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Poor Mans Musica Box

by Mr Sandbags

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Never Tell

Uploaded June 2, 2009 8:49pm.

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1996

Honestly I have no idea where this came from or how.

I was messing with Omnisphere patches and came across a lovely, flutey, breathy sound that put me in mind of the scenes inside the monolith at the end of 2001. I setup a Rytme pattern to play it.

Then I came across this buzzing insectivoid noise that got into my head, so I use Rytme to layer this in.

Then I came across this twisted, febrile, sound like my mind being stretched to fit over a Mobius strip. Elysium turned out to be better for generating a pattern for this.

But it needed something rhythmic to hang on. I used Stylus RMX to generate a beat. Using chaos designer and an edit group to echo the snare only. I couldn’t decide if it sounded better in front or behind. I’m not sure how well that part works.

I’ve used a little bit of Audio Damage Replicant and Expert Sleepers Little Spacey but they’re (for me at least) relatively subtle effects on this track.

In a sense this track is a bit of a sketch really. I had it in mind to bounce the Omnisphere parts and chop them up and re-use them to create a better arrangement and the beat clearly needs work. But it’s more my style right now to move on.

Let me know what you think!

sinuata said April 13, 2010 4:11pm

also excellent... My favourite tracks of yours seem to occupy a space somewhere between the artificial/synthetic and the organic.

Guest said September 25, 2009 6:52pm

Listening to all of this was like hearing a great album. Can't wait to try the sequencer!

glu said July 29, 2009 11:31pm

still hiding.

yelyah said July 15, 2009 5:04am

wonderful use of textures and very cinematic as others have said :)

glu said June 14, 2009 4:56pm

*hides*

eshar said June 12, 2009 3:02am

Suspenceful...with ambient and cinematic overtones. One to really get the imagination working.

VIVIAN CIRCLE said June 4, 2009 5:44pm

Atmospheric with a world beauty.

kirklynch said June 4, 2009 1:45pm

Wow- There should be a film to go with this. I'm not going to see it alone though!! Great sounds

Gumbo said June 4, 2009 7:44am

Sounds good here! It turns my sunny green garden into the Outback!!

Mr Sandbags said June 2, 2009 10:03pm

Thanks for the kind words folks :)

Guest said June 2, 2009 9:51pm

I won't. I'd be too scared.

mmi said June 2, 2009 9:49pm

Weee! We might have to rename the site to frighttone.com

Guest said June 2, 2009 9:42pm

Eerie. (Reminds me a little of the soundtrack of Diablo...or rather it's in that ilk. Very cool pc game...the music really made it for me).

Chris McGrath said June 2, 2009 9:39pm

love the sounds!

glu said June 2, 2009 8:55pm

wait that didn't sound right.. i meant between your music and MMi's not sleeping between you two.. wow, how bromantic

glu said June 2, 2009 8:54pm

Okay, between you and mmi I think I might need to start sleeping with a stuffed animal at night

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