Hi all
Inspired by some uplifting comments by another forum member who's work I admire greatly (Noel96), I post one of my more recently "created" tunes. It's all instrumental and it's all done by BIAB. Harmony, chords, melody, solo. Simply amazing! I had very little to adjust to my liking in the MIDI tracks (piano). I do hope G. Shearing doesn't hear this. No vibraphone, not enough real swing, no jazz chord sequence, too compressed and on top of it a mandolin chopping away. Yuck (he-he). But IMHO the actual programming of the typical Shearing style is very well done by PG Music.
Sir George Shearing will be turning 91 on August 13th.

Any comments/suggestions are welcome

Daniel

http://www.songramp.com/mod/mps/viewprivtrack.php?trackid=56718

edit: oh I forgot to mention that once the tracks were created, I moved them over to Samplitude (Samp11), the DAW I'm used to workflow wise. http://www.samplitude.com/en/products/samplitude/samplitude_11_introduction.252.html



***** Song Summary *************
Title: Hot Day in July
Key=Cm , Tempo 165, Length (m:s)=4:43

Melody harmony is George Shearing Quint (20)
Soloist: G Shearing Quintet (40) [harmony switched off]

Style is _BAGGM_B.STY (Bouncy Pop Swing (165 RS))

Instruments are :
RealTracks in style: ~537:Bass, Acoustic, Pop Sw 165
RealTracks in song: ~813:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm Western Swing Sw 165 (A:bs-crd)
RealTracks in style: ~373:Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Hank Sw 165
RealTracks in style: 616:Mandolin, Rhythm Bouncy Sw 165
RealDrums in Style: PopBouncy^2-SideStick,Ride

MIDI piano is the Ivory Italian Grand from Synthogy

Used some reverb on most tracks and compression on bass and piano and (since it's not going to be mastered ) on the 2bus. But very lightly - RMS is still around -15db

Some of the plugins used are:

BX Cleansweep (free)
http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_cleansweep_v2

Ferric TDS and
NastyCS.
Both are free together with some other goodies on the download page
http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/vst-effects/

You Wa Shock (free) - as always, used with caution (easily overused)
http://www.winamp.com/plugin/you-wa-shock-/221523

Last edited by deltagolf; 08/01/10 07:12 AM.