* RazorChase *

I've been writing and recording a LOT of music lately. The styles have been going back and so forth from various extremes, so I've been blowing out and reloading my synths and samplers on a daily basis. This was part of a demo that needed a little more aggro/electronic music in it, and I wanted to show off some audio editing technique. I call this tune RazorChase, and since it was going to be used in a musical montage demo (and I was crunched for time!), I just created enough to give people a taste, and figured I'd fade it out later. This is the unfaded version -- you'll hear the tracks gradually peeling off at the end.

For the tech-heads out there: there is a couple loops from a collection called "Fields of Motion" that dumped to an audio file and then slashed and hacked down to the 16th-32nd-64th-note to give them a more "updated" feel (my thanks to Eric Whitacre for that suggestion!). I also supplimented breakbeats with processed drums from a Korg Triton. Everything else is real -- the main instrument is an Ibanez Ergodyne 5-string bass that I tuned down a half step so it'd sound "flappier", and patched in directly to Digital Performer with a D.I. box. There's some added guitar textures that I layered in with my EMG-loaded Schecter 7-string guitar. Most of the effects were created with Digital Performer plug-ins, although I did use an Electrix Filter Factory for one spot... The opening sound effect is just my fingernail scraped on a low guitar string.