a cool little build up

I "found" the beginning of this sound in a track I am working on. I added some effects, did some looping and filtering, and I have this nice little build up. What will I do with it? Well that's the question, always.

new toys

I picked up some awesome synthesizer plugins from AAS - 50% off for black friday! The result is a much much much nicer palate of sounds than I am used to working with. This little ditty features their String Studio (bass, arpeggiating synth) plugins.

when all else fails v 0.2

and now for something quite different

This one has electric piano and organ and electric bass and chill drums. The next step is to find something cool (like sound effects, or spoken word, or something) to layer on top, and then this will be done. I also learned a little bit about my mastering plugin (ozone, i.e. put this on your track and it sounds better-zone). I think you can kind of tell. why is it called "the saw slack redemption" - well, it's a bit of a pun on words, but I am distinctly slacking off on my usage of big, fat saw waves (a staple of my music) because I am getting turned off by their sort of off-or-on nature. Yes electronic dance music is supposed to be loud but I am done limiting myself to that genre. And it's kind of redeeming. I'll always be heavily influenced by EDM but my niche is in a different part of the field (slightly lower and to the left, thanks for asking).

this week's track....

Remember last week's post? Well, this snippet contains it (plus I wrote a marimba line). But in order to get there, you must go through marimbastep land. What's interesting about this track (to me) is that I have often thought that I should look at creating a couple of nice instrumental grooves and then chop/remix them all up to make an actual piece of music. I started to do that here, quite accidentally. Well we'll see where it goes.

I decided to work on a new track. The beginnings...

el sea chalupa

more tweaking, more automation, more fun with filters and detuning oscillators. now it goes to a nice breakdown (which is my favorite part). I didn't have time to get the drop back into the beat sounding anything close to acceptable, so I just cut it here.

the title of today's post is a real boat name that i saw in watertown. i giggled for about 10 minutes. you shoulda been there.

I actually did a lot of work on this track, but found it not in a polished place to share said edits, so instead, here are some ideas for the (currently missing) drum track, along with some "ooh I want to make wobbly synths can't i make wobbly synths" crap LFO automation.

Ok, fuck that shit. My 10th grade teacher beat into our heads that when presenting our own work, we should not, ever (this means never) start out with a "ritual apology". I wrote one above but I struck it through like the little "ABC" icon at the top of this here blogger post window.

 No regret, no apologies, here are some ideas for basic drum loops and synth automation for this track.

Alright. I have been working on an electronica track for a while, generally playing with all the sounds and being somewhat but not completely happy with it. The drums sucked so for the purposes of this week's post, I took them out. This is basically all the ideas which kind of flow into each other.

Also, Caitlin describes the piece as (minus drums): UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ UNTZ WHAAAAAAN WHAAAAAAN WHAAAAAKAKAKAUNTZ MEEDLY MEEDLY MEEEEEEEEE CHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIK whawhawhawhawahaaaaa oooooooooooooooooooooooooowhrrrrrrrwhrrrrrroooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmdundundundUNTZdundundundunUNTUNTmreeeeeeUNTUNTUNTUNTUNTUNTUNTUNT fishhhhh

the beginning