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New music: Lake

mralikhan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:46:06 +0000

Lake goes deep and explores the darker side of reverb with heavy compression and glitchy echoes.

The feature sound in Lake is a simple chord progression, played on a Juno-6 plugin. Heavy processing is applied, including, gating, long reverbs, filtered lfos, and glitchy echoes.

Produced in Logic 9 with plugins:

Native Instruments Kontakt, Absynth, and Guitar Rig
Native Instruments Deep Freq (Kore)
Reaktor Ensembles: Space Verb, Cyan, Juno-6, and Carbon
Fabfilter Volcano, Timeless, Q, and Compressor
UAD Fairchild 670
UAD Pultec EQ
UAD LA2A
UAD Fatso Sr. Tape Sim and Compressor
Logic Multipressor
Logic Platinum Verb
Twisted Tools Colorflex and Vortex

New Music: Do Trees Have Dreams?

mralikhan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:14:12 +0000

Do Trees Have Dreams? starts with a simple repetitive synth pad which opens up in stages into more of a progression. In an atmospheric breakdown, an arpeggiated melody (Juno-6 / Space Echo) is introduced, giving the feeling of floating into the sky.

For this track, most of the melodic delay effects are produced with a series chain of Roland RE-201 emulation (Guitar Rig), Fabfilter Timeless and Fabfilter’s Volcano. Controllers are assigned to a dozen parameters to enable a fluid progression of sound.

The vocal sample is processed through Twisted Tools Scapes and then Absynth with a pitch envelope and Aetherizer.

A pitched-down field recording of a coffee shop adds an element of noise and unpredictability to the arrangement.

Produced in Ableton Live with plugins:

Native Instruments Absynth and Guitar Rig
Native Instruments Deep Freq (Kore)
Reaktor Ensembles: Limelite, Echomania, Cyan, and Juno-6
Fabfilter Volcano, Timeless, Q, and Compressor
UAD Fairchild 670
UAD LA2A
UAD ATR-102 Tape Recorder
Twisted Tools Colorflex, Vortex and Scapes

More Music

mralikhan — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:19:48 +0000

All Kokoro releases are available for free download on Bandcamp and featured on my Soundcloud page.

About: Kokoro Netlabel

mralikhan — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:54:45 +0000

Kokoro is Ali Khan’s personal digital music label – an outlet for deep, spacious, and forward thinking electronic music.

All releases are available to stream and download on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.