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GrooveMaker Series
GrooveMaker is an iOS app which allows you to arrange a variety of samples (loops) in a variety of ways, usually within a genre. After trying the free app I sprang for the Reggae version, mon, and finally got a chance to put it through its paces earlier this year while I was away from the computer.
Like many of these apps, they are somewhat limited and limiting. I put together a dozen or so tracks using the app but I treated them as sketches for something better. Several I thought might benefit from further work so I imported the relevant samples into Garageband, remixed, added effects, EQing, etc. Just before Halloween this year I posted Omniphobia, in which I read a poem over a backer made with GrooveMaker. I have a couple of other pieces I'll put up in the new year.
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"Summer Nocturne" from the beginning sounded to me kind of sultry, like a hot, humid night where the sheets are damp, the streets and sidewalks are crowded in a frenetic kind of dance, and the night sounds have rhythms and harmonies all their own. But the tune wasn't complete: it had the groove but it didn't sing. I fancied that some smokey, sensuous sax might be nice and sent AndySax (awigze) a copy. Happily, he agreed and shortly after (when his house was otherwise empty) he was able to saxify my little backer into the sweet, sultry piece of sophisticated mood music it is now. I hope you all agree.
Thank you Andy: you made it sing.
A Miami skyline stands in for anytown on a hot summer night. Full of throbbing rhythms and hormonal wails this might give your sub-woofers a dance ;-)
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UPDATE
As is pointed out below by billykirsh and Henke, this version has some hiss or noise which can be heard between the bass notes at the beginning, and if your ears are really good, elsewhere in the tune. I have isolated several tracks recorded from GrooveMaker which seem to carry the hiss and have eq'd them so the whole thing sounds better. I can't disable downloading here and I don't wish to repost (it's not THAT bad, imho ;-) so, if you'd like a copy of the revised version, send me a PM. Sorry for the hassle.
GrooveMaker is an iOS app which allows you to arrange a variety of samples (loops) in a variety of ways, usually within a genre. After trying the free app I sprang for the Reggae version, mon, and finally got a chance to put it through its paces earlier this year while I was away from the computer.
Like many of these apps, they are somewhat limited and limiting. I put together a dozen or so tracks using the app but I treated them as sketches for something better. Several I thought might benefit from further work so I imported the relevant samples into Garageband, remixed, added effects, EQing, etc. Just before Halloween this year I posted Omniphobia, in which I read a poem over a backer made with GrooveMaker. I have a couple of other pieces I'll put up in the new year.
******
"Summer Nocturne" from the beginning sounded to me kind of sultry, like a hot, humid night where the sheets are damp, the streets and sidewalks are crowded in a frenetic kind of dance, and the night sounds have rhythms and harmonies all their own. But the tune wasn't complete: it had the groove but it didn't sing. I fancied that some smokey, sensuous sax might be nice and sent AndySax (awigze) a copy. Happily, he agreed and shortly after (when his house was otherwise empty) he was able to saxify my little backer into the sweet, sultry piece of sophisticated mood music it is now. I hope you all agree.
Thank you Andy: you made it sing.
A Miami skyline stands in for anytown on a hot summer night. Full of throbbing rhythms and hormonal wails this might give your sub-woofers a dance ;-)
******
UPDATE
As is pointed out below by billykirsh and Henke, this version has some hiss or noise which can be heard between the bass notes at the beginning, and if your ears are really good, elsewhere in the tune. I have isolated several tracks recorded from GrooveMaker which seem to carry the hiss and have eq'd them so the whole thing sounds better. I can't disable downloading here and I don't wish to repost (it's not THAT bad, imho ;-) so, if you'd like a copy of the revised version, send me a PM. Sorry for the hassle.
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tokai
Reggae beats hold such an expression for me, this track provokes a hypnotic trance state. The sax really brings this track to the foreground, a great song.