henrik Sjørslev

Perplex On wrote:

gentle groove and nice tunes. I like it sad. Nice work on the vocals (is this done with iVoxel, Harmony Voice or sth. similar?) I like it a lot.


Thanks a lot! Most of the vocals have been recorded through/with "Improvox", my "go to" vocal-app when I´m away from my studio. I chopped it into pieces in the ESX24 sampler and played it in my OP-1 and messed around a bit with the midi notes afterwords. I sometimes use "Vio" to get a similar effect, but I´m quite comfortable with "Improvox", and have (over) used it on a lot of my weekly beats.....mostly because of time pressure. When I´m in my studio I often play around with Native Instruments "the Mouth", when I´m looking for the "processed-vocal-sound", because I feel more in control with the chord progression/vocoding. But do try out Improvox and play around with some additional reverb....and I know you own an iPad from one of your youtube video´s wink

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August 16, 2014 2:55 am

Jim Wood

This is really excellent! Nice use of the almost subliminal vocals.

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