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Magic of the Night -- Enya

Started by SciNote, December 23, 2021, 06:01:44 AM

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SciNote

I'm a little late to the party this year because I was out of town on a trip, but I still wanted to get something posted before Christmas day!  This is my version of Enya's fantastic Christmas song, Magic of the Night.  I believe I posted a recording of this a couple years ago, but this is a new recording.

This was done on a PSR-E433, with bass pedals, which are hardwired to an old Casio MT-68.  My entire set-up is ran through a Boss reverb pedal.  The background style was used only for the drums.

I used Audacity software to record the song to my computer, and only used Audacity's effects to adjust equalization, compression, and level.

https://app.box.com/s/c2ikv9bxc202wuqasijpt806585bl4lh

Bob
Current: Yamaha PSR-E433 (x2), Roland GAIA SH-01, Casio CDP-200R, Casio MT-68 (wired to bass pedals)
Past: Yamaha PSR-520, PSR-510, PSR-500, DX-7, D-80 home organ, and a few Casios

Toril S

Magical rendition Bob! Merry Christmas🌲🌲🌲❤️
Toril S

Genos, Tyros 5, PSR S975, PSR 2100
and PSR-47.
Former keyboards: PSR-S970.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLVwWdb36Yd3LMBjAnm6pTQ?view_as=subscriber



Toril's PSR Performer Page

Jon D


  Hi there Bob,
           A very good performance well played and voiced I enjoyed listening my good friend cheers. :) :) :)

                  Jon D. ;D :D ;)

JohnS (Ugawoga)

Hi Sci- Note

A Nicely played Jarresque sound with some flanging on the strings in there makes for a magical  Mystery tour night

Happy  Christmas and New Year to you.


All the best
John :)
Genos 2     AMD RYZEN  9 7900  12 Core Processor 32 ram,   Focusrite Scarlet 4i4 4th Gen.

SciNote

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!  Enya has long been one of my favorite artists, and when I first heard this song -- on a department store sound system -- it nearly brought tears to my eyes.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2022!
Bob
Current: Yamaha PSR-E433 (x2), Roland GAIA SH-01, Casio CDP-200R, Casio MT-68 (wired to bass pedals)
Past: Yamaha PSR-520, PSR-510, PSR-500, DX-7, D-80 home organ, and a few Casios

Gloria

Bob. I'm a big fan of Enya's music, but haven't heard this song.  At 1:19 I was amazed at how you orchestrated it & again at 2:29!  A very impressive arrangement and performance!

Gloria
"Music is the Universal Language"
PSR Performer Page

SciNote

Quote from: Gloria on December 24, 2021, 02:36:15 AM
Bob. I'm a big fan of Enya's music, but haven't heard this song.  At 1:19 I was amazed at how you orchestrated it & again at 2:29!  A very impressive arrangement and performance!

Gloria

Thank you, very much!  That sound that I transition to at those times you noted is a combination of choir and pipe organ, combined with a considerable amount of flange/chorus.  The PSR-E433 has 8 banks of 4 presets, and I have one bank dedicated to the music of Enya (though, of course, I do use those sounds for other songs, where appropriate, as well).  And I probably would have never heard this song if I had not heard it on the department store sound system, as I have all of her main albums (The Celts, Watermark, Shepherd Moons, The Memory of Trees, A Day Without Rain, Amarantine, and Dark Sky Island), and it is not on any of those.  Of course, you can find it on YouTube.  A Google search sometimes relates it to Amarantine, but it is not on that album.  It might be a special Christmas edition of that album that I do not have.
Bob
Current: Yamaha PSR-E433 (x2), Roland GAIA SH-01, Casio CDP-200R, Casio MT-68 (wired to bass pedals)
Past: Yamaha PSR-520, PSR-510, PSR-500, DX-7, D-80 home organ, and a few Casios