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Aug 23, 2009
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After reviewing the minutes of music I’ve made up until now, I’ve determined that, when I use reason and record, I prefer the songs that started with a pad and then worked up from there. So, I grabbed a bunch more pads and did exactly that today. I got pretty excited when I found one that sounded like what Mogwai used in “Moses? I amn’t,” which I’ve embedded below for reference:

Moses? I Amn’t - Mogwai

I also wanted to try to drop rock-drums in, and of course a live bass, because it’s a lot of fun to play my bass now that I can have other instruments to play it with. I used some heavy effects on the strings, and they sort-of work; really, the whole affair could use a more careful hand mixing, but that’s what later revisions are for.


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Jun 28, 2009
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On Friday, I got my Record beta invite, and last night I fired it up and wrote a song. Record is like reason, only you can record audio from instruments that you plug into your soundcard. So, I grabbed a drum loop, put down an initial synth melody, and then plugged my bass in to see what I could add. And then before I knew it, it was 2AM and I still hadn’t really mixed anything yet, but I had a ton of tracks. I really enjoyed making this one; the more I played, the better each note felt, and I’m pretty happy with the overall sound. Like, so happy that I might have just thrown all my more productive plans out the window in favor of playing my bass more and trying to understand the massive soundboard that record emulates…