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| Saga Musix presents: Heaven (3:17) |
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Oh, it's that time of year again - Evoke! And actually, it's the day
before Evoke starts and so far I only have a 99% finished tune for the
streamed music compo (didn't pass pre-selection, though) and about nothing
for my "home compo", the tiny tracking music compo. So, let's do it Saga
style and make a trance track in an afternoon!
Yep, that's pretty much about it. Some weeks ago, I have listened to a lot
of music by Audioplacid and I enjoyed it a lot. One of his tracks,
"Heaven", has a really nice breakdown part with a great chord progression.
So I played it on my Yamaha AN1x and recorded it into OpenMPT. And then I
dug this recording up and made a more complete track out of it, although I
had to drop all the nice filter modulations and echos from it so that it
would fit into the size limit. Then I quickly added some cheesy melodies
and other stuff and it quickly evolved... Still, I have to say that the
tune sounds pretty raw and unfinished (thus it's only 38 channels this
time ;-) and I don't really like the outcome. I'm not quite sure how this
tune could win the compo actually, but apparently it did and that's
something that probably should not have happened at all. Oh well...
For the reference, the original tune by Audioplacid can be found at
http://soundcloud.com/audioplacid/audioplacid-feat-marilyn
Since my chord progression is almost identical to the one in his breakdown
part, I decided to use the same name for my tune, just so that it's clear
that it's "kind of" a remix.
This is obviously the uncompressed, full-size version of the tune. The
compo version was heavily compressed using mo3 to fit in the 64k limit.
Now you can enjoy the tune with full quality samples, but still trimmed
down patterns! :)
And now for a short party report: Evoke 2012 was a blast. Great weather,
great people, and words are not enough to describe how awesome the live
gig by cTrix was - Man, you really know how rock a crowd with your Amigas!
I'm looking forward to enjoy even more gigs from you at future demo
parties! ;) And well, the most unique thing of this whole party was
probably that I finally met Chris H.lsbeck in real life and had a quick
chat with him - I wonder where we all would be today if he didn't write
his tracker tools in the 80s! Now someone should actually drag Karsten
Obarski to a demo party - after all, we have to think him for the MOD
format as we know it (more or less) today.
"Oops, too much text!"
-Saga Musix, 21st of August 2012
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Greetings to everyone I've met at Evoke 2012, in particular:
alk, Axel, Brandon Walsh, cerror, Chris H.lsbeck, cTrix, cupe, dfox,
franky, fuith, gasman, Gita, glxblt, halcy, irokos, jco, jix, kaneel,
kaomau Keen, KeyJ, las, LoneStar, Maali, manx, MedO, Mithaldu, m0d, mog,
moqui, mouldyCat, NebulaH, Okkie, Prince, psykon, RbR, red, reduz, Romeo
Knight, SilverLance, SunSpire, ted, The Compiler, Topy, T$, UltraSyd, urs,
v3nom, wayfinder, xerxes, xtr1m, xylo, Zatzen, Ziphoid and everyone I
forgot.
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This work is (c) 2012 by Saga Musix of Nuance and is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Track information:
- Started on the 8st of August 2012 (based on a short sketch made in June)
- Compo version finished on the 11th of August 2012
- Originally released at Evoke 2012 in the tiny tracking music compo, where
it ranked 1st.
- Fixed a bit after the compo (there was an error in one of the leads which
would cut the note in XMPlay and IT, but not OpenMPT)
- Final release on the 21st of August 2012
Please use OpenMPT 1.20+ or XMPlay to play this track. Extended filter range
and highpass filter is used.
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You can contact me via e-mail at info@sagamusix.de.
If you want to chat with me...
- Jabber: sagamusix@jabber.ccc.de
- ICQ: 324324485
- MSN: sagamusix@hotmail.com
- EsperNet: #modarchive, #modplug, #mod_shrine, #modulez, #nectarine
(Nick = Saga_Musix, Saga or S)
- IRCNet: #evoke_eu, #bitfellas, #breakpoint, #revision, #tUM
(Nick = Saga_Musix or Saga_Off)
Feel free to visit my websites as well:
- http://sagamusix.de/ - Here you can download all my music, free
samples and other stuff. (German and English)
- http://sagagames.de/ - This website is German only (ATM). You can
download some free games and applications (some of them are English)
and more stuff here.
- http://openmpt.org/ - Home of Open ModPlug Tracker :)
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Sample credits:
The source of the samples are indicated in the filename of the samples.
- AN1x: From my Yamaha AN1x
- VEC 4: From the VEC 4 sample pack
- D50: From my Roland D-50
- kb6: From the kb6 drum sample collection
- JayB: From JayB's trance sample collection (http://www.jaybmusic.net/)
// Jojo a.k.a. Saga Musix
