In The Ocean Of Night

Mr Sandbags

The title came to me as I was listening to the track and was reminded of looking through Savage’s telescope at a starry sky and us being completely unable to figure out how to get it aligned :)

The title itself is from a Gregory Benford sci-fi novel I’m rather fond of.

This is the second track made using my latest Reaktor instrument ‘Xylo’. This time it’s using a music-box sample with the speed of each voice being modified over time using an LFO.

If you want to see what Xylo looks like have a gander at the short video I made.

I spent quite a long time tweaking the MIDI score Xylo is playing. It’s basically 3 notes G, A, D spread across several octaves because I liked how they sounded.

This time I added TimeFreezer to a return track and automated it’s pitcher and freeze controls and I’m using PanStation again, one on Xylo and one on TimeFreezer.

PSP VintageWarmer2 and Eos round out the team.