Ventilator (ElectroProg - Seismic Catharsis)
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
The Ambient Online Compilation: Volume 6 has just been released. Here is my contribution to the album. I put this together quite quickly (not really surprising, given the minimal nature of the piece), although it felt like the music was assembling itself, beyond my control. The only difference between this and the album version is in the mastering. The track itself is a belated response to a major "lifestyle" event a few years ago.
https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/ventilator
The full album may be found here:-
https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/albu ... n-volume-6
At $9.99 this represents excellent value, featuring 114 tracks, provided by the members of AmbientOnline, and clocking in at over 18 hours!
Machines and Modifiers
recorded/mixed and pre-mastered in EnergyXT2.7 - Mastered in T-Racks 3
Wollo FMERA2
IK Sampletank2
Nugen Stereoizer3
Eventide BlackHole
T-Racks EQ PG
U-He Satin
T-Racks Linear Phase EQ
T-Racks Vintage Equalizer EQP-1A
DR - 10
EDIT: 20230124 I remixed Ventilator in June 2022. I intended to focus on the mix EQ and levelling, particularly of the Sampletank vox., but made a few other changes, too. I took the Sampletank vox., PaulStretched them, and added them back into a new track via Iris2. I added a subtle DUNE bass synth, and then swapped it out for ACE. I removed Stereoizer, and replaced BlackHole with Aether. Then I re-levelled and EQ'd everything, and mastered.
https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/vent ... ks5-master
Audio processing in Audacity/PaulStretch
Recorded and mixed in EnergyXT 2.7
Mastered in T-Racks 5
Wollo FMERA2
IK Sampletank2
ACE
Iris 2
Aether
EQuivocate
U-He Satin
T-Racks Linear Phase EQ
T-Racks Vintage Equalizer EQP-1A
DR - 14
https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/ventilator
The full album may be found here:-
https://ambientonline.bandcamp.com/albu ... n-volume-6
At $9.99 this represents excellent value, featuring 114 tracks, provided by the members of AmbientOnline, and clocking in at over 18 hours!
Machines and Modifiers
recorded/mixed and pre-mastered in EnergyXT2.7 - Mastered in T-Racks 3
Wollo FMERA2
IK Sampletank2
Nugen Stereoizer3
Eventide BlackHole
T-Racks EQ PG
U-He Satin
T-Racks Linear Phase EQ
T-Racks Vintage Equalizer EQP-1A
DR - 10
EDIT: 20230124 I remixed Ventilator in June 2022. I intended to focus on the mix EQ and levelling, particularly of the Sampletank vox., but made a few other changes, too. I took the Sampletank vox., PaulStretched them, and added them back into a new track via Iris2. I added a subtle DUNE bass synth, and then swapped it out for ACE. I removed Stereoizer, and replaced BlackHole with Aether. Then I re-levelled and EQ'd everything, and mastered.
https://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/vent ... ks5-master
Audio processing in Audacity/PaulStretch
Recorded and mixed in EnergyXT 2.7
Mastered in T-Racks 5
Wollo FMERA2
IK Sampletank2
ACE
Iris 2
Aether
EQuivocate
U-He Satin
T-Racks Linear Phase EQ
T-Racks Vintage Equalizer EQP-1A
DR - 14
Last edited by seismic1 on Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:39 pm, edited 4 times in total.
- KVRAF
- 1626 posts since 28 Oct, 2005 from Finland
A pleasant drifting in the soundscape.. slightly exciting, but still nice ambiance
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- KVRian
- 736 posts since 30 Apr, 2008
ambient, but not relaxing at all(!), very good though and very intense!
- KVRAF
- 2753 posts since 5 Jun, 2011 from Preston, England, UK
Damn this is good. Love the eerie atmosphere it gives with the fading aaahh's it gives me goosebumps
Fantastic work You must of been in a dark place if it is related to a major lifestyle event in your life..
Fantastic work You must of been in a dark place if it is related to a major lifestyle event in your life..
The inner workings of vurts mind are a force to be reckoned with.
music is a need in my life...yes I could survive without it but tbh I dont know how
myfeebleeffort
https://paulroach2.bandcamp.com/
https://hearthis.at/83hdtrvm/
music is a need in my life...yes I could survive without it but tbh I dont know how
myfeebleeffort
https://paulroach2.bandcamp.com/
https://hearthis.at/83hdtrvm/
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
Thanks for the listen and the comments, markkuja. Glad you enjoyed itmarkkuja wrote:A pleasant drifting in the soundscape.. slightly exciting, but still nice ambiance
"Slightly exciting" is a good summary of my week so far
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
Good to get your comments on this one, astrochimp. I think this track may have turned out just the way that I hoped it would.astrochimp wrote:ambient, but not relaxing at all(!), very good though and very intense!
Thanks for listening. Glad you liked it
- KVRAF
- 6322 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
Disquieting. It feels like the earth is slowly dropping away. For a moment, you feel free and weightless. Then you realize the earth took its atmosphere with it and you can't breath!
Perhaps it owes something to Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna"?
Excellent sound design although I think it is perhaps too quiet. When I play it loud some of the sounds seem ever so slightly distorted.
Good job.
Perhaps it owes something to Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna"?
Excellent sound design although I think it is perhaps too quiet. When I play it loud some of the sounds seem ever so slightly distorted.
Good job.
- KVRAF
- 6160 posts since 29 Mar, 2003 from Location: Location
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....................Don`t blame me for 'The Roots', I just live here.
- KVRAF
- 3197 posts since 28 Aug, 2012 from Melbourne, Australia
Excellent unsettling drifting music Tim! I am floating along with this heading somewhere, but I am not sure where it is and I probably don't want to go there either!
Well done!
Although the end sounds like you issue was resolved (at least a bit). All the best!
Well done!
Although the end sounds like you issue was resolved (at least a bit). All the best!
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Music with progressive intent.
Music with progressive intent.
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
Glad it had the desired effect. I wrote a couple of earlier pieces which attempted to express what I felt, but whilst they were reasonably successful musically, they didn't really convey that feeling. With this track I managed to remove the handcuffs.jethrobull wrote:Damn this is good. Love the eerie atmosphere it gives with the fading aaahh's it gives me goosebumps
Fantastic work You must of been in a dark place if it is related to a major lifestyle event in your life..
Thanks very much for listening and for the comments
- KVRAF
- 7691 posts since 11 Jun, 2006
eerie and spooky, good to listen in bed all covered up under the blankie.
HW SYNTHS [KORG T2EX - AKAI AX80 - YAMAHA SY77 - ENSONIQ VFX]
HW MODULES [OBi M1000 - ROLAND MKS-50 - ROLAND JV880 - KURZ 1000PX]
SW [CHARLATAN - OBXD - OXE - ELEKTRO - MICROTERA - M1 - SURGE - RMiV]
DAW [ENERGY XT2/1U RACK WINXP / MAUDIO 1010LT PCI]
HW MODULES [OBi M1000 - ROLAND MKS-50 - ROLAND JV880 - KURZ 1000PX]
SW [CHARLATAN - OBXD - OXE - ELEKTRO - MICROTERA - M1 - SURGE - RMiV]
DAW [ENERGY XT2/1U RACK WINXP / MAUDIO 1010LT PCI]
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
A great description which might not be too far from where I was trying to take this track.Frantz wrote:Disquieting. It feels like the earth is slowly dropping away. For a moment, you feel free and weightless. Then you realize the earth took its atmosphere with it and you can't breath!
I love Lux Aeterna and Requiem, and find myself listening to both of these works with increasing frequency, but I think the comparison is a little ambitious The sounds I used here probably capture of some of Ligeti's influence, but there is no use of micropolyhony here, other than as a by-product of the mingling reverb tails.Frantz wrote: Perhaps it owes something to Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna"?
There wasn't any real sound design here at all other than the choice and slight tweaking of one synth preset, and the choice of a Sampletank instrument.Frantz wrote: Excellent sound design although I think it is perhaps too quiet. When I play it loud some of the sounds seem ever so slightly distorted.
Good job.
It is quiet. I had the synth/sampler levels up almost as far I they would go. I could have boosted them using FX, but decided to leave it alone as I wasn't really going for volume with this track. There is definitely some distortion on here (especially apparent towards the end), but I can hear some throughout the piece, and not only at high volume levels. I quite like it.
Thanks very much for listening and commenting, Frantz. Glad you liked it
- KVRAF
- 5527 posts since 5 Aug, 2006 from UK - The Mudway Towns
I think there must be something wrong with me. I found it very relaxing. Didn't pick up any sinisrter vibes at all
It wasn't me! (well, actually, it probably was) - apparently now an 'elderly' so maybe I forgot!
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
Thanks very much for taking the time to listen and comment, John. Glad you liked itAllomerus wrote:Excellent unsettling drifting music Tim! I am floating along with this heading somewhere, but I am not sure where it is and I probably don't want to go there either!
Well done!
Although the end sounds like you issue was resolved (at least a bit). All the best!
Drifting sums this up quite well, in that I was trying to express a sense of being helpless and completely at the mercy of an electro-mechanical process (the sequencing here is very rigid, although masked by the dreamlike nature of the sounds).
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 11502 posts since 13 Mar, 2009 from UK
Thanks very much for checking this out and commenting, layzer. I hope you liked it.layzer wrote:eerie and spooky, good to listen in bed all covered up under the blankie.
Don't forget to let the cat out before turning in