For this week, I'd thought of doing something with bass and percussion to switch things up a bit. Having put down some MIDI drums and tabla, the bass parts were suggestive of some guitar parts...so I added two tracks of PureSalem Mendiola for something more fully arranged than recent pieces.
There's EQ-8 on the bass to roll off low end, and a touch of M4L humanizer and M4L velocity randomizer on drums. Everything gets a bit of send to convolution reverbs, and there's the usual Wide&Warm preset for compression/eq on the stereo.
The title comes from Octoraro Lake, over which PA-472 travels.
This one blends orchestral and electronic instruments. I started in VCV rack with two synth patches using Euclidean Rhythms which I then blended with a bass synth, Strings, Piano (played live on the midi keyboard) and some timpani.
Had not much time this week, made this one very quickly purely in the box with keyboard and trackpad. Don't really like it but hey, I finished something 🥳
Another track that features Koto, the Japanese traditional instrument. I feel I have started being a bit formulaic with my approach to creating tracks in the past weeks - find a couple of chord progressions and milk them as much as possible with simple variations of instruments. I have hit a local optimum and will have to kick myself into the wilderness to be a bit more experimental in the following weeks! Until then, here's a synthwave symphonic koto based track!
The name means "I fell in love with hell". Which feels super appropriate to me atm. But it's the beginning of 2023, and my main goal is to keep this streak going. I'm super grateful that this is happening, and I'm really excited that others are doing this as well. I'm feeling really good about where my music is going and I just want to keep going that way.
It was honestly a little more of a time crunch than the rest of my tracks should be- but that's fine. I got kinda lucky this week and hit on a great vibe really quickly. I hope you enjoy it! But it's cool if not. I'll be making even better stuff to come. No worries. Thanks for listening!
