The Diary of Sauli Hirvi

Archive for December, 2009

Before And After

Posted on December 30th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

I’m not too big on record­ing my song ideas, but once in a while I do. Here’s an example. Idea I recor­ded with the Mac­book Pro built-in mic: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A clip from the semi-finished track: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Also, I gave Logic Stu­dio 9 upgrade […]

New Song — You Might Be Right

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

We fin­ished our first song with Semira. Second one is com­ing next week. Here’s a few out­takes: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (To clear things up, “vittu!” is “fuck!” in Finnish)

This Week in Music

Posted on December 5th, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

We recor­ded some vocals last Thursday, but I’m try­ing to decide whether to do them again with a bet­ter micro­phone. My con­denser mic is on loan to a friend, so we used an SM57. Here’s a little pre­view: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jori Hulkkonen played a gig at Bis­tro Nolla on Friday. […]

Flynt — The Flash Synthesizer

Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Sauli Hirvi

Dur­ing my sum­mer hol­i­day I had some free time, so I decided to fiddle with Flash after a long time. I noticed that with Flash 10 and AS3 you can write any data you want to the sound buf­fer, so nat­ur­ally I had to make a syn­thes­izer. It’s not pretty, but it does what it’s […]