This afternoon I remixed the tracks I recorded on Christmas day with my white fretless using the plug-ins from PT LE 8, SoundToys Native, and POD Farm. For those of you that dig this kind of thing I'll geek out for a minute:

• Track 1 is the fretless loop through the Fat Glimmer patch in the PT Air Chorus effect and routed through three auxiliary effects tracks; Aux Delay, Aux Sub-Octave, and Aux-Reverb.
• Track 2 is the eBow fretless track through the Deep Chorus patch in the PT Air Chorus plug-in, the PT Air Vintage Filter in Low Pass mode, and the 15 ips Tape Echo patch in the SoundToys Native EchoBoy effect. The result is a fat monophonic analog synth sound. All of this is routed through Aux Delay and Aux Reverb.
• Track 3 is the fretless lead voice through PT the Compressor/Limiter 3 plug-in, the POD Farm Rez Synth Wave 4 patch, the POD Farm Noise Gate, the POD Farm Octave Fuzz, the POD Farm Analog Chorus, and the POD Farm Tape Echo. These effects combine to great an old school, out of control, edgy guitar synth sound, but a fretless one, like riding the pitch wheel on a Mini Moog.
• The Aux Delay track consists of the SoundToys Native Crystallizer effect with the Reverse Guitar Nice patch feeding the SoundToys Native Phase Mistress running the 8x6 SloRez patch. This is a beautiful combination with grains of reverse guitar modulated by a resonant phase shifter underneath the original guitar sound. This track feeds Aux Reverb.
• The Aux Sub-Octave track consists of the PT Recti-Fi effect with the Sub-Kit patch through the PT Air Chorus with the More Fatness patch. This creates a lovely fretless bass sound.
• The Aux Reverb track is the PT D-Verb effect set to the Large Hall patch for a big, spacious reverb.
• The Master Fader runs through the Joe Meek SC2 Photo Optical Compressor and Maxim mastering effect.

What began as an experiment and creative test has morphed into a fascinating song sketch that has some legs under it. The mix has distinct voices and a shifting, shimmering background. Neo Ambient? Perhaps it is. I bounced the mix down to live with for a few days.

I couldn't be more excited about the the upgraded capabilities of Make Noise Studios. With the official start date of Breathe just a couple of weeks away, everything is performing perfectly! I am quivering with anticipation and ready to hit the big red button.