Calling All High_Bandwidth Users

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I've got a very old tune up at:

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/alternative/drstawl

I rerecorded it just last week.

Check out if the hi-fi play works; if not the download option is happening and the lo-fi has worked for me.

It's a classical tune: n257e written november of '97.

On my CD, "Songs Only a Mother Could Love"

Please check it out and let me know your views on the tune and the hosting service.
 
the play function does not like my pc. It works in my school library though.

The download function works everywhere.

Its certainly a composition like I've never heard from anywhere else. It started out kinda like a person having fun with a new keyboard or something, Then it transformed into like an old nintendo game track. Like mario or something.

The arpegios were the high point for me. I liked them and the way they transformed into chords.

As far as the mix, I have absolutely no complaints about it. It sounds clear and rich at the same time.

peace
 
listening to the part starting from 1:10, I could hear how this could REALLY grow on someone. YOu just have to listen twice or thrice and the brain kinda just orientates itself into uderstanding where the arrangement is coming from.
 
Thanks, man.

Some folks have a special term they apply to the "reorientation" of thinking you describe.

They call it brain damage. :D
 
Lofi works, but sounds cheap and nasty. Hifi doesn't work for me. So I downloaded it.

The transformation from the clarinet wandering at the beginning to the confidence and exuberance at the end is wonderful. That glass harp sound you pull out at 1.10 is really, really effective sometimes. It's the change of tone textures that's the key, but damn, that one's good.

Not on this one, I like it like it like it is, but what about unison playing with different sounds? Arpeggio one with the clarinet sound, arpeggio two right on top in glass harp, arpeggio three right on top ditto in harpsichord mode?

Oh, and buy a volume pedal. This is your producer talking. :D

Good good piece of music.
 
i like it although i'd love to hear it performed analog and not midi...if that were possible it would be very interesting. it almost falls inline with the compositions of early 20th century coming from the more eccentric composers of the day such as .... alexander scriabin for one:) really neat
 
With your thread topic about 'high-bandwidth' I wasn't going to download this at all, I thought it would be 50MB or something.

Pretty cool stuff. Don't listen to Dobro. Put it through a wah pedal! Just kidding. Lots of interesting sections in this, you really have to listen to this a few times to pick it up.
 
Thanks, Emeric. The high-bandwidth referred only to the ability to stream a short (1976KB) .mp3 file. It wouldn't work for me and I'm sure I have more than enough BW on my end.

Scriabin- Yeah- Ives is one of my heroes. I've got the score since I've got the .mid file. The parts aren't really difficult compared with some of my other stuff, just too difficult for me, since I could only cover the nylon string guitar part (that's if I actually owned one, which I don't). And I don't know any harp players. :)

dobro: that layering technique is already in use in alot of my stuff. mostly because it's easy to do and it extends the useful range of the Sound Canvas. And what sort of volume envelope do you think would be appropriate beyond individual velocity settings on note events? Not criticizing the criticism: just fishing for the idea that's obviously bubbling over in your brain re: this music.
 
It definitely makes more sense after a few listens;) Not the kind of thing you could relax to, keeps you on you toes, intrigues i suppose. Some of the sections sound really cool, but it fits together well as a whole. Zany, if there is such a word, would be one way to describe it. And cool:).

Jags
 
Another great tune doc!

Mixes are starting to really come out good. But, time to get nitpicky! ;)

Try playing around with some large hall reverbs, with lot's of high end roll off, and predelay around 50-75ms to sort of "pull back" the music a bit. I think this might help bring a bit more realism to the patches you are using for sounds. If your reverb has a crossoever split on it, try x-over at around 400Hz, and playing with how each side of the split decays, and their respective predelays if they have the parameter to adjust.

Again, cool song!

Ed
 
Oh, and I had no problem using the hi-fi play, and the download seemed to happen pretty fast. Buffered in around 7 secs.

Ed
 
If I want a note or a passage louder or softer on my guitar, I just play it louder or softer. Dynamics add a lot to a piece, especially if you do it on the fly, as you're playing. I don't know enough about keys/synths to be able to answer your question, though.
Emeric mentioned a wah pedal. I'd give that a go, too. Why not?
 
Eh... What's up doc?
Streamed flawlessly here. (T1 @ work).

That's pretty cool stuff, I like it. I dunno if I'd call it classical, I dunno what I'd call it.

:cool: cool...:cool:

Queue
 
Very nice indeed! I *really* liked this one!

P.S. Hifi play no workie.

Slackmaster 2000
 
once unique,always unique forever!!!
i'm not hibandwidth user
i just dled the mp3
 
We're under a bloody virus attack right now.

The virus tries to get into the streaming server from about 200 different locations at the same time, thus overloading the server and locking all of us out. Downloads are not affected, and you are under no danger of recieving the virus from our servers. It's just chewing up all the bandwidth!

W.
 
Starting to understand

OK, I am starting to understand you music more. I really enjoyed the texture you created starting around 1:20
 
Very interesting and evocative piece, Doc. The technology you use is way way beyond me. As a classical composition, it's almost Baroque (except it never resolves!)
 
Waldo: I'm hanging in there. The downloads are still quick and error-free and the consensus here is that everyone is experiencing that.
Good luck rooting out the worm and getting this thing under control.

Ed: Glad you dug it. Reverb? I don't even have a reverb, except for those built into the Canvas.
But I can conceptualize that the "trails" created by individual decay patterns coming from either side of the crossover curve might be a very cool effect. Maybe you can explain "pre-delay". I'm sure the audience here will be all ears. By "high-end roll-off" do you mean an EQ post-reverb?

LISlim: Thanks for checking it out. Maybe a little too cheerful for Baroque.
As to the lack of resolution: Maybe it's because my life lacks resolution? Art imitates Life.
The technology is very 20th century being entirely a MIDI compostion that a 286 could handle recorded to two tracks of 16/44.1 digital audio. I write this stuff by pretending I can play the keyboard and capturing the MIDI stream. Then I go back in, in staff mode and correct the notes that my fingers couldn't quite hit. Sometimes it works.

Jags, Queue, Slack, istyle: Thanks for being on my beta team!

Dorker: Yes- everyone picks up on that change at ~1:10. It's like that moment in the Wizard of Oz when the film changes from Black and White to Color when Dorothy steps through her door in Oz. I'll only remind you that while the intro sounded like it was going nowhere- it sets up the line that catches your ear. Same as for the abovementioned B&W footage.
 
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