Korg Z1
Well.. long time no see.. stuff have happend..
one of the thing is that i traded in the MC909 against a korg Z1.. why you might as!
because the sampler part (which was the main reason for getting it) was to simple for me.. i need something in the emu league... Akai mpc whould probably do it.. but the price is out of reach.. PLUSS i wanted a good keyboard to push.
Anyway.. here is a patch i dialed up while playing with the korg z1.. and i must admit that this synth is rather impressive.. you can do so much.. and it has such a big sound range!
Emu showoff..
Well.. i made this hiphop loop in like 15 min out of a loop i sampled from 5 first sec of REM - I'll take the rain. It was made to convince a friend that he should get a sampler (emu) 
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so the loop is heavy threated with peak shelf filter.
The beat is created on a mc 909, then sampled down as a loop to the emu, where all the magic happends.. bitcruch, AXiter, more stuff i dont remember.. cus it happends so fast 
A day before the arrival of MC-909
Well.. due to my bad economy, i have agreed with a nice guy to trade some gear.
he gets from me
Korg AM8000R 
Korg M1r
Line 6 FilterPro
Presonus TubePre
I gets a MC 909 from him.
I HOPE it will work as a creative sketchpad for creating fast beats and other sweet stuff. Since its also a sampler aswell as a groovebox.. it can be covering large fields. but i havent forgot my emu.. which will still be my main sampler.. i cant imagine that the mc909 will beat the sound of emu..
one idea i have is to create up the beat on the mc909.. the maybe slice it down and then recorde it over to the emu, before sequencing it into logic?
Creamware running on a old mac with os 9
I have set up my old creamware system on an old mac (G4 400mhz, 512 mb ram), and using it purly for synths.. and DANG its stable.. and i can run it on the lowest latency.
To get to the MAC for now i am using a remote control program. But i have an spare screen i want to hock up, i just don´t have the space at the moment .
My plane is to maybe get some more synths of the creamware shop, and use the system as a standalone synth-host.
a screen of the setup here -> 
In the picture you can see the miniscope (an old minimoog emulation, but miles away from the minimax which kicks ass compared) and U know 007, a Juno 106 emulation, which sounds very good 
Vandetta is amoung the finalist on musikkweb compo
http://www.musikkweb.no/html/news/894593230.html
We are in the final with two other bands.
To be honest i don't think we stand any chance. But its fun to be part of it! Wish us good luck.
Vandetta is a electro duo consisting of two members, Higen and Maria. Where Maria is doing the vocals.
Higen – Scapeland
Hey,
new track out.. this time its kind of chillout. I have been using the emu MUCH on this track.. so much that i have lost the overview!
i use the emu for:
Pads, leads, arps, "flute", drums and other stuff i dont know
to nail it i recorded the whole track to the emu and then exported the sample
I also used the rfx card on the emu for processing AU instrument from logic. (the piano, which is EXS24 with holy grail piano, converted from emu format)
Anyway.. enjoy!
Chillout up next…
Well.. after doing some breakbeat i needed to get back to the chillout style i so much love...
I am fare from finished, but i have gotten a start. I started out working up a pad patch on the emu, by layering the oscillators on my Novation Nova, then sample it down as a raw sample without filters or anything from the nova. two keys was sampled C3 and C4, then i just layered it on the emu, worked out the filters and cords to create a good lushy pad. adding a nice delay effect made it realy good.
Then i started with the drums. i have tons of singleshot drums on my computer which i am moving over to my emu... it takes a bit time with the zip, but when i have it on the hard drive, its rather easy to dial up the samples i need. Some filter works on the drums.. and layering.. i am running the kit on 3 parts using diffrent effects and filter settings.
Piano is holy grail on esx24, with filter and some modulators i worked up. then ran through the rfx for some ambience delay.
The chant voice is my own, with a slight tuning.
i am considering sample it down to the emu, then play it off like a sampler with the filter possibilities.
the cut is 2 min.. not very much.. but its a start
004 / Pad o rama - preview
Finaly some music in progress
Well.. it has been ages.. since last track drop. mostely due the fact that i have been a father, but also because of the total change of music setup.
I have moved from windows XP with sonar to iMac running logic, which means i have also changed out the soundcard from RME Digi96 to a TC Konnekt 24D. And i do NOT regret at all. This rig just works!
Now i am having enough inputs to get all my gear directly into logic, doing the mixing there. Logic does not have any more features then sonar or cubase when i comes to mixing in external gear, but the way its done in logic is more slicker and cleaner then in sonar and cubase in my opinion.
Anyway.. i have been listening a bit to the hybrid album called Wider Angle, and i must say its inspiring.. the kind of breakbeat with a nice pace but still lush feel. The next track i am working on is still sticking to the breakbeat genre, but i am trying to work up a style that goes between the drums and pace from breakbeat, and the melodies and pads from chill. hopefully some good will come out
Since its only been a day since i started with the track. (some few hours late on sunday) i do not have too much to show off. but since its been so long i will still dump out what i will call a conceptual test of the track, and not a preview. The track is subject to biiiiiig changes over time anyway .
003_preview01.mp3
Higen – My Shark Always Win
Download --> Higen - My Shark Always Win
Well.. the new beat break bass and drum track i done
enjoy.. and please comment
My wife is responsible for the Ahhing in the background. Beats and stuff are made, sampled and messed up on the emu. bass is from a nova which is sampled down to the emu for special threate. Voice sample are taken from the beach. pads are from creamware lightwave and zarge orion custom 3 synth.
[214] – Time trouble
Well.. last night (04. july 2007) i manage to get a good workflow.. but it all ended to early.. not because my head was empty.. but because i had to go to bed...
Anyway.. i finaly manage to find a theme in my track.. The last few tracks have been a bit empty.. Because I havent managed to sort out any image for the soundscape.. its ended up been just music.. with no big feelings..
finaly feel that i have some expression again. But it dosn't mean that its mellow chillout.. because its not.. its rather angry break music. .
Anyway.. i havent found the excact title yet.. but the title will contain "shark".. and this is the reason why:
I extracted this nice sample from the movie "The Beach" with leonardo di caprio where he talks about a shark attack. I also sampled my Wife "Ahh"ing. I am trying to build a feeling of beeing under water.. but not this crystal lovely images you see on Discovery.. more a cynical.. hard.. rough place with a touch of evil. A place where the stronges predators of them all survive. I have some work left on the ambience.. but its getting there.. The beat is pritty much in box.. rather banging stuff..
Tech stuff:
This track relies heavy on the Emu on the drum and bass. And i can't say it enough.. that emu is just amazing.. its like it does the music for me.... It sounds so analouge that i have sometimes a hard time understanding its a digital sampler..
I am using for this track
Novation Nova (base sample for the bass, pad)
Emu e6400 Ultra (bass, drums, choir, drumloop)
Creamware synhts (Lightwave, Zarg Orion Custom 3)
Samples from my wife and "the beach"
And if you have read this fare! please leave a comment... i know that my blogg arnt very popular.. but with a comment here and there.. i can pretend that it is
About Higen
Higen is a hobby musician who have had a big thing for synths since his first meeting with a technics keyboard back in 1996.
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