If it's January, it must be time for Darkwave again!
This track grew out of reorganizing my studio and playing with hardware again. Track is sequenced in Logic, then recorded to audio tracks for more mixing. Samples are mangled with Logic's Remix FX plug. Took me a while to get the mix right - it was nice having the extra time for tweaking!
Samples are from Jail Bait (1954, public domain).
Hardware used: Wasp, K2, Jt4000 Micro, 2600, TD3, RD6, and AmbientØ (plus guitar)
Been playing around with the M8 this month! This track is just me getting used to getting around and how the thing works, nothing too special. I started it on the FrogTop, and then did a bit more work on it on an actual rev1 M8 that Mrdrcat loaned me. But yeah, the sickness has been established - I'm already seeing the ways in which it can be incorporated into my usual workflow, and also how the M8 can be the brain for my hardware synths. Yeah, I'll probably be ordering one next year...
After getting the Artnoise re.corder, it was only logical that I do something with it for this month! My initial experiments very much sounded like a pipe band, so I decided to lean into that for St Patrick's day. I tossed some crowd ambience onto it and had the band fade out at the end like they're marching away. Because it's the old joke - why do pipe bands march? To get away from the noise!
My work today was playing around with the breath response curves and seeing how to best get it to respond. I can choose the channel it sends breath on, so I mapped that to expression and let Logic take care of relative volume. Overall, not bad! There's a bunch of other expressions that can be sent relative to position and roll - makes me think that a recorder-based Theremin is reasonable :)
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I got jebaited! :D
Fun track, the guitar is awesome
Very strong mix. Sounds good even on the shitty speakers of the MacBook!
Hard to tell how the AmbientØ is used (I got one recently so I'm curious how other people use it).
edit: oh, it's in the outro! Spotted!
this gets so sick as it goes along!
Oh man, the first time we get the turn around on the acid line, I was in groove city. Slaps. I love how weird the vocal samples are too, like just not the choice of them but riding the line where it's fucked but it's still obvious what's being said.
The guitar too! I don't have a clue how to express this idea but somehow things are like... light and floaty while also having these heavy elements. So nice, worth the wait for the site to stop exploding.