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Don Dailey

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Don works with a wide variety of hardware and software synths and samplers, but the music on this site is unique in his library because of the unique sonic possibilities of Reaktor ensembles. His working style becomes unique to his other work when using Reaktor. The approach is to use small audio segments created with various ensembles as source material which is then manipulated and incorporated into larger structures.

Jaune (4.6 mb) - Written using my recently constructed ensembles Effemm Gelb and Effemm Blau. All sounds are using my own presets (available in the NI UL). The underlying rhythmic motif follows a long arc and repeats twice with groups of timbral patterns that float in and out, some briefly and others throughout the entire piece. I used 17 presets from Gelb and 2 from Blau. Enjoy!

The Wind Inside (10.1 mb) - Uses sounds made playing the inside of a piano and processing these with various Reaktor reverb and delay plug-ins (Mooshverb, Transverb, MasterVerb, and Travelizer). The main objective is to remove any resemblance to the original gestures and create long, wispy sounds. These are then edited and mixed with sounds that have been processed to a lesser degree.

Zheng Udu (11 mb) - For this piece, I experimented using two real-time performances of one sound file played using Rick Scott's freeGruuv_eins, Space Maker 2, and Pitch Shift effects instruments. I started by making a 5 minute audio file using sounds from CDs with ceramic udus and a Chinese Zheng. I edited this a bit to contain the most "juicy" bits and used that to replace the sample in freeGruuv. Then I made a number of adjustments to freeGruuv, basically slowing everything down. The output of freeGruuv went through the effects, whcih I set up with midi controllers so I could perform them along with the music coming from freeGruuv. I did extensive snapshot morphing at the same time of the Space Maker snaps, which is a big part of the final sound. I then took the two "takes" and lined them up and cross faded them to take out little glitches and boring bits to make a final "performance" with the same "shape" as the live realization. Enjoy!