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A request to amateur composers who visit this page

Topic started by Vijay (@ 212.137.205.127) on Thu Nov 16 16:58:22 EST 2000.
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I'd like to request amateur composers who visit this page to tell me if they've uploaded any of their work onto the internet and if they have, please tell me where I can listen to it. Thank You.

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• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Thu Jun 28 14:06:31 EDT 2001
  
  Aditya
  
  I listened to all the three uploads.
  
  First experiments: I liked the best. Especially the piano arpeggio is very nice. Your voice is very good. Calm.
  
  Piano: I did not like the background, sounds like the accompaniment pattern from a keyboard.
  
  Vocal: Voice is very clear and good.Melody is very dense. Please add more
  silence between phrases. It seems so continuos without gap. It may be also because of the delays.Try creating a counter theme (on a totally different chandas (phrasing) and interspersing it.
  
  Good job,
  RJAY
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Thu Jun 28 14:10:35 EDT 2001
  
  MS
  Thanks for the curiosity to listen to my voice. If you dont mind getting disappointed with what Comment told you, I do have an upload "That's when I remember you" on my mp3.com page which is an English song which I have sung like a Tamil song ;).
  
  If you want a better showcase, wait for a few weeks ;)
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Thu Jun 28 14:41:48 EDT 2001
  
  Good quality reverb can be created even using just MIDI.
  
  Just clone the track to 2 more tracks, creating three tracks MIDI tracks with the same melody. The first one stays center panned and good volume. The second one: pan it to extreme left and time shift by quarter bar and down the volume to 40%. The third one: pan it to extreme right and time shift by half a bar and down the volume to 20%. This basically adds two delayed signals to the original and creates a good space. I used this in the Sax intro of Flowing with the river.
  
  The flute, violin solos in Udayamagum velaiyil were all enhanced by this MIDI FX.
  
  Also in Anandha bhairavi (intro marimba sounds)
  
  
  
• From: Jay (@ 65.194.43.5) on: Thu Jun 28 14:42:15 EDT 2001
  
  Hello All,
  I havent been here for quite sometime now.
  Was busy with my new track "Twilight Rain". Released it today at: http://www.mp3.com/jkz
  All comments welcome!!
  thanks. Jay.
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Thu Jun 28 14:49:59 EDT 2001
  
  Another MIDI technique to create a good guitar strumming effect.
  
  Clone the track. Assign to two different acoustic guitars (one nylon and another steel string) and pan these away to left and right) This gives a fuller, realistic sound. In Udayamagum velaiyil at 1:01 you can listen to this effect.
  
  
• From: comment (@ 12.5.10.153) on: Thu Jun 28 14:50:44 EDT 2001
  
  Jay, nice work.
  Keep it up.
  
  
• From: Aditya (@ 160.231.1.100) on: Thu Jun 28 14:58:41 EDT 2001
  
  Jay:
  
  It's good - seems to have mastered Triton. Very Nice flow in the Music.
  
  Comment, didn't you the like the idea of making a customized CD for me?
  
  Regards,
  Aditya
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.222.2) on: Thu Jun 28 16:32:34 EDT 2001
  
  RJ:
  
  It is not as bad u had frightened me to be. But I would surely expect a better job fromyou with comment as he has better facilities and higher extracting abilities :-)
  
  
• From: Swamiji (@ 198.102.112.201) on: Thu Jun 28 17:35:10 EDT 2001
  
  Jay,
  Excellent piece man. You have a very good sense of tones and you built them up really well. And of course I cannot believe you made this all with the Triton which a few people like comment worked wonders with! It would be interesting if you could add vocals (which I am not sure you would like to do). Perhaps if that is in your mind, you can show us how it sounds...
  Nice work once again. Looking forward to hearing more...
  
  
• From: Jay (@ 65.194.43.5) on: Thu Jun 28 19:14:26 EDT 2001
  
  Thanks Aditya, Swamiji and comment.
  I am planning to add vocals too..but dont have the equipment for that. Got to get a good Digital recorder. lets see.
  Thanks again.
  Jay.
  http://www.mp3.com/jkz
  
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Fri Jun 29 10:23:04 EDT 2001
  
  Jay
  
  Very nice. The expressiveness of Sax and Guitar are amazing. Difficult to believe it is from a keyboard. Looks like you guys will convince me to buy a Triton!
  
  RJ
  
  
• From: Jay (@ 65.194.43.5) on: Fri Jun 29 11:22:53 EDT 2001
  
  Hey Rjay..good to hear from you.
  Yeah Triton is just a great synth. I love the ribbon controller...The sax volume was controlled by it...I'm so addicted to it that I cant think of using a keyboard without the ribbon. What do you say comment and swamiji?
  I know you guys own one. :)
  
  
• From: Aditya (@ 160.231.1.100) on: Fri Jun 29 11:36:15 EDT 2001
  
  RJ:
  
  Triton is a Great Synthesizer. In case you're looking for 100% Korg Triton sound engine with
  - Excellent live performance Features
  - Completely Programmable
  - Vocal + Guitar Processors
  - 60% of Triton's Sampling Abilities ( which will be provided in the next release ).
  - Dual Sequencers
  - Triton's Effects
  - Mixer
  
  tightly integrated with Triton. Same in looks.
  
  the answer is Korg PA80. This is just out in the market. Amazing Keyboard. This has become a Darling Keyboard for all the Arrangers in europe and India. You can expect it to see with ARR in his next Live Show.
  
  Korg had I-30 a successful arranger kb but is not so great in sounds . With the advent of triton, they added this sound engine with I-30 features to make it a professional arranger accompaniment. It's a serious arranger keyboard. It's almost the same cost as Triton 61 key workstation - about 2100$
  
  www.korgpa80.com
  
  Regards,
  Aditya
  
  
• From: Aditya (@ 160.231.1.100) on: Fri Jun 29 11:42:45 EDT 2001
  
  Keep looking at Korg OASYS PCI card. This is simply a great offering from KORG.
  
  
• From: comment (@ 12.5.10.153) on: Fri Jun 29 13:54:05 EDT 2001
  
  http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/32/jsri.html
  
  A Folkal Rendezvous
  
  This is an experimental score that contains various forms of folk music. I have worked out a score based on various Middle Eastern and Indian folk music. The lead instrument on the Indian side is flute. Apart from flute, I have also used Tabla , south Indian cymbals , Shenai, Gopichant. The Middle Eastern side consists of Pungi, the Afghani Reba, Mizmar, Er-Hu (Two-Stringed Violin - Chinese instrument) and few native Middle Eastern instruments for percussion. You will also hear western classical influences in the score, using a Mini chamber string section and keyboard bells.
  
  
  
  check it and let me know how it sounds...
  
  
• From: Aditya (@ 160.231.1.100) on: Fri Jun 29 14:23:14 EDT 2001
  
  If Srikanth was asked to make music for Alam Aara ( I guess this is the first indian movie )...he would do it this way and still make us listen till 2001...I believe doing simple things with a great electronic gadgets is not a joke...It sounds simple but I can imagine that it's the most difficult job...these electronic gadgets are capable of distracting you or sometimes ease you to do something called popular music. When you sit on these KB, they ease and inspire popular music - it sounds so good that you fix it - And so you continue composing popular music.
  You need to be very strong to make it sound so simple...Good Job!
  
  
• From: Aditya (@ 160.231.1.100) on: Fri Jun 29 15:31:57 EDT 2001
  
  In Summary...Srikanth can span a wider Audience - Really Cool - Question is not whether this can be achieved with Acoustic Instruments playing live - challenge is with the resources - where can we get such folk artists in this Hitech era. And to rely on the electronic gadgets to play folk, they are so naive that they might drive you to make popular stuff...Congratulations Srikanth you bridged this gap!
  
  
• From: RJ (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Fri Jun 29 15:41:33 EDT 2001
  
  Aditya
  Thanks for the update on Korg PA system.
  Let me look at the site.
  
  Comment, adhukkulla innum oru comp-a! Kalakkareenga! Let me listen.
  RJ
  
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Fri Jun 29 17:12:31 EDT 2001
  
  Srikanth
  This will be counted as one of the milestones of World Music.
  
  Breathtaking fusion of folk from all over. It teases you every second. beginning plucked sruti -, the flutes at 8 sec, could be Irish or equally Indian. Middle eastern pieces are also Indian and would work in Irish music too! Only in a mature mind can all these fuse so seamlessly.
  
  The flute/tabla/jalra at 1:40 is authentic and nobody will believe if you say it is out of Triton synth! The single touch of chord at the end is a touchstone for your mastery of western harmony. Well done!
  
  And you better put this in a different album than Kathal pathai. If you put both in same place, nobody will believe same guy did both.
  
  I am extremely happy and satisfied with this piece. It is still lingering in my mind. There is so much folk innocence there. We should do our best to expose more and more non-Indians to listen to this piece.
  
  RJ
  
  
• From: Sridhar Seetharaman (@ 63.39.102.57) on: Fri Jun 29 17:12:39 EDT 2001
  
  Srikanth,
  
  Brilliant work. Well articulated piece. The composition does not lose the focus at any point. I am adding this to my other favorite composition of yours, "The Warrior".
  
  
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Fri Jun 29 17:15:06 EDT 2001
  
  Korg should use this as a showcase tune for Triton's World capabilities.
  
  
• From: Sridhar Seetharaman (@ 63.39.102.57) on: Fri Jun 29 17:17:30 EDT 2001
  
  Srikanth,
  
  I can not agree more with Rjay. Definitely a one of the milestones in World folk music.
  
  I have to burn a new CD adding this, so that I can enjoy this in my car.
  
  Thanks for a soulful rendition.
  
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Fri Jun 29 17:21:37 EDT 2001
  
  Srikanth
  I remember reading in your writeup for Cart song that you are going to create simpler songs. This is the ultimate in your quest. Seemingly simple, it is a grand achievement!
  
  
• From: rjay (@ 208.51.40.115) on: Fri Jun 29 17:45:01 EDT 2001
  
  Srikanth, dont call this a score. it is a performance.
  
  
• From: comment (@ 65.9.136.158) on: Fri Jun 29 18:53:03 EDT 2001
  
  thanks for the comments:), however there is some roland modules also used in between.
  
  
  
• From: Jay (@ 65.194.43.5) on: Fri Jun 29 20:25:15 EDT 2001
  
  Good work Srikanth. Lots of instruments sounding well together..but after you guys called
  it "Milestone in World Fusion" I listened to it critically for 4-5 times...its a nice track alright but
  I wouldnt call it a master piece. Although the track has a lot of instruments of the world, I thought
  they dont really show their true nature in the song...I didnt see different styles of music...it was more like
  all the instrument playing an Indian tune or adding to it.
  I'd say it is a good folk song..but not fusion.
  The tabla is played very realiastically..good work on the synth.
  Again, Its just me and my humble thoughts.
  
  Jay.
  
  

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