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This month’s Kara-Moon quarterly review is about Crop Circles , thus the title of this song. I used Biab’s Cloud style (Cloud-Slow ev.8 Pop) but with the following changes: 1-bass part was deleted 2-drum part was deleted 3-strings – copied into two parts part 1 = crystal bells part 2 = timpani and cymbals 4-guitar – copied into two parts with both using pads 5-piano – pad sounds I played the Theremin via my midi control keyboard and the guitar part using my Rondo Tele. I hope you like it for what it is, a 50ths sci-fi sound.
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Hi Mario, nothing like the theremin for those haunting sounds! Very interesting and creative how you used the strings to "translate" into percussion sounds, I like that idea. Very good track indeed. Do you mind telling me what do you used for the timpani's part? Mike B.
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That was cool. You are obviously have fun! (thought the Theremin just a touch too "up" - just a little). The ending pan was fun, too.
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Neat!!! I think the first Theremin I heard (other than in 1950's scifi movies) was in Good Vibrations. Very creative. Thanks for the post.
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interesting music, would make a good scifi sound track tune. Thanks for sharing! My Tunes
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Mario,
This is extremely cool! Love the overall feel and vibe... Great title as well.
Bob
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Hi Mario,
Very very enjoyable. You DEFINITELY have to put a video together and use this as backing music. It's incredibly atmospheric. I love the theremin touch!
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Hi, Mario ! Spooky enough ! (Lol):) Very nicely put together. I got the impression that this was a long intro, so you left us intently waiting for the chorus part ?  I can wait, I am a pensioner (Lol):) Cheers Dani
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Phenomenal work with biab. I would also like to see a video.
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Hi Mario,
a great film score! Very inventive.
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Sorry Mario For some reason it wont play on my android-it just downloads pages of gibberish. I,all try again when we get back from holidays. Cheers Ian
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Very clever Mario! I don't think anyone would recognize Band-in-a-Box as part of the arrangement. Well done.
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WOW!! I had no idea BIAB could do this!! Love it!
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Neat!!! I think the first Theremin I heard (other than in 1950's scifi movies) was in Good Vibrations. Very creative. Thanks for the post.
The "Theremin" in Good Vibrations was originally a lap steel guitar. I've seen it in a 60's-era video but couldn't find it to provide a link. I did find This Video On Youtube in which it seems to be played on an electronic instrument that appears to be some kind of pre-synthesizer strip controller, but still not a Theremin.
Responding to the OP, you're breaking the mold as far as BIAB usage goes. It's something to which I aspire and occasionally achieve. I love the mix of the ethereal high notes and those deep bass sounds, too. Thanks for sharing.
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Superbly innovative. COuld make a good Film score for "Close Encounters". I LOVED the Tele guitar playing with the hint of slap-back echo there- Top Marks. Great fun cheers ian
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Thanx all for listening and the extremely kind comments. I really didn’t expect such reviews on this one, as it is completely different than the norm here.
Cubanpete – the timpani are from Kontakt’s orchestra percussion that comes with Kontakt.
Peter Gannon – thank you for such a fantastically versatile piece of software. IMHO with BiaB, good sound sources (midi, RTs and RDs) and a little imagination one can create a song in almost if not all genres of music.
PS – I don’t do video, yet, but if someone want to add video be my guest.
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Mario,
Oh man! That killer ending. How did you do THAT? I also wonder, like CubanPete how you got the Timpani in there. This is innovative stuff. What would you do if assigned the job of producing a sound track for a movie like, say, "Alien" - something authentically stealthy, menacing and, above all, terrifying?
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Very interesting....got a Pink Floyd thing going on there in a few places...kinda expected David Gilmour to drop in there at any minute...I liked it!
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Should use this as a background for my Cosmic Impressions CD's...did five or six of them.
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Aleck, Mountain Side and Gdaddy thanx for listening and the very kind comments.
Aleck – the ending is a sound from Zed 80 called Alien Swamp (Zed 80 is a third party Kontakt product) that I cut short for the ending. The Timpani was originally the B section of the BiaB string part. I lowered it one octave so it would like up with my Kontakt Orchestra’s Timpani patch. I wouldn’t mind doing the music a short scary ET video, provided that they gave this old guy time to do it!
Gdaddy, be my guest if you want to use this.
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