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balistic · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:00 am

http://bprince.com/workbench/balistic-BattleTrack.mp3

This is a little track I did for a ghettotech track battle (I won! Yay!). Basically I had a limited set of samples to work with, and two weeks to come up with a song using those instruments. The samples kinda sucked . . . the drum kit was good, but none of the tonal stuff was great. So instead of being inspired by the samples, it turned into me writing a melody or playing a chord and then trying to find one of the samples that sounded passable for that part.

Overall though, I'm pretty happy with how it came out, and I really didn't expect to win, so that was a nice surprise.
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ElfGirlKimmy · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:03 am

That's actually really cool. Nice work Balistic.
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balistic · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:21 am

Thanks.
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Max · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:02 pm

nice track! congrats for the first place too Wink

Naeem · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:48 pm

hey balistic. congrats Smile

and beautiful track as always!
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[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

Funkeee!! Can never confuse that balistic sound.
2:56 - that disco synth is sweet as hell! Its tune lays down really well on top of repeating chords.

Nilwort · member Member # Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Posts: 319

Just when I was about to say the melody was repetitive, it broke into a fresh groove. Nice track all-around.

balistic · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:12 am

Thanks guys. My first record is supposed to come out in the next few weeks. I'll give a shout when it does.
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Loki · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:20 pm

Dude, that's pretty sweet!
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Gort · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:26 pm

Peter? Peter!! Where you been, man? (shoot me an email or message)

Nice piece Brian - put together real nicely - phresh! I know you've mentioned it before, but what are using to compose?
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Lunatique · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:01 pm

Brian uses Orion Platinum, and he inputs stuff with a mouse in the piano roll--which is an amazing thing considering how funky/groovy/melodic some of his stuff is.

I like the bleepy little melody thing--did you tweak the midi data for the note bend on it, or is it part of the preset parameter?

balistic · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:17 pm

thanks guys.

Lunatique: Orion has an automation channel called the T-Slide that lets you do easy bends to whole semitones without having to fiddle with a proper pitchbend. It's something they introduced fairly recently that saves me a lot of time.

I've also got a lowpass filter on the instrument linked to an LFO, to get that bendy funk/disco sound.

The sample itself was just a middle C on a piano.
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Francis · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:24 pm

kewl piece! I don't get the sense at all that you only had x number of samples to work with.
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[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

balistic, it already has been liek 2 years that your record "will come out in a couple weeks." COME ON!!!!!!!! Very Happy