News / Anatomy of a Remix
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Cthulu Sleeps fan cover
Read more . . . →I'm a pretty big fan of cover songs given the fact that I just released a cover song of This Is Our Night on my own record label. Here is a cover of the deadmau5 song Cthulu Sleeps. Pretty quality work if you ask me!
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Nyce Remix Project done!
Read more . . . →Last night I submitted my remix for Moguai's competition with Novation, Ableton, Soundcloud and mau5trap. I may later post a Remix Tutorial like I did with my other remix tutorials. I went through a few different creative stages to create this remix and it might make an interesting topic.
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Little Boots - Earthquake Remix: breakdown and some issues
Read more . . . →Last fall the British pop singer known as Little Boots held a remix competition for her song "Earthquake." I was very excited to jump into this project for practice but I immediately ran into some problems. You can grab the Earthquake stems here. My first problem stemmed (pardon the pun) from the choice of files that were provided. Unfortunately the vocals arrived as one giant stem reducing the possibilities to remix the incredible harmonies within the vocal track. I tried to work around this limitation by using Melodyne, the vocal tuning software. This would have allowed me to make different...
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Tour of The Lab
Read more . . . →By Alex Massaad Here is a video tour of the space where I experiment with audio:
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How to use ReWire to record from Ableton Live into Logic Pro
Read more . . . →By Alex Massaad I just finished making a tutorial video that teaches how to use Ableton Live and its plugins as an instrument within Apple's Logic Pro 9. This is acomplished using the ReWire protocol (link to wikipedia description) to stream audio and timing information between the two programs. Make sure to watch the video fullscreen and also make sure you are playing it in HD if your machine is capable. Related articles by Zemanta Apple updates Logic Pro, Express (tuaw.com)
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Vibrasphere Remix Breakdown
Read more . . . →By Alex Massaad A few weeks ago I made a remix of a song: Its by a band that I've been a really big fan of for a couple years, Vibrasphere. You can check out the link above to get caught up with the song I'm about to describe and break down. In this post I'm going to explain how I put together this arrangement, as well as some details on how I'm configuring Ableton Live to play around with the samples before I get to the arrangement stage. I save a lot of time by playing around with musical...
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Vibrasphere Remix - Wasteland (firewire coldplaysucks re-edit) download
Read more . . . →Download an mp3 of my remix of Vibrapshere's Wasteland. I have uploaded it to zippyshare, for the time being. Download Vibrasphere - Wasteland (firewire coldplaysucks re-edit) here. You can also check out a video of the remix in Ableton here: (video offline)
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Anatomy of a Remix – Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia
Read more . . . →Anatomy of a remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia - coldplaysucks.com. I have added the synth parts and my own kick sound. This concludes my second day on the remix.
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Anatomy of a Remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia
Read more . . . →Here is a quick screen capture of where I'm at so far in this remix. The first stage involved setting up all my samples in time. The vocal was really tricky on this one, and took a lot of playing around with to get it timed properly but perhaps you won't have trouble with it. Next I was trying to replace the first synth which, as it turns out, is very complex. There are many effects on Tiesto's final version. The files in the remix pack already have been processed with reverb, delays and (too much) side-chain compression by Tiesto...
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Three 6 Mafia feat. Tiësto - Feel It (Official Music Video)
Read more . . . →Now for the official video: Feel free to check out the later videos that break down my remix of Feel It.