"Sidechain Sideshow"

"Sidechain Sideshow" [mp3 removed]

After watching a demo on how to make hard style bass using sidechaining in Reason I tried my own version of the effect, using the hardware compressor I bought pre-owned a few months ago. It's not a big deal: a drum beat in one synth plugged into the sidechain port automatically raises and lowers the compression on a sustained bass note so that it appears to throb or pump. It's basically another way to make a tremolo sequence. (The Reason demo went on to add midi-synced LFO filtering to get a "wonky" bass sound--I didn't do that here.) Anyway, the effect can be heard on the "chorus" part that comes in at :17. Not dramatic but it does deepen the sound of the synth.

"Rinso Piano"

"Rinso Piano" [mp3 removed]

Short piano piece written by my household robot, who wants very much to be human (and mambo).

Previous piano works:

"Piano Three Hands" [mp3 removed]

"Reel for Omniverters (piano version)" [mp3 removed]

"Enigmatic Rap (Piano Version)" [mp3 removed]

"Subharmonic Duo (Piano)" [mp3 removed]

Travis Hallenbeck Remix

Travis Hallenbeck "Untitled 3" (Tom Moody Remix) [5.7 MB mp3]

This song by Travis Hallenbeck was made with Sound Club, a piano roll style music editor for PC. I rearranged the order of the parts slightly (by messing with the audio file) and added one echo-y beat. I really like the tune and the samples he's using here. This and a couple of his other Sound Club compositions can be found on his website.