Grem

17 hours ago, bitflipper said:

old-school sampling with a razor blade and splice block

I still can't  wrap my head around that. Knowing what they did,  I can visualize it. Having worked with tape myself, (just cutting taping songs together) it's hard for me to imagine taking one track, (maybe even in the middle of the tape!) from one section of a song and splicing that back in to a new part!! And knowing that there was NO ROOM FOR ERROR!!! NONE!!

That took some nads.

And you were working with upper tier artists that you didn't want to tell them you f'd up and they have to do the whole song over because the tape is ruined. 

18 hours ago, craigb said:

I see what you did there!

I didn't!!

But I thought I smelt something funny!!

I liked it. Listening on a cheap Bluetooth speaker here at work it doesn't sound bad at all .  The clarinets maybe a little too much up front, but other than that it works!! Good job.

7 hours ago, noynekker said:

jazz scat

That's where my thinking went.

1 hour ago, abacab said:

R u guyz talking about drumz? This thread is about EZ Keys, LOL!

You trying to sell me something?!!!

Great guitar sound and chord progression on the beginning of "Life Sentence". Nice solo in there too. I hear some Beatles and Yes influences in there. But it stays unique.  Real nice effort.

"Set Me Free" starting off real good. 

Yes I enjoyed this also. Good video. Agree with Lynn about the closeups of the guy playing the guitar(?).... well throw a few of the girls in there too!!

Good catchy tune. Good playing.  Good mix and production.  Was that you playing the drums too?

Vocals needed. Agree with Nigel.

Excellent playing. Good production. But mostly a real good groove going there. I like it a lot. Had me tapping my feet and swaying my body.

 Nice song. Great playing. Good mix. On my Bluetooth speaker here at work the hihat was a little too loud and really stood out. That didn't stop me from listening!

Enjoyed the video Nigel. Again it's a top knotch effort on your part.really nice sax solo. Catchy song. Again, top knotch production on the music too.

Amp Room is a good plugin. For $75 you don't get as many amps as say Amplitube would give you, or fx, or speakers. But what you get sounds good.

Boom! Is right!! Must be some quality samples.... from WWII? Evrything was what 2bit 4bit back then? LOL!! Wait, it was all analog!!! So the hiss, scratches... 

That looks good!! Up on stage with that would give a nice impression.

I do have Dream Pop. I think I might even have HipHop too. But I was pointing out to others who may have thought like me that the four extra channels were addition mics or placements of mics, that it is not what it is. 

 I am not saying that the synths sound bad, or that it's a bad thing. I am on my phone right now and can't audition the samples to decide if I want that or not. So... no instant buy.

When I bought Dream Pop, I knew what I was getting. With this I automatically assumed (my bad) that it was extra mics.

That Kick and Snare Expansion looked good. Each kick and snare has four extra channels added.

However, those four extra channels are not from the kick or snare, but from a synth. It is advertised as four extra channels for each kick and snare, leading me to think/believe that it was four different mics positions/placements. Further reading informed me that it was sounds derived from synth modules to allow you to "layer" the extra channels with the acoustic drums. 

So what I though was gonna be an instant buy has me thinking... maybe not.

7 hours ago, Frank said:

My understanding is you have to register the serial into your account. Thats all.

Activation is not needed here.

Yes, and once registered the WUP clock starts ticking, even if not authorized/installed.

1 hour ago, abacab said:

how many different articulations would you need on a virtual instrument to get it right???

At least 100gb worth!! And that's just the nickle plated jingles. For the brass and bronze jingles.... whew! We talking big libs!!

Then we gotta take into consideration the articulations needed for the tambourine head. Mule skin, sheep skin, plastic, coated, uncoated.......

21 hours ago, abacab said:

 

Here I thought this was going to be a spoof on tambourine playing!! But he was serious!!

[edit] I never knew there "advanced" techniques of tambourine!! So I did learn something!!

I use BiaB like Mark does. For inspiration.  I have the Ultra Pak and like Mark stated, for what I do with it , it sounds great. 

I also just enjoy picking a style, and just throwing chords at it with no rhyme or reason and am constantly surprised at what it comes up with and good it sounds!!

Yes you could probably use the tracks it generates in a final version of a song. Lots of musicians that play live use BiaB as back trks.

20 hours ago, John Maar said:

waiting for EZKeys v2 with a scalable GUI.

Yes. And a editable Grid like Ezb and Ezd3

Nice playing for sure. 

The holes? Did they really make that much a difference? I am kinda doubting that. 

Lampshade Traffic

1 hour ago, Triangleman said:

Turtle Beach sound card (that I got after my Sound Blaster)

You had a Pinnie?

Thanks for the listen @AndyB01

Thanks for the comments @Larry T.

Thanks to all who took time to listen.

9 hours ago, noynekker said:

Like the vocals a lot too, is that Grem ?

 No, that's not me. It was a fellow from England named Joshua. And actually his melody and approach is different than what I had envisioned.  I think he did a great job. 

I tried to get it touch with him many times after this song but never could. I was hoping we could collaborate again.