I guess I am dried up already... 11th day, and I am stuck... I actually did 3 reditions... first one didn't sound right, heading no where... dumped... second rendition was crap... dumped... finally settling for this ambient-ish one. Not ace, as I hoped it to be :S but time ran out and I'll have to post so no looking back... bad mix though :( I wish I had more time for this one... So here's DAY 11 of COMMONTONES:

<<棉花糖>>
"Nuages de Sucrerie de Coton"


Using the KORG Radias again, recorded loop on KP3... added the guitar drone in post... and a little Plogue Bidule synthesis...

Picture of my favourite tree at TFP again... lovely healthy leaves...

I was exploring Remedy1.1 by KeytoSound. The first picture attached is an overall look at the patch designed for this session. It's not really a "complete song" perse but rather just a session to toy with the Remedy1.1 soft synth featured on Matrixsynth. It's a free download so why not? :) Perhaps just take it as a "work-in-progress" and drum beats and other layers can be added later on to complete this song. Basically, the Remedy1.1 is doing the main riff. The interface is straight forward and we tweak around to "design" the sound we want... much like a hardware synth. The filters are quite prudent in my opinion, but I like the harshness of it and also the subtlety of it's modifications to the sound. It's rather warm, considering that it's a soft synth. These are just general impressions I've gotten from first and only use of the Remedy1.1... I am sure I'll discover more if I spend more time with it. I've also used Crystal synth to do the underlying higher register ambient synths. The synths are controlled by Plogue Bidule's sequencers. The drum sounds are created via a analog drum synths doing hi-hat and also an analog kit; all plug-ins in Plogue Bidule. The main sequencer controls the hi-hats stuff and a MIDI Particle Arpegiator controlling the analog drum kit. In the second picture below, we can see portions of Crystal synth and the MIDI Particle Arpegiator in action.

As for the rest, I'll spare the details here. Below is an outlook of how the Remedy1.1 looks like and the third picture attached shows how it looks in Plogue Bidule in terms of user interface:

After trying out the Remedy1.1, I am quite keen to try their next product NexSyn. It looks like a bigger, more all rounded soft synth. I like the fact that they had designed the software to be as direct as how we would want to use a hardware synth. Crystal synths lacks this sensitivity in terms of user interface in my opinion. Anyway, I had fun with it, that's the bottom line.

Again I stress it's not a "song" and should not be listen to like I composed this to "please" listeners. It's strictly an exploration, experimentation, what not. Doodling with Plogue Bidule to hear how the Remedy1.1 will perform. The track is recorded straight off using Plogue Bidule's recorder. It's not mastered except for amplifications. I would suggest using a headphone to listen to this track as there's some ultra-frequencies (via rebuilder) as well as very subtle underlying micro-melodies.

Here's the demo track: RHemedy.

Feel free to click on the pictures to look at the patchings in details if you are into Plogue Bidule.

Compositions I did for a play by Action Theatre called "EVERY THING BUT THE BRAIN". These are just some of it from the 80 cues I have designed (but my effort wasted as they are all either cut or badly treated, anyway I've detached from the show; don't like the compromise). For more info of the description of each track plus photos taken during the composition and design process, do visit HERE.

Here are the three songs:
EVER AFTER
BEDTIME STORIES
EINSTEIN'S BRAIN