Like I said this started out as something to do on an idle day. I layed out the beginning pads and bleeps one day and then nothing. The track sat on my hard drive for quite a while just waiting. Eventually I just forgot about this.
Then another idle day came and I browsed through my projects folder to find this one. I gave it a listen felt I could build on the simple beginning I had in my hands. I began laying drums and strings on, but the strings began to have a little too much of an ethnic vibe, which I for some reason did not want for this track. So I dumped most of the strings and pulled out the brass. They began with a simple idea that grew.
The more I wrote for the horns to play the more I felt the melody push you towards an entrance to some unfamiliar (yet all too familiar) place. So that became the theme to carry this track. The brass melody became grand and everything felt like it was going to plan. Then I hit a wall. What next? What happens when you get to the gate?
For a second time this track was left to wait.
For a while I had no answer. I made several different versions in my head but all of them sounded wrong. I actually spent a few weeks thinking about how to go with the second half. Then yesterday I fired up Sonar and began to write without much thinking of it. And the second half kinda just wrote itself.
In the end it was fitting that writing a track to portray the transportation between two worlds was so hard yet so easy to write.
Gear I used for this track:
DAWs and editors:
- Cakewalk Sonar X1
- Sony SoundForge 7
Samplers, instruments and effects:
- NI Kontakt4
- NI Battery 3
- NI Massive
- NI Absynth 5
- Z3ta+ FX
- Vienna Suite
Libraries and impulses:
- MOTU Ethno Instrument 2
- Zero G Animato
- Sonic Couture Konkrete 2
- Nine Volt Audio Stickbreakers 2: Ten Man Taiko
- Kirk Hunter Symphony Orchestra Diamond
- Cinematic Strings Monster Staccatos
- VSL Horizon series Epic Horns
- NI Kontakt 4 Library
