Neutral Steel

seraph

Neutral Steel is a song for lap steel guitar and drums. It reminds me of the style of Ry Cooder or Bill Frisell but with a twist: the tuning of the guitar is based on the Wyshnegradsky's scale with neutral thirds.

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blue hell · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:49 am Post subject:

Nice one Carlo, also followed the link to the neutral vocoder song (had not heard it before) funny how the scale seem to work different in both songs ... anyway, I liked both!

xjscott · Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Posts: 232 Location: Appalachia

Good piece. It's really nice to hear the expressive use of bends combined with new tunings.

And it sure doesn't sound like Wyshnegradsky!! Very Happy

seraph · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:25 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:30 pm Post subject:

I'm getting old Crying or Very sad

I forgot ...

seraph · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

xjscott · Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Posts: 232 Location: Appalachia

seraph · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:06 am Post subject:

xjscott · Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Posts: 232 Location: Appalachia

But Carlo, Omnisphere is 8 part multitimbral! You don't have to do all that fancy stuff, just one instance will handle it fine. Unless there's something I'm missing. (Probably so, I bet there is a non-disableable full reverb running separately on each channel and throttling the CPU rather than a sensible instrument design with send busses?)

BTW, drives me nuts how many other plugins are not multitimbral, there's no excuse for that, it's just lazy to leave that out.

(This is all theoretical by the way, the piece sounded great so clearly there was no reason to do it any other way.)

seraph · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:42 am Post subject:

Jeff
it is a single instance (look at the attached picture). I didn't even think of that option because I couldn't have played it in real time anyway.
Plus, I did not have to run LMSO along Logic (I know you would disagree with that Wink

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xjscott · Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Posts: 232 Location: Appalachia

The way you are doing it is the best way for what you are doing.

I am just gear-talking at this point, idle conversation...

Omnisphere screen shot VERY helpful and interesting - it has the aux sends there presumably to the fx channels, so only one reverb is needed for all 8 multitimbral instances. YES. That is the correct way to build a synth. Not so many softsynths get this basic stuff right. No matter how fast someone's computer is, running a whole bunch of identical reverbs is never as good for the CPU as running just one. I like that interface with the rack on one tab and the individual instruments each on their own.

seraph · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:51 am Post subject:

Spectrasonics yesterday released an Omnisphere upgrade.
Last night I was listening to some of the many new available sounds. Some of them are really a blast. Really inspiring Exclamation

DrJustice · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:25 pm Post subject:

I really enjoyed that - Bravo Carlo! Very Happy

DJ
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seraph · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

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seraph · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:14 am Post subject:

I had never heard of the Troll car.