THE TRACK

A good way to try the variety of sounds the synthesiser can produce, it was decided to record an original piece of music.

The synth itself would provide enough sounds which had been saved as snapshots. There are sound  like drums which were created mostly with envelopes and white noise, Organs, leads, pads etc. After having a vast arrange of sounds where we can pick from, the next step should be recording the track.

The track itself was purely made with sounds created with the synth, and Reaktor was run on Logic. Going into more detail about the recording process, It was the drums and the bass the first sounds to be recorded, which also helped with the structure of the song. After that, and in order to fill up the track, we had some leads and soft pads. Hard pads would do most of the main melody of the song. 

If you hear the track, the snare drum would sound more like a whiplash than like a proper snare. We were not actually trying to have a proper acoustic snare as it would not be appropriated for the style of the song. We achieved the whiplash sound by just modifying envelopes and filters. 

The biggest issue on all the process was that logic was crashing all the time as there were many channels with Reaktor running as a plugin. It was then solved out by turning off the plugin on the tracks that had already been recorded and then record the new ones. At the end, each midi channel was recorded on audio tracks.