Ghost of a dead producer
By laguna on September 14, 2020 12:01 am
This one's been an absolute nightmare. Thanks to Wisefire for the late upload link, because a couple of hours close to the deadline, everything went south on this project.
WARNING: LONG TECHNICAL RANT AHEAD. FEEL FREE TO SKIP!!!
I tried to use the ReWire engine to extract audio from an old Modplug Tracker module so everything could be more "fluent and spontaneous", though something went wrong and I had to discard everything and restart. Yes, Modplug, not OpenMPT. This file was dated july 2001, though I think that's just the backup date. This time I turned every Impulse Tracker instrument into a Renoise one and then hosting it inside the Redux plugin. Once I did that, everything went smoothly, though I lost hours redoing stuff.
My production skills were laughable at best at 2000 so everything was messy, overloaded and distorted. Lucky me, I obsessively label every sample, so I went back to my archived CDs and resample a couple of things, and rechopped the breaks and a lead sample. It took me ages to know how to EQ and mix this one, until I almost abandoned the old project and started from scratch with "refurbished", clean instruments.
I'm not saying this is even good in any way. The idea is quite simple and the beat is not much interesting, but it is good to be able to "close" this one, after so many years in the "unfinished" section.
I'll continue my COVID quarantine for some days, fortunately with almost no symptoms. Thanks a lot to everyone who sent good wishes. The community is a great place to be these days 
Be safe and be happy, WB family!!!
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