Wondering Thoughts

Just let your mind wonder while listening.

BiaB style = Question - Smooth Jazz
Tempo = 70 BPM

I deleted the bass part
Strings 1 - Kontakt - Solid State Strings
I copied the string track
Strings 2 = Kontakt - Amadeus Full Choir
Piano - Keys of the 70's - Stage Mark 73
Guitar - Kontakt - Jazz Guitar
Drums = SSD
Percussion - Kontakt - Brio Ensemble
I am playing the fretless bass and via my MIDI keyboard controller the tenor sax

FX - reverb on all but the bass guitar and kick drum
Kick drum - Waves CLA drums
Fretless bass - Amplitube 5, Presonus Pro EQ, Waves Bass Rider

This is an experiment on using my MIDI keyboard controller along with my ART X-15 pedal board. I took my ART out of storage (I haven't used it in about 20 years), bought an 5 pin MIDI to USB converter (USB was not that popular back then), grabbed the manual (thank God I keep manuals), and programmed the right expression pedal to expression (CC11), the left expression pedal to the tenor sax's vibrato (CC4). I also used the mod wheel to control the sax's growl (CC!) while playing the notes with my right hand. As I sometimes keep forgetting to move my feet I did have to do some editing. So let me know, good or bad, how you think the sax sounds. Thanx

I like it Mario, great job.
My mind didn't wonder but it wandered. It wandered to a made up James Bond 007 scene where he falls in love with the lovely lady but they both realize it would never work

Mario,

I have never been a fan of instrumentals, for the most part. . . but I always enjoy clicking on what you have to offer because I know I’ll hear something engaging . . . and this is no exception. Cool and soulful, slick mix . . . Well done!

Hope all is well in your world,

Deej

Hi Mario,

I enjoyed this track - lovely chord progression and atmospheric Sax - well done.

Best Regards
Nigel

Mario: As i was listening here is what happened.

you've really got me thinking
drifting in and out
peaceful as i listen
thats what life's about

it's the writer in me
that make the lyrics come
inspiration puts pen to paper
feeling this (well done)

Another engaging piece of music well done my friend thanks Eric

Another nice one Mario, very relaxing sound. I'd say your experiment worked fantastically!

Mario...I was going to write something...but my mind wondered off...I'm finding that's become very easy for me to do...this is a cool piece and is very relaxing and meandering (in a good way)...I think I would have liked the sax more dominant in spots...other than that............I missed my train I guess? What were we talking about?

Mario, I like this one a lot, it has a wonderful mood.
Funnily enough what makes this song work for me are the parts which are NOT created via BIAB, the saxophone and the nice bass-motives :-)

Beautiful, but melancholic track!

Sounds like you are getting along very well without the wind controller ;-).

Rob

Definitely a very cinematic type of tune which you are very good at.

Mike B.

Thanx so much! But I thought that 007 never found a girl that he didn't like!

Thanx so much Deej for those very kind words. Hopefully you will begin to listen to others instrumentals.

Thanx so much for noticing the chord progression. I appreciate you comments.

I'm glad I gave you lyrics for your next masterpiece. Thanx for listening and commenting.

Thanx so much Eric.

Thanx Brad. It looks like I don't need another wind controller.

Thanx for the kind review. I have no idea what we were talking about. I thought it was your job to take notes

Thanx so much for the sax and bass comments. I greatly appreciated them.

Thanx Rob. Yep it looks like I don't need another wind controller.

Saxophone is one of the hardest instruments to emulate with midi (even when you have reasonable sound samples to work with). You did a better than average job here Mario.

Thanx so much Mike.

Mario,

What a great moody jazzy piece... Loved it!

Bob

Hi Mario
Very nice mix
Great played
The song has a very nice mood
Great work
Many greetings
Andi ;-)

Really nice mellow tune Mario. Love those descending chord patterns. Great melody also! T

I like the way you think, Mario. You're a very relaxing man, very entertaining, and a brilliant creator. You have once again put together another engaging group of musicians and many of them are you. The fretless is so melodic and with a feeling that frets would limit.

Excellent performance Mario.

Sounds like the controller deficit has not affected your production and performance skills.

Our wonder was mostly devoted to: "how does he so consistently do this?"

Nice melding of your performances with BiaB ... the sax and fretless are standout.

Most cool!

J&B

Thanx so much for those kind remarks. Yes sax and guitar are two of the hardest instruments for MIDI to emulate. It takes a lot of work and excellent sound sources for them to sound realistic.

Thanx so much Bob. I'm glad you liked it.

Thanx Andi for listening and commenting. I appreciate that.

Thanx Torrey for those very nice comments and noticing the chord progression.

Thanx so much for these extremely kind remarks. It will take about an hour for my swelled head to return to its normal size. But about that relaxing comment, my wife has other ideas about that!

Thanx so much for this kind review. It takes a lot of work to get a realistic sounding sax and an excellent sound source.

Beautiful! So sad, but the beautiful kind of sad. Loved it.