MIDI Studies A – Creative Project

LTO (London Trade Organisation)
Scott Philp
3 ‘ 27

This is a piece I composed and arranged myself. It is all based around the one theme played with the Vibra-Rhodes from the ES2 VI. The track builds up with multiple instruments playing the main theme with a couple of little ambient effects in the background. It then moves into a second theme bridge section before returning to the main theme again.

Originally I wrote this while playing around with the Horns on the EXS24 VI, but after playing around some more in class and finding the Vibra-Rhodes I decided they were much cooler. Most this track was done via live entry. I played in the basic Vibra-Rhodes, Drum (Ultrabeat), Pad’s and Swell track using the Novation SL and then fixed them up. I used the Matrix editor to fix up velocity’s and note lengths and then the Hyper Editor to add in the cymbals to the drums track. I automated lots of volume, but also automated the parameters for some of the delay effects.

I used markers to help me flick through the song sections quickly. I had trouble stopping the track from peaking as the section at Marker 2 was so much louder than the rest of the piece. Eventually I found a good compressor and eq setting that didn’t ruin the dynamics of the song while stopping it from peaking.

Link to Mixdown :
http://www.box.net/shared/7qpthz3hy7