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When the tides of my dreams ebb
I am thankful I know what they are

Night journeys

Wanderings of an active mind
Searching for the hole
The me that was lost
At the Battle of Self

How does one regain incentive?
Desire, will, and dedication?
How do you want?
I wish for a great many things.

My work is my pleasure, my darling child
Progressed beyond the dreamborders I have
Into the swirling madness of a blissful affliction
Feeding on tasty morsels of poison

Saidin-like is that which I revel in
A baptism in defiled indulgence
It soothes my soul and rapes my mind
My self I long and ache to find

Wandering upon the shores of dream
Searching for tracks, for the way back
Away from this cursed jewel
This garden of rotten fruits

Shall not hold me imprisoned
Polluted, used up and thinned
The return is one of solitude and regret
Dirt-kicking and hunger

Hunger gives way to voracity
And upon the nothing do I gorge
The native insignificants,
Leaves and tubers of the path

Nothing to savor, a tidbit of blah
Unexpectedly refreshing and vitalizing
Pure life hidden amongst the normal
Healthy, nourishing and lean

Sometimes, when my world seems void
I crave the decadence behind me,
Itch for what may yet be,
And savor that which I am in.

[portion of message deleted - irrelevant to the purpose of this article] I took a listen to a few of your songs, and I'm impressed! I'd love to hear "Dreams of Another Place" on a big club sound system. Even on my computer speakers it sounds quite good, though. It's a very crisp, clean production, upbeat with lots of energy. The sequencing is right on everywhere. But "Khemikal Awakenings" goes even further. Gorgeous sequencing and effects! All the individual melodies fit so perfectly together, but are individually memorable, too. I like the way it progresses in a surprising way; you never know what's around the next measure. This one also begs for giant speakers. Or maybe THX in a huge theater--it would befit a high-energy film sequence for sure. I'll bet reviewers complain about the length. No problem here. I could listen to a whole CD of this. It would be great cross-country driving music! It's very imaginative. "Rara Avis" has a definite Kraftwerk tone to it, especially in the beginning. Certainly very Euro-sounding, and when I'm in a dance club (not often), it's the Euro stuff that always catches my ear. Another one great for either dancing or driving, with a steady progression that again is pleasantly surprising all the way through. Very rich melodically. Love the electronic "noodling" that begins around 4:00. Lots of twists and turns. I often find trance monotonous, but there's no chance of boredom with the constant change-ups you employ; they slide seamlessly from one to the next, making the listener try to anticipate what might happen next, and then, SURPRISE! It wasn't quite what he was expecting. I am NOT a huge trance fan, but I can get into this stuff with no problem. I may just burn these to a CD and take 'em out for a spin on the livingroom stereo later! (Smoke 'em if ya got 'em, as they say here!) -Ryk

This is a post I made on the RS7000 Yahoo newsground, dunno how many of ya'll get it so here I shall paste it. MY WAY OF MULTI-SAMPLING ON THE RS-7000 Yes, Latif, I undertand that it sucked that they did not implement multi-sampling as part of the RS whereas they did on the Motif. I DO have a workaround for myself, albeit and little bit more time consuming. This is what I do (i mainly use it for "multisampling" sounds created from HIGHLY modified internal sounds, not just one modified sound but SEVERAL).
I set up a style solely used for this purpose (a scratch-pad, is what I like to call it.) I will include a link to a very simple example of this in RS format towards the end.
Get a sound that you like, tweak it the way you like it. Several sounds if you wish. Use the MIDI delay function, and trigger your note desired to be your "bottom note" for the sound you want to "multisample". Lets say you want your samples to be a quarter note in length. Program the first note into the phrase. Use the midi delay, with a delay setting of 480 clicks (a delay every quarter), and set the "FB note" I think it is (don't have my RS by my side at the moment) to +1 (each delay rises a half-step)...but set the delay repeats to the max 8 bars will allow (as the sample slice will only slice up to 8 bars).
You could also set OTHER sounds to start delaying at a l8r time from the beginning to kinda "fade" from one sound to the other using the MIDI delay FB velocity setting. OR you could layer sounds together for layers samples blah blah millions of combinations you could find to do with this. When you get what you what, use the sample record to record this eight bars of chromatic notes, right? Then use the sample slice function to cut up each individual quarter into individual samples and have them assigned to the original "root" note, so that each note is on it's respective respective key.
Basically using a SAMPLE KIT to do multi-sampling...in a weird sort of way. True, some may view it as a pain in the ass, but really its not once you get it down pat. I can do something like this in a matter of 5-10 minutes with good results. The following link is to a zip of the RS file i used to do this. It's very simple, But tracks 1-4 show the sounds and how i did it (I even used PAN and Cutoff CC#'s just to demstrate the variety that can be had). You get the picture tho. Track 6 is the actual sliced samples, ranging from E-0 to G-5, and the notes are correct as far as their placement on the keyboard. I only sliced in eighth notes just to get a broader range of notes for this demonstration. If you wanted quarter note samples or even longer, you could just transpose the notes after sampling and keep doing as such until you ghet the range you wanted.
Keep in mind, this wasn't done to show anything special, just to show the possibilities/capabilities of this method. I mean, you could even assign different LFO/envelope/effect/portamento setting to each individual notes....you could get some crazy stuff like this. You could also used this for creating drumkits from modified drum settings (as there are kits that respond fully to all voice settings, check the manual for the "Full-Editing" kind), even layered drums as well.
Not as simple as straightforward multisampling, but it works. What do ya'll think of this workaround to multi-sampling? To me it's not that time-consuming...
LINK to the RS-FILE (.zip) Multisampling Workaround Joe Kurve My Website

Simon Voakes has released and Dark Hardcore remix of my psytrance track 'Khemikal Awakenings'. It can be found on his webpage at www.simonvoakes.co.uk. For direct links, click one of the links below. I must add, though, that I STRONGLY suggest peeping his site - GREAT music.
56kbps Lo-Fi Stream
128kbps Hi-Fi Stream
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