I have been promising this since April, but it looks like it is finally coming to fruition, the dance record is coming together. As I mentioned in this post, I believe the album in its current form, if not dead, is getting close, so instead of waiting for the full thing to be done, I’ll release it in multiple EP’s. Below is a sample that sounds like nothing that will be on the record.

I’ll be honest with you, I went into the studio with a melody in my head and instead of making a dance track I basically started wondering what the capabilities of my new computer were, so I loaded up a bunch of ridiculously large samples and went to town.  The system did not even blink.  Give me a break on some of the rhythms, this is about 90 minutes of work, so it’s not perfect, but I guess if you’re looking for a guy to pay a lot of money to write a score, I could do that too.  I have to admit, doing this was fun, it’s always a fun new challenge to dabble in genres. 

Consider this the song that’s announcing that another release is imminent–this is a pronouncement!

The EP is Coming

Just to warn you, this is a post for gearheads. As you may or may not know, I am obsessed with recording gear, and fairly opinionated about what is good. I used to be the biggest Logic apologist until Apple ruined that application by making it too easy, and then discovered that ProTools actually does sound better. Technically, PT sounding better than Logic cannot be supported by any science. If you look at the specs, Logic should sound better–but ask anyone who has worked on PT HD compared with Logic, if their honest, they’ll probably agree PT is better.

This became most poignant for me when I tried to run Logic 7 as the front end of my PT HD using the ESB in Logic. I think I am one of the 19 people in the world who actually got this to work to immediately discover that it was impossible to work in the two environments because Logic and PT sounded so different. To even slightly mix any of the TDM or RTAS instruments in PT required that you EQ’d the crap out of the whole sound to make it mesh with all the muddy sounding stuff coming from the Logic side. I learned PT, and while its MIDI is still wonky, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. I have come to the conclusion that many PT haters are simply that, haters.

Because I am too lazy to actually write a real blog, I recorded a video blog. These will be appearing with more frequency, however, because I still occasionally enjoy writing, you will see some written blogs in the future.