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Music! (non-DOOM related)

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By the request of a certain forum member who's just listened to some of my music, I decided to make a thread...

I work with professional music software and such, and have done so for about seven years; my stuff is all over the place, but it primarily falls within the genre of electronic music, from melodic ambient to harsh industrial and dnb. These days I'm working with the Reason 2.5 beta, although I recently acquired a copy of Cubase SX that I'm gonna start getting familiar with. :)

The main page for my music is http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/ ; if you want to hear the best stuff right away, hit the "Albums" link and get everything from Building Ruins (my Reason-based material) and Everything is Being Perfected (my slightly older Impulse Tracker-based material).

As I'm a lazy bastard, there's some more recent stuff that hasn't been added to the links yet but is on the page, so here's some direct links:

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/recca.mp3 is a hard techno remix of the boss music from the NES game Recca;
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/shrooms.mp3 is a ridiculous, cheery happy hardcore remix of some music from the SNES RPG Terranigma;
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/mrfunk.mp3 is a lounge/funk remix of a song from the Famicom game Wagyan Land 3;
and http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/Ubik-AmongstFoundations.mp3 is the last original track I finished, an ultra-harsh drill&bass work inspired by the works of RS3.

There's also an unfinished work-in-progress track at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/dnb1.mp3 that's even harsher than the last one. Feedback is appreciated :)

Enjoy!

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I've listened to some of it already and I honestly think that it is really good stuff.


Might we see a Doom remix from you someday?

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I listened to "Everything Is Being Perfected" once so far, no opinion yet but it sounds decent. I'll have to give it a few more listens, but I just discovered the album Dead Cities by Future Sound of London and I don't think I'll be listening to anything else for the next few weeks =)

I should dig up some of the old drumtracks I did a while ago...

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Little Faith said:

What computer proggies do you use?


Up until December 2001 I used an old DOS proggy called Impulse Tracker. Then I switched to Reason, using SoundForge for postproduction work. I just acquired a copy of Cubase SX and need to learn how to use that as well (part of what I'm going to do is ReWire Reason to it, so Reason will generate the sounds but Cubase will do the sequencing and VST effects).

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This is some l337 shite! Some of it reminded me of Unreal 1's soundtrack while others reminded me of anime-influenced games I've played. And some tracks reminded me of some good, old fashioned Turbografx 16 titles I've played...Ah, sweet bliss. I love this stuff.

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I've never used Cubase. What all features does it offer? Pregnant With Worms and I use Acid music to record in our band Testikill. It's a pretty rad program. I recommend it.

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we have to abuse acid's capabilities quite a bit to get our particular sound, but it does basic recording and mixing very well, and when fucked with can be a very special tool. we have cubase but don't use it, as we're more organic. i do some pretty damn harsh electronica for my solo project, though.

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Cubase amounts to a very advanced MIDI sequencer, more or less. It probably has the most versatile sequencing capabilities of almost any professional music program out there, plus it supports VST effects and ReWire (which means you can use Reason with it :).

Oh, and an update: The new song is finished! It's at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ubik/Ubik-Mammon.mp3 if you want to listen to it :D

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Hey PPW/Dingus Khan, any way you'd be able to link to some'f yer stuff? I wanna hear it pwease!

Ooh, more Ubik music! Yay!

And Job, do you have any idea how to convert Unreal music to an audio file? The closest I've ever gotten to listening to the music without having to play the game is downloading some player that reads those .umx files . . .

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Little Faith said:

What computer proggies do you use?

Heh, I know this wasn't directed at me, but what the heck...

Most of the stuff I use is hardware, but I'm looking to progress toward using software more and more. Problem is, it's a rare piece of software that can compete with a decent piece of hardware, and the few good pieces of software are WAY out of my price range. Anyway, I have some pictures of my old basement setup from a year ago:

1) Main area.
2) Same thing, a little to the right of the first one.
3) Same thing, from opposite corner.
4) More stuff.

The keyboard's a Korg Trininty ProX 88-key, the drumkits are Korg Electribe and Boss Dr. Groove, the mixer's a Mackie 1402-VLZ, and there's some other equipment lying around which isn't in the pictures. I currently have all the same stuff, it's just in my room now and I haven't taken new pictures yet. I'm looking to sell the mixer and keyboard, mixer because I don't record full bands anymore (pic and pic from when I did) and keyboard because its sequencer/MIDI playback support disables all synth FX, thus it's useless unless I record it "live", one track at a time. The music does play back in sequencer/MIDI mode, but without the synth FX it might as well be a $400 keyboard instead of a $4,000 keyboard.

Software I use at the moment is SoundForge 5 (primarily for recording) and Acid 3 (primarily for mixing). I have CoolEdit 2000, but have yet to learn how to utilize it's mastering capabilities. I'll occasionally work with MIDI in CakeWalk 9, but that's only due to lack of a better [windows] MIDI editor available.

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Nice series of desks, Lüt. I also like the green lamp. It owns. :)

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