Been playing around with the M8 this month! This track is just me getting used to getting around and how the thing works, nothing too special. I started it on the FrogTop, and then did a bit more work on it on an actual rev1 M8 that Mrdrcat loaned me. But yeah, the sickness has been established - I'm already seeing the ways in which it can be incorporated into my usual workflow, and also how the M8 can be the brain for my hardware synths. Yeah, I'll probably be ordering one next year...

After getting the Artnoise re.corder, it was only logical that I do something with it for this month! My initial experiments very much sounded like a pipe band, so I decided to lean into that for St Patrick's day. I tossed some crowd ambience onto it and had the band fade out at the end like they're marching away. Because it's the old joke - why do pipe bands march? To get away from the noise!

My work today was playing around with the breath response curves and seeing how to best get it to respond. I can choose the channel it sends breath on, so I mapped that to expression and let Logic take care of relative volume. Overall, not bad! There's a bunch of other expressions that can be sent relative to position and roll - makes me think that a recorder-based Theremin is reasonable :)

I actually wanted to do a 20s style track for week 52 of 2024, but it didn’t quite work out. Thanks to Levelcapybara for giving me the idea for the track! All acoustic instruments this time, with no click (ukulele, hand percussion and kazoo). Even Ol’ #12 makes an appearance (my upright bass). Goofy and fun. I decided to fully commit to the bit and filter it so it sounded like one of my old 78s on the Victrola.

If it's January, it must be time for Darkwave again!

This track grew out of reorganizing my studio and playing with hardware again. Track is sequenced in Logic, then recorded to audio tracks for more mixing. Samples are mangled with Logic's Remix FX plug. Took me a while to get the mix right - it was nice having the extra time for tweaking!

Samples are from Jail Bait (1954, public domain).

Hardware used: Wasp, K2, Jt4000 Micro, 2600, TD3, RD6, and AmbientØ (plus guitar)