recorded a 10 minute monophonic jam of keyboard presets over a drumbeat.
is it weird to play keyboard monophonically? i think it can be good exercise. i mainly do it to try and sort of just be able to tell the difference between the 200 keyboard presets i have in "keys 1" serum2 tag.
i think about "stacking ammo" like eminem was always writing lines and hed never use them. i like always playing monophonic lines and then maybe i learn how all the presets sound. stacking ammo. eh i dunno. i will probably get sick of it eventually. im still pretty new to playing monophonic keyboard.
i wanted to record some of the new process ive been using to practice electronic music.
mainly focused on mono sounds being played on keyboard over a drumbeat.
i love brass stabs. i have about 40 good serum1 presets i use (echo sound works: coda, grey, roses, sphere). every time the brass stab sample changes, its me hitting spacebar on QWERTY keyboard to generate a new sound for me to play on the midi keyboard.
in my opinion, this 10 minutes of audio sounds nothing like how i would usually play. i found, today, trying to play for the audio recording was a bit too distracting. i usually play more exploratively. i think i changed instrument about 2 or 3 times faster than i usually would have.
i like mono brass stab jamming because you can really hammer repeated notes, for an entire 4 bars even lol. not many sounds you can do that with. but i do this with a lot of different sounds. mallet-like sounds its nice to play 2 notes at once. reeses are boring to jam with. guitars are great for mono-jamming. keyboard sounds you could do mono-jamming or polyphonic jamming. i mainly come from jamming on piano (polyphonic) so monophonic jamming is something new enough to me. my opinion is monophonic jamming is really something especially worthwhile if youre into making electronic music.
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nah i like this one. pretty shit but itss always nice to get something made, this streak club website helps me to do it
i think reese bass is probably my new favorite instrument of all time
david guetta says music is a lot about tension and release. im pretty sure i agree with him. id like to work more on the tension part and how to make it longer and longer
im putting a list of my 80 favorite basslines in the comments. i like to have them in a randomizer, then when im starting writing ill often start with bassline. i dont really start with basslines anymore but its still a good randomizer to have when youre bored or need a seed for an idea. i more just start with rootnote of the minorkey at the moment. todays upload the bassline is just the rootnote the whole time
anyway the upload today was alright. i wanna get back to making buildup-drops. caus theres so many layers and theyre fun to make, feel like i could learn a lot. i used to like making short loops more, but now i find making loops fairly dull. i like 1 minute arrangements at the moment. specifically buildup to drop segments are always full of different layers and patterns switching, and you can use different presets for different things.
one thing ive enjoyed lately is taking my favorite pad presets and turning them into 8bar or 16bar pitch risers in serum, then resaving them as a preset tagged with riser in serum 2's new tagging system. eventually ill have some good riser options.
just a lil loop, i wanted to make some brass trap. i listen to an amount of brass trap but every time i go to make it i have no idea what im doing. much more comfortable with these 3 instruments: piano, reese, hardwave lead. so i went to make brass trap and got this loop instead. nothing like brass trap but ok. serum 2 has a few reallllllly nice piano sample-based banks i like. serum 2 is fucking awesome. free download if you bought serum 1
listened to this too many times, added more details than usual. found it challenging making an intro and buildup for the drop, since the drop was just kind of piano and glockenspiel type instruments.
Drop Layers:
bass layers: reese, reverbed brass stab, slaphouse pluckbass (same midi for all 3)
melody layers: piano reverbed a bit, glockenspiel-type preset that already had reverb, some other reverby sustained lead preset (same midi for all 3 layers)
other: cymbal crash at start of each 8 bar section, some other reverbed+phased crash that does a repetitive 1/4note pattern at -32db (can barely hear it but it sort of maybe adds something), kick, no snare for some reason, string melody in second half of drop (returns from the intro), piano chords playing bassnote+octave above+fifth above
i like this one. i never have really tried to make short things in arrangement. it was a lot of fun though. a lot of eq automation, presets that already had a lot of distortion, volume automation and leveling.
Back making electronic music. Haven't made any arrangements in a while. I thought the first thing back might be cool, sometimes happens but nah this is just okay.
I like the presets and the combination of presets - I didn't make the presets though, so idk if its weird to be happy about. Another thing I liked was not all the melody notes are on gridlines, possibly caus ive been noodling on midi keyboard with a lot of mono presets lately.
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i do think the process works. ive got 100 clap samples now and i can get the right answer, what, 70% of the time? out of 3-answer questions... ive always suspected it works but maybe that is some type of evidence. i dunno. i cant really advocate doing it. still could be a pointless endeavour
so sacrificing some type of "ideal memorization" for engagement should be an easy choice. not that i have any idea what "ideal memorization" would look like. but if im engaged with the content, then its gonna be higher level of memorization in some regard
its such a boring thing to spend time doing: "attempting to memorize drum samples". i do think engagement should be kind of top of the list. well im trying to put in hours on it....
with the drum-sample-memorizing guessing game. i tend to enjoy specifically 3 options to guess from. 2 is often too easy/boring. 4 is mostly too hard. 3 is kind of a sweet spot where it FEELS like a fun guessing game. even if its not, even if im getting it wrong a lot of the time, 3 options FEELS like an engaging game. u can alter other parameters to make it harder/easier: such as only starting with a pool of 3 possible answers VS starting with a pool of 10 possible answers. but i like having exactly 3 options most of the time lately to guess from for any given question. just seems funner
when they find aliens then become an astronaut. its not happening
fuck astronauts
astronauts are just ambassadors. they look smart they sound smart. they sit around all day shitting in a tube. tending to the ant colony experiment. eating freeze-dried bullshit
lmao as if anyone would want to explore the galaxy. do you like shitting in a tube. staring into blackness? become an astronaut. we swear u will find aliens in another 500 lifetimes
born to late to explore the earth born too early to explore galaxy born just in time for creep walking forwards holding camera at chest height
you can find these walking videos through nature, through almost any city in the world. theres also driving videos like this which can be good too. why leave the screen when u can travel the world
i watch a lot of "walking videos" on youtube while doing this boring drum-sample-memorizing. its this new genre of video where a guy holds a camera at chest level, camera pointing forwards, and walks like an absolute creep through an area for 45 minutes straight. cant say im proud to support such content but eh it makes a good backdrop to memorizing drum sounds, what can i say
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damn there are some really shit openhat samples
if i get rid of about 80% of the openhats i have would be good
eh i like the claps and rims categories
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shit category. barely sorted. probably some good sounds
maybe ill try openhats
they seem pretty wet. lots of reverb already. ehhhhhhh
havent done them in a while
i have a bunch of orchestral drum samples. maybe they are good
yea hardstyle kicks dont work in random bpm for the patterns i have. not really a sound i can use at all. maybe they only sound good at 150bpm or whatever hardstyle is, i dunno
maybe ill do something fun. hardstyle kicks. unfortunately they seem to not work at every bpm so i usually get bored after about 30 seconds. lets see. pretty sure i only have about 30 "good" ones left
got the rides folder down from 200 samples to 100 samples. not sure i really like them that much. might need to trim it down to 50 samples
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