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Color Sky – Remaking an old track – Part 1

December 2, 2014 by Ben

The very first track of Color Sky, Dusty Road, is actually a remake of a much older piece I made back in 2005. Back then I was using only physical hardware to make sounds. Here’s what I had: My 700mhz PC A copy of Cubase SE A Korg microKorg A Korg ES-1 drum machine The original Dusty Road was pretty ambitious for me at the time. Up to that point, most of my music was very ambient and abstract. Part […]

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My live music plan

November 11, 2014 by Ben

As you probably know by now, I’ve written a ton of music. In the last ten years, I’ve written and produced over two hundred finished pieces. I consider myself to be pretty experienced in the music-making field. Despite all this, I’ve never once performed in a live show. This is something I’ve always been a little ashamed of, mostly because of the mild stigma that comes with being an electronic musician (“real music isn’t made with computers!” I’m sure you’ve […]

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Color Sky – How I composed Metro Molecule

September 29, 2014 by Ben

As you may know by now, I’m working on a standalone electronic album called Color Sky, made to be thoughtful, dreamlike and groovy. In the last post I talked about the inspirations for the album. This week I’m going to go in depth into Metro Molecule, and reveal a bit about my composition process. Here’s the track so you can follow along. Emancipator First of all, Metro Molecule is a deliberate attempt to emulate the style of Emancipator, or at […]

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UPDATE – My new hardware setup

January 14, 2014 by Ben

Since the release of FTL, I’ve made some upgrades to the studio setup I wrote about a while back. For the sake of completeness, here are the details on the new setup. Check out the original article first, then read this for the updated stuff. Computer My PC is a Windows 7 machine I built myself. I’ve always built my own desktop PCs and I get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Here’s the exact hardware, because I know […]

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Making Computer Music – A Buying Plan for Dabblers and Absolute Beginners

November 23, 2013 by Ben

I get emails from students and other folks who want to dabble in computer music. They don’t know where to start, or at least they read this FTL article and cringe at what the bill probably was. If you’re not really sure where to start and don’t want to spend a whole ton of money, what should you do? Dabblers and beginners, this article is for you. The cool thing about modern music production is that you don’t need a […]

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Here’s what I used to make the FTL soundtrack

January 3, 2013 by Ben

I get a lot of people asking me what tools I used to make the FTL soundtrack. I started answering them individually, but I think a blog post would be more efficient and useful to everyone. So here goes! I have a Macbook Pro that’s the center of my setup. I record everything into Cubase, my DAW of choice. There are many quality DAWs out there. I hear Reason and FL Studio are good too. I originally purchased Cubase because ten years ago, when I knew nothing about […]

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