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For that, I’m gonna sing! 🗣

Mines is a laid back house vibe. Night time driving past the trees. It’s getting there.

You can still sing much better than I can. 😂

& here's me expecting a song about a Douglas Fir. 🤔 Nice track. You've set a high bar.

Good to hear from you Shep. It’s been a while. I know how irritating it can be to lose stuff to the internet. Where it’s there, but you can’t do anything with it. Hope you’re keeping well & still play bass.

Well done NickD. Got one of my votes too. Looking forward to a Fir September. 🤠

When I used to set up PA, the choice of reference material would depend on What was going to be played. Quite often it would be dance music, so Groove Armada’s Vertigo or Goodbye Country was a good reference.

Just been listening to this in the car. Brings a little tear to my eye.

I know. 🙂 I removed the original track & uploaded the new version with the same name, which causes the embedded link to go funny for a few hours. It should be okay tomorrow, but there's a link straight to Soundcloud if you want a listen - https://soundcloud.com/gxmix/this-was-how-it-felt

I've added some lyrics to mine. Bought myself some samples, so not me singing. https://soundcloud.com/gxmix/this-was-how-it-felt

I think I've got mine's done. Though I might go back to it at some point (another that I'd like to put some lyrics on). I've tried to get that French JM Jarre vibe & give it a sense of mystery (like the black cat). Anyway, it's electronica, but not sure you could dance to it...

Lemon is better than Orange. 🤠

I've got an idea in my head & made a wee start on something today that sounds noting like what's in my head. My inspiration is the cat, but trying to go for a French sounding vibe (like Air's Moon Safari).

Oooh wow. Thanks guys. I’ll get an inspiration pic across shortly.

Good to hear it’s back. Hopefully you get the other bits back & the thief gets a bad bout of COVID.

I’m all for lose a finger for a theft. It would make many think twice & the determined idiots are gonna find it hard to steal with just 2 pinkies.

My dad in law gets acrylic nails on his right hand for playing acoustic guitar. I use the boney bit of my finger tips to play.

Here it is now... It might go more versions, it might not. Depends what time I get. Enjoy...

I'll join in on the classic 90's EDM. Love this one as it's written to be played by musicians & the bassline is a joy to play.

Okay, I'm in. I see this as looking into the hazy past. So I've went with a late 80's early 90's vibe. I got a couple of new soft synths that sound fantastic, Serum & Pigments. The other synths on this are Cypher2, Equator & Logic's Drum Synth for the kick. New version... Played the bass, changed some sounds & added some textures. I'm planning on adding some further textures & maybe add some vocals now that I have a mic (don't worry, it'll be vocoderised), but I thought I'd get my entry in.

Made this using Serum. Not bad for a 1st attempt & mostly using it's own presets.

I've recommended Cakewalk to a few friends recently. I'm a Mac user & have Logic Pro X. There's a good selection of synths & so in within it, but I'm wanting some good pro quality VSTs. Having played with Serum a wee bit, I'm sold on it. It sounds fantastic. I'm gonna try Pigments2 & V Collection, but from what I've done with Serum so far, I think It's likely that I'll go with Serum & Pigments2.

Indeed. I’ve got Labs & Discover.

I'll have a look. Over the years I've tried a few free VSTs. u-he Tyrell N6 is pretty good (I believe it's based on the Roland Juno 106. I've downloaded the trial of Serum & so far, I'm impressed.

I'm in dire need of some decent VSTs (software instruments), but haven't got the spare cash to buy outright just now. Thankfully Splice offer a Rent-to-own model, where you pay monthly, can take a break as often as you like & start again & once you've paid the cost of the software, it's yours. So I thought about getting either Serum as it gets rave reviews & is $9.99 a month for 19 months or Arturia Pigments2 for the same, but 20 months. Then I thought "Oh, Arturia V Collection 7 is $24.99p/m". That has 23 instruments modelled on classic synths & keys. I really don't want to spend more than that per month, but now I'm in 2 minds what to go for... Aturia V collection 7 or Serum and Pigments2? Has anyone on here got any or all of these? The good thing about Splice, is that you get to try for 3 days for free, so I'm going to download one today to try. Then do the same with the others at different times so I can have a proper play about with each. But I'd like to know who uses them long term?