Espen Gulbrandsen
Hey - thanks for visiting my humble website. I haven't added any sub-menus yet, the reason being that I doubt I have enough material yet. I'm sure that will change soon enough.
I have planned at least a links section and a news section. It would perhaps also be nice to get some kind of forum going, and a guestbook - most likely I won't need both :)
I'm currently studying musicology at the University in Oslo. I like jazz piano a lot, but on this site you'll mostly find info
about my edm projects.
NEWS
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June 10th, 2009: My tune "Small Talk" has just been released on Baroque's sister label Method. It's out on 12" and as a digital mp3 file on Beatport exclusively. Method decided to
make the 12" release into a split, so the b side features a track by Alex Costa. If anyone is curious, the main arp was done with NI FM8
and the bassline was made with NI Massive.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have some thoughts on how it sounds!
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June 12th, 2009: Working on a new track that I think will be a follow-up single on Method, but really don't know yet... At this point it doesn't
have a real title, it's just called "Track 04", but beyond that, it's actually about 90% done! I don't think I've ever come this far
without having come up with a song title yet. I think it still sounds like me, but the style is a little less "prog house". Stay tuned.
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Here's a list of some of the stuff I use in my studio:
- Mac Pro 8core
- Yamaha P-140 electronic piano
- Uad-1 PCI Express
- TC Powercore PCI Express
- Dynaudio Bm6a monitors
- Arturia Arp2600
- Native Instrumens: Battery 3, Massive, Fm8, Reaktor 5, Pro-53 and Absynth 4
- Logic Studio 8
- Fxpansion Guru
- Microtonic drum machine
- For visual monitoring I use Inspector by Roger Nichols.
- Waves Native Power Pack
Some older hardware synths include: Novation Drumstation, Novation Nova.
Native Instruments Massive:
I'm a big fan of the synth Massive by Native Instruments. I've been writing my own sounds for Massive over the last couple of months, and I'm planning on sharing those patches with people who might be interested,
so I need to get a download section as well. Sounds will be free to download! Programming sounds is hard. Sometimes you just stumble upon something cool by chance and you think you've learned the art of sound design, but then, the next day,
all you can come up with is a sine wave with a pitch enevelope HAHA and you're like - jesus, I have no talent. So it's a tedious process... :)
Massive is a wavetable synth, which means it's got a wide palette of waveform images instead of just the good old square, sine, sawtooth, etc. Massive also lets you morph between different waveforms, thus creating even more waveforms.
It's also got a modulation oscillator, which is a lot like an lfo, except the mod osc can oscillate a lot faster; this is like in FM synthesis, frequency modulation; it's fast, and it allows you to create effects that aren't possible with
usual lfo's.
Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you have something on your mind
I'm on myspace, just like everyone else...
myspace/espeng
