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Vintage Series => Morgana => Topic started by: Gothboy on November 11, 2008, 12:55:17 AM

Title: In appreciation of Morgana
Post by: Gothboy on November 11, 2008, 12:55:17 AM
     I just finished a new version Of "West End Girls", the Pet Shop Boys' classic from 1986 and I just couldn't have done it without Morgana.  I wanted to use a softsampler to trigger sounds and effects and have them panned this way and that...so I decided to put Morgana up against the UVI workstation and see what I could come up with using my samples(which I have many! ;D).  I ended up using a bit of both but it was Morgana that totally shone even against a softsampler that's got tons of effects.  The short blippy reverse sounds at the intro and behind the 1st and second verse were done with Mogana and a few of the other sounds that punctuate the song between verses and chorus and it was great to use a sampler that I'm sure Neil and Chris would have loved if it existed back in the '80's.  So check it out here on myspace, it's the first song in the list!
Thanks agin DJ for making this great instrument! ;)

http://www.myspace.com/273476107
Title: Re: In appreciation of Morgana
Post by: dj! on November 13, 2008, 12:15:54 PM
Thanks a ton for your kind words and it's really REALLY good to hear that!

Take care,

-- dj!

Edit: just listened to your version and all I can say is: wow!  I might actually prefer it over the original, I was never that partial to the PSB's vocals. :)
Title: Re: In appreciation of Morgana
Post by: Gothboy on November 13, 2008, 03:55:33 PM
You're most welcome DJ  ;)  You're doing great work there.  Looking forward to working with the SP-112 when it's ready.  ;)
....and thanks for the kind words about my version of WEG!  You're not the only one who said that about the vocals being better....I think that they're technically better....but I'm a huge PSB fan and love Neils' voice.  Thanks!
Title: Re: In appreciation of Morgana
Post by: DJ Ray on January 09, 2009, 01:55:08 AM
Nice take on PSB.