Month: April 2024

In 2001 Martin Dawe was working on a new software called Photoscore. The concept for the app was to take scans of sheet music and then you would be able to convert them into music notation which would then be editable and playable. From the success of Photoscore, Dawe then went on to create other iterations of this software which would allow users to edit the harmonics of different audio files similar to what is now readily available in software like Melodyne. The next big step in this field didn’t come until 2022 when Serato released stem separation into their DJ software and then later in their production software, Serato Sample. This was really the first iteration of this technology that saw mainstream success in music production, this concept has now become massively advanced and is now an in built feature in FL Studio. My personal tool of choice is Vocalremover.org

Vocalremover.org

The software that i find delivers the best quality stem separation is vocalremover.org.

From all of the softwares available that i have tried, in my opinion, i find that this one delivers the highest quality audio with the least amount of artefacts in the stems

Here i used vocalremover to split the stems of Insomnia by Faithless

instruments

drums

bass

vocal

The first thing I want to unpack when thinking about drafting ideas to start conceiving my sound piece for element 2 is to look at my main inspirations at the minute in my personal work

Some of these areas are

• speed garage
• hard house
• 140 dubstep / grime
• Organ House
• jungle
• Trance

My main idea from the beginning is to create a euphoric Trance / Speed garage inspired club track very similar to the work of producer and DJ “Soul Mass Transit System”

The particular track i want to explore is “silence edit”

This track was released as part of a limited-edition dubplate USB in 2024 and as of now is the only way to access the track .

The track has an epic and euphoric 2.5-minute buildup and only has one drop. The track contains a vocal sample from the track “Silence” by Delerium.

Soul mass transit system – silence edit

Concept

The song i want to try and create a similar edit of is “insomnia” by Faithless.

I think the vocal of the song along with the incredibly famous melody definitely has the potential to be turned into something of this nature.