Well, it's been quite a while since I last visited here - it certainly looks very different!
Any OG posters still about?
Any OG posters still about?
It's been a while...
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Hello Tim,
Hope u well.. u still making music?
the forum ain’t as busy but the radio is usually busy on a satday Sunday
There’s still a good few of the old crew.. many joined well before me who u will know well..
hope u stick around, be good to hear u do a live radio set.. plenty here would love your mixes
Hope u well.. u still making music?
the forum ain’t as busy but the radio is usually busy on a satday Sunday
There’s still a good few of the old crew.. many joined well before me who u will know well..
hope u stick around, be good to hear u do a live radio set.. plenty here would love your mixes
Hello Tim,
Hope u well.. u still making music?
the forum ain’t as busy but the radio is usually busy on a satday Sunday
There’s still a good few of the old crew.. many joined well before me who u will know well..
hope u stick around, be good to hear u do a live radio set.. plenty here would love your mixes
Hello Jack! All good thank you, hope you are too. Yep, still making tunes! The Clubland thing eventually died a death but still making the GT System tunes - that's kind of what's brought me back on here actually, but I'll make a separate post about that.
Shame it's not so busy these days, this place used to have such a good buzz about it. It's hard to believe it's been almost 22 years since I joined up!
I joined in 2001, haven’t been on here in years and recently popped back on. Looks very differentWell, it's been quite a while since I last visited here - it certainly looks very different!
Any OG posters still about?
Well, it's been quite a while since I last visited here - it certainly looks very different!
Any OG posters still about?
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Well, it's been quite a while since I last visited here - it certainly looks very different!
Any OG posters still about?
Hi. It's good to see you're still alive and making some tunes.
We actually used to chat a little bit on facebook back in the day as well, but I think I probably cheesed you off and you kind of vanished - no doubt because I was probably doing too much social commentary back then....but that's a rather long story all in its self right there.
I wish I had pursued music more than getting sidetracked with stuff I shouldn't have. I was picking it up quite well at the time and should have kept at it. I still have a dabble from time to time, but it's just not the same as it was before, with itnow being like some long lost past life and past passion.
I bought a second hand Nektar last year to control my copy of Reason 12, with the hope of finding the interest and enthusiasm to get back into it more, but with one thing and another and some very stressful years, it just isn't working out that way so far.
I don't really come here that often - other than out of some random bouts of curiosity. I ditched all social media years ago (with no regrets at all, as that stuff is bad for the mind and the soul in my opinion).
You may be wondering who the hell this is..... well, it is the artist formerly known as Sirius! (Don't tell Butty though, I might get booted again! lol).
Nah, seriously, I hope that bygones can be bygones all around after all this time.
I don't really know who is still knocking around on the forums from back its heyday really. There was some talk the other year or two back about trying to get everyone back on here for a co-ordinated natter, but it never happened.
Hope you're doing well. TTFN.
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I was reading this and feeling bad for not remembering who Spektral was! Haha! That's proper made me smile.
I used Reason quite a bit a long time ago, not as stand alone but re-wired in Cubase. I always remember it being pretty good but a bit of a pain to get it set up properly. Then it just eventually got replaced with VSTs that pretty much did everything that I used Reason for but in a more simple way. It's mind blowing how VSTs have improved over the years.
Shame you didn't stick at it, but hey, it's never too late to learn new stuff
I was reading this and feeling bad for not remembering who Spektral was! Haha! That's proper made me smile.
I used Reason quite a bit a long time ago, not as stand alone but re-wired in Cubase. I always remember it being pretty good but a bit of a pain to get it set up properly. Then it just eventually got replaced with VSTs that pretty much did everything that I used Reason for but in a more simple way. It's mind blowing how VSTs have improved over the years.
Shame you didn't stick at it, but hey, it's never too late to learn new stuff
Yeah, things have gone a bit bonkers with capabilities. The ironic thing about Reason and having to link it to Cubase with ReWire in the past, is that Reason now lets you add VST's into the Reason rack, which is awesome. No fannying about, its just, booosh, in there. When I got my controller keyboard and updated Reason I made a bit of a tune in it, which was okay and sounded good enough sonically, but it isn't professional in terms of all the technicalities and musicianship.
Things which have also blown my mind is the AI tech coming along. Although they can still be hit and miss a bit, the AI programs that can take a song and split it up into vocals, beats, bass, etc are astonishing. Back in the day we always got told "you cant un-bake the ingredients in the cake" - but now, it can pull out all the musical nuts and raisins and even have a go at some of the eggs and flour.
As for VST's, I saw a video a few months ago about some weird looking new VST/AI plug-in that can listen to a sample of a sound and create a very close copy of it in the VST parameters by automatically tweaking all the knobs and saw tooth waves etc to try and match it. Its stuff like this which makes me a little bit interested in trying to reinvigorate my old hobby of having a go at music.
My only claim to fame was (nearly) getting my remix of Pianoman's "blurred" signed up pressed by the man himself as part of a remix 12" - but, rightly or wrongly, I refused to let it go ahead.
The problem was that the track used Damon Albarn's vocal loop (as per the original Pianoman version), but because of copyright issues with FFRR they wouldn't allow the vocal to be used on any of the remixes - so he had to get it re-sung by somebody else....and, Jesus, it was dire. It was completly different and almost "mockney" cockney as well as being a different vibe and different key. It may have worked with some of the others, but it just didn't sit right at all overlayed on my track and it was so bad I just couldn't go through with it!
(I also had a lot of people bending my ear about Pianoman and sowing all kinds of doubts in my mind about it all - which, quite frankly, in hindsight I am ashamed about as I never even met the guy, but I was still young and impressionable and to be frank, a bit on the Aspergers spectrum as it turns out, so yeah, I could have handled that aspect of it much better).
My other claim to fame was, of course, the "I Love Horses, Best of all the animals" advert remix we did on here LOL. Remember that?
Edit: It's still on the site! lol.
https://www.oldskoolanthems.com/attachments/raverhorse-mp3.20663/
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