Picking back up after being sick last week, I kept things pretty simple. I started witha simple melody and added some drums to accompany it. I then filled out the rest. Finally I added the ZOIA to the mix and really liked the way that Loop Forest helped give the whole thing some texture. I saved it for the second half of the song to help it feel like it evolves a little bit.
Major props to the Rhodes preset that came out for the OP-XY last week, too.
I started this beat last week, but decided to let it cook another week, and am glad I gave myself more time with it. I was able to expand the melody a bit, and add some more depth to the drums. I'm really pleased with the result, and feel like I'm finding my groove with the OP-XY again, despite the bugs that have crept into the firmware.
This is actually one of the first beats I made on my OP-XY when I first received it. I liked it but never made it into a song. I decided to pick it back up this week and mess around with it some, and ended up really liking the result. Most of the sound is the OP-XY itself, but the bass is running through a reverb on the ZOIA that gives it a bit of extra grunt and gristle.
I purchased a new audio interface this week, which allowed me to add multiple instruments to my recordings. Because of this, I started the drums on the Syntakt, then routed sync into the OP-XY for the synth sounds.
The song came together pretty quickly after I had the drums laid out. I added some of the background sound layers and then worked on the melody. Once I found the first riff the rest of the melody came into being relatively easily as well.
Started this song shortly after getting the OP-XY. Picked it back up this week to have something to submit for this week, fleshing it out as a song and adding some reverb and delay to some parts using the ZOIA.
I'm happy with the way this song has turned out, but wish I'd given more time to the overall mix and master. I got a new guitar this week and that sort of ...diverted my free time.
I named it w a l k because to me it feels like a loping jaunt down a beachside sidewalk.
This song started as an attempt to see what I could do with the bass from the OP-XY and the Overdrive preset on the ZOIA. I really liked the sound, and came up with the bass loop pretty quickly.
I then spent the week messing around with melody, and laid down a few of my favorite little riffs. The arrangement came together pretty quickly after that, and then I spent the last few days tweaking the mix and trying to get the best sound out of this song as possible.
Overall I'm super happy with the result, and feel like this might be the clearest 'track' that I've put together so far.
I made this one evening as the snow was falling outside of my window. The song started as just chord exploration, but expanded to some sound design. I found a delay preset on the ZOIA called Snowfall, and I started trying to make twinkly snowflake sounds. I arrived at this.
I added some slow drums and continued tweaking the sounds, eventually linking 3 separate sounds together, all being run through the ZOIA's delay and the OP-XY's reverb.
As far as 'songs' go, this one isn't my best, but I'm happy with the feeling it elicites, and I am happy to upload it as my first song for this streak.
Gear Used:
OP-XY
ZOIA 10k
I wrote the bones of this song one night shortly after getting my op-xy, and it immediately gave me detective vibes. I spent some time this week fleshing it out, and added some delay and reverb using my new ZOIA fx pedal, which added some nice space to it. Yes, I could have just used the delay and reverb that the op-xy provides, but I wanted to test the zoia with something fairly simple, and to be honest, it sounds way better than what the op-xy provides, mostly because there are so many more configurable options.
