I've recently discovered the Dubstep genre and even though there are a lot of the tracks of that genre that I don't particularly like, there are quite a few I really DO like as well. As I mentioned in an it was 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' by Skrillex that got me interested and I really liked the structured randomness of stabs and the wobbly bass. I suggest, while reading this post, that you listen to =) Yesterday after I dropped off my son at daycare I had the melody of in my head and I imagined what it would sound like with some wobbles and random stabs in that track. When I came home I launched Cubase and loaded the to play around a while with the idea. A few hours later I had a decent draft going with a duration of about a minute.

I had to stop for the time being to resume some everyday-normal-duties but around 9 PM the kids were a sleep, we had finished eating Thai food, and the Cubase project was loaded. Crack Alarm Fur Cobra 11 here. I couldn't stop until the clock showed 03:30 AM but I happy with the result and I considered the edit to be ready for release. Since it's an edit the production time was greatly reduced because in general all the melodies and midi data is already there, it just needs rearranging with the exception for the additional random stabs, a modified beat, the wobble bass, and some instrument substitution. To get the wobble bass, by the way, I use Sylenth1 and set the Low Frequency Oscillator 1 (LFO) to sinus wave and that it should modify Cutoff Frequency A. I then use VST Automation (see my ) to alter the rate of the LFO to achieve the wobble effect. 2 hours of sleep anyone?

Sep 2, 2011 - EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Gold (33 GB sample library); EastWest Symphonic. Quantum Leap Goliath (41 GB sample library); Stormdrum 2 (13 GB. Both the digital download and boxed version is €179 (including shipping) so I'm leaning towards the box after all. My PayPal account is.

I released the preview on Soundcloud last night before heading off to bed at 04:15 AM. My son woke up again at 06:55 and I had to get up with him to drop him off at daycare again.

2 hours and 40 minutes of sleep - wohoo. Following some positive comments about the track on the I then started the process of releasing the track on. The process of releasing a track To release a new track on Imphenzia.com there are a few things I have to do. Unmastering the skill of Mastering First thing is first and I have to master the track. Unfortunately my mastering skills are absolutely awful and close to non-existent. I spend about 2 minutes mastering the track because my ears can't really pick out the difference when it comes to EQing, limiting, compression, and altering the dynamics. To give Nostalgia the drive through audio wash I load the 32 bit floating point WAV file I rendered in Cubase.