Qooper on 8/2/2007 at 19:09
Last friday I came home from school and sat down to finally test my recently bought Cubase 4 (Xpensive!). After a few minutes into it I was extremely amazed at the capabilities of this little piece of software, I decided to begin this music project I've had in mind for ages. The idea was to combine prog and game music*.
So I played a few melodies and started designing something I then wrote into Cubase on saturday, programmed the rest of the synths and put in compressing and drums on sunday and did some final tweaking on monday. Voilá: (
http://ccnet.ath.cx/test.mp3) http://ccnet.ath.cx/test.mp3
I'll be writing the rest of the song this weekend, and I have thought of recording an analogue guitar track in as well. Every sound you hear in that test song right now is from virtual instruments and sound modules found in Cubase 4, no analogue instruments recorded yet.
*think of Konami's Salamander and such.
jay pettitt on 8/2/2007 at 20:19
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Biohazard on 8/2/2007 at 20:33
Pretty good, especially considering you put it together in one weekend and used the default samples!
SD on 8/2/2007 at 20:46
This is quality, 80s soundtrack pastiche, me likey
Qooper on 8/2/2007 at 21:04
Quote Posted by Biohazard
Pretty good, especially considering you put it together in one weekend and used the default samples!
The only samples I used were the drum sounds from the sampler HalionOne. The rest I did with the software synthesizers Prologue (strings in the background), Mystic (those electronic beeping sounds) and Monologue (the synth bass and the lead). All of it was composed and played by me.
Monologue produced a pretty nice lead sound with a cool distortion, but I further augmented it using AmpSimulator (Cubase's own software tube amp). To me it sounds almost like a real lead guitar. What do you think?
I'm quite happy with the synthesizers in Cubase. They're versatile and full of features, but it takes some learning to program them to produce the sounds you need. And I do appreciate the sound quality too. Cubase is a VST host, so it's extensible. You can plug in any virtual instrument you have (or plug-in effect).
I found a very nice free Moog emulator on (
http://www.kvraudio.com) www.kvraudio.com. It would be grand to own a real vintage Moog Modular.
OnionBob on 8/2/2007 at 21:45
It's a good composition and you're obviously in possession of a fair amount of formal musical knowledge so i won't try to critique that part. It's a bit Yes and camp but it works musically.
Soundwise though it would be good for you to work on making the synths sound a bit less "over-the-counter", but then you did say you were using presets so that will come with time.
GG
BEAR on 8/2/2007 at 22:34
Pretty cool, too short though I wanted more :)
PigLick on 9/2/2007 at 02:45
Hey that was good, really reminded me of a game soundtrack kinda thing.
Qooper on 9/2/2007 at 07:19
BEAR, you'll be hearing more after this weekend. :) Though it'll probably take a few weeks for me to finish it, I'll do most of the main composition today and tomorrow.
TF, any reason why you didn't like it? I'm not saying you have to like it, I just want to hear what you thought of it besides t. Maybe it'll point me to a new direction with this song.
