Short:        Masterpiece by Boray
Author:       Anders Persson
Uploader:     ylle boray every1 net (Anders Persson)
Type:         mods/boray
Architecture: generic


Occulan Remix (Length: 28:48).

By Anders "Boray" Persson 1999
Recorded 1999, remixed 2006
Can be found on the CD "Boray plays some guitar" from year 2000.
http://listen.to/boray

Parts:
00:00 * Analog Power
01:28 * Home World
05:22 * Flying Guitar Factory
10:54 * Farewell
13:07 * Space Ride

Is this the longest mp3 you have come across? Maybe.
Is this the longest VS840EX recording in existance? Probably.

The Roland VS840EX is an 8 track digital recorder which uses
250MB Zip disks as storing media. In the recording mode I used
(the best allowing 8 tracks), you have 125 minutes in total.
Recording all 8 tracks, you can at most come up to 125/8=15.6
minutes. As every little recording you make is stored (allowing
for undo etc), it's actually easy to fill a disk with a normal
4 minute song. How I could record this 29 minutes long piece of
music on this machine is a mystery even for myself. Especially
since I used absolutely no midi sequencing at all! Yes, that's
correct - NO MIDI SEQUENCING OR MIDI TRACKING. So this is a
total break from my mod music period.

In this recording, I played Synth, Guitars and Drums.

The synth is the Ensoniq SQ-1 plus:
    [ Ensoniq was a synth company started by former Commodore people:
    Al Charpentier (VIC, VIC-II Chip Designer),
    Robert Yannes (SID Chip designer, C64 Systems Designer), and
    Charles Winterble (VIC-II, SID, C64 Project Manager). Commodore
    engineer Bruce Crockett also joined. ]

The Ensoniq SQ-1 plus has a 16MHz MC68000P12F inside by the way.

The drums in Space Ride was made in a quite strange way. I used
the VS840EX metronome to send MIDI to the synth. I think I did
this twice with different settings and different tempos to create
the drums that then were copied many times after each other as a
drum loop.

This remix (Nov 2006) was done on a Roland VS1680. I could obviously
not remix everything because of all of the bouncing I had to do on
the VS840EX. (Bouncing = Mixing down tracks to fewer tracks to free
up both tracks and recording space). The purpose of the remix was
better sound quality and better mix. I liked the music so much that
I thought it deserved to sound as good as it could! If you have the
"Boray plays some guitar" CD, you may notice a little difference
between part 1 and 2.

Copyright (C)2006 by Anders Persson. You are only allowed to do one
thing with this music: To listen to it for personal use.
Please respect this.

Anders Persson
http://listen.to/boray