Atlantic Aspiration
By Tone Matrix on April 26, 2020 9:11 pm
It's always funny how my original plan doesn't quite go as anticipated. "Let's just make a simple one instrument track! Mayhaps an ambient pad thing and call it a night!?" Noooope. It was one of those nights where I spent about 3 hours pulling out hairs (I'm already bald but bearded) trying to just like a chord progression. I'd been watching Christian Henson's YT channel and was inspired to use some of the instruments available at the Pianobook website that he mentioned. But first I stumbled upon the pretty boring and simple chord progression while noodling in Stratus (which is my magic tinkly piano helper). After that I went a little crazy with the instrumentation for what I normally do. Three instances each of Cello, Violin and Trumpet from Spitfire Audio's Labs. Then since I don't have the full version of Kontakt (just the free player), I had to bounce down 3 of the Pianobook instruments since it normally times out after 15mins of use (sneaky shhh). That included a Bamboo sorta pad sound, a tape delay Piano and the 'Dan Keen Isolation Collaboration Pad' that Dan created from over 200+ user submitted one-shot samples. Basically that chanGly-chanGly bell towards the end. Phew that's some boring information! Oh and a Pipe Organ from my Roland RD700GX to go a bit Zimmerstellar at the end. Oh oh and some waves from Miami Beach (courtesy of freesounds.org). You'd think maybe I could record them myself since I live 30mins from said beach but no I'll let someone else do that! Ironically it started raining here seconds after I imported the waves. Which it's kinda hard to mix when your roof is getting pummeled by a squall and you can't tell if that's the file you just imported or the actual storm! But I digest.... I'm pooped. Beer me...
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