I thought I'd do a house track this week, but the drum pattern was kind of boring...until I cut the tempo in (nearly) half. I'd written some synth parts that I ended up taking out, and then adding piano and Rhodes, along with bass (Epi P-J) and guitar (Epi Moderne, with Vox Wah and occasionally Reuss Repeater Fuzz). There's a drum rack of dry funk drums with a 909 kick (auto-filter on everything to emphasize percussiveness and distort), impulse hand claps, a drum rack of single-hit tabla samples, a drum rack of Rhythm Ace single hits. Lots of things got high-pass auto-filter to carve out some space, and the bass got a sidechain from the 909 kick. M4L humanizer on drums, tablas, and hand claps. Sends are two convolution reverbs (one long for almost everything and one short for the bass and drums) with high-pass auto-filter to keep it from booming, and a chain of simple delay and filter delay with an LFO band-pass auto-filter in front. Nearly everything got auto-pan and the percussion got some delay automation.

Title from the fact that I slowed everything down.

Sunday, June 4. 14:30 - 16:30

I'm going to experiment with weird sounds this week and then work on some EDM-style production. How does that work together? We'll see!

A dark industrial progressive track - a lot of resonance. The talky-instrument is the Phenol, which highlights to me the fact that modular is a ton of fun. After listening to headphones though I realize the panning is WAY off. I think it's because I ran a channel through another synth band didn't set up my software mixing right...

Total time: 2h

Ableton Live with stock plugins.

Once again, I just start with drum programming and sort of went from there with no real idea of where I was going to go with this week's song. I ended up with this chill step/post-vaporwave hybrid track, which I'm actually diggin' on. I'm actually pretty happy wit how this turned out.
Definitely has some influence from the direction the other project I'm involved with has been going lately.

For this song I used the following:
-DM - The Drum Machine
- Logic Pro (DAW/various effects)
- Alto Saxophone

*This week also has a movie sample, can you guess from which movie?

another playalong w Massive