Here comes some info about the tune: (This is a remix, so I copied this from an old VSPlanet thread about the first version and modified it for the remix...)
This is my first instrumental piece since "Amzidus" (the 25 minute one). I have made a couple of Swedish songs with a humorus touch in between. So it felt nice to go back and concentrate on just the music again without any lyrics interfering...
Equipment used: Roland VS1680, Amiga+Bars&Pipes for sequencing, Roland JV1010 synth module,
Ensoniq SQ1+ synth, Ibanez RG270 electric guitar, Pod2.3, Behringer Tube Ultragain T1953 (preamp/tube interface), Behringer Autocom pro MDX1400 (analog compressor), Behringer Edison EX1 (stereo field expander/processor). Mixed on Alesis M1 active Mk2.
Guitars: Ibanez->Pod->VS
The lead guitar melody was doubled and panned something like +15 -10. There is at most 4 guitars playing at the same time in the tune.
Bass: JV1010->T1953->Autocom->VS
Drums: JV1010->T1953->Autocom->VS
Strings: JV1010->T1953->Autocom->Edison->VS
Two string sounds + one string/choir sound panned -63 0 63 I think, playing the same thing.
Piano: JV1010->T1953->Autocom->VS
Lead synth: Ensoniq->VS (I think)
(A sound made by me)
Some extra chords: JV1010->T1953->Autocom->VS
Some more extra chords: Ensoniq->VS
Effects used on the VS: Delay, Reverb, Pitch Shift Delay, MTK (on the drums).
Automix: Used on 14 channels out of 16.
Mastering: None. It's even just truncated from 24 to 16 bit...
Mp3 endoding: Used "Lame" with the following options: "lame --abr 150 -k -h -mj -q0" ... after it had been digitally copied from my new CD-ROM drive... So this is kind of my first mp3 with a reasonable quality. (Have always gone through my old 16 bit soundblaster card before...)
How I did the tune: I made most of the tune in the sequencer, then I recorded instrument by instrument from the sequencer (synced) to the VS and then added guitars and more synths. I had to redo some of the sequenced tracks a bit and re-record them later.
...Why "Space Ride Second Journey"? When I composed it, I thought it kind of resembled two old tunes I've made. "Ice cubes" from 1999 and "Space Ride" from 1999/2000. It had some chord sequences common to Space Ride, so I decided to call the new tune "Space Ride 2" and deliberately also added some of the melodies to those chords for an even closer relation to the old tune. It's none of the main melodies, just some of the stuff in between. I also used one of the synth lead instruments used in the old tune and tried to duplicate those strange intro sounds. "Space Ride" is 15 minutes long and was made on
the VS840EX. No midi was used at all, except for the 840's metronome midi signals that I used to create the drum track. Half of it is just a recorded improvisation (the part with the frequent bass tones) and then I made a more structured "main" part that I actually cut into the improvisation. That's probably why it ended up being 15 minutes long. Here you can listen to "Space Ride" in
RealAudio. - A mp3 of "Ice Cubes" that I mentioned earlier can be downloaded
on this page. I wrote some more about "Space Ride" some time ago in this thread:
http://www.vsplanet.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=013300&p=
/Anders
Maybe one per 60 seconds had been enough though.
