The headline takes you to a brand new soul-inflected track I made with exclusively JX-8P patches and just a drum loop from Logic (and some plugin FX like reverb & delay).
I just got a JX8P again and I seriously think it's one of the best keyboard synths ever produced. It's fat, lush, bright, wonderful.
Think leather couch, Manhattan view, drink in hand. Fat.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
TRE GITARRIGA SKISSER
Here's a little mini album of three brand new "guitary sketches", click the headline in order to reach them & stream them. If you would like them as a little mini-album zipfile, just drop me a line at patrick.fridhATgmail.com and I'll bounce them back. Enjoy!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Orlando JX10 ReFill
PowerFX is about to release my new ReFill for Reason called "The Orlando JX10 ReFill". It contains 444 synth sounds and 25 drum kits!
Here's all the info:
The Orlando JX10 ReFill
Imagine having a classic Roland synthesizer at your fingertips - a JX10 SuperJX (the huge keyboard that also came in the form of the rack-mount MKS-70. Imagine having more sounds than it could ever hold in memory (it had a memory of 50 user sounds, 50 factory sounds and 64 patches - which combined the 100 tones in memory). Imagine having things it never had - like multi-timbral operation, no limit on simultaneous sounds and voices, built-in effects and more. This ReFill gives you a total amount of 444 synth sounds, as well as 25 drum kits. The sounds are sampled from unique patches made by Patrick Fridh as well as a couple of classic factory sounds.
Tape saturation
Not only do you get "analog feel" into your Reason rack, you also get a healthy amount of tape saturation to spice things up even more. Most of the JX10 sounds were recorded to cassette tape before being sampled. This gives these sounds a special feel which is great combined with the ultra-clean sound of Reason.
Interesting Combinator sounds
Full advantage has been taken of the Combinator module, making it possible to create not only 4-oscillator sounds like the JX10 could but why not 16-oscillator sounds with full polyphony? Make sure to try out buttons and switches - many patches were made to make the Combinator become an instrument of its own, combining the lush analogue feel of the JX10 with the synths in Reason to create sounds you have never heard before.
Sound types
In this ReFill, be prepared to get huge bass sounds, new and original synth sounds (even some tricks with the Subtractor you probably didn't think of before), amazing pads and sound beds, a wide selection of drum samples taken not only from the JX10 but also from a TR-909 and the amazing V-Synth. Added to this is a couple of great lead sounds, poly and mono synths, synth FX sounds and more. A special selection of techno & oldskool rave sounds have also been included, so this ReFill could clearly become one of your best sound sources for your music production.
Contents
291 Wavesamples (142,1 Mb of samples)
189 Subtractor patches
102 Combinator patches
90 NNXT patches
38 Thor patches
25 NN19 patches
25 ReDrum kits
14 Songs and demo files
12 Rex files
10 Malström patches
ReFill size: 113,3 Mb
Copyright info: Roland, TR 909, JX10, MKS 70 and V-Synth are registered trademarks of Roland Corporation, Japan.
The ReFill will retail for $49 at PowerFX. If I'm lucky, they'll find time to put it up online starting tomorrow.
Here's all the info:
The Orlando JX10 ReFill
Imagine having a classic Roland synthesizer at your fingertips - a JX10 SuperJX (the huge keyboard that also came in the form of the rack-mount MKS-70. Imagine having more sounds than it could ever hold in memory (it had a memory of 50 user sounds, 50 factory sounds and 64 patches - which combined the 100 tones in memory). Imagine having things it never had - like multi-timbral operation, no limit on simultaneous sounds and voices, built-in effects and more. This ReFill gives you a total amount of 444 synth sounds, as well as 25 drum kits. The sounds are sampled from unique patches made by Patrick Fridh as well as a couple of classic factory sounds.
Tape saturation
Not only do you get "analog feel" into your Reason rack, you also get a healthy amount of tape saturation to spice things up even more. Most of the JX10 sounds were recorded to cassette tape before being sampled. This gives these sounds a special feel which is great combined with the ultra-clean sound of Reason.
Interesting Combinator sounds
Full advantage has been taken of the Combinator module, making it possible to create not only 4-oscillator sounds like the JX10 could but why not 16-oscillator sounds with full polyphony? Make sure to try out buttons and switches - many patches were made to make the Combinator become an instrument of its own, combining the lush analogue feel of the JX10 with the synths in Reason to create sounds you have never heard before.
Sound types
In this ReFill, be prepared to get huge bass sounds, new and original synth sounds (even some tricks with the Subtractor you probably didn't think of before), amazing pads and sound beds, a wide selection of drum samples taken not only from the JX10 but also from a TR-909 and the amazing V-Synth. Added to this is a couple of great lead sounds, poly and mono synths, synth FX sounds and more. A special selection of techno & oldskool rave sounds have also been included, so this ReFill could clearly become one of your best sound sources for your music production.
Contents
291 Wavesamples (142,1 Mb of samples)
189 Subtractor patches
102 Combinator patches
90 NNXT patches
38 Thor patches
25 NN19 patches
25 ReDrum kits
14 Songs and demo files
12 Rex files
10 Malström patches
ReFill size: 113,3 Mb
Copyright info: Roland, TR 909, JX10, MKS 70 and V-Synth are registered trademarks of Roland Corporation, Japan.
The ReFill will retail for $49 at PowerFX. If I'm lucky, they'll find time to put it up online starting tomorrow.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Check out my Vox profile! :)
http://patrickfridhakabitley.vox.com
I just created a profile at Vox.com, perhaps this blog will be moved there too, I don't know yet, but it seems much easier reaching out & touching faith from there! :)
I just created a profile at Vox.com, perhaps this blog will be moved there too, I don't know yet, but it seems much easier reaching out & touching faith from there! :)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Yellow Orange (2009 edit & remix)
BRAND NEW REMIX ONLINE - JUST CLICK THE HEADLINE - WATCH & LISTEN IN HD!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
"We were not punk - we're an industrial experiment band"
Check out my YouTube channel to get some of the fantastic clips from BBC's new synth series, I'm adding them to my favourites so you can find them quite easily. This is fantastic historical material.
The Balloon Boy
A big talkie in the US right now seems to be the somewhat confusing story about a little boy who was toying with his dad's "experimental balloon"... I don't get it, really...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
New track uploaded on The Tube.
"Italio" now got a little 2009 edit as well. A track that was originally made in 1990, can you believe it? I can't.
The average age of the US soldier was nineteen. 19.
N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-19.
Nineteen years ago. Nine teenyears. Of my middle age. Crisis. I'm 37.
As always,
Click the blog headline to enter this malfunctioning muzak!
The average age of the US soldier was nineteen. 19.
N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-19.
Nineteen years ago. Nine teenyears. Of my middle age. Crisis. I'm 37.
As always,
Click the blog headline to enter this malfunctioning muzak!
Monday, October 12, 2009
press release: UNIQUE REMIX COMPETITION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact information:
Patrick Fridh Aka Bitley™
Sound designer and musician
E-mail: patrick.fridh AT gmail.com
http://bitleymusic.blogspot.com
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXYjFeC_mw
SoundCloud
http://soundcloud.com/bitleytm/koolkordz-2009-remix-kit-worldwide-remix-competition
99musik
http://www.99musik.se/showthread.php?t=270782
UNIQUE REMIX COMPETITION
Uppsala, Sweden, October 12, 2009
The Reason specialist Patrick Fridh invites all musicians of the world to participate in a remix competition which incorporates video.
KOOLKORDZ 2009. The iTunes and Spotify musician Patrick Fridh (also known as Bitley™), known from (but not affiliated to) producing factory sounds to Propellerhead's Reason software package as well as sound banks for PowerFX AB, welcomes all creative musicians in the world to participate in an unusual remix competion for his track Koolkordz 2009, presently only available on YouTube.
In 1994, Patrick Fridh wrote "Koolkordz" using an Atari, a Yamaha TX81Z and an Ensoniq EPS 16+ sampler. Now he has made a new version of the track using Reason 4.
This new version is open for being remixed using any tools available today. All remixes are to be placed on YouTube only - this is the remix artist's duty, and should feature original video material or "video samples" taken from the original video (by recording Fridh's YouTube video using any video recorder).
The remix kit is uploaded to SoundCloud and free to download. See link above.
The competition entree finishes his or her remix, adds video and edits this with any tool (Windows Movie Maker for PC and Apple iMovie for Mac recommended as basic choices) and then adds a comment about where on YouTube the remix is placed - this comment is to be added in the comment field of Patrick Fridh's Koolkordz 2009 video on YouTube. See link above.
The remixes will then be linked and voted for by members of the free internet forum 99musik. See link above. As a note, Patrick Fridh also formed the original version of 99musik in 2002. 99musik is today one of Sweden's largest independent, national music forums (however welcoming visitors from all over the world).
The competion winner and two runners-up recieves sample CDs and recognition. The best remixes will later on be released on iTunes Music Store, and all incomes from the remix album will be shared equally to all participants. This is a great opportunity for both known and unknown artists to reach out and gain more listeners. The unique thing about this remix competition is that not only audio shoud be provided, so should video.
This is - in other words - the first time anyone merges the powerful possibilities of the combined forces of YouTube, iTunes, SoundCloud and web forums in order to reach out and touch new listeners and viewers.
Deadline for the remix entries is November 15, 2009.
Entrants should be able to provide a full WAV or AIFF file with their remix for the planned, future release on iTunes.
Contact information:
Patrick Fridh Aka Bitley™
Sound designer and musician
E-mail: patrick.fridh AT gmail.com
http://bitleymusic.blogspot.com
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXYjFeC_mw
SoundCloud
http://soundcloud.com/bitleytm/koolkordz-2009-remix-kit-worldwide-remix-competition
99musik
http://www.99musik.se/showthread.php?t=270782
UNIQUE REMIX COMPETITION
Uppsala, Sweden, October 12, 2009
The Reason specialist Patrick Fridh invites all musicians of the world to participate in a remix competition which incorporates video.
KOOLKORDZ 2009. The iTunes and Spotify musician Patrick Fridh (also known as Bitley™), known from (but not affiliated to) producing factory sounds to Propellerhead's Reason software package as well as sound banks for PowerFX AB, welcomes all creative musicians in the world to participate in an unusual remix competion for his track Koolkordz 2009, presently only available on YouTube.
In 1994, Patrick Fridh wrote "Koolkordz" using an Atari, a Yamaha TX81Z and an Ensoniq EPS 16+ sampler. Now he has made a new version of the track using Reason 4.
This new version is open for being remixed using any tools available today. All remixes are to be placed on YouTube only - this is the remix artist's duty, and should feature original video material or "video samples" taken from the original video (by recording Fridh's YouTube video using any video recorder).
The remix kit is uploaded to SoundCloud and free to download. See link above.
The competition entree finishes his or her remix, adds video and edits this with any tool (Windows Movie Maker for PC and Apple iMovie for Mac recommended as basic choices) and then adds a comment about where on YouTube the remix is placed - this comment is to be added in the comment field of Patrick Fridh's Koolkordz 2009 video on YouTube. See link above.
The remixes will then be linked and voted for by members of the free internet forum 99musik. See link above. As a note, Patrick Fridh also formed the original version of 99musik in 2002. 99musik is today one of Sweden's largest independent, national music forums (however welcoming visitors from all over the world).
The competion winner and two runners-up recieves sample CDs and recognition. The best remixes will later on be released on iTunes Music Store, and all incomes from the remix album will be shared equally to all participants. This is a great opportunity for both known and unknown artists to reach out and gain more listeners. The unique thing about this remix competition is that not only audio shoud be provided, so should video.
This is - in other words - the first time anyone merges the powerful possibilities of the combined forces of YouTube, iTunes, SoundCloud and web forums in order to reach out and touch new listeners and viewers.
Deadline for the remix entries is November 15, 2009.
Entrants should be able to provide a full WAV or AIFF file with their remix for the planned, future release on iTunes.
ANNOUNCEMENT : WORLDWIDE REMIX COMPETITION
Patrick Fridh (also using the moniker Bitley™) hereby welcomes YOU to REMIX the SONG and the VIDEO to the track called "Koolkordz 2009". By clicking the headline of this blog post you will reach SoundCloud where you can download the remix kit, then just start working. You will also find some more information on SoundCloud.
Press releases of this will be sent to some major music sites to make sure lots of creative people will participate.
The original idea with this remix competition
The idea is that you not only remix the track, you also make your own video (or sample snippets from mine, found via my YouTube channel http://youtube.com/bitleytm). You then post the result on YouTube, linking your remix to mine by writing a comment to my video.
There will be a voting to see who's making the winning remix, and the voting will take place on the music forum 99musik.se (http://www.99musik.se) - to vote, you need to become a member. This is free.
Winner and runners-up (places 1, 2 and 3) will recieve sample CDs (and perhaps more) AND they will possibly also earn money from it since I am thinking about releasing this on iTunes later on. The 10 best mixes (if we reach that quality, who knows? Even more?) will be released on iTunes Music Store.
Press releases of this will be sent to some major music sites to make sure lots of creative people will participate.
The original idea with this remix competition
The idea is that you not only remix the track, you also make your own video (or sample snippets from mine, found via my YouTube channel http://youtube.com/bitleytm). You then post the result on YouTube, linking your remix to mine by writing a comment to my video.
There will be a voting to see who's making the winning remix, and the voting will take place on the music forum 99musik.se (http://www.99musik.se) - to vote, you need to become a member. This is free.
Winner and runners-up (places 1, 2 and 3) will recieve sample CDs (and perhaps more) AND they will possibly also earn money from it since I am thinking about releasing this on iTunes later on. The 10 best mixes (if we reach that quality, who knows? Even more?) will be released on iTunes Music Store.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Koolkordz 2009 [new track, premiere on youtube]
Please click the headline of this blog post.
Please listen.
And please comment nicely & fly me some stars.
I need your - the world's attention.
History of the track
In 1993 or 1994 I worked with an Atari 1040 STFM and some hardware synthesizers, like a Yamaha TX81Z and an Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus sampler. I got tired of using the Lately Bass patch on the TX and tried to find new uses for other types of sounds [that I liked]. I ended up creating this line on the Xylophone preset which formed a starting formula for the song. Piano was added to the main melody.
The original version is online somewhere, possibly on iTunes or Spotify. I will post it on Youtube as well just shortly.
Now in October 2009, I finally decided to sample that xylophone lead and try to take the track to an updated stage.
While I was trying to edit something visually in iMovie I browsed around for tutorials, and I found this great one by a guy named Anthony & called Oneironaut420 on Youtube. Being from Sweden I have always appreciated english spoken natively (american or english or australian, respectively). Anthony has a soft american way to talk and I got the somewhat weird idea... can't I use that on my track? So I asked him and fortunately enough he was online on Youtube and replied promptly, saying it was a kind of fun idea.
Technically
Following this great reply from him, I just taped of his speech onto my trusty old Technics cassette & reciever combo, recorded that back into Peak 4 on my Mac and normalized the gain. I then opened the file in Propellerhead's ReCycle 2.1 and had it slice up the phrases. Saved that as a REX file and opened my Reason 4 project with the song again. I added the small mixer as a submixer (since the 14 ch stereo mixer already was filled with synthesizers and effects). I opened the REX file - which comes up like a "folder" when browsing samples with the NNXT. I selected 89 clips and had them mapped up on the keyboard (NNXT does this by just two simple commands). I then played the song and trigged samples and chose a few that sounded nice.
As for the video material, I used Berio (mentioned here earlier on) to screendump the Reason sequence running. The original idea was to simply show others the Reason track running.
Then I got the idea to add some video footage. I had old clips on my harddrive and it seemed like a good thing to try and make use for them. So I added some clips, and striped off the audio from most of them. Some of the clips' audio were kept and can be heard in the track, like when my family sings to congratulate my grandfather GP who turned 85 years old last year.
There's also a little swedish in there when my son says "Är du klar?" (meaning "Are you ready?") when I asked him to walk around with a carbon box over his head - I don't know for what reason. Some clips are made with Apple's PhotoBooth which we've had a lot of fun with. The kids love performing in front of the camera and seeing themselves mirrored back in a twisted manner.
Not just the kids - even my friend Jens Kallback (known as ~~~ nowadays on 99musik.se) who did a mysterious little dance. When the beat comes on he kind of stops dancing, which pretty much goes in line with how he feels about my music, he doesn't get it (lol). But we've done some tracks together which more fits his electronica & underground taste for music.
All in all it's a "80's" kind of track which shouldn't harm anyone, really.
Thanks for reading.
Again - the music video can be found here.
Please listen.
And please comment nicely & fly me some stars.
I need your - the world's attention.
History of the track
In 1993 or 1994 I worked with an Atari 1040 STFM and some hardware synthesizers, like a Yamaha TX81Z and an Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus sampler. I got tired of using the Lately Bass patch on the TX and tried to find new uses for other types of sounds [that I liked]. I ended up creating this line on the Xylophone preset which formed a starting formula for the song. Piano was added to the main melody.
The original version is online somewhere, possibly on iTunes or Spotify. I will post it on Youtube as well just shortly.
Now in October 2009, I finally decided to sample that xylophone lead and try to take the track to an updated stage.
While I was trying to edit something visually in iMovie I browsed around for tutorials, and I found this great one by a guy named Anthony & called Oneironaut420 on Youtube. Being from Sweden I have always appreciated english spoken natively (american or english or australian, respectively). Anthony has a soft american way to talk and I got the somewhat weird idea... can't I use that on my track? So I asked him and fortunately enough he was online on Youtube and replied promptly, saying it was a kind of fun idea.
Technically
Following this great reply from him, I just taped of his speech onto my trusty old Technics cassette & reciever combo, recorded that back into Peak 4 on my Mac and normalized the gain. I then opened the file in Propellerhead's ReCycle 2.1 and had it slice up the phrases. Saved that as a REX file and opened my Reason 4 project with the song again. I added the small mixer as a submixer (since the 14 ch stereo mixer already was filled with synthesizers and effects). I opened the REX file - which comes up like a "folder" when browsing samples with the NNXT. I selected 89 clips and had them mapped up on the keyboard (NNXT does this by just two simple commands). I then played the song and trigged samples and chose a few that sounded nice.
As for the video material, I used Berio (mentioned here earlier on) to screendump the Reason sequence running. The original idea was to simply show others the Reason track running.
Then I got the idea to add some video footage. I had old clips on my harddrive and it seemed like a good thing to try and make use for them. So I added some clips, and striped off the audio from most of them. Some of the clips' audio were kept and can be heard in the track, like when my family sings to congratulate my grandfather GP who turned 85 years old last year.
There's also a little swedish in there when my son says "Är du klar?" (meaning "Are you ready?") when I asked him to walk around with a carbon box over his head - I don't know for what reason. Some clips are made with Apple's PhotoBooth which we've had a lot of fun with. The kids love performing in front of the camera and seeing themselves mirrored back in a twisted manner.
Not just the kids - even my friend Jens Kallback (known as ~~~ nowadays on 99musik.se) who did a mysterious little dance. When the beat comes on he kind of stops dancing, which pretty much goes in line with how he feels about my music, he doesn't get it (lol). But we've done some tracks together which more fits his electronica & underground taste for music.
All in all it's a "80's" kind of track which shouldn't harm anyone, really.
Thanks for reading.
Again - the music video can be found here.
52 ways to speed up MacOS X
Click the headline in order to read about speeding up MacOS X. I deleted languages I don't use and much more, the machine feels even faster now. This should be done with some precautions, of course, since tweaking too much might create the need of a reinstall, and you wouldn't like to go that far I guess.
I hope you're not analyzing at which time I wrote this post... ;)
Once a geek, always a geek...
I hope you're not analyzing at which time I wrote this post... ;)
Once a geek, always a geek...
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Taking a "screenshot" movie and iMovie'ng it!
I'm currently working to find a way to do a little music video, I'll put the new version of my old track "Koolkordz" online on Youtube (my channel is http://youtube.com/bitleytm). I'm just now importing a 800 by 600 pixel dump into iMovie to see how it turns out. On my 2x2 Ghz G5 importing a mov file into iMovie takes about 7-8 minutes (the clip is under 5 minutes).
For doing the screenshot-recording I use the free app called Berio that I found today. You can find it easily by just clicking this blog post's headline. It's a free app from a guy who's doing work for Apple so he seems to know what he's doing. I know OS X 10.6 can do this natively, but unfortunately Apple has dropped support for the PPC machines, so I'll stick with 10.5.
Yesterday I also wondered which OS X version would run best on my machine, but I couldn't find a really good answer to this even though I googled quite a bit. I've got the original 10.3 discs and I wondered if 10.3 would make the machine feel even faster. Some people say OS X is continously developed into running faster but some people say older OSes are better on older machines.
This Mac has 4 Gb's of RAM and 650 Gb's of hard disk space so I guess 10.5 delivers just fine and dandy, but if anyone recommends 10.3 instead, I'll give it a try.
I used a MacBook 2,4 Ghz (early 2009 model) before and I shame to admit it, but it's faster than the dual G5 Powermac. Some of my Reason projects from that period can hardly be played back; I used too many instances of the Thor synthesizer for that.
On new projects, I work the way the G5 likes me to, using just one or two Thor synths and more Subtractors again. It's not bad either, considering I know my way around the Subtractor so well, having used it ever since Reason 1.0 came out.
For doing the screenshot-recording I use the free app called Berio that I found today. You can find it easily by just clicking this blog post's headline. It's a free app from a guy who's doing work for Apple so he seems to know what he's doing. I know OS X 10.6 can do this natively, but unfortunately Apple has dropped support for the PPC machines, so I'll stick with 10.5.
Yesterday I also wondered which OS X version would run best on my machine, but I couldn't find a really good answer to this even though I googled quite a bit. I've got the original 10.3 discs and I wondered if 10.3 would make the machine feel even faster. Some people say OS X is continously developed into running faster but some people say older OSes are better on older machines.
This Mac has 4 Gb's of RAM and 650 Gb's of hard disk space so I guess 10.5 delivers just fine and dandy, but if anyone recommends 10.3 instead, I'll give it a try.
I used a MacBook 2,4 Ghz (early 2009 model) before and I shame to admit it, but it's faster than the dual G5 Powermac. Some of my Reason projects from that period can hardly be played back; I used too many instances of the Thor synthesizer for that.
On new projects, I work the way the G5 likes me to, using just one or two Thor synths and more Subtractors again. It's not bad either, considering I know my way around the Subtractor so well, having used it ever since Reason 1.0 came out.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Great new shit
The Mac G5 2 x 2 I got has proven to be GREAT. I've fixed 4 Gb's of RAM & an additional 500 Gb drive to it now so it really rocks, a true workstation I got for peanuts, including a flat screen (!)... jabadabadoo.
Currently I'm working on something funky, it's gonna swing, gonna be the big thing, aaah... luv it.
Currently I'm working on something funky, it's gonna swing, gonna be the big thing, aaah... luv it.
Goodbye Mafia Wars
Time-consuming brainless motherf* badly programmed sh*t in my Mac! No way! Mafia Wars gets kicked out, permanently banned, no longer will I need to see those tiresome graphics, endless dialog boxes, "Level 2 mastered", meaning you've got to collect energy and do the "jobs" again 499 times, needing 8549 Untraceable phones... GAAAAH!!! I got up to level 103, so I've really played the game a LOT. Now, enough is simply enough. Thanks for stealing my time, wankers!
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