Kev On Music

kevkondro liveset winter09 take2

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000

The winter09 liveset is coming along slow but sure. Here we have the new take with some new sounds.

kevkondro_liveset_winter09_take2.mp3 (right click + save target as to download)

How to use BV512 Vocoder

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:34:00 +0000

New tunes by Pomplamoose

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:14:00 +0000

Updating you on the Pomplamoose music. Here are a couple of new vids. Great job again:)

Michael Jackson - Beat It

Mister Sandman - The Chordettes

kevkondro liveset winter09 take1

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:12:00 +0000

This time around i am back in the business of making livesets on ableton. It is very rewarding and joyous experience, I must admit. You're not stuck with a single theme or track if you will. You can just carry on and on making things. When you mix everything back you can tweak and tune preceding tracks as your ears are objectively listening to what's coming before your latest piece. If it sounds wrong you just know what to fix. Hope you will enjoy the trip with me to the final take of the project. Here comes take1!

kevkondro_liveset_winter09_take1.mp3 (right click + save target as to download)

Gigi D' Agostino - I'll Fly With You (slow cover)

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:38:00 +0000

One of the best covers ever to Gigi D' Agostino's I'll Fly With You. Takes me back in time and place. Happy Friday every one!

Basic Guide to Subtractive Synthesis Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:40:00 +0000

Audiotuts contributor Mo Volans talks about modulation and LFO in reasons subtractor. It is the second part of the tutorial series about subtractive synthesis. See Part 1.

At Moby's Home Studio Talking about Old Drum Machines

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:48:00 +0000

How to make electro house in 7 days using reason v4

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Time and again Youtube is proving to be a great place for tutorials and tips on reason and other DAWs. Here we have boyinaband and their tutorials for making electro house in 7 days.

Electro House Tutorial: Day 1 - Making an Electro House Beat [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial: Day 1 pt. 2 - EQing an Electro House Beat [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial: Day 2 - Making a Sexy Electro Bass [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial Day 3: Adding FX, Samples and a Blippy Synth [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial Day 4: Adding a sexy Electro Lead [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial Day 5: Adding the Vocal Hook [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial Day 6: Arranging the Song and Filter Sweep [7 Day Song]

Electro House Tutorial Day 7: Mixing & Mastering [7 Day Song]

So 2005s djset by kevkondro

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000

So 2005s is a djset recorded live at my living room on the easy Sunday morning. The djset celberates house music that was very popular back in 2005-2007. Happy listening...

kevkondro_so_2005s.mp3 (right click + save target as to download)

Tracklist

Deep Dish - Floating
Gabriel & Dresden - Pavement Cracks featuring Annie Lennox
Deep DIsh - Everybody's Wearing My Head
Deep Dish - Swallow Me
Deep Dish - Bogels
James Zabiela - Weirder Science (original_mix)
Omid16b - To Run To
Deep Dish - Sacramento
Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved (Seb Fontaine & Jay P's Type Mix)
Gabriel & Dresden - Without You Near (Gabriel & Dresden Remix) featuring Markus Schulz & Departure
Gabriel & Dresden - Beautiful Things featuring Andain

Free djset by Tadeus Franks

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:46:00 +0000

I am proudly presenting a freshly baked mixtape by Tadeus Franks. Feel free to download or stream online. Any feedback is welcome!

Tadeus Franks - Will Be Mine.mp3 (right click + save target as to download)

Tracklist

The Ecologist - Hustle
Monologue - My Teenage Gang
Chromatics - Running Up The Hill
Manuel Tur - Patchworks
Wireman - Armour
Cheek - Venus
Dirty Culture - No Matter How

Create the "Justice Bass" in Reason 4.0! (Tutorial)

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:58:00 +0000

Make your snares phat and sound like "Justice Drums" in Reason 4.0!!

Rex the Dog - Maximize

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:35:00 +0000

Electro fun by Rex the Dog.

New experimental track kevkondro filterheads

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:50:00 +0000

Here comes a new experimental track made in reason4. Below you will find free download links to the mp3.

kevkondro_filterheads.mp3 (right click + save target as to download)

Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:33:00 +0000

Just beautiful!

Free VST compressor Rough Rider plugin

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:16:00 +0000

Rough rider is a freeware vst compressor by audio damage. According to the manufacturers it's best when applied to clean guitar, bass, or drum tracks. It's not a multipurpose compressor though. By the way it looks neat on the outside.

Rough Rider is a modern compressor with a bit of "vintage" style bite and a uniquely warm sound. Perfect for adding compression effects to your drum buss, it also sounds great with synth bass, clean guitar, and backing vocals. Definitely not an all-purpose compressor, Rough Rider is at its best when used to add pump to rhythmic tracks. Of course, you can use it however you'd like. The Compressor Police aren't gonna come to your house and give you a citation. Slap it on a track and crank some knobs.

More free VST

Piano chords tabnabber.com

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:44:00 +0000

I found TabNabber a great helper for picking up chords as far as it's presentation and design is concerned. All of the chords are on a single page so it's takes very little time to find the one you need. Also, it's showing some of the inversions a chord can have which is also really handy. Piano scales are available too.

See also piano chords for more chord sites.

HIM - Wicked Game

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:40:00 +0000

This above tune is one of my favorites. But only now I have checked on the chords for the song. It turns out it's pretty manageable. The whole song goes like this: Bm A E. I am now practicing to play the chords and to sing along. You may also want to check on the original version by Chris Isaak below.

Chris Isaak Wicked Game

Earth Wind and Fire - September (Pomplamoose Cover)

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:23:00 +0000

New music video from Pomplamoose the band i follow on youtube.

Motionfm.com online radio for deep soulful house

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:41:00 +0000

Long time no radio post huh? Not any more. Presenting motionfm.com the radio for the deep soulful house and smooth jazz lovers.

How to create tension in music

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:42:00 +0000

Basic points about how to create tension in music. These are taken from the forum discussions at the HighC. Many of these are new to me yet some are really self-explicable and you can relate to those working in your DAW (e.g. tempo, pitch, texture, dynamics, repetition).

All music, regardless of genre, makes use of tension and release as an organizing principle for sound. The musical devices you study, all have a role in creating or releasing tension. Here's a partial list of musical devices and how they relate to this discussion:

pitch: upward motion creates tension, downward motion resolves it
texture: density increases tension, sparsity resolves
interval: dissonance creates tension, consonance resolves tension
tempo: acceleration creates tension, slowing resolves it
intonation: bending away from the nominal pitch increases tension, returning resolves it
harmony: there’s a very sophisticated system of creating and resolving tension in western harmony (you can buy books and take college courses on it)
syncopation: playing off the beat creates tension, on the beat resolves it
beat division: more divisions per beat creates tension, fewer resolves tension
dynamics: louder creates tension, softer releases tension (this is debatable–you could make a decent case that moving away from the center increases tension, while moving toward decreases. Either way, change in dynamics can create and resolve tension)
articulation: shorter (stacatto) creates tension, longer (legato) releases
repetition: repetition builds tension, variation resolves it
ornamentation: ornaments increase tension, simplicity resolves it

kevkondro - back to the roots - demo track

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:53:00 +0000

Currently i am working on the house project in reason. I have reached the demo version now. Please do have a listen and help me improve it by posting your feedback. My intention is to turn this track into a full blown tune for the deep house lovers, for the love of the genre itself. By the way as the title suggest that kind of music are kevkondro's roots in electronic music...

kevkondro_back_to_the_roots.mp3 (right click + save target as to download)

Couple more vids from Pomplamoose

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:49:00 +0000

Single Ladies - Beyonce

Expiration Date - Pomplamoose VideoSong

Free VST plugin | MinimogueVA

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:21:00 +0000

The Minimogue is a lead, FX and bass synth just like the real Minimoog. It is programmed to be as expressive as possible. This is a synth for the players. Modulation wheel takes a big part in the solo sounds. Also try to play long legato lines to hear the full sweep with sounds like Big drift. It is cpu friendly.

Ableton Jam with MIDI Control Mapping

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:26:00 +0000

Ableton Jam#1 with Control Mapping from flujo on Vimeo.

This is a very basic House jam within Ableton Live with an overview of the control mapping used for each track.

VSTi/Synths:
Shortcircuit (drums)
Synth1 (organ+pad+stabs)
Electric (organ/ep)
MinimogueVA (bass)

Extra FX:
Interruptor - Bionic Delay
Kjaerhus Audio - Classic Chorus

Chord Triggering and Chord Bank Setup in Ableton Live

noreply@blogger.com (kevkondro) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:55:00 +0000

Chord Triggering in Ableton Live from flujo on Vimeo.

I have actually tested this tutorial and do admit it yields a huge value. One thing that I must say before hand it's that you will not get chords out of nowhere only triggering a single key. First of all, you will need to build a chord bank.

If you're a wacky keyboard player like me and your fingers get tangled while trying to get a simple chord progression right that will be the video for you. I am not only talking simple chords.

You can get as complicated as you want. Just go online find your favorite piano chords pre-write them in a chord bank and then play them back using a single key of your choice (be it a root note or something else depending on your mapping).