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Chambers of My Heart

By Napear on June 9, 2024 10:06 pm

Well, submitting this while at the tail end of a family reunion... and I had intended to do a track on the Deluge... buuuuuuut... There was an "oh no, I don't think I have saved for a couple hours...!!!" crash situation... so instead of misc EDM, we have a little reverb drenched sadboi solo piano noodle.  Using NI Mavrick, with some Replica XT and Raum.  Nothing fancy, only had a few hours to put this together while the fam was out at the water park, so I'm not thrilled it with but it will do. 

Totally here for the emotional arc of the echo/reverb piano. Nicely done!

Way to pivot after a deluge crash! Agree with onezero, love the emotional arc of the reverb/echo going on.

Oh goodness, I had WB playing a bunch of tunes in the background and this IMMEDIATELY grabbed my ear. This is beautiful! So somber, full of emotion, and moving.
Fantastically done!!! I can never get enough reverb-drenched piano heart
Seriously, well done. This is amazing.

Feelin those sadboy vibes \m/ love the drenchy verb especially on those louder notes.  Letting out those emotions.  The somber part right at 1:50 caught my attention.  Excellent work!

beautiful pivot, hits this sadboi heart just right.
hope the reunion was good heart

That reverb is super lush. You know me, I'm a sucker for the dreamy atmospheres. Really beautiful piece! Excellent dynamics to, the punchy parts really emphasize the emotional impact.

onezero wrote:

Totally here for the emotional arc of the echo/reverb piano. Nicely done!

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. 

SQF wrote:

Way to pivot after a deluge crash! Agree with onezero, love the emotional arc of the reverb/echo going on.

Thanks, it was a journey to be sure... I spent a few days pulling together sound design elements, and clip ideas, and then lost like 3 hours of arrangement and mixing... and 100% rage quite... such is the risk of using Beta software though... but the new reverb just sounds soooooo good... worth the risk.  But yeah, when pressed for time... sadboi piano is always my softball. 

jegasus wrote:

Oh goodness, I had WB playing a bunch of tunes in the background and this IMMEDIATELY grabbed my ear. This is beautiful! So somber, full of emotion, and moving.
Fantastically done!!! I can never get enough reverb-drenched piano heart
Seriously, well done. This is amazing.

Thank you so much.  I really appreciate the kind words. 

Tone Matrix wrote:

Feelin those sadboy vibes \m/ love the drenchy verb especially on those louder notes.  Letting out those emotions.  The somber part right at 1:50 caught my attention.  Excellent work!

Thanks, I'm frankly amaized I was able to get any dynamics at all, did this one on vacation, and was using a little second hand Komplete Kontrol M32... which... is fine... it's fine... but NOT ideal.  Particularly for emotional piano parts... with very little time to fix wonky velocities.  So I'm glad the dynamics are horrible. 

jwh wrote:

beautiful pivot, hits this sadboi heart just right.
hope the reunion was good heart

Thanks, and yeah it was fun.  My family is filled with a lot of very funny people, so it was lots of joking and laughing.  Good times. 

ViridianLoom wrote:

That reverb is super lush. You know me, I'm a sucker for the dreamy atmospheres. Really beautiful piece! Excellent dynamics to, the punchy parts really emphasize the emotional impact.

Replica XT for the win!!!  Thank thanks, I mentioned it above (in my response to ToneMatrix), but subtly with the dynamics, wasn't so much in the cards, so I'm glad it didn't come off as hamfisted. 

Well an excellent contrast to pop punk!  Haha.   Quite a nice piece still even if it was rushed.  NI have so much amazing tools to work with hey.

rdomain wrote:

Well an excellent contrast to pop punk!  Haha.   Quite a nice piece still even if it was rushed.  NI have so much amazing tools to work with hey.

Lol (>▽<)... yeah, pop punk is a bit of a far out one for me... but I do find that I'm happy to vacillate pretty wildly between styles.  But, in the immortal words of Louie Armstrong 'There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.'

And yeah NI has an absolutely overwhelming number of really great sounding VSTs... I wish their software support was half as good as their library of sounds... but private equity ownership and all that...

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