Been gone a long time again. Perhaps I’m not the best at blogging but I’ll try harder 🙂 Here’s the current state of the long form piece I’ve been working on for many months now…
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Apologies for the neglect, blog. I’ve been recovering from COVID and playing a lot with the newly released Scaler 2 on iPadOS. Very interesting and inspiring to have one of my favorite composition apps with me on-the-go. There’s a slight challenge getting my work from the iPad over to the Mac but it’s far from a dealbreaker. Hopefully they’ll add iCloud sync in the future so users can simply load compositions from the cloud.
If you’re a music creator and you don’t have Scaler 2, get it! It’s criminally underpriced for what it does.
Safe to say I’ve become obsessed with mixing in Atmos. Even the stereo mix-downs sound so much more expansive and dynamic. This is a rough mix I’ve been working on…
Hi to anyone reading this 🙂 Been away from the blog for a few days here, sorry for that. I stumbled onto a video tutorial for getting started mixing in Dolby Atmos in Logic and have been immersing myself into that world. Really amazing stuff – the ability to do a surround mix of my own music right here on my own computer is mind blowing. Going back to demos from months ago and producing Atmos mixes of them opens up a whole new way of thinking about those tracks… and so many ideas keep flooding into my head I’ve had to start writing them down so I don’t forget.
The more I’m playing with this capability the more I truly hope that it winds up being the successor to stereo. There are so many possibilities to add even more expression and creativity. Even downmixed to stereo the Atmos mixes have a distinct feel that sets them apart from my existing mixes. I have to take a lot of time with this and study more!
Had a conversation yesterday with a friend who I’d sent one of my works in progress to and the topic shifted to what would the music in a post-apocalyptic gift shop sound like? I guess I don’t really know but I tried…
Today I became the owner of both Linnstrument models! My brand new 128 arrived and I’m ecstatic with it. It fits perfectly in my backpack so it’s the travel companion I’d hoped it would be. Now back to noodling around with Audio Lunacy’s CUBE and the new Linn!
I had full intentions to continue working on a piece I’d started a couple of days ago, but in true “me” fashion another new plugin has diverted me. Earlier today I saw a tweet about AudioModern’s new FREE plugin, PanFlow. Owning all of their paid plugins I was extremely interested… so I downloaded immediately. And as I thought I would be, I was totally blown away by the simplistic complexity and power of this plugin. I’d been reading and learning alot about the use of the stereo space but had sort of struggled with actually implementing a serious solution. The closest I’d gotten was mapping the Y axis of my Linnstrument to panning and controlling the stereo position of the patch I was using manually. It worked well and still will, but this plugin… wow. This is the real deal – a plugin that will get used a LOT on my tracks. Part of me wishes it wasn’t free so I could at least give them some money for a tool I know I will be using often. Here’s something I’d been working on not long ago with PanFlow on the backing piano and violin tracks – it’s totally changed the overall sound in a fantastic way.
I don’t get it. Why is MPE still not a standard that’s a part of every synth now? This is 1 track, 1 patch, 2 fingers. Not a Grammy award winning track, just me noodling around with an MPE patch in Cherry Audio’s Memorymode synth.
Been a bit tied up with personal life things the last few days and haven’t spent as much time with music as I’d have liked. But, out of the woods now. Just received a shipping notice for my 2nd Linnstrument arriving this coming Friday! Very excited to have both my existing 200 and the incoming 128. The smaller model I’m planning to use in my mobile iPad setup and probably a bit when I’m being lazy and wanting to sit in my comfortable recliner and play.
In other news, picked up another Cherry Audio synth today – Memorymode. Another 80s analog throwback synth that’ll go well with the lo-fi plugins I’ve been using a lot lately. Nothing quite as much fun as taking the super clean sound of 80s synths and destroying it! Hopefully I’ll have something to post tomorrow evening.
Following up on the release of my first patch for AudioThing’s “Noises” plugin yesterday, I have two more patches recorded that I need to do some trimming and cleanup on. One patch I’m not sure if I’ll actually release since I’m not really happy with it, but the other is sounding pretty good! I spent a bit of time recording in a mechanical room and putting those sounds into Noises produces a serious Nightmare On Elm Street boiler room vibe. Something about the cold, dark, sinister metallic sound of machinery feels really compelling. Hopefully I’ll have it worked out in the next couple weeks!