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Some guitar solo indulgence on this..
Drums: random assembled kit processed with Arturia Efx Fragments.
Bass: NI Monark with NI Replika delay.
Keys: liberal sprinkling of NI Playbox alongside NI Retro Machines and NI Scarbee MkI. Spitfire Audio Mabe Fratti and Concepcion Huer.
Guitar: Suhr custom strat through NI GuitarRig, Tim Henson with additional effects from Deelay and Arturia Efx Fragments.
Master: Ozone Elements.

Diffuse

Sweetness

A little more up-tempo; experimenting with some guitar processing at 0:50 on some chords I wrote a very long time ago and have recycled several times.

Photo: Paul F.

Highline

Photo: Convento de Santo Domingo, Lima, Perú - 2013

Concrete

Shade In The Shadows

Machir

Photo: cafe in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 2020.
Bass: Warwick 5-string through NI GR6.
Guitar: Godin Montreal Semi with flats through NI GR6 (programmed pitch pedal), Archetype Tone King (lofi warmth) and the synth guitar lead is a secret sauce homemade patch... :)
Drums: NI Empire Breaks.
Keys: Karanyi LoFi, Spitfire BlankFor, NI Playbox, NI Scarbee, Microtron Flutes, Soundpaint piano.
Master: Ozone Elements.
DAW: Ableton.

Remnant

Photo: Sydney aquarium 2005.
Drums: NI Empire Beats.
Bass: Warwick Corvette through Guitar Rig.
Guitar: Suhr Custom Classic through Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea including the  guitar synth solo at 03:24 ...😊
Synth: Karanyi LoFi keys and NI Komplete various.
Master: Ozone Elements.
DAW: Ableton.

Dark Water

Photo: Hotel Diplomate, Kampala, Uganda, 2014
Drums: NI 40's Very Own.
Bass: NI Monark.
Guitars: 3 x tracks, Strandberg Salen Jazz and Suhr Custom Classic through NI Guitar Rig and others. The synth type solo at 03:48 is actually guitar, signal path Suhr->MJUCjr compressor->Black Box Analogue Design->NI Driver->NI Guitar Rig (Noise Gate->SuperCharger GT Compressor->Oktaver->ResoChord->Phasis)->Replika XT Delay->Baby Audio Crystalline Reverb ;)))
Keys: mainly NI Scarbee through a bunch of effects. NI Soul Sessions and Stacks. And some Spitfire BlankFor.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Diplomatic

Photo: street-art, Barranco, Lima, Peru, 2019
Drums: NI 40's Very Own and NI Empire Breaks.
Bass: Warwick Corvette.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea. 
Keys: mainly NI Scarbee, NI 40's and Karanyi Lofi Keys.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

The Beginning

Photo: Stable Diffusion AI generated 2023.
Drums: NI 40's Very Own.
Bass: Warwick Corvette.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Godin Montreal Thinline Archtop through NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: mainly NI Scarbee, Spitfire Labs, NI Massive X and Karanyi Lofi Keys.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Peculiar Clouds

Photo: Lexica AI generated 2023.
Drums: NI 40's Very Own.
Bass: Warwick Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Godin Montreal Jazz through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea and loads of effects.
Extra fairy-dust: liberal helpings of Arturia Fragments and Deelay (great freebie). 
Keys: mainly NI Massive X, NI Playbox, Spitfire Cinematic Piano, Spitfire Harp.
Mastering: Ozone 9 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Complete

Photo: random internet.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Strandberg Salen Jazz and Strandberg CL7 through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea and loads of effects.
Keys: NI Massive X, NI Playbox, NI Pharlight, Karanyi LoFi Keys
Mastering: Ozone 9 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

In A Corduroy Suit

This is actually the first track I recorded by myself since early 4-track recordings decades ago. Recorded at the start of lockdown on an iPad before I discovered Ableton; cleaned up in 2023 for a new airing. Always saw it as a sonic future-scape that is a little rough around the edges but worth sharing again.
Image: AI via Lexica.

El Futuro Es...

Photo: footbridge, Putina Punco, Valle Sandia, Peru (2007).
Drums: NI 40.
Bass: Warwick 5-string.
Guitars: Parker DF and PRS CE24 through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea + mucho effects.
Keys: NI and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Across the Bridge

Photo: coffee farm sign, Capucas, Santa Rosa, Honduras, 2011.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins beat with samples from Music for Cars collective.
Bass: Warwick 5-string and NI Monark in middle section.
Guitars: Godin Montreal Jazz, PRS CE24 through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea. 
Keys: various NI and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Show You Have Something...

Photo: sunlight through blind, 2023.
Drums: NI 40's Very Own.
Bass: Warwick 5-string through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Strandberg Salen Jazz, PRS CE24, Suhr Custom Classic through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea.
Keys: various NI and Karanyi Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Prologue

Photo: Seattle, 2018.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: NI Monark.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea.
Keys: various NI, Karanyi Sounds and Spitfire Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Warmth Remembered

Photo: edited image from Rhodes.

Bit of an experiment, Music for Cars Collective vocal sample project track. All parts created from vocal samples and voices in a variety of Ableton and NI tools.

Voices

This one is designed to listen end to end, don't press pause if you get the chance - thank you.
Photo: Skye from Applecross 2023.
Drums: NI Rudiments.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic, PRS CE24 and Godin Montreal Thinline Archtop through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea.
Keys: various NI and Karanyi Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Press Pause

Photo: SWG3, Glasgow, 2019.
Drums: NI Rudiments.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Godin Montreal Thinline Archtop through NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea.
Keys: various NI and Spitfire Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton.

Round 1AM

Photo: Sibelius Monument, Helsinki, 2019.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Godin Montreal Thinline Archtop through NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI, Karanyi, Vaults and Spitfire Sounds.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

Amber

Little bit of peaking on the mix I know, will fix this thanks.

Pretty much a guitar improv to a conga line with some stuff added later... lengthy effects driven solo for the guitar geeks in this one (NI Guitar Rig combined with Freakshow Industries Backmask freakshowindustries.com/backmask).
Photo: lane walk, Scotland, 2019.
Drums: Ableton conga loop.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

Clouded

Photo: Road to Harar, Ethiopia, 2009; encounter with an AK47 happened shortly thereafter.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: PRS CE24 through NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

Walk Towards the Desert

Photo: El Alto, Bolivia, 2013.
Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Godin Montreal, NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

Head West

Photo: Capilla de Sallaco - chapel on the high altiplano, Abra La Pampilla, Valle Sandia, Puno, Peru (c 4,600 m asl), 2013. On route to amigos at Cecovasa & San Juan del Oro coffee communities.

Was looking for soundscape intro for this one, followed by some lofi funk before veering off in a slightly Latin jazz chilled direction. Anyway, thanks for listening...

Drums: NI 40.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Classic Custom through a few NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea patches.
Keys: various NI, Spitfire (piano), Crow Hill (Small String Gestures), Baby Audio and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

In The End

Photo: El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia, 2013.

This track is formed from three musical ideas that seemed to belong together with the opening theme repeated towards the end. If you get the time listen to it end to end, thanks.

Drums: NI Rudiments.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Godin Montreal Thinline Archtop with flats through a few instances of NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI, Spitfire (piano), Crow Hill (Small String Gestures and Celeste-a-tone) and Arturia Wurli.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Night Air

Photo: Orkney, 2024.

Not my usual genre so hope you enjoy.

Drums: Ableton Carbon kit.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic through a few instances of NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI, Karanyi Lofi Keys, Crow Hill Small String Gestures, Arturia Juno and CS-80, Spitfire BlankFor.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Room 2A

Photo: La Paz, Bolivia 2013, pixels on purpose...

Started as bass groove after going to a Thundercat gig, needed something else so came up with the 11 note repeating figure on guitar which was then doubled on keys to give an almost Steve Reich type effect. 

One to check out start to finish if you have the time, thanks for listening. For the guitar geeks there's a wee solo at the end.

Drums: NI Karriem Riggins.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig and during the 11 note sequence section sustained notes on NI Monark synth bass.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Strandberg Salen Jazz through a few instances of NI Guitar Rig. Short solo at the end is the Suhr.
Keys: various NI, Arturia and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Talk It Up

Photo: pixels on purpose... digital drawing 2024.

Pretty chilled track again, one to check out start to finish if you have the time, thanks for listening. For the bass geeks there's a wee kinda solo at the end.

Drums: custom kit built as Ableton rack.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Custom Classic and Godin Montreal Semi through a few instances of NI Guitar Rig.
Keys: various NI, Arturia and Spitfire.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Pixel On Purpose

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Guitarist & 33.3^% of Glasgow's finest power-trio, Imperfect Product. Work in Ableton, record guitars and bass. Member of Music for Cars collective.

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