My friend challenged me to write acid house and here is my attempt. Not sure if it is acid house because I don't listen regularly but hey it's a fun song.
If anyone is going to PAX East hit me up, I'll be enforcing in the Expo Hall! Ask for WadeStone by the PAX Rising booth.
This is becoming a running theme. No time so bashed this fairly uninspired synthwavey type thing out in an hour or so over lunch today.
Determined to catch up and not make it 4 late subs in a row!
Kinda imagined this one as a theme song for an anime cartoon. Almost ended up going full novelty song but stopped halfway ;D
i did some meh stuff earlier in the week i was going to submit with a 'neutral' rating at best, then regrouped and did something i liked more (and am able to use for my weird cyberpunk space pirate concept album ( https://soundcloud.com/red-rising ) )
Based this around a tape Loop or two which i played slower then wrote around it. Intend to work in this area much more. Composition wise - its a bit poor. The 1st melody is a bit wrong (it kinda sounds like its coming in half way through).
Back to the funk. This week brought a new pedal (the Balls Effects KWB pedal, a variant of the MXR Distortion +/Ross pedal with switchable diodes and sweepable clipping), so I used that on guitars and bass. This one started as drum tracks (Drum Rack 64-pad Jazz kit), to which I added a bit of a low end with additional Typhoon kick and some percussion). Then I added two Puremagnetik Rhodes pianos, and laid down guitar (modulated wah and stationary wah) and bass (EQ-8 for bass rolloff). Sends: room-sized convolution reverb and an Echo channel.
Title from...a dad joke about the use of gadolinium (element 64) as part of the emergency shut-down procedure of some reactors, including the CANDU. (Sorry.)
This submission features S-curve (sigmoid function) for smooth transitions between pitches and just intonation tones.
Here's a quick jam I cut up for brevity.
Didn't have time to do drums properly, but I'll do it sometime when I have time to pick this idea up again.
Trying to fuzz-up a piano again.
I normally don't straight-on upload my One Hour Compo track, but this weekend I'm traveling and the chance that I'll get to submit is pretty low.
This is a live track done on the Octatrack and Analog Four. I didn't do resampling unfortunately - not comfortable enough with it - but it is my first non-noise song with both the Analog Four and the Octatrack together so I guess that's something.
