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8kbXmasCard

By laguna on December 21, 2014 11:56 pm

Merry Christmas, y'all!

Well, this one's got out quite crappy. I had a great one that happened to infringe one of Weeklybeats base points: I was using a prominent sample of a beautiful song by Cat Stevens, obviously recognizable and maybe suitable for another project in 2015, so...

I decided to start over and, guess what... let's update my Mac to OSX Yosemite in the process... As expected, some projects were broken without enough time to fix things, so...

I present you this tiny fake Xmas carol based on that crappy sounding "musical cards"... Ableton Live and Boss SP-505 in all his crappy lo-fi glory. For you pianist out there, I'm guessing you maybe recognize the sample, although strongly bit reduced wink

Please don't be too hard with this tiny piece finished in a real hurry. I even fantasized about doing some guitar parts, but I didn't even mastered it... man, what is wrong with me sad

Wish you the best week and I'll definetely have fun listening to your stuff and catching up with the comments

Peace from Madrid, Spain !!!

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Merry Holidays!

Edmund Snyder wrote:

Merry Holidays!

Thanks Edmund, you too!!! Wish to catch up with your late stuff now that I'm on holidays. Take care smile

Excellent!

Very cool take of a 'musical card' style tune. Wish you a great christmas time!

Ipaghost wrote:

Excellent!

Gizmo rocked the PT1... Wish to see what a Mogwai could achieve with a OP-1

Merry christmas!!!

Plantrain wrote:

Very cool take of a 'musical card' style tune. Wish you a great christmas time!

You too, plaintrain... Musical cards definetely need some low pass filters smile Happy holidays !

donnyjankowski wrote:

Hahaha Bad Santa, Gialifanakis style smile Merry Xmas!!!

I really like this.  Good beat, great bit-reduced grit around the other sounds, and that hauntingly sad sample in the distance...well done, totally evocative of the holidays. 

Sorry to hear about the upgrade issues--that's kind of kept me from going ahead with an upgrade myself.  (Eventually...)

onezero wrote:

I really like this.  Good beat, great bit-reduced grit around the other sounds, and that hauntingly sad sample in the distance...well done, totally evocative of the holidays. 

Sorry to hear about the upgrade issues--that's kind of kept me from going ahead with an upgrade myself.  (Eventually...)

Mmmhhh Don't try to upgrade ALL your music machines at once (and your linux server hosting all your projects) at 2:30 in the morning after a really long day. Everything went quite smootly but, I was trying to "optimize" and ended messing up with my security clearances, so my work was untouched but unavailable... Now everythins runs fine, but I had some real life appointments next day and wasted most of my music making time fixing keychains and certificates instead of continuing my project.

I am not a Mac fanboy, it's just that being honest, the installer dind't mess anything THIS TIME, but me. You know those "I think a could rethink this" moments in the middle of a session, right? wink

Thanks for listening, man, and happy holidays

laguna wrote:
Ipaghost wrote:

Excellent!

Gizmo rocked the PT1... Wish to see what a Mogwai could achieve with a OP-1

Merry christmas!!!


I should find out!

Sweet. Merry Xmas to you, too!!

colorful grey wrote:

Sweet. Merry Xmas to you, too!!

Happy Christmas mate! I want to take thos week to catch up with your excellent stuff. Stay well smile

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