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The Making Waves Demosong is intended to demonstrate how versatile
Making Waves can be, and what can be achieved with it in a home studio
setup. The different styles of music within the piece have been
approached in different ways: some sequenced notes; some use of
samples; some recording of real instruments.
The entire piece was recorded in a home environment with a very limited
equipment budget and no acoustic treatment was present in any of the
rooms used. It was mixed using a combination of budget studio monitors
and headphones. The only software processing came courtesy of Making
Waves and the included reverb and compression plugins.
The piece begins with a ‘drum n bass’ section
constructed mainly from Loopmasters samples, which can be found on the
Making Waves v5 installer CD.
There are also two virtual instrument parts based on the AlphaWaves
VSTi which was kindly made for Making Waves by synth gurus LinPlug.
Automation is exploited in this section, for example on the synth pad
and the filter effect on the drum loop.
All the audio samples in the funk section were recorded with
microphones straight into Making Waves. Some, such as the bongos are
used in their original form. Others, such as the bass guitar and
cowbell, were recorded as single hits and then sequenced. Note the use
of ‘cut-off’ sequences to create momentary silence
in certain bars.
The strings in the classical section were sequenced in Making Waves and
triggered on a hardware sampler. We were lucky to be granted access to
quality string samples, but good string sounds are also available as
virtual instruments for those with a suitable budget. Once sequenced,
the strings were recorded back into Making Waves as audio so they could
be included in the demosong.
The rock section, as you might guess, was constructed entirely from
recorded instruments. The drums were multi-tracked and the guitars and
bass were then overdubbed. Each instrument was mixed down to a single
stereo or mono track. We also split each section as they were decided
to be too long. This made it easy to rearrange the structure (order of
verses, chorus etc.) to suit the demo as a whole. The main effect used
in this section is the compressor, to make everything sound as big as
possible.
The final section was made entirely from sounds used previously in the
piece.
Note the drum loop from the first section, which has been edited using
the ‘beat splicer’ mode in Making Waves. The
strings reappear half an octave lower to match the key of the rock
guitar and bass.
Files:
MW5 demo lo qual.mp3 - 5.08MB.
MW5 demo hi qual.mp3 - 13.5MB.
MW v5 Demosong Installer.exe - 78.0MB.
Please Note - Either a registered or demo version of Making Waves v5.00
or higher is required to open this song.
EQuipment Used:
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz PC
ST Audio DSP 2000 audio card
Making Waves Studio v5.00
Spirit Folio SX mixer
Behringer Ultra DI20 DI box
2 x Superlux CM-H8C condenser microphones
Superlux DRKB5C2 drum microphone set
Tannoy Reveal active monitors
Behringer HPS3000 headphones
Akai 3000 XL sampler
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