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Qui,

sulla terrazza del mondo,

sogno

di cambiare dal profondo.

Mentre

accatastavo i miei averi,

lento,

perdevo i miei poteri

per voler di piu’.

 

Ora,

Tu mi illumini d’incanto

E di dare

sono alla fine piu’ contento

Dare,

e’ una gioia e’ un potere

Dare

attenzione - dare amore

Dare,

e’ la conquista del mio cuore

Che oggi batte di piu’.

 

 

                           Words & Music ® F Carosone 2006

 

 

 

 

Candies

 

Under the word “sogno”, (=”dream”), a really dreamy sound of sitar lies. The “Paradise” effect to the real sitar cascade sample was realized in RoomVerb. Isolated for you:

 

Dare-sitar-heaven.mp3

 

A sound of my own comes out after the first verse. It is a morphing between synth and strings, convoluted with a water-drop sound. The waterdrop convolution gives it a very shimmering effect, and the stereo panning gives it a motion:

 

Shimmering-droplet-convolution.mp3

 

The slide guitar solo comes from a classical Indian record that I sampled. It was playing with an accompanying tampura, I instructed the Noise removal tool in Adobe Audition that tampura was the unwanted noise, and I got the slide guitar alone! The solo, then, is a matter of cut into single notes, copy, paste, stretch and transpose, done into Melodyne. Here are some of the de-tampurised samples:

 

slideguitar-1.mp3

slideguitar-2.mp3

slideguitar-3.mp3

slideguitar-4.mp3

 

 

List of instruments

 

Voice, background voice;

Keyboards: Korg Wavestation;

MIDI programming to Maz Vsampler for Indian tampura, sarangi, sitar.

 

Brijbushan Kabra : slide guitar, sampled and re-arranged into Melodyne.

 

Mastered with Ozone and Roomverb plug-ins in Sonar 4PE.

 

SAMPLE CLEARANCE: Contains excerpts from “Rag Piloo”, in the“Call of the valley” album (1968), by Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbushan Kabra e Hariprasad Chaurasia.

 

 

 

 

Software to replicate the candies

 

No free software, I’m sorry. Adobe Audition is my audio editor, but you can have noise reduction in whatever audio software you use (wavelab, sound forge). You can try that also with Nero! I am not aware whether the freeware Audacity will do:

 

Audacity download website

 

 

For convolution I use Voxengo Pristine Space. A freeware convolutor was SIR, but Pristine Space is far more powerful at a cheap price.

 

 

 

 

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