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Triangulation re-release and video

Originally written in 2008 for a songwriting contest, Triangulation has a sort of electronic/jungle-fusion vibe. And more like the rainforest jungle than the D&B subgenre. I’m in the process of remastering some of my previous TheForgotton work and this made an obvious first single.

I animated the video with the help of some stock footage and clips I found through Pexels.com.

Sub Luna remaster

An early graphic design project. So sue me.

Sub Luna album art


I’ve remastered and rereleased my 2008 album of synthy space ambient Sub Luna. This was previously released as TheForgotton, a musical handle that I’ve chosen to abandon mostly due to the fact that every single search engine in the world keeps trying to autocorrect my intentionally archaic spelling.


Available for purchase from:
Google play
iTunes
Amazon

May update

If it looks I’ve been slacking on the blog postings, it’s because I’ve been nice and busy lately.

I’ve composed my first film soundtrack and it’s for a short movie called Gundick: Cocked and Loaded that premiered at the Mondo Baltimore Pity Party back in April.

Work on No More Room In Hell continues with the new music system that I’ve been contributing shorter pieces to. We have a new release in the works that will give us full Steam functionality through the Greenlight system. Keep an eye out for version 1.07.

I have sixteen installments of the Eleventh Hour Podcast available for streaming at the Sun-FM Page.

Triangulation 5.1 mix postmortem

Triangulation is a song that was written a few years back for a random-topic songwriting contest. It was produced in FL Studio, which unfortunately does not have a surround mixer.

I exported all of the mixer channels to their own tracks so that I could import them into Audition. Keeping everything at unity gain, this gave me the stereo mix which I could then mess around with in Audition’s surround panner/encoder module.

The channels are shown relative to a circle with the listener at the center. The white dot shows where the sound source is to be placed, and the blue-shaded area gives you an idea of the coverage area and what’s coming out of the speakers. Audition does not have any way to record mixer automation, so from here on it was a matter of using the mouse to give the individual tracks room in the 5.1 mix. I was able to draw in some automation curves with the pencil tool, so one is able to give these elements some motion. I had originally low-passed the master-track to give me something for the LFE channel, but it turns out that there is a slider to control how much signal goes to that channel.

Here’s the finished product. Higher fidelity version.

The Audition surround panner can do nearly everything I’d like, but is a pain to use in that you need to have all your tracks (including effects sends) printed and ready to mix. I have quite a few MIDI devices with joysticks and X/Y pads, but I don’t seem to be able to use them with this DAW.