Sonar anyone

I used to be a big fan of Cakewalk - around version 3 - then things got ropey when they first added Audio in v4.

We have Sonar 4 on our studio PC, but find it orders of magnitude less friendly than Sony ACID Pro, which we use exclusively these days.

The results can be heard on my MySpace profile - but that doesn't mean you'll like the music - it ain't Prog Rock, although "Modern Man" is kinda proggish in the mid section.

I must admit that until we finished "Something In The Way" last week, "Monkey" was my favourite too - thanks for the comments!

The vocal effects are largely done using Antares and Sonitus plug ins. I don't know too much about them - that's Andy's domain.

Monkey was pretty much finished in it's first incarnation - a single session resulted in the complete song and rough sketches of the guitar parts and organ, so every subsequent session has been a polish of the original, while other songs have been elongated, edited and generally cut and pasted about.

Having said that, we're only up to mix 9 on "Monkey" - some other songs are up to mix 20 and beyond. The mix on the MySpace site is actually mix 7 - we're waiting for our real drummer to complete his drum programming, and I've got to re-record the real bass, as my first attempt was a bit of a bodge.

The bass on mix 7 is the same synth line that we used for the prototype for mix 1, and I'm particularly averse to synth basses, unless used for effect - so it needs to die!

I also need to come up with a solo for the section after the white noise/feedback in the bridge - so I'm frantically searching the LickLibrary.com archives. Surprisingly, the best DVD I've found to plunder ideas from is called "50 Killer Metal Licks", featuring Danny Gill - but I can't play that fast... yet!


Thanks again for the comments about the music!