An amateur experimental composer
Didn’t have a lot of time tonight but managed to put together a brief transition piece for the demo album rework. Pretty simple thing using a Reason Rack pad and a patch from Cherry Audio’s Harmonia.
Also got a good way into cataloging the demos I’ve put together over the last couple of years making a list of pieces for my upcoming first album. There’s a lot more usable stuff in here than I would have thought. Maybe I need to be a little less self-critical!
Took a shot at working up another piece of the remake. This one is pretty much in the middle of the longer piece. First pass at a lead part isn’t too bad probably one or two off notes I can work around.
Had some trouble with the mixdown when I was exporting. Weird static at the very beginning I think caused by one of the instruments glitching. Doing the export in real time seems to have fixed it.
Slowly making some headway on this remake project. The centerpiece track of the original album was about 14ish minutes so re-doing it bit by bit to stitch back together later is proving to be a big challenge. This piece is a pass at a piano interlude I fumbled pretty badly back then. This one is a far better forgery!
A little shorter than the original that rambled on way too long for a transition between two more upbeat/louder parts. Pretty happy with this pass at it 🙂
Damn COVID got me again! 3rd time’s the charm, I suppose. Been working on this one short bit this morning trying a couple new things out. Did manage to put a few things together while I was sick but nothing really worth posting here. Hopefully have some time to get back to those and flesh them out more.
Reason Objekt on the melody, Lofi Keys for the chords/keys, CUBE for the bass, and a brief experiment with Baby Audio’s “Transit” in there.
Stumbled into a really cool way to turn pad patches into moving, evolving transition pieces using a rogue iPad app that’s not certified to run on MacOS but does! I started looking around earlier today for iPad apps that worked as remote MIDI controllers to send CC values into a DAW/plugin. Found a couple that worked pretty well but wireless latency seemed to be a problem as they’d control various MIDI parameters in Logic on the Mac but have occasional dropouts. Rolled the dice and installed one called CC PAL onto my Mac and though it said it might not work as expected, it did. Now I can program up to 16 different CC controls with parameter loops!
Mapping a few CC loops into Lunacy Audio’s CUBE synth produces some incredibly cool results. Looking forward to trying this out with other synths!
Didn’t expect to actually be happy with my first pass as playing a lead over last night’s backing track but I think I pulled it off. Pretty satisfied with how it turned out – my playing is actually improving somewhat. Only minimal corrections to a couple of slightly early/late notes 🙂
Now if I could only get part one to work! Job for another day or six.
Been working a lot on the new take on the old demo album from forever ago I talked about in the previous post. Haven’t been doing any 90 minute challenges since I’ve been spending way too much time on trying to make this happen. This is a bit from part way through that I’ve been working on for the last couple of days. It needs a lead part which I have some ideas for but this is likely the close-to-final backing track for it!
A few of Spitfire Audio instruments and a bit from Reason Objekt. Not sure what the lead sound will be yet but the experiment starts tomorrow night 🙂
About 15 years ago I made a full-length demo CD of instrumental music using a Roland XP-10 keyboard and SoundForge software on what is now an ancient Windows computer. I had practically zero experience playing or recording at the time, it was just something I really wanted to do. The result was not the easiest thing to listen to.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I no longer have the original audio files/tracks for those demos. All I have is a CD copy I burned off that I’ve been able to rip back into AIFF files.
My original idea a year or so ago was to remake those tracks, but since I got rid of the XP-10 a long time ago and finding the sounds via a VST looks like it could be a pretty costly search, that idea fell by the wayside. The new idea is instead of making sound-for-sound remakes, I’m going to lift my old ideas and recreate them how I would do them today while staying somewhat close to the originals.
Today I started working on recreating one of the weirder synth sounds with a bit of a darker tone (which admittedly I probably would have used in the original if it existed at the time). I took a sample of the original sound as best I could and used it as an exciter for a “Classic Synth” preset in Objekt. A few tweaks and here’s what I’ve got for an improved version!
Took a shot at a couple quick slightly distorted keys lead parts on the Linnstrument for the two breaks this morning. Turned out ok I think. Might take a stab at starting another new bit later on today.
Didn’t start out to make a happier bit, I swear. Playing around trying to learn more about Objekt and the weird chime instrument just happened out of nowhere so I figured I’d try to do something with it. Couple breaks in there to add a lead at some point but I’m pretty happy with it as-is. Definitely including it somewhere.
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