Another generative experiment, although I spent a lot more time on "finishing" this track.
I like how it sounds, let's see how I feel tomorrow.
Lossless on Soundcloud here https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210222a
It's just pleasant to listen to. Would make wonderful background music.
It's hard to tell from listening to it that it's generative. It sounds pretty natural. To what extent do you polish and modify the track? What elements do you look for when you "finish" a generative track?
Sounds good to me. Great instrument choice, I did have somewhat of an expectation of it busting out into beats around 1:18, with slap bass and everything, but that’s just my personal bias. For a moment the hi-hats sounded like they were on the wrong beats but I think that was an illusion. Has a 16-bit instrument sample vibe to it, kind of reminds me of ambient game music from that era.
I played around with my MPC1000 and Volca Sample, then finished this project in Live.
Happy last day of the year, everyone.
Happy holidays!
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-sky-ratio
Something more contemplative (?) for the end of year mood. I should probably go back and make this track even more shorter and minimalistic though!
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-ppsshhff
Happy with this one, I hope I mixed the guitars nicely.
Here is a better high quality and mastered version: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-logout
The saga continues.
I thought what if I try to very quickly make an EP out of the jam session I did earlier this week. I managed to "finish" 4 tracks, but I am only posting the 1st one here for now.
This is some loops and sounds I noodled around with on the Yamaha QY100 and then later finished up on the computer and used all of my other regular gear.
I kind of wish it had more structure somewhat.
(edit) Uploaded in high quality here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20211120-feat-yamaha-qy100
Really had to rush this arrangement and mix because I did not have much time this week. There's even a whole second part that I did not have time to work on at all, but maybe it's actually better as it is now than if I had worked on it too much.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-7830
This is an outtake from this week's livestream jam session, and I hope it shows how much better it is to jam along with someone else (although noodling alone has its perks!)
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-clockout
Full jam session and other related stuff here: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/666854425888997376/audio-recording-from-livestream-29-video
Tried to make this kind of stream of consciousness harmonic mess with repetitive but out of sync loops out of last part of the streamed jam session that I did last Tuesday.
It's not perfect but I am happy with how it came out.
High quality here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-antivision
Full jam session here: https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftlchrgr.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F666214343956955136%2Faudio-recording-from-livestream-28-video-here&token=815375-1-1635718034419
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-rain
Full jam session: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-27-20211019-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesdays-830pm-cet
This week I did a major rework-remix of an old track that I submitted here in 2019 when doing the weekly challenge.
I still did a jam session stream this week that you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-26-20211005-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesdays-830pm-cet
Decided to rearrange a more energetic clip of this week's livestream.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-arpeggionism
Live stream and audio archive here: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/
Something calm from Tuesday's livestream.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-speak
Full stream: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-24-20210928-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesdays-830pm-cet (audio only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJ4Gi9l2JM (original audio-video)
The name has nothing to do with the song, I gave myself 5 minutes and this is the best I could come up with.
This is an edited and arranged part from the solo livestream I did last Tuesday.
As always, high quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-slow-forward
And the stream itself: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/662969092925440000 Remixed (and fixed) full audio: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/663057739318198272/audio-recording-from-yesterdays-livestream-video
Decided to give a name to our streaming project with this inaugural track thats a hypnotic kind of minimal part from our jam session this week.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-2513
More links to video/audio here: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/662770927134720000
I found the funk factory preset phrases in the Yamaha QY100.
Intro came out well, not sure about the rest of it - I am not so good at mixing dance music maybe.
High quality on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/202109090909a
Rushed track. This time I experimented transposing stuff to different scales-roots using the QY100.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210830a
Just a quick one from a longer jam session. I was on the road so I did not have time to work on it too much.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210823a
More experiments with the QY100. I tried an approach where I copied the song structure from another track that I like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVyTLx2e_tQ).
I like the sound in general, but I should have focused a little more on making the drums more interesting with varied rhythms and some percussion sounds. Better luck next time.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210820-feat-yamaha-qy100
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@Ashedragon Thanks. During these weird times its good to have a soothing soundtrack to keep it all together, at least I feel this while making the track. :)
@Arcana Thanks. All the instruments are from Roland XV5080 with the exception of drums (Yamaha DTX12M), so there is a good chance that these sounds were used in some games at least.
@Kedbreak136 My workflow is basically getting 1-3 instruments "work" together in the sense that each of them has a generative melody that they play. Then I record some drums and bass to go with it, and finally touch up with a solo or 2 to give the track more character and a "story". So finishing is basically to make sure that there is some intro-verse-breakdown dynamics going on so that it is just not simply "fade everything in, let it play, fade everything out" (which can work sometimes too).