Submissions from 2019-07-29 to 2019-08-05 (9 total)

Quit proud of this one. Not mastered amazingly - couple of pops in the attack envelopes of the analog synths that probably arn't needed but i tried to focus on musical scale here. Bass is prehaps touch heavy. I've left most of the sounds raw unless they're presets in which case i've only taken off the reverb so i can route them all through the same verb and reduce wash. Its in an odd time signature and your never quite sure where it starts until you follow the bell pattern so its a bit chaotic. My favourite piece i've done. So far...

Wrote this based off of a goofy script a coworker wrote. The scene would be a bunch of people destroying an old and evil car.

Pretty fun one. Trying to consolidate all mechanics lately. As in make stuff simple and line up but be powerful. Maybe that makes some sense, maybe not :) Pretty fun song anyway, a little on the lighter side of things.

a nod to the chiptune

More practicing with live loops and Eurorack modular that I created earlier this week. More breakbeat-style tracks.

Few things I learned:

  • I need more Octatrack scenes
  • Tetrapad vibrato is worth exploring
  • Octatrack patterns always seem to get messed up, and I have to pay attention to them
  • I don't have enough attention span yet to also play with the TR-8s's motion recording and effects blocks. Need to practice.
  • Having a verse-chorus structure will be nice one day, but maybe I should get the EDM->rise->drop->break structure down first. I usually construct the loops in OHC, so if I can get that down to 1 hr of time then I know that I got it practiced.

I've had a run of busy weeks, this one even busier with the addition of an Elvis Costello cover for friends' covers project. So this week's track...was somewhat simpler in writing and slightly less complex than usual in production.

Six passes of Res-O-Glas guitar straight into the Focusrite. Tracks all got some Auto-Filter with drive for processing, but otherwise no funny stuff. Sends: one convolution reverb and one echo on just one channel. Panning is static. Full-chain Master on the output.

Title from one of the early names ("tectum argenti") for bismuth, this week's element.

More space music. Three loops around the planet and away we go,

Primarily the Medusa with some Neutron sub bass and long Nord pads in the final third.

Happy with this one.

Edit reupped without the crazy (unintended) bass panning.

Some experimenting with drums and not so many instruments.

Where is all that money going?