This track is the result of a collaboration between Richard Courtel and myself. It was entirely produced on KORG’s workstation flagship - OASYS. Richard and myself exchanged either stereo tracks or the whole “project” as an OASYS file, which was made available as download.
All synthesizer and electronic percussion sounds are OASYS sounds. All effects, e.g. Delays, Reverbs, Chorus’, etc. are internal OASYS EFX.
Voices (for example mine) were either recorded with a Brauner Phantom microphone or taken from dedicated sample libraries.
Final mixdown was made with Digital Performer and a little treatment with Sony Oxford EQs.
Based on one of my older tracks recorded together with Ebse, and being available meanwhile on The Headroom Project’s record “Dominus Illuminato Mea” on iTunes, the below posted demo is a remix project together with Richard Courtel. Richard aka “RC” is a French OASYS user who recorded some very nice OASYS demos. Find out a bit more about RC and also about his collaboration with KARO at the end of this entry.
The audio demo has an abrupt end because it is far from being finalised.
Now that I have set up everything new with my MacBook I realised once more how convenient Korg’s OASYS is. Press the button to switch on this instrument and although it needs approximately a minute for boot up, beside that you never get the feeling to sit in front of a computer. Compared to the OASYS and after spending hours for finding the right drivers for Snow Leopard here and there, registrating on several websites, re-registering software, check my iLok and the account, have a look at audioease’s website for new reverb responses, find a firewire cable that is connecting my Apogee Duet with its Firewire 400 port to my MacBook’s Firewire 800 port - I can tell ya, life can be so exciting - I decided that is about time to do what I initially wanted to do - making music.
So I turned on the OASYS and during boot up I got myself - make an educated guess - a Nespresso. After playing thru all my old Combinations I thought it is probably about time to record a new OASYS audio demo. And there was one Combination that I have not played with for a long time. Its name is “Vector Vox pmm”. As usually I assigned chords to the 8 pads and started playing them and moved the Vector Joystick. One of the two used sounds, the pad, consists of three differend programs of which two are factory sounds (I-A039: Arctic Voices and I-B023: Classic Choir) and by moving the VJ I changed their volume ratio and faded between the three sounds. Of course the Joystick could control other parameters as well, just have a look at the subpage “Vector CC” or you could use Vector Envelopes… hm, I just realised how much is there and still not used by me. But I am getting off topic.
The second sound is a combination of a Program named “Nay Kirnberger v2″ using the Kirnberger scale and is getting some support from my good old favourite solo sound. Of course and OASYS is offering so many different ones and in a high quality, I used some of the internal EFXs. This brings me to the recording process itself (find recording chain at the end of this blog entry) - not a single plug in of DP7.1 was used. No EQ and no compression was used, neither in the single channel nor in the master channel. What you hear is the pure signal of OASYS recorded with Apogee’s Duet ADA converter.
“ethereal”
OASYS CMB Bank USER-A 026 Vector Vox pmm
In case you are listening to “ethereal” more then once then my recommendation is get yourself a cup of coffee ;-).
Recoring Chain:
OASYS - Apogee Duet - Motu Digital Perfomer 7.1 - bounced and converted directly to mp3 by using “L.A.M.E.”
what you hear is exactly what was recorded into DP, no Plug Ins (EQs, Compressors, etc.) were used
Addendum:
Screenshot Digital Perfomer 7.1
Nice Feedback is always motivation, something that unfortunately only few people in business know and practice (mostly those are lacking who claim themselves to have “leadership” - but that’s another story). Whatever..
Played a little bit with the above track, added drums, used EQ for the Vector Vox (find EQ setting on above screenshot) and automated the Volume changes, to avoid clipping. Used instruments Korg OASYS and Spectrasonics Stylus RMX.
Korg OASYS User minnkorg was so kind to provide a MIDI file in Supertramp style. Several Wurlitzer sounds were recorded as they are using on board effects. There are HD-1, MOD-7 and KARO sounds for the OASYS versus Roland factory and SRX expansion sounds. Feel free to post any comments.
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The following sounds were used (different order above):
Roland XV
- factory sound User Bank 006
- factory sound User Bank 019
- factory sound User Bank 065
- SRX Expansion 015
OASYS
- KARO Wurlitzer E. Piano 1
- KARO Wurlitzer E. Piano 2
- KARO Wurlitzer E. Piano 3
- MOD-7 Combination
- MOD-7 Combination + EFX
- Program D080
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