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We tell stories through our #video-game / #ambient / #cinematic #electronic #folk music. Dekoningtan was born when we (Verity Tan and Gersom de Koning) met in school in Bangkok, where we debuted a song at our high school talent show with one voice and beat-boxing to create a melody. We have played music together since 2007, but we decided to properly combine our talents as a duo in 2010.
So far we've lived in Thailand, Singapore, the Netherlands, England, and now we are back in Thailand!
We are using Propellerhead's Reason Essentials (fantastic DAW) and Audacity (free audio editing program) for audio. We use a Nektar Keyboard, Alesis Percpad, M-Audio BX8 monitors, Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro headphones, an AT2020 mic, a Shure SM57 mic-- as well as Gersom's electric guitar Ce'Nedra (London City guitar) with burns mini tri-sonic pickups and a Maestro (Singapore brand) guitar for acoustic.
So far we've lived in Thailand, Singapore, the Netherlands, England, and now we are back in Thailand!
We are using Propellerhead's Reason Essentials (fantastic DAW) and Audacity (free audio editing program) for audio. We use a Nektar Keyboard, Alesis Percpad, M-Audio BX8 monitors, Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro headphones, an AT2020 mic, a Shure SM57 mic-- as well as Gersom's electric guitar Ce'Nedra (London City guitar) with burns mini tri-sonic pickups and a Maestro (Singapore brand) guitar for acoustic.
One Must Fall 2097 - Dekoningtan Cover (original by Kenny Chou)
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FREE Claustrophobic Toy Piano Decent Sampler Demo
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Support me on Patreon? It'd mean a lot to me! www.patreon.com/dekoningtan You can download "The Claustrophobic Toy Piano" Decent Sampler version FREE here: www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/the... OR if you aren't part of Pianobook you can also get it here of my Ko-Fi shop: ko-fi.com/s/89a75eae2c 🔊 Spotify: bit.ly/dekoningtanspotify 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/dekoningtanapple 🎵 Amazon: bit.ly/Amazondekoningtan 🛍 ...
Learn How to Make a Decent Sampler Instrument - How to Sample An Instrument: Part 3
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Support me on Patreon? It'd mean a lot to me! www.patreon.com/dekoningtan This is my go at explaining how to program a Decent Sampler instrument. I think in 25 minutes I've done a decent (pun intended) job of explaining it all and hope that it is useful to those who are wanting to learn. I explain it all slowly, step by step, so hopefully it is coherent and useful to you for learning how to do ...
The Deplorable Word - Dekoningtan Original
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This song showcases my "Claustrophobic Toy Piano" sampled instrument. You can get that free here: ko-fi.com/dekoningtan/shop The Deplorable Word is a MAGIC SPELL from C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series. In the book "The Magician's Nephew," it's revealed that Jadis, the White Witch, possesses a magical incantation called the Deplorable Word. When spoken, it has the power to kill ever...
Claustrophobic Toy Piano Demo
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Download for FREE: The Claustrophobic Toy Piano NNXT version ko-fi.com/dekoningtan/shop Cool moving background is by Rotislav Uzunov, thank you sir! You can find his amazing work here: www.pexels.com/@rostislav/ 🔊 Spotify: bit.ly/dekoningtanspotify 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/dekoningtanapple 🎵 Amazon: bit.ly/Amazondekoningtan 🛍 Our Store: ko-fi.com/dekoningtan/shop 👕Our Merch: dekoningtan.creator-spring.c...
Reason DAW NNXT Deep Dive, Part 2 of How to Sample an Instrument
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Here is a deep dive into NNXT, Reason's native sampler. It is a pretty powerful tool and there's a LOT of little knobs. What do they all do? Let's have a look! Download for FREE: The Claustrophobic Toy Piano NNXT version ko-fi.com/dekoningtan/shop Part 2 of How to Sample an Instrument. Cool moving background is by Rotislav Uzunov, thank you sir! You can find his amazing work here: www.pexels.co...
Learn How to Sample an Instrument: Part 1
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In this video, I talk you through my creation of the "Claustrophobic Toy Piano" which is a work in progress sampled instrument that I am currently finishing up. Part 1 of this video is just going to focus on the basics: 1. How do you go about recording. 2. Round Robins - What are they and why do you need them? 3. How to chop up your samples (shown in Reaper, but can be done in Reason or other D...
The Black Shores - Dekoningtan Original
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Hey there, fellow adventures! Join me on a journey to 'The Black Shores'. I made this song with the intent of showing the feeling of the allure of mystery. Inspired by the idea of stumbling upon a remote island with black sands and hidden jungles, this track uses instruments I made from samples created by CoProducer, an AI sample creator. I took the samples, chopped them up, and turned them int...
Making instruments using AI?
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Can AI be a assistive tool in making music? I decided to use some of my creative time to dive deeper into the realm of music production, this time attempting to harness the "wonders" of Artificial Intelligence. In this journey, I explored the raw potential of AI-generated samples as I crafted them into NNXT / Sampled instruments and used this for an original composition. Join me as I peeled bac...
Cautio Criminalis - Dekoningtan Original (Burn the Witch Album)
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Made for the game "Burn the Witch", which can be found here: piquegames.com/burn-the-witch This bonus track is the mournful and melancholy piece on the album. The title comes from a work written by Friedrich Spee who was a German Jesuit priest, professor, and poet, most well known as a forceful opponent of witch trials. Having witnessed events from the epicenter of the European witch-phobia, Sp...
The Strange Women - Dekoningtan Original (Burn the Witch Album)
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Made for the game "Burn the Witch", which can be found here: piquegames.com/burn-the-witch This track refers to the 7th Burning where not only some "strange" women were burned alive, but also tragically a young 12 year old girl was murdered by the mob. Strange in this case always meant they were not native to Wurzburg or were believed to be Protestants. In this foreboding tune, I sought to capt...
Malleus Malificarum - Dekoningtan Original (Burn the Witch Album)
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Made for the game "Burn the Witch", which can be found here: piquegames.com/burn-the-witch This track is about the publication which came out around the time of the witch hunts in Germany. Written by Heinrich Kramer, this notorious book was condemned by top theologians of the Inquisition at the Faculty of Cologne for recommending unethical and illegal procedures, and for being inconsistent with...
The Trial - Dekoningtan Original (Burn the Witch Album)
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Made for the game "Burn the Witch", which can be found here: piquegames.com/burn-the-witch The Trial focuses on the Third Burning, which included 5 people total, one of whom was the minstrel named Tungersleber. Minstrels often played flutes and the flute in this song pays homage to Tungersleber. This song also shifts the listener from full on "creepy" sounds to a slightly more mournful tone. Th...
The Midwife - Dekoningtan Original (Burn the Witch Album)
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Made for the game "Burn the Witch", which can be found here: piquegames.com/burn-the-witch This song focuses on the paranoia and fear that swept through the city during this time. The song title refers to the Fourth Burning, which included a Midwife and four others. According to the texts, the Midwife was "the original of all the mischief." Thanks Engin Akyurt for the background video from Pexe...
How I made "To the Clouds", Behind the Scenes Video
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A little video explaining my process of making the song "To the Clouds" which was released a few days ago :) If you like this kind of content, please support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dekoningtan 🔊 Spotify: bit.ly/dekoningtanspotify 🍎 Apple: bit.ly/dekoningtanapple 🎵 Amazon: bit.ly/Amazondekoningtan 🛍 Our Store: ko-fi.com/dekoningtan/shop 👕Our Merch: dekoningtan.creator-spring.com/ 🔥 Our T...
Your Time Was Never Yours - Dekoningtan Original
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Your Time Was Never Yours - Dekoningtan Original
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My download isn’t even finished yet and I already regret buying this…
Haha, why? Because of my review or because the download takes so long?
Are the strings on this Friktion?
This isn't Friktion, this uses "Intimate Strings LITE" from Embertone mostly (it is free). It is a really good realistic string library, especially since it is free!
You're definitely right that the first two songs sound very Chinese. Not much particularly Celtic about them.
Exactly! Just goes to show AI cannot yet "listen" and use context in the same way humans can.
@@dekoningtan definitely. My guess is that "mysterious" somehow gets tied to Asian sounds using their algorithm, which likely reflects the biases of whomever they had tagging music.
Indeed very likely @@KnightedDawn
Just started using Reason 13 and NN-XT! I wasn't able to get my Novation MIDI hooked up yet, and wanted to see how to use the Pencil tool to get beats down on the grid. For some reason, I haven't been able to get that right just yet. Any advice? This was a great video!
@@danidandans hmmm, well if you are doing drums I imagine you'd have to draw pretty specific notes in specific octaves to get it to trigger the note. But, if you want to make beats, Kong or Redrum are best for that. Combo it with Beatmap and you won't need to plug in your Midi controller yet 😊
@@dekoningtan thanks so much! I'll give those a try!
@@danidandans Hope you have a wonderful time with em!
Was this made with Reason?
Yup, Reason all the way!
The effects are very good, but very creepy.
This song's instruments also sound a bit different since I used CoProducer, which generated some of the instruments, I then turned these into playable samples. I have a whole video on how I did it if you're interested 😁
This is awesome atmospheric music for a game or to gamify reality.
Appreciate you saying that! Thanks for listening 😊
Awesome!
Thank you!
I made mine a bit too thick too....but rather than sanding it, I split it in half. I can technically build a second from all the split wood. I have a 30 second update on my channel. You can see where i'm at. I finally glued the front.
@@jcmusc good thinking! If I'd had a way to cut my plank in half I definitely would have done it.
@@dekoningtan such a pain in the ass I just put on the biggest blade my table saw could hold at maximum extension. Cut it down the middle flip it over cut it down the middle again and the board fell apart. I wouldn't recommend it but if you don't have a bandsaw there's ways around it.
That was so epic man! The two themes fit so well together, and also great execution overall! so many outfits :D
@@SorooshMhs thanks a bunch! I feel like this video rarely gets appreciated, so happy to hear you liked it 😁
Massively cool cover! Heard it way back but forgot to comment... 😶🌫Consider that fixed. 😆
Many thanks for your retroactivr comment, haha😂
Nice. Sounds a lot like the MOD/tracker song the game has and with the images looks almost like I'm playing the game. 🤩
Yea! I tried to stay close to the original but make it all a bit fuller / bigger than the tracker could do (old tech limitations, haha).
Seeing a video of someone playing OMF recommended by YT algorithm in 2024 makes me very happy 👍
Yay! Glad you were able to find this video and hoped you enjoyed this music too :)
@@dekoningtan man, that music was something. I remember playing it in 90s with frineds. Such a good times.
@@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames seriously this game rocks. I played it with my kids the other day and they loved it too.
@@dekoningtan Wow, glad to heart that youngers like it too. I wanted to make playthrough against cpu, but I was soo horrible, I couldn't beat them like I did in the past 😆
Eerie yet beautiful sound.
Thanks!
Sounds dope!
Thanks! I hope many people will find it useful.
Not a musician but I watched the whole video. Really well explained and interesting video.
Thank you! I appreciate it!
Great way to sample and create a high quality instrument! 👍Loved this video start to finish and learned some new tricks along the way.
Glad it could be of help!
Would make a perfect meditation and/or game track!
Thankee kindly sir!
Hi, I just found your channel and this interesting comparison. Thanx a lot for it! May I ask you a question about the Orchestral Tools Sine Player in Reason - since you use Amber which I also like so much… ? I’m having trouble automating some of its parameters in Reason with midi controllers, besides Velocity and Expression. The other ones - listed in the option tab of Sine Player - I can’t do nothing with’em, they don’t react to the moves of my faders or knobs, and I can’t automate them by hand, either. Is it a Reason (my DAW of choice) problem, a Sine Player one or am I making something wrong? Thanks for your answer if you have one… Have a great day!
First of all, glad you found it. Second question... let me look into this and I'll report back to you. For myself, I've usually stuck with Velocity and Expression and done other mixing inside the VST itself-- I agree SINE Player isn't the most... intuitive in working with Reason! I'll have a look and tell you if I have the same issue.
Yes, I've found the same thing. I can control Expression, Velocity... And I can assign some few MIDI CC controls, but hooking it up to a Combinator, for example isn't possible. I wonder if it would be good to write to Orchestral Tools about it?
That’s the next step I thought of… Since I feel like home in it, I don’t want to work in another DAW than Reason for orchestral stuffs, but I’d sometimes like to be able to automate some more things in OT libraries… Not a dealbreaker, though. By the way, your videos of sampling in NNXT are great! And thank you so much for your time!
@@pako4791 I get what you mean, I have Reaper as well and have heard good things about Bitwig, but I still prefer Reason's more visual layout and find it a powerful DAW, so why switch? Haha! Happy to help! Hey, if we both email them, maybe they can give some insight :)
Creepy! If this would be put as a track behind the game, with some graphical upgrades, it would rock the socks off of rabid monkeys. 😎
I mean, that would be amazing, but I'm not sure who to contact to make that happen :)
Dude it's a bit about everything. Don't limit yourself, and keep doing this neurodivergent stuff! Indeed it ain't about views. The algorithm shall not control us.
I hope it slowly still brings about subscribers though ;) Even though the metrics aren't everything-- it does feel good to know some people are watching!
Would love to get this one working on the Retro Reason Studio 32bit!
If you do, let me know and I'll add that version of the CMB / NNXT to the Kofi shop!
What a terrific deep dive into NNXT! One of the best tutorials out there. Thanks for making it!
Thank you very much! It definitely went way deeper than I thought it would when I began making the video 😂
For your first build you took on a lot. Bluebear Flutes is a wonderful resource for learning from a very generous and talented maestro
Indeed, I may go for a simpler build next time, haha! Without Bluebear I would've never made it through :)
beautiful sound m8 nice work 🎉
Thank you! I was quite pleased with how it turned out :)
This is a fantastic toy piano! Thank you sir.
Glad you like it and I hope it sees lots of good use in your studio sessions 😊
My first build sounds like an wounded Animal - but yours? Not bad! :)
Aw thanks! I think getting the tone is hard. What strings did you use?
@@dekoningtan today? I use the Corethreads from a parachute Cord. Earlier i try it with Horsehair ...
@@ironwhistlesArt you could try cello or Viola strings, but don't skimp on quality ones it can be expensive. The type of string can really help with the tone 😊
@@dekoningtan i will try it! Thanks for the Tipp .... :)
Wow it sounds good wish it had the original vocals tho, then it'd be perfect
Thanks! We wanted to use our own vocals rather than repitched samples, but I do agree those Teardrop og vocals are killer❤
Downloading now! Thanks a bunch it sounds and looks great!
Thank you! I hope it is useful for you😁 do share if you make something using it and release it😊
@@dekoningtan Reason Studios should hire you! And of couse when I make something I will shaith you. And I intend to donate for these awesome sounds.
@@tokyotrap2579 that'd be lovely if they did haha! I may one day submit Refills for the reason store, who knows😁
That feeling of walking the streets of Charn.
That's what I was going for ❤
Beautiful sound. Lovely video, too!
Thank you! I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Now for the Decent Sampler version 😁
@@dekoningtan haven't got decent sampler, mainly as I have sampler needs covered, but maybe I should look at it again
@@ConstantLittleGhost you should, a host of sampled instruments will open up to you!
Rotary tools and an oscillating multi tool are the 2 best multitasking tools everyone should have 👍
Seriously have gotten ridiculously good use out of that dremel!
I decided to use Red Oak 😅 it took me 3 days to cut all the holes. I have 4 pieces 1 meter long 20.3cm wide. I need to router the back and glue All the pieces together and I have my main structure
Red Oak is super tough wood, I can understand it must've taken a while! But as a hard wood it'll last a while, so years later you'll be happy you did it :)
THANK YOU !
You're welcome!
You got soooo much patience with the sampling, impressive buds ❤
Thanks! It does indeed take quite a bit of patience, hahaha.
What song did you play at the end? Sounds like a Braveheart tone, 😅 I was learning Braveheart on my slide whistle, lost it, but now have new hopes and flute dreams❤🎉 ty
That was a simplified version of the Shire theme from the Lord of the Rings 🤣 but yea, you can definitely make a flute! Bass ones are a little more difficult to make if it is your first one, but still really fun to learn.
I want to explore it.
It would be epic!
That's amazing. This is one of the ways I could see AI being useful and ethical in a creative procces.
Right? That's what I thought too. This and small royalties for voices used of singers who opted into AI.
Well done !
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and say that😊 really appreciate it!
Brilliantly done
Thank you!
Moody as hell. Well done.
Nice! The opening reminded me a little of one of Morricone's cues for The Untouchables.
I've never seen that film, but will have to listen to the soundtrack now 😁 thanks for letting me know!
That was great, thanks! And I'll second the note on Spitfire Labs, I use it on almost every one of my tracks.
I've been really impressed with their consistency and quality! I hope LABS makes a strong comeback!
@@dekoningtan I share both sentiments!
Gorgeous vibes here. Definitely takes me somewhere.
Thank you!
Was really rewarding to see your work file! Good stuff here. I thought Spitfire had mostly shut down after the Chris Henson stuff, but I don't follow them at all!
Thank you for watching! Things definitely seem to have slowed down (especially LABS), but the company does still exist, Henson just stepped down from leadership there.
CH left Spitfire last year and started up Crow Hill. Spitfire is still going strong but they have definitely been quiet in the last 6 months.
This sounds huge! Loved the journey.
Thank you!
I used to be a pirate like you then I took a cannonball to the knee.
gives a Night In The Woods vibe. very melodic, homely, idiosyncratic, and nice. Try composing for computer games
Thank you! I actually have composed and hope to be composing more for video games 😊
good music
Thank you!