I wanted to try a different approach to things this week, and built up a track with some layers of evolving/developing/heavily processed sounds. There's a simple kit of Analog-synth drum hits (this also goes through parallel vocoder processing), Ableton's Light and Shadow Operator synth preset, Collision with the gong preset (going through the filter taps effect), Collision with the Pitch Pad preset, bass (parallel processed with different Auto-Filters: one a low pass only, and one low and high to give a band from 100Hz to 1KHz), and Kastle synth. There are three send channels: two convolution reverbs, and one Max Spectral Delay; there's a lot of send automation as well as auto-pan on almost everything.
Title from the fact that the Triangulum galaxy is M33.
(Track art: By Alexander Meleg - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31...)
Sunday, August 20, 15:00-17:21 Modular + Guitar Jam.
First 30m was setting up the studio and getting some initial tuning and patches in for the modular synthesizers, and fiddling around with some initial melodies that might be okay.
I kind of wanted this to be done, I didn't particularly like the end result too much. The mood changes too much and I wasn't sure I wanted to go back and fix it all.
I had a little more time this week to work something out. Toying with different experiments on my drum tracks. Also going through some personal shit that's kinda got me down and it appears to be reflected a little bit in this song.
For this song I used the following:
-DM - The Drum Machine
- Logic Pro (DAW/various effects)
- Alto Saxophone
Bit late to the party here. I had been craving weeklybeats and the good practice it encourages, so I was pleased to find this little group, albeit quite far into the year! Keen to finish it off though.
Here is my first offering. Trying to work more with percussion, which I tend to shy away from sometimes. Mix is a little rough, but glad to have got something done :)
I am going to be on the road tomorrow, so I had to get something in quick tonight. I am hoping soon that i will have multiple hours during the week to work on music to create something better than this... hopefully next week.
