May I

Bit of a new direction for me - sampled and vocoded vocals galore...

https://soundcloud.com/lo_five/may-i

i really like the melody of this

Cheers - it's a bit of an experiment with what I think's known as a circle of fifths, even though the circle isn't completed.

Hmm, the drums and vocoder sound great together. Nice sounds all around.

Thanks - been listening to a lot of Tobacco lately. The vocoder synth in Logic seems a bit limited though so if anyone's got any suggestions on alternative plugins I'd love to hear 'em...

this sounds like it was done by your avatar.

the melodies are beautiful, really really beautiful! the drums don't do it justice, imo they ruin it a bit...

i'm a sucker for vocoders and autotunes and whatnot, so i'm biased.

btw, this song really reminds me of some other song which i can't recall right now...

oh it's lynch's...

Wow thanks, about the melodies bit :) yeah I do suck at drums. I'm always torn between acoustic and electronic sounds. I'd use samples I've recorded myself if I had time.

Like the Lynch track - hadn't heard that before. Been listening to this a lot lately as well, which bears a resemblance:

nice work always good to experiment and see what happens :)

Really liking the transition at 1:50 and the bridge at 1:35 but I think they could come a little earlier. Really nice melodies but maybe turn down the vocal distortion a bit?

The song starts at 01:32 for me. Really nice vibes westhead. Were you singing? Worked out very nicely. Cool track. i agree with TIMJ about maybe fixing up the drums, little more variety and mix better, or play with some different samples to see if they work better.

  On 7/14/2014 at 8:14 AM, dxtxa said:

Really liking the transition at 1:50 and the bridge at 1:35 but I think they could come a little earlier. Really nice melodies but maybe turn down the vocal distortion a bit?

Cheers. That distortion's basically me not knowing how to use Logic's vocoder. Also it's sampled from a a Buddhist monk chant and the quality wasn't great - so I may redo them just recording my own vocal.

  On 7/14/2014 at 8:44 AM, delet... said:

The song starts at 01:32 for me. Really nice vibes westhead. Were you singing? Worked out very nicely. Cool track. i agree with TIMJ about maybe fixing up the drums, little more variety and mix better, or play with some different samples to see if they work better.

I totally agree about the drums. I tend to stick to the same kits in Logic when I should be creating my own from scratch. I guess I'm stuck in a rut with using traditional drums sounds and patterns because that's my background - will definitely work on that though.

This is all very useful feedback folks - thank you.

This is a really beautiful tune! You have an ear for melodies.

Reminds me the tiniest bit of this......any reason to watch this video again is always good anyway....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNJe7Hk5RQ

Generally pretty lush really. Nice melodies.

Could do with opening up a bit more at 1:50.