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Personal
Inspirations
"Dance
With the Rain Divas" - 1.4 meg, 2:23 mp3. - This was the
first serious composition I created on a workstation platform.
It's not as polished as "Dancing with the Rain Divas", See
below. I
composed this on an AMDK6 PC a 400 MhZ processor speed using sound
synthesis software created by Yamaha. No special hardware was
used other than an audio card. All audio was software
synthesized, except for rain and thunder recorded off my front
porch during a spring evening thunder storm, and the laughter
you hear in the background at the end of the song, brought to
you by my wife, Darlene P. Coltrain, playing the role of a Rain
Diva. Software: Cakewalk Pro Audio. NOTE: This composition predated
the above Staharazad compositions.
"Echos
From My Memory" - 2.3 meg, 4:53, mp3. - Composed it on
an AMDK6 PC a 400 MhZ processor speed using sound synthesis
software created by Yamaha. This was my second attempt at music
composition, after "Dance with the Rain Divas". No special hardware was used other
than an audio card. All audio was software synthesized.
Software: Cakewalk Pro Audio.
"Dancing
With the Rain Divas" - 1.6 meg, 3:23, mp3. - This was a
revision of "Dance With the Rain Divas" where I used enhanced
hardware, specifically YAMAHA's SW1000XG sound card. All audio
was software and hardware synthesized, except for rain and
thunder recorded off my front porch during a spring evening
thunder storm, and laughter heard in the background, brought to
you by my wife, Darlene P. Coltrain, playing the role of a Rain
Diva. Software used: CakeWalk's SONAR and Acid Loops by Sonic
Foundry.
"Is
Pan Dreaming Tonight?" - 1.8 Meg, 3:47, mp3 - The astute
listener might notice that this composition is a variation of "Dance[ing]
of the Rain Divas" series. I consider this composition to be the
final rendition. You may note that the Rain Diva spirits appear
to have undergone a metamorphosis into Pan. The flute you hear
as part of the main theme was generated using YAMAHA's PLG150-VL
sound card. This is a fantastic card capable of mimicking a
number of string, wood, and wind instruments with extraordinary
accuracy. Unfortunately, some of my personal recordings of
crickets occasionally heard chirping in the background did not
convert as well into the mp3 format as I would have liked.
Certain "chirps" come across almost as if they have a metallic
characteristic. This does not happen in the more accurate *.wav
files.
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