New Track! "I Love You"

6-27-09: Watch out for a new article coming very soon! This one's a monster. :D

Download here under Experiments/Misc., but there's a story behind this one - so read on.

Upon finding the Speak and Spell thread on the BBS, and then the samples further down, I decided I would make a song using them. I started by looking for a phrase that would be the title and define the track, eventually I gave up and settled for the generic "I Love You" - though to be honest this track was a meaningless, for-fun project to me. :D I then vocoded it, with pretty much the same process, settling for a supersaw and two somewhat generic chords.

As a side note, the title has nothing to do with xKore's track with the same name.

This is a bit of an oddball track in terms of structure, but once again, I didn't worry too much about making this track completely perfect anyway. I originally intended it to be a full-length House track and started with a DJ-friendly intro, but by the end realized a full-length track wasn't going to happen, simply because I didn't know how to make one. I took the easy way out of most choices from the end of the peak on, so it may sound rushed or unmixed to some of you.

Regardless - enjoy! News to come on my other projects, including Time Without, the Hide and Seek remix, maybe Time for Morning, and a few others. New headphones and monitors are motivating me to work more. :)

New Track! "I Love You"

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Lamplighter 2009-06-21 22:04:48

Awesome track, dude! I love the percussion to death, first off. Probably one of my favorite claps I've heard in a long while. :P I also like the wood-block-ish synth (I don't know what else to call it, hopefully you know what I'm talking about)

I really like this song! It's fun, upbeat, and well-produced without being too serious. The voice sample really fit well when it was vocoded :) I didn't really care about the length of the track, I'm content with looping it :)

I do have one small complaint, though. There are some spots where the song crackles, like around 2:25 and 3:55. It could just be my headphones, but it does it in the same spot every time. :\

Anyway, great track! I'm really looking forward to Time for Morning, and I'm interested to see what you're going to do with the "Hide and Seek" remix :)

Karco 2009-06-21 22:04:48

Glad you liked it! I think I know what you mean by wood-block synth. The crackling was part of a buildup effect I used now and then, you can also hear it at 0:22 and 1:24 - it was an unintended side effect I didn't really pay much attention to, I guess I could have done that better.

I'm working on the Hide and Seek remix right now actually! It may take a while though, I'm trying to see how many of the synths I can make with my X-Station (a hardware synth :D).

S3C 2009-06-23 22:44:31

i have to be honest, you trance artists need to come up with more creative titles ;D

listening now

Karco 2009-06-23 22:44:31

I've seen some pretty creative titles around actually. Have to agree in my case though. ;D

S3C 2009-06-23 22:56:03

good stuff man, track has an genuine house feel with the eccentric sounds that you placed in this clip. Odd percussion, but overall I digged it, sounds a bit 808ish. The highpassed vocalish sounding synth was nice, I enjoyed the filtered down sections. Drums are real crisp in your tracks as usual. The only thing I wasnt fond of was the ascending sound that comes in three or four times in the track a bit before the transitioning segments. Also propably would have favored a more complex hi hat line, rhythmically. Well sequenced ideas, track was to the point without being overly repetitve or too short. Not my favorite from your works but I did enjoy the contrast of different elements in here man.

like lamplighter pointed out, great job with claps. I like how the volume doesnt have an instant attack, but still sounds realistic. How did you get your clap to sound like that?

Karco 2009-06-23 22:56:03

The "highpassed vocalish synth" was in fact the Speak and Spell samples vocoded, I thought I made that clear enough. Disappointingly, nearly all claps and hihats in this track came from VEC loops - though I do know that the clap sound can be reproduced by using layers, shifting a few of them backwards in time by small increments. Be warned, it's not as original as you think, it's been used in quite a few other tracks (Dinka - Zero Altitude, Jaytech - Delta, and Mr. Sam feat. Claud9 - Cygnes use the same effect). ;D

S3C 2009-06-23 23:09:56

just listened to Time Without. I shall write my thoughts as I listen.

Like the bass texture, but I think it could overall be stronger. Good panning effects on the that one synth, when that next rhythmic instrument came in, the atmosphere instantly brought me back to one of the port levels on Vectorman 1 XD. I like how you start with the transparent sounds, and gradually bring in a airy pad. Would have personally preferred a lushier sounding one, to fill out the mix with a bit more warmth, kinda like the buildup in your instrumental thingy track you released back in November.

my main beef would have to be at the :43 mark, that tone right there seems out of place, the transition to that part was a bit to abrupt. Perhaps make the pad more apparent prior to the drop part? builds up back nicely though.

Really cool melody around 1:30ish, good work from here dude. Maybe once you flesh it out more replicate the melody in the bassline. A good melody like that needs more spotlight IMO.

peace

Karco 2009-06-23 23:09:56

Well. Thanks for taking the time to critique both of these. :D

First of all, keep in mind this is just a basic blueprint of the track, this isn't the final structure in any way at all. ;D So don't worry about the :43 thing, this was just so I had something reasonable to send around.

A lusher pad can be done. It's made up of two layers, a shining bitcrushed layer and a warmer layer beneath, I could just change levels.

Interesting thoughts about the lead, I basically wrote it off as bad-sounding ever since I humored myself in putting it together. I think I like it now though. I might see how much work I can get done on this one very soon. :)

Thanks for the thoughts, on both tracks!