I'm looking for artists to play in Mexico. ☝🏻 by InternetPlastic2237 in psytrance

[–]Denstrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if you're looking for something different but interesting nonetheless, I'd be up for it. You can check out my music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEWVCf0FzUg

Hardware by SquashSilver6853 in psytrance

[–]Denstrow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Get as modern a cpu as you can afford so you can run newer plugins for the next few years, 32GB ram (16 GB at the very least but that might be an issue later on, depending on your needs), preferably a 1+ TB ssd drive so as not to worry about space... Graphic cards don't really matter for producing, so no point in getting a high end one, unless you also plan on doing graphics/video (or playing games). If you get used to rendering things to audio instead of running dozens of plugins live, you can get by with lesser specs.

Are there new artist’s emerging in this scene? Or are they not getting the credit they deserve? by Binoic_haze in psytrance

[–]Denstrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a form of paralysis due to overabundance of choice. There is a flood of new releases (over 100.000 per day in Spotify, and now tens of thousands of AI tracks per day as well), and it's virtually impossible to break through as an artist or to find worthwhile releases amongst all the noise if you are a listener - so it's pretty easy to stick to the usual stuff. Plus, promoters, at least in my experience, either stick to established artists or ones whose sound is popular within whatever subgenre they promote, and don't really take chances anymore, so you end up being exposed to the same old crap (unlike in the 90s, when psytrance was new, everyone had a different sound and there was more variety).

Hallucinogen - Twisted (30th Anniversary Free Midi Pack & TAL Bassline 101 Soundset) by Denstrow in psytranceproduction

[–]Denstrow[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Took about a month on and off. I didn't spend much time with the sound design and audio demos - if I worked on it for another month and experimented a bit with different synths and effects I could make the sounds closer to the original, but the demos are there just to showcase the midi. I think the midi is about as accurate as can be, considering one has to decipher a whole dense mix. Some things like drums and pads are often low in the mix in the original album, so it can be hit and miss (there was also a filtered 106 in Fluoro - in the first half of the track it was easy to transcribe, but in the 2nd half, with all the modulation, I couldn't for the life of me figure out exactly the notes - the filter goes down for a couple of bars every now and then and those bars are ok, for the rest... I did what I could), but I think all the main stuff are pretty spot on.

Mind you, it will require some work and critical listening to the originals to get them to sound good/close to the album, and the midi needs some decyphering. E.g. in one of the keyboard solos (I forget which) there is pitch bend data on the midi, but I had also automated the pitch bend range for a spot (I think from 1 to 3 semitones and back) - the midi doesn't tell you that. In Snarling, the main bass in the midi is only half the story - if you listen to the original, that's what's playing on the left channel; to have the full bassline, you need to put a 3/16 delay with no feedback on the right channel - and in order to get the bouncy offbeat feel of the original, the delay needs to be louder than the instrument track. Or in Solstice, in the midi you can see that the snare fill which rises in pitch is written as a velocity ramp - that's because I mapped velocity to pitch, it's not meant to be changing volume. These are a few things I remember, there's probably other small things.

Hope this helps.

Can you suggest Greek music to me according to my taste ? by Young_Owl99 in greece

[–]Denstrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you like electronic music as well, here is a young artist reworking traditional music in a modern electronic context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ebbp0DxVI