My Korg DS shit

[Louigi Verona]

1.
Title: First try
Status: not finished (and won't be)
URL: http://lv.soonlabel.com/korg/first_try.mp3
Description: one of the first things I did. Got lost in doing it and eventually thought it is too dull to complete it.

2.
Title: Dance hit
Status: completed
URL: http://lv.soonlabel.com/korg/dance_hit.mp3
Description: This is the first time I started to have fun with Korg DS. Not a perfect tune, but pretty well crafted. It is not a hit.

3.
Title: Drone
Status: not complete but I plan to finish it
URL: http://lv.soonlabel.com/korg/drone.mp3
Description: How can I miss the chance to do some slow music

4.
Title: Chemistry
Status: completed
URL: http://lv.soonlabel.com/korg/chemistry.mp3
Description: This tune is dedicated to Chris. He is doing chemistry, so that's one pointer and also it is pretty experimental and is a sound collage. Technically it is interesting because the part 1:05-2:33 is actually one small pattern but it is always evolving, all by itself.

[psishock]

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[Louigi Verona]

Weird. Sorry. Let me look into this.

[Louigi Verona]

F***ing typos. All fixed now

[uncloned]

I gotta say I didn't like the beginning of chemistry (mostly because of the snare sound and perceived lack of development) but once it hit the echo versus backward-ish sounds it really caught my interest. Nice unconventional usage there. Nice space you end up defining.

[LPChip]

My reviews

First Try: I love the cheesyness. I do miss a bit of bass at the second part. It is there, but the notes should be one octave lower. Great though.

Dance Hit: With this title, I feared for the worse (being a dance hit) The start thusfar is very good, and the 4/4 beat fits very well to it, turning this more into techno than dance. Very good song I think. A bit short perhaps, but seeing this to be a DS, I can understand

Drone: This is a complete different approach to music. I actually had a similar idea when I made Spooky Forest. Although I wanted a more organic sound, which you could get if you either detune the 2nd osc quite alot so the sounds fibrates or apply a patch on the pitch osc. Biggest downside in this song: it ends X)

Chemistry: Okay, this has weird sounds. And in this case thats bad. I'm not so into this kind of sound. Sam_zen will probably love this song. Its too experimental for me. At 1:12 a change comes that makes it more interesting but only because I got too bored of the previous sound. The sound however remains very experimental and that leads me to the conclusion: this is just not the kind of style I'm in Great sounds but not my kind of thing.

[Sam_Zen]

1 - If you like the color of plastic.
2 - More cheesy than the first one. Pleasant.
3 - Too much crackling sounds to be a drone. A drone should be 'round' imo.
4 - Seem to be around 5/4. Changing setups. Not necessary in favor, as LPChip states.
Coming and going sounds are introduced, but they exist for a while, but don't evolve.

[Louigi Verona]

LP Chip: thanks for the reviews ) Maybe we should work on an album together - looks like we're the only ones here with Korg DS.

Sam Zen: thanks! as for drone - the only rule is that it is based on long tones. they can be anything.I have a tune I recorded from Soma FM's Drone Zone called Cold Swamp, it sounds like a field recording - basically like ... swamp!

[LPChip]

That would be cool, but how will we arrange that?

You don't happen to live in the Netherlands are you?

[Louigi Verona]

We can just write each 5 or 6 tracks and compile it into an album - as simple as that.

[LPChip]

We can just write each 5 or 6 tracks and compile it into an album - as simple as that.

IC. 5 tracks is kinda'lot though

but we'll see I'm up for it. Just can't say how many songs I'll make for it.

Perhaps we can also give it a global theme/style so its easier to work with.

[Louigi Verona]

Well, we can take as much time as we want.
We can come up with a global theme - or not.
I would suggest though that we try various styles. Perhaps a global theme is not important. Besides, Korg hasso much limits that limiting oneself to a theme as well would be too much.

[LPChip]

Well, we can take as much time as we want.
We can come up with a global theme - or not.
I would suggest though that we try various styles. Perhaps a global theme is not important. Besides, Korg hasso much limits that limiting oneself to a theme as well would be too much.

Sorry, I sometimes forget how easy it is for me j/k

But sure. I'll make a certain theme for myself so I can make similar songs for this.

[bvanoudtshoorn]

1. It's missing grunt, imo... The bass and the kick are just too thin. Some nice motifs, though.

2. Good fun. Some of the sounds seem to have very abrupt cutoffs on note changes - almost clicking. :/ Perhaps a little bit more R in the ADSR?

4. Interesting sounds... But I must admit, that I don't like it as much as I do your other stuff. Good use of panning, though.

[Louigi Verona]

the bass is clicking. it was done from some drum sample and at that time I couldn't remove the clicking without spoiling the bass sound.