Wasn't sure where this week was going, but I started with three tracks of identically voiced Ableton Analog synth, which had a kind of string section sound--I kept these to odd, non-matching meters, and then added two tracks of drums--a jazz kit (which I bitcrushed and then removed the bit crushing from) and 909 with 4/4 parts. I added synth bass, which seemed to propel things...but didn't seem right on its own. Late in the week, I tracked a bunch of bass...that I didn't end up using, and then Saturday night heard a different way of playing it, so used those parts. (As ever, 80s Epiphone Embassy II on the P pickup.) I'd recommended that a friend check out Birdsongs of the Mesozoic (particularly the Beat of the Mesozoic EP), and had Martin Swope's playing fresh in my mind, so I tracked some Epiphone Moderne through the Reuss Repeater Fuzz and Vox Wah (all the way up). At the last minute I put on some grand piano lines with Ableton's Simpler.
Only the trap set got M4L Humanizer. Other instruments got varying degrees of auto-filter, and bass is sidechained to the 909 kick. Almost everything got auto-pan, and the mixdown got full-chain master. Sends are convolution reverb (Berlin Powerstation impulse) and filter delay into simple delay.
Title comes from the Bàbi and Bahá'í concept of Váhid, or Unity--a group of 19.
Hang on to rays of light.
May 14, 16:15 - 17:35.
My main is to crank out a melodic EDM song in an hour.
Okay, it was more melodic than EDM, but I guess it fulfills the purpose. I am thinking that the part with the beats isn't quite as impactful as I want it to be, probably due to the fact that the kick is a bit too mechanical. Maybe more noise would have been good for it.
Total time: 1h 20m (the exact time for a One Hour Compo! It's almost like I know the exact time.)
Not at home for the weekend so I had to do a track with just my laptop and no controllers, synths, etc. So this will sound a bit different.
Threw this together Saturday afternoon in about 5-6 hours. Not a all the type of song I had intended to write, but it was a little sunny out earlier and there was some afterthoughts left over from last week's submission I guess. Is this reggae? Is it dub? Jazz? I'm not a huge fan of reggae (don't hate it, just don't listen to a lot of it), but I do dig dub and dubby sounds. I would have liked to done a little more change ups on the drums maybe. I'm back and forth. Your thoughts and feedback are much appreciated.
For this song I used the following:
-DM - The Drum Machine
- Logic Pro (DAW/various effects)
- Alto Saxophone
*There is a movie sample, but it's pretty mangled, so I don't think anyone would guess it. The other samples are more like foley sounds ran through delay.
live at grelle forelle april 2017 sound recorded w real tape and edited
