bitley™

If you ask me about #piano #playing I say #Jan #Johansson

bitley — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:46:28 +0000

Recorded in 1961 – a terrific example of this extremely talented pianist. May his soul live forever.

Major price dump on the #Fairlight #CMI #ReFill

bitley — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:22:51 +0000

Fairlight Platinum was today lowered from ~~$119~~ to $65 – please support my work by purchasing this awesome #Propellerhead Reason 6 refill. Thanks in advance!!!

You need a Reason for Bitley sounds

bitley — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:55:07 +0000

Here is some of my programming for the Fairlight refills. This sound is in Fairlight II+ and up. It was sampled from my Roland JX8P and heavily edited in NNXT and Combinator.

Have you ever heard a pad this beautiful?

Or when was the last time you did?

Free Thor Bass Patch!

bitley — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:01:01 +0000

This is my edit of the Reason Factory Sound Library bass sound “Fat Boy”, I called it Fat Boy Bitley Scritley. I used it as the main bass sound for my remix of Scritti Politti’s Small Talk, a track you can hear if you check the Fairlight Platinum page. There is a high pitched oscillator in the sound, you might think it sounds a bit odd, but I think it works well in a dense mix such as this one, it kind of emphasizes the bass notes.

Fat Boy Bitley Scritley.thor (zipped) (instant download when you click it, about 2,5 kb)

Note. It was made with Reason 6 so it might not work with previous versions, please report back how it works with older versions.

Enjoy!

Simulating Pulse Width Modulation on Roland JV/XP/XV etc.

bitley — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:14:35 +0000

Hiya guys! A short while ago, I got a rush of synthesizer nostalgia seeing a JV-1080 advertised among the second hand ads here in Sweden. The 1080 was quite a boom on the market when it appeared in late 1994. I was fortunate to have saved up a bit of cash so I was in line, waiting for my brand new 1080 back in 1995; stores could not deliver enough units so there was a queue. Used it on a nearly daily basis up until when Reason came along and I moved away from hardware for a while. Now I tend to enjoy both methods. I am one of the old men crying against the wind, “give us MIDI out in Reason!”.

1080′s back in place and I thought I should re-program some of my old favourite sounds; the PW/PWM patches!

Here’s two new lofi videos but if you follow them closely you’ll soon have a bunch of super cool PWM sounds in your JV (& compatibles), enjoy!

PWM on JV part 1

PWM on JV part 2

Did you work it out & did you like it? I might add more synthesizer & programming tips in the future.

Introducing our team of programmers & developers

bitley — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:51:32 +0000

Sneak preview – commercial track using #Fairlight Platinum #Propellerhead Refill

bitley — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:43:19 +0000

Sneak preview! Michael Moog has produced a brand new track for the 17 year old TMG Recording artist Cierra Ramirez exclusively using the Bitley™ Fairlight Platinum ReFill for Reason 6. He contacted us about it and gave us exclusive rights to publish a sneak preview of the video in order to be able to spread the word on the refill, which he adores. Video not yet listed publicly on YouTube.

Cierra Ramirez will be starring in the Lionsgate feature movie (motion picture) Girl In Progress with Eva Mendez going up on cinemas May 11, 2012. The track (and this video) will be official sometime after this.

The track is a response to Echoes Of Silence by The Weeknd.

Michael Moog will possibly be providing a RPS version of the track which will be provided to all Fairlight Platinum license owners. Michael Moog is also currently producing the 90s pop act No Mercy and the Fairlight Platinum ReFill is being used there as well.

Directed by: Michael Moog. Director of Photography: Eric Roundtree. Lightning / Grip: Calvin Gaines. Edited by Eric Roundtree, Siji and Timmy Temper. Published by The Weeknd. Song copyrighted by The Weeknd, 2012. Preview published by Bitley with exclusive, written permission. Michael Moog & Cierra Ramirez are signed to Temper Music Group.

Preorder now – the new Bitley O8 R6 ReFill

bitley — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:04:19 +0000

Sneaky peaky informing about Bitley O8 for Reason 6 and up – you can now preorder my upcoming new refill called Bitley O8. It’s a unique, totally new and fresh refill with hundreds of perfectly looped waveforms. Making those have allowed me to really go creative with the patch programming. Sound sources have been a select number of synthesizers that I recorded in 24 bit, looped and edited. More details will be posted when it’s done. All I can say is that if you like your current Bitley refills, you are going to love this one! You can preorder it now for just $15. This gives you the refill in its current state. More patches will be added, the graphics will be changed (art director MK is working on that right now). To preorder, just click this link. (Paypal).

Early user impressions (thread on pheads site)

Kirsty Hawkshaw

bitley — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:00:25 +0000

It’s never too late, is it? Today I found out about her name, thanks Wikipedia, that lovely girl I must have had a crush on for 20 years. Kirsty Hawkshaw. She was the lead vocalist for Opus III; posted about them below. Turns out she seems to be very active on Youtube – here is her channel. It’s going to be a fine day today, it’s going to be a fine day tomorrow. I love it how she said the word “tomorrow”. Incredibly cute girl. Talented.

Forward / Backward (Opus III & Orbital)

bitley — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:28:53 +0000

A rush of 90′s nostalgia flew over me today when a friend (Andreas Tilliander, actually) posted the video to the rather classic house tune “It’s A Fine Day”, which was later sampled & twisted around by Orbital in a rather fantastic way. Very very timeless! This is also a good example of the art of remixing.

1. Opus III – It’s A Fine Day

2. Orbital – Halcyon On + On