Branching Out Secret Mixter
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How I Did It

Pieces
by Carosone
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Sat, Apr 12, 2014 @ 9:57 AM

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Tools I Used

Cakewalk Sonar, Kontakt 5 sampler, Ueberschall loop libraries of sax and guitar, Ezdrummer drum sampler, Z3ta+ soft synth

Original Samples

Drum programming, all keyboards (electric wurly piano, synth), minimoog bass, fxs

Process

The pella was sung with natural rallentando and accelerando around 67 bpm. So I had to track every bpm speed variation in the software and got busy aligning tracks: everything had to be played along, nothing pre-programmed.

Other Notes

I discovered that a lot of what we call "groove" lies in the not perfectly sharp-on-time playing