Hy Bound

What does everybody think about it? Personally, its a little too weird on some of the samples used, but is made up for in the extraordinarily dirty basslines and great breaks. It feels a little too familiar and like heavily-trod Prodigy territory, but its certainly better than AONO. I like it; its no Fat of the Land, but I like it.

I use EWQLSO Gold and other than the fact that it doesn't read my RAM properly and tends to glitch out a lot I would recommend it. Maybe it works better with Kontakt?????? As for making orchestra sound more expressive; automate, automate, automate. Sure, it can be incredibly time-consuming but it can make the shittiest of samples sound expressive and realistic. Automating the ADSR and overall volume is a must and lightly automating the dry/wet of the reverb really helps too.

I don't know why they would have the reviews go out that early... Interest tends to die pretty quickly after even amazing reviews. I guess all the videos and docs that keep coming out are helping it stay in our minds but i don't know. Personally, I'm pretty excited for it. The only thing that could make it not purchase-worthy is if the controls really are as sluggish and unresponsive as people are saying. I haven't pre-ordered it so i don't have the demo yet, so I'll reserve my judgment til the demo comes out (thursday?).

Wonderful stuff! Congrats on getting it up on OCR and the interview! I'm happy this finally got posted. Can't wait to hear the new one up there

Ah, an edit makes more sense. This is very enjoyable! Definitely gonna download and put it next to the original on my wmp . The added guitar works well and the strings add a great harmony to the original.

Wow, this is amazing! Incredibly haunting and atmospheric. I can really imagine leaving the atmosphere and looking back and seeing the earth floating away slowly. Its putting me in a great mood too!

I like the laidback feel to the song... I love the original a LOT so this feels a lot like an extension of the original; which is totally fine with me. The only problem I'm running into is that it sounds like theres a little bit too much of the original track filling up the entire song. That is... unless you have just mirrored the sounds perfectly, in which case good freakin job .

Just an FYI, the track is actually done by Barry Jamieson. Hybrid just mixed it into a set.

Monsieur Giant Circles, tis a travesty thou hast not... I can't keep that up. But that really should have been the song used in SF2HDRTUSFBIXX. This is a seriously awesome song. I love all of the detail and little quirky sounds throughout that make multiple listens not only great but necessary. One of your best in my opinion, and so from you, that means its one of the best songs ever written by man. Great work!

Nope, there shouldn't be any latency. I used EWQLSO and Colossus off of an external hard-drive and truthfully that was the most stable and responsive it has ever been. If you really have 2000 to plop down on a synth, go with Omnisphere AND Reaktor. That would be the last synth/effect bundle you would need for years and years. Add that to a nice controller like an axiom or something and you have a sweet little package. NOTE: I have a Novation X-Station, which is a synth and MIDI-controller combo and only about 500 bucks; i would also recommend that. Though, not as highly as Reaktor, but I regard Reaktor JUST below god in the importance scale.

May I ask what you use for your main sequencer? If you use FL Studio or something that uses VSTs I might suggest a soft synth and a MIDI controller. It would most likely be about half the price and, depending on what synth you get, could be much more useful. For instance, I would HIGHLY recommend Reaktor 5. its about 400 bucks, but you can probably buy it for somewhere around 300 (or 200 if you're a student) and an Axiom is about 175 for a 25 key (about 300 for the 61 key I believe). If you buy Reaktor you get about 20 synths and then can download about 500 REALLY good synths from their user library. That, and it comes with a variety of sequencers, drum machines, TONS of high quality FX and you can even build your own synths and FX. However, if you're dead set on a hardware synth, which can be much more useful for the tactile feel alone, I have heard very good things about the Motif series.

It makes me monumentally happy to hear someone say that.

Well, you could also go the old-fashioned route and get a 1/4" splitter jack and then plug the other signal into an amp. Its kinda ghetto, but if you can't get a manageable buffer size it should do the trick.

Senor Harris-o, I used those Creative speakers a LOT when I was first starting. They actually give a pretty damn good monitor for music production. I'm kind of thinking of rigging up a couple of them on top of my BX8s to add to the highs (which for some reason seem to be lacking for where I have them). I also have that same monitor now as a second monitor...

I usually do an even number or round up to a 10 if I seriously can't tell the difference between the two settings... Usually thats just so its easy to remember the setting if I want to set something else comparatively. Not sure if thats quite the same since its for an actual reason...

Indeed, my computer has no problem running several projects when one of them would severely destroy my old computer. So it was definitely the fact that I am severely retarded and had the input on Guitar Rig set to 1100 samples in latency. Runs perfectly fast now. However, I have noticed that when I export whatever has guitar rig in a chain, it comes out with a 80 ms or so lag in the actual waveform. Its annoying having to go back and time-correct all of my guitar rig samples.

So I haven't contributed much music to the public lately and I wanted to change that. I've been hard at work on several pretty big releases coming up and have been wanting to get back to some good ol' simple stuff. Oh, and I wanted to try out recording electric and bass guitars and chopping/affecting those up. So yeah, this took me only a few hours and isn't up to my usual standards but I thought it was a neat little experiment to share. On a side note, I used a grain effect with my main guitar riff and a sample of me singing to modulate it... So thats what that weird atmospheric stuff in the beginning and end is. Hope you likey. http://www.protagonistrecords.net/?q=audio/download/96/Hy+Bound+-+Raze+Hell.mp3 Head over to www.protagonistrecords.net for more.

I'd hate to try and continue the debate, but that sounds exactly like what you would have to do in Live... I'd post a video, but I have no idea how to make a screenshot-based video.

You really should make a video... I actually would find it interesting. I've been searching through FL's site and I like some of their features a lot. I still don't think I'm going to switch, but I'l be interested

Right back atcha with ableton. Once you memorize the hot keys you blaze through the UI like nothing else. I thought Reason was quick but I seriously fly through making 8-track loops... maybe 15 minutes including all of the initial-tweaking. Now if only that would help me with my writer's block. Seriously though, I think it really depends on what you're used to. I was seriously considering switching to Pro Tools recently and couldn't get over the fact that its based only on pop-up windows. I like Ableton's sexy look and intigrated UI.

I love Ableton. You really just have to get used to the workflow and its incredibly quick. The only problem I have is the fact that the MIDI clips are based around a 'loop' implementation, which makes creating flowing, organic compositions irritating as hell. Otherwise, the Drum Rack implemented in V. 7 is absolutely orgasmic. You are basically using a sampler with a bunch of FX for each individual sound in the drum machine. All of the on-bord FX are great too, except the phaser. I can't wait for V. 8. The workflow looks to be a lot better for midi and the MAX wutchamajigger seems to be pretty handy; kind of like Reaktor. The number of amazing synths, FX and macros on there is truly amazing and if theres a native version for ableton I can assume that its just as great. And FLstudio is incredibly ass-backwards to me... I can't seem to get the workflow down, no matter how much I fiddle with it. I just don't seem to understand why so many people think its the gold standard. Sure, Ableton has its drawbacks, but FL has some wonky workflow choices. Oh, and why the hell aren't programs switching to 64-bit?!?!?! BLARG!!!!! I have 4.5GB of RAM that I can't use!

This is frickin sweet man. I say it sticks pretty dern closely to the original at the moment, but it sounds like you're going to expand based off of the stuff after 1:09. I really really like this; the only thing I would maybe add is a killer bass-line breakdown and finish off with that layed on top of what you have. I dunno, sounds like you'll do it justice. Just keep it up

This is a wonderful arrangement! I love the sounds and atmosphere so damn much! The beginning sounds a lot like Vangelis which is a huge Pro for me. The rest of the song is no slouch either. The wind instruments do a good job setting an icy tone with the electronics. This feels like a song that should be played in an arty movie while snowflakes fall around someone on a desolate frozen-over lake.

This is one of my favorites. The atmosphere is incredibly intoxicating and the beat is very well done. I used to just put this on before I went to bed and have real strange but enjoyable dreams about living in sector 7... Yeah... EDIT: Wow, I forgot I reviewed this already... That tells you how much I enjoy it.