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Merry Mayhem / AddStation
I like this one…. More inner child. You have to wait till 3:05 for the AddStation, but I think it’s worth the wait. AddStation has a wonderful sound but, damn, it’s tough on dsp. The more blocks the more overload, unfortunately.
PurePiano, BASSalicious, Future Drummer and 2 tracks of AddStation.
Best at a higher volume.
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Wow... when the Addstation enters it's like Keith Emerson on the Mini-Moog joins Bruce Hornsby at the Concert Grand. 2 wonderful keyboard stylists of the rock era.
Do you recall which Addstation preset is involved here? It's some type of Arp setting... I'd like to look at it.
Yes, I channeled Keith for sure. The presets are in Factory ARPs… Binaural303 and Scanwheel.
A lot to love about AddStation. Still a largely untapped source of great sounds for musicians.
Very nice, and with a "christmassy" feel somehow - but the drums confuse me. I've listened several times now trying to get them, but to me they feel like from a different piece (or like there is a drummer in the studio who just starts playing even though everyone is listening to the piano.)
Then again I liked the bone-dry trumpet on strings so maybe not listen to me.
You may be right on this @JudasZimmerman. Drums are the weakest part of what I do because, unlike @Daveypoo and others I don’t build drum parts piece by piece. I wish Future Drummer had an xy pad like Jazz Drummer. That pad gives me a lot more improvisatory control. I’m much more limited without it.
Still, I think the drums are the source of the mayhem in the title. It adds a wacky, rushed, frenzied feel, which works for me. I did something different with the bass, too. It's not a plucked sound as I usually do but more a low frequency hum. I’m going to listen to the track without drums, too. If it’s of interest I’ll post it here. Happy belated new year, Judas!
Yeah, they do give a manic feel for sure. Maybe it's about my expectations again, as I was sitting down to comfortably listen to the piano and then boom.
I did notice the bass! I did a listen just to follow that just because of the drums. I think it works very well with the melody.
Well, now I've listened three more times so there's that too. But I wouldn't mind hearing it with just the piano.
@JudasZimmerman, will do.
Here you are @JudasZimmerman, thanks to the miracle of technology. Curious what you think.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h56xg3cl0muy01w/Merry Mayhem no drums.wav?dl=0
Sounds great Mike. Listened in the car, love the AddStation sounds!
Thank you! Well, I like it a lot - it does lose the manic quality without the drums, but the melody really soars, with a consistent musical emotion throughout. Life-affirming? I think the original version with drums sound like a remix almost.
However, the Addstation part felt more balanced with the drums, maybe - the exuberance of the sound coming naturally from the frenzy I guess. Not sure what I’d do!
Your chordal work here is very Vince Guaraldi, which is perhaps why @JudasZimmerman feels like it's got a Christmas-y vibe.
I love it when you do chordal melodies - I have been trying more and more to get away from all my single-note organ licks and include more harmonic movement in my own solos as it's something I struggle to hear whilst in the moment.
I like the drums and don't feel like they distract. The double-time feel has undercurrents of jazz brush work, which is what I thought it was at first. The synth works well too - it's unexpected, but a nice change. I would love to see this remixed in a few formats - maybe all electric with an EP in the lead and the synths/Future Drummer and maybe a second as a standard jazz combo for the full Guaraldi effect.
And you need to grow our your curly moustache to match - that's the only thing this mix is missing is a curly moustache.
@Daveypoo @JudasZimmerman, here’s an EP version. FMTines via PureSynthPlatinum plus House Mark1. I EQd some of the bass out of the EP cause of the low note sustain. Also lifted the drums and synth here and there.
I agree with @JudasZimmerman and his last comment. I prefer the piano with drums but when the synth comes in I miss the drums. Prefer the original piano over the EP version. I could have listened to a full track similar to the first 30 - 45 seconds of slow chords. Beautiful.
@GeoTony, thx. I should eliminate the drums from the first part then.