2018 was unusual year, as I feel something has changed. Unlike in previous years, which were mostly all the same, bare from occasional musical enterprises.
2018 roundup
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Pure Trance Mix 2018-12-21
The time is running out, but just before Christmas holiday I managed to upload this mix for you to enjoy 🙂
STILL ALIVE Trance Mix 2018-12-09
I didn’t have much time for DJing this year, but still can do this. And want to. Check this powerful trance mix recorded after 8-month break.
The making of: Inverse Universe 2018
Well, this one will be short.
The track is a rework of my early production from 2013, which had awesome harmonies but totally sucked at technicals. Thanks to my friend, who requested “remix pack” for this tune, it survived the system crash and I was able to reproduce it.
Black Friday loot
With new job and new tracks signed I felt like burning some more money this year. So here comes the new software:
Chromaphone 2
This unique synth simulates the behavior of physical object oscillating, which creates realistic sounds of strings, drums, bells as well as some oddball contraptions. While modulation options are somehwat limited, it works great under any settings. Awesome plucks and tube bass out of the box – just can’t go wrong with Chromaphone. While I don’t need Chromaphone for any particular purpose, it’s great plugin for organic sounds of all kind.
AAS also made some plugins for Ableton Live, especially Corpus which I use every now and then. You will be able to hear some great Corpus bass working as a main motiff for my upcoming “Meteor Ride” track.
Got this thing from JRR shop for 75 USD, normal price is 200 USD.
Orb Composer
Now that’s a big deal – automagical orchestral music composer based on artificial intelligence. It’s like having a classical-trained musican next to me: “Just write me a string section in G minor.” – snap. “Nah, another one” – snap. “Or maybe in C minor. Or faster and higher, but solo” – everything in split second. “Now, add flute accompaniament to it” – snap.
However, things get really interesting when I route this thing into state-of-art synths, utilizing complex sound design and perfect mixdown. By now I can make all the things just sound good.
The making of: Dreams of Grandeur
Make Noise 0-Coast Wavetable Pack for Serum
What can one do with this semi-modular contraption? Nah, not the music. Sample the hell out of it!
This new wavetable pack explores a variety of controls and timbres 0-Coast has to offer. Some of them are simple knob sweeps of high quality, others feature aperiodic and overall bizarre shapes and sets. These are simple .wav files, so should work in other synths and programs, but were made using Serum. Enjoy!
Download (Google Drive, 56 MB, .zip)
Feel free to share the link as long as you feature me in the credits. This took quite a while to make, you know.
And yes, I’m going to make a track with all these sometime this year.
