Soul Train

Rene_L · March 10, 2024, 5:51pm

Hi all,

Here is my latest piece, Soul Train. I hope you enjoy it.
Comments are welcome.

Good listening!

BJ_Dobbs · March 11, 2024, 11:23am

Great arrangement. Nice tune! Thanks.

Rene_L · March 11, 2024, 12:07pm

Thank @BJ_Dobbs, I’m glad you liked the piece.

Have a nice day!

plectrumboy · March 11, 2024, 4:20pm

That’s a nice groove on a nice arrangement, really enjoyed it. Lovely synth playing (?). How did you do the horns?

Steve.

Rene_L · March 11, 2024, 5:20pm

Thank you Steve for taking the time to listen to the piece, also for these kind comments.

The sound of the saxophone comes from two Image Sounds libraries (https://www.imagesounds.com/), Saxophone 1 and 2. From the sequences played by a real saxophonist (715 loops of 2 to 4 measures), I made a montage of a melody that I had in mind. However, I could deny that certain loops inspired me.

This melody uses 30 audio sequences (loops) and more than 127 cuts or slices. No sequence is used in its entirety, Sometimes it’s just one note or two of a sequence. I tried to respect saxophone playing as much as possible. The majority of sequences do not use the musical mode despite the differences in tempo.

This is the second time that I have used libraries from this company to create melodies. Lacking real instrumentalists at my disposal, I found that these sound banks played by professional musicians offered a more than interesting alternative. It’s a lot of work, but I’m still happy with the result.

I recently purchased the “Harmonica” sample library and it sounds really good. I would love to find a place for it in one of my next pieces.

Once again thank you!

plectrumboy · March 11, 2024, 5:35pm

That’s a very good job with the horn loops

Steve.

Viktor_K · March 11, 2024, 5:49pm

Good job man

Stefano7 · March 11, 2024, 6:08pm

Hey Rene, cool Song! I like it!

Rene_L · March 11, 2024, 6:25pm

Thanks @Viktor_K, I appreciate

Rene_L · March 11, 2024, 6:26pm

Thank you @Stefano7, I’m glad you like it.

Chubs · March 12, 2024, 3:25pm

That was a fun listen, plenty going on, nice funky groove.

Rene_L · March 12, 2024, 7:07pm

Thank you very much @Chubs for taking the time to listen and for the warm comments. I also had a lot of fun making this piece.

Sullivan · April 1, 2024, 4:13pm

It’s really nice!

Rene_L · April 1, 2024, 10:55pm

Thank you @Sullivan

I appreciate you taking the time to listen. I’m glad you liked it.

mozizo · April 3, 2024, 10:29am

cool piece of music

Rene_L · April 3, 2024, 11:32am

Thank you very much @mozizo

Very glad you like it, have a great day!

Luca_Soricetti · May 10, 2024, 7:31pm

really nice! I like it!

Rene_L · May 11, 2024, 10:30am

Thank you @Luca_Soricetti for taking the time to listen to Soul Train. Have a good day!

Jswetch · October 1, 2024, 12:25am

Hi Rene,
This was a very cool bit of time travel back to some of the Crusaders like stuff from the late 70’s (or Philly Soul). I get the title.
I particularly was impressed by the keys, drums, and strings. They really caught that “vibe” well. I’m primarily a bassist, so just about any synth bass strikes me as synthesized because there’s not the “attack” of a note that a real bassist would provide in playing a part. That said, I get why so many people take that synth bass route.
By the way, this is swetch many months later under a new account (jswetch) due to having been frozen out of the swetch one (long story). I just felt compelled to listen and write something because you’ve been kind so many times in writing things relating to my posts here.
Take care,
John

Rene_L · October 1, 2024, 1:49am

Hi John,

When I finished mixing this track, I didn’t have a title. Of course, I thought the track had a funky feel to it, probably because of the sax, an Afro-American groove that was heard in the 70s. While doing some research, I came across this title ‘Soul Train’ which was an American variety show that was originally aimed at a black audience and promoted mainly African-American soul and rhythm and blues artists, who perform on the set surrounded by dancers.

Because of the funky feel of the track, I simply decided to use the title of the show as the title of my track. I even used the royalty-free logo of the show as an image to associate it with the track on Soundcloud.

I’m glad you enjoyed the keyboard, drum and string tracks. As for the bass, it’s a VST that wants to reproduce as faithfully as possible a Bass and the playing specific to the instrument. It’s not perfect, but still pretty good, maybe a more successful mix for the instrument would have highlighted it more.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to listen and write this comment about this piece.

With pleasure!
René