This song is so beautiful. I literally was just crawling on the floor balling.

rêve d'argent

turn yourself around
it’s easier to do and say than ever before

keep the world at bay cause I don’t want to fall away
it’s good then it’s gone

imprints dated of porcelain
faded ashes and rust

wander recklessly through pain of which you’ve seen
and still they’re tearing you down

find the broken seam and let the moon shine through the veil
it’s good then it’s gone

painless wanting for needless suffering
imprints dated of porcelain
faded ashes and rust

Porcelain

RAC - 56k

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I made this entire track using only one sample. 
The dial-up sound that so many of us remember from browsing the internet in the early days. 
It’s not really meant to be a real song, more like an exercise in simplicity. It’s very easy to get stuck using the same sounds over and over again, so I do things like this from time to time to break the routine. 

I wanted to share the actual session file so you can look a little deeper if you’re so inclined. You’ll need Ableton 9 Suite (or at least Live 9 + Sampler). I’m using UAD reverbs, so you’ll have to re-create those on your own. 

I sampled the initial tone and created the main melodies with that. The “drums” are made using the noise section. The kicks are pitched wayy down and I used a filter to give it a nice 200/300 bump. Snares are pitched higher and I used reverb to give it a tail. The hi hats are pitched normally but they’re different enough from the snare that it makes sense. The bass is pitched down and heavily filtered to give it a sine wave kind of sound. 

ORIGINAL SOUND: http://www.soundjay.com/dial-up-modem-sound-effect.html
ABLETON SESSION: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbya9nsdrpzn9nr/56k.alp
SCREENSHOT: https://www.dropbox.com/s/igo0l39mz4bs0oh/56kscreenshot.png

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Porcelain

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