Rain Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Like, you buy a synth, and you mess with it and you find yourself with a new song or a new cover idea... That's what happened here, when I got that UAD bundle. Songs keep pouring out of that Onyx synth. I love that thing. So I ended up with a cover of one of my favorite 80's pop song, albeit one I would never had imagined covering - it pretty much just materialized in front of me. But there's this one part I am struggling with so I've been experimenting with it - and allowing inspiration to take me wherever it would. I just jam in Logic, you know... It doesn't really work (I think) but I had so much fun trying to evoke that The Cure/The Crow type of soundscape from memory... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Sounds good to me (If I had a midi file for the song I'd probably be doing all sorts of wierd stuff to it). On 1/19/2025 at 5:29 PM, Rain said: Like, you buy a synth, and you mess with it and you find yourself with a new song or a new cover idea... That's what happened here, when I got that UAD bundle. Songs keep pouring out of that Onyx synth. I love that thing. Expand For me, it's just whenever I experiment with a sound I haven't poked at before, though getting something entirely new (rare) does it too. I'm still going thru that process with Z3TA2+ even after years of exploring it, sometimes with it's presets, sometimes modifying a sound or even starting from "scratch" on it (or random!). When I am stuck on some other project, I also do things like clearing it's events / clips, saving as a totally new folder/file, and randomly dropping audio (or midi) clips from my vast "sounds" folder , then rearranging, deleting, altering, etc., until something vaguely musical begins to take shape. Sometimes it even turns into an actual song, like some of the recent ones on my bandcamp (in my signature or the threads over in the Songs forum). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadfoot Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Love it Rain! I don't know if I've heard the song before, but it sounds great! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 1/20/2025 at 8:59 AM, Leadfoot said: Love it Rain! I don't know if I've heard the song before, but it sounds great! Expand Here's the original. It's won a few music top whatever contests and, I must confess, I just love that synth sound! Personally, I think Rain's made it his own and rocked it up a bit! Me likey! 😊 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Joad Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Very cool, I really like the way you slowed it down a little👍🏼 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 (edited) On 1/20/2025 at 12:24 PM, craigb said: Here's the original. It's won a few music top whatever contests and, I must confess, I just love that synth sound! Personally, I think Rain's made it his own and rocked it up a bit! Me likey! 😊 Expand Thank you, guys. It's good to get feedback from my peers. My cat doesn't seem to care much for my music. I was 12 when the song came out, and I'd just discovered that there was a world of music besides Elvis Presley - and I quickly became a metalhead. Of course back then, it was sacrilegious to listen to other genres, and stuff like Bronski Beat was girl music. It wasn't long before I stopped caring what people said, but back then it was a guilty pleasure. I thought it was a fantastic song. Edited January 26 by Rain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 On 1/26/2025 at 4:05 PM, Rain said: My cat doesn't seem to care much for my music. Expand Neither does my present dog (who isn't really a dog, just a schmoo-alien in a dog costume, who occasionally goes on vacation back to her home planet and leaves the costume behind, which gets lonely and thus acts like an actual dog). One of the things I like about this song is the parts you've got in your song, but also the vocals, which are a type I like (along with some of Yazoo / Alison Moyet, Eurythmics / Annie Lennox, etc). I don't have a useful voice for this kind of thing, but it would be how I would sing if I could. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 On 1/26/2025 at 5:09 PM, Amberwolf said: Neither does my present dog (who isn't really a dog, just a schmoo-alien in a dog costume, who occasionally goes on vacation back to her home planet and leaves the costume behind, which gets lonely and thus acts like an actual dog). One of the things I like about this song is the parts you've got in your song, but also the vocals, which are a type I like (along with some of Yazoo / Alison Moyet, Eurythmics / Annie Lennox, etc). I don't have a useful voice for this kind of thing, but it would be how I would sing if I could. Expand I always say the same about my cat. She's an alien, and she'll take me to her planet when I croak. The vocals are going to be tough. I think I found the angle. I knew I didn't want to do the whole thing falsetto, but the very first bit of the demo I did for it I sang those really high notes, the "cryyyyy" part. Those need to be there. Once I verified that I could hit those, I knew I could just figure out the rest. I must say I don't hate singing as much as I used to - especially since I got the Apollo. I feel that I finally hear myself properly, and singing with the headphones on does not seem to cause me to sing flat anymore. I'm still not a singer, but things are a little better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 On 1/27/2025 at 7:29 AM, Rain said: I always say the same about my cat. She's an alien, and she'll take me to her planet when I croak. Expand JellyBeanThePerfectlyNormalSchmoo will probably not even notice if I croak; she'll just wonder why nobody's giving her any more breb snaks. On 1/27/2025 at 7:29 AM, Rain said: The vocals are going to be tough. I think I found the angle. I knew I didn't want to do the whole thing falsetto, but the very first bit of the demo I did for it I sang those really high notes, the "cryyyyy" part. Those need to be there. Once I verified that I could hit those, I knew I could just figure out the rest. Expand I'll be curious to hear what you do with that. On 1/27/2025 at 7:29 AM, Rain said: I must say I don't hate singing as much as I used to - especially since I got the Apollo. I feel that I finally hear myself properly, and singing with the headphones on does not seem to cause me to sing flat anymore. I'm still not a singer, but things are a little better. Expand My problem is more that I simply don't have a useful voice for what I want to do, and I can't carry a tune in a locked steel box. With many hours of manual tweaking per word (or phrase, if I'm lucky), I can eventually create usable crappy-demo-level vocals, but it's still the wrong voice, even if that was perfect. The kind of stuff I need to be able to sing is like the vocalists I listed before, or like the stuff in my few most recent bandcamp tracks (all using clip libraries) , but what I can actually do is like my tracks "Who?", "Drying Tears", "As He Lay Dying Alone", and the best of them "Back To The World". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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