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Drum & Bass by Marc the Darc

Also available @ http://www.soundcloud.com/marcthedarc

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About the production:

Finally I've finished my most comprehensive project yet!
10 months in the making, countless hours invested, and now I'm proud of what I've achieved! It's been a rocky road, with lots of challenges and setbacks. But nothing worth doing is ever easy! And I'm all the more happy with the result, for the journey it put me on. I think I've come out stronger on the other side.

From a technical standpoint, I started the track as pure ITB project. But when I acquired a Minilogue in the start of february, I knew it would help me finish the track. And so it has! Since then progress sped up considerably.
In addition to a fair amount of Minilogue in the 2nd half of the track, it's mainly based around the excellent U-He synth plugins; DIVA and Hive, and a small touch of Korg M1 plugin.
The rest is Ableton Live stock plugins.

All parts was first played freehand on keyboard or Push, but then usually had the MIDI adjusted afterwards - my timing still isn't perfect.
The final arrangement, mix and some performance effects was recorded live in realtime, alongside 3 streams of video, which is fairly synced in the final result. Though a fair bit of automation and preplanned arrangement is present as well.
Other streams of video was recorded throughout the duration of the project, with some quite early in the development, which is why I sometimes appear not to be doing much in relation to the track. Also most of the clips was chosen for their aesthetic interrelation, not necessarily showing the actual performance.

It's been a struggle, it's been a pleasure, and I sincerely hope you'll all enjoy it as much as I do!

Gearbox:
Korg Minilogue
Nux Mod Core
Steinberg UR28M
Ableton Push
Akai APC40
Novation LaunchKey 49
Ableton Live 9 Suite
U-He DIVA & Hive
Korg M1 plugin

Special thanks to my fiancée and Soundrookie for wielding some of the cameras!

Copyright © Marc the Darc 2016