Great performance, but also interesting to see the Coles 4038 mics used in this configuration and application.

^ my favourite piece, that one.

With the general direction of my current musical interests it made sense to do my first complete listen of an Enya album (Watermark).

It's alright, mainly alternating between movie soundtrack and videogame menu music in that there is no clear beginning or end to the tracks. Sometimes it's like I'm waiting for something extra to happen - not sure if I want them to be more poppy or more mysterious. Not absent of time-and-genre-typical cheese moments - the pan flute in "Exile" most obviously - but steers clear of the worst of it.

Worth investigating how this develops over later albums.

Yes - Relayer. Some times you need some OG nerd music.

Mercyful Fate - The Beginning. The best. What else can you say?

kokorodoko wrote: Sun Oct 29, 2023 7:20 am

kokorodoko wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:42 am

pachinko-devil wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:03 amHell yeah, I love tracker music. Trackers are how I first learned how to write music,.

Got any tips? I have a tracker program - can't remember which one, a more recent but styled after the classics - but like what is the baseline for getting to actually do something in them?

OpenMPT is the one.

OpenMPT is good. When it was just "modplug tracker" back in the early 00's, I used it a loooot.

Pre-YouTube I would say the best way to learn is to find other tracker files from https://modarchive.org/ and just start looking through them. With MPT in particular, I'm not sure if it has it's own native format, so pay attention to what format you're downloading from the site. .xm .it and .mod files for instance have their own ways to handle samples and effects. I'd default to .it (Impulse Tracker) format, personally. There's still probably some use in approaching it this way, but I'd say start looking through some video tutorials.

My preferred tracker is Renoise now. $70 for a life-time license is awesome. I made this album (http://servicemodel.bandcamp.com/album/retrigger) with it back in 2018, but haven't returned to it in a while. I'll still mess around with it here and there. Someday I'll do something with it again.

pachinko-devil wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:41 amI made this album (http://servicemodel.bandcamp.com/album/retrigger) with [Renoise]

Haha, my kind of thing.

And thanks. I'll go poking.

kokorodoko wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:43 pm

pachinko-devil wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:41 amI made this album (http://servicemodel.bandcamp.com/album/retrigger) with [Renoise]

Haha, my kind of thing.

And thanks. I'll go poking.

But I was thinking specifically of getting samples and such. Do you just snatch them off random tracks? (that's what I'm thinking)

Necros - Dirty Walk

chiiiilll

Brat - Chain Pain

Good metal song.