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Noggin – Live it is (demo)

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Title: Live it is (demo)
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2002

This is another one of the few jams I was able to bust out with Reason. Buzz had 0 midi implementation, so one thing that kept me interested in Reason was that I could trigger things from my keyboard. I love how you could just click ‘learn’ and then assign keys to whatever you wanted, track mutes, solos, volume, anything non-standard was no problem.
This is a demo I made to try out this new multi-mapped keyboard live playing ability. I never played out with Reason, cause I just really don’t trust computers in sweaty drinky bars.
Here I am having fun with Dr Rex and the sampler. This track has that definite ‘Reason sound’, which I can’t put my finger on, but I can notice. Maybe it’s the ‘summing’, which is something I’ve heard talked about a lot lately. “It’s the summing dude”…(for the uninitiated, ‘the summing’ is adding…like as in 0.5 + 0.1….or more accurately, 0.52384927349 + -0.12393859304).
Download: Noggin – live it is (demo) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Used (demo)

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Title: Used (demo)
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2003

I wanted to slow things down a bit, seems like the last couple days on this thing have been pretty intense.
Here is a very short demo/test I made with Reason, ca. version 1.1. I tried Reason for about a summer, and it pretty much single-handedly inspired me to find a hardware synth, which just further solidified my move away from computer-based production. I’m not hating on Reason, I think it is a very unique piece of software and pretty cool what all it can do. I guess I just thought taking the hardware metaphor THAT FAR in software was a bit backwards, and so I myself ended up being the one taking steps backwards into the world of never having enough patch cables. Go figure.
Download: noggin – used(demo) (right click and choose ‘save as’)