Salsa sketch in 7/8

[forestandgarden]

It's been a while, here's just some 'rehearsal room recording', errors incl., i.e. jack_capture -mp3 running while I was having fun:
https://linx.li/salsa7.mp3
This time, the loops are programmed and recorded with Reaper for linux, running inside Carla, which is also doing the guitar sound, and with another Carla inside, to play the percussion from the sf2 in GMSynth. The guitar is a chinese acoustic made from green pine & superglue, with a pre-historic Lawrence PU, and tuned a 4th down. The interesting thing is the 'responsive' guitar sound, there's GxExpander at the heart of it, and a few sidechained comps & gates; this allows gliding between clean & heavy overdrive just by the dynamics of playing.

[Michael Willis]

Whoa! Forest and garden! It's been quite a while. I'm trying to chase the kids to bed now, but when I get a moment I'll put on the headphones and give this a good listen.

[milo]

That sounds really good for a sampled guitar! I like this tune a lot. It's a lot of fun, and the guitar solo is full of great hooks. Thanks for sharing this!

[Rainmak3r]

Wow I hadn't understood this was a sampled guitar, I was pretty sure it was you playing it! Really cool track, especially since I love 7/4 and 7/8 as tempos.

[forestandgarden]

Oh well, ambigous phrasing there , "programming and recording" means the percussion was programmed (loading carla-rack vst into reaper, and the sf2 bank found inside GMSynth.lv2 into that), all the rest are recorded guitars, the rhythmic melody (actually the trigger idea) and the bass line are looped, the solo is just played live (on an armed track, but w/o recording, just loop playback)and the result captured with jack_capture -mp3 . All the 3 guitar sounds are made with the same 'responsive' Carla patch, containing amp sims, compressors, gates, expander, chorus, delays & more, and into which reaper is getting loaded as a 'jack application', a setup that I had originally made in order to be able to use reaper's NINJAM plugin.

I could have recorded the solo onto a track, and reaper is doing very intelligent things when recording over a loop, but I was low on disk space (curse the move to undersized SSDs just when 500MB-2TB HDDs were becoming the standard)

Funny that milo was answering here, the only song I know that's exploring the potential for 7/8 in latin music, is called "Milo's Moment", to be found on relatively unknown Mariah Parker's album "Sangria", and a true percussion fiesta.

[ufug]

Thanks for sharing this. That's a mighty adventurous sketch. The guitar sounds Santana-ly massive even on my terrible tower speaker.

Welcome back.

[milo]

Oh well, ambigous phrasing there , "programming and recording" means the percussion was programmed (loading carla-rack vst into reaper, and the sf2 bank found inside GMSynth.lv2 into that), all the rest are recorded guitars, the rhythmic melody (actually the trigger idea) and the bass line are looped, the solo is just played live (on an armed track, but w/o recording, just loop playback)and the result captured with jack_capture -mp3 . All the 3 guitar sounds are made with the same 'responsive' Carla patch, containing amp sims, compressors, gates, expander, chorus, delays & more, and into which reaper is getting loaded as a 'jack application', a setup that I had originally made in order to be able to use reaper's NINJAM plugin

I'm still impressed. You move across that fretboard better than I can, for sure!

[GMaq]

Hi @forestandgarden!

Great programming and playing! Well done, nice to see you back..

[folderol]

Suitably frenetic
Nice work.