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Catalan

By tatecarson on April 19, 2014 9:26 pm

Another drumless tune. A little longer than last week. For some reason it's easier for me to make tunes longer when there aren't any drums, not sure why. One big discovery from this week was using karplus strong string synthesis for the plucked sounds. There's a real humanity and naturalness to that sound to my ears that's a little different that what you might get with the same thing sampled. Again all comments are welcome. Trying to figure out how to make longer pieces without meandering. I might start studying some classical forms again to see if I can work those in, it's a good strategy for organizing longer pieces.

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good plucky

Yeah I find that I accidentally do everything in some variation of sonata form, or else I just have two big ideas slapped back to back. Trying to break the habit.

This really builds up a lot of tension.  All of the sounds are really nice.  Good job on production, too.

Karplus-Strong is wonderful, especially for those strummed bridge cable sounds. I agree with what you say about structure; difficult to maintain with longer pieces.

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