Musical inspiration

Yesterdays studio session was spent re-acquainting ourselves with protools and becoming familiar with the C24 control surface. – A brilliant piece of kit that is essentially a hardware realisation of the software DAW screen. – This is great for people like me who use software based products continually to write, record and mix tracks. So, we had a couple of hours trawling through sounds in Protools (FM8/Absynth plugins) and experimenting, trying out various ideas… although quite uneventful, the session did give us an idea of sounds and was useful to get us back in the swing of recording.

After the lecture, Sam had to go home so I met up with Nathan and we went to mine to get creative! Nathan had an idea for a melody so we found some sounds we liked and began playing. When we began playing, the music began to flow, we soon had a main melody, drum track and bass line. We spent a few hours arranging the track and had a few problems getting the various melodies structured correctly due to timing issues we decided to call it quits after about 5 hours, Nathan had to go home. I however was determined to get the track sounding right. I re-played each part and arranged the track then uploaded the track and emailed it to Nathan.

The basic idea has now been laid down and the plan is to go in to the studio next week to record live drums, bass and guitars which the three of us are looking forward to…. this particular project is something we all share an interest in and hopefully we will do well due to all sharing a similar vision.

watch this space!