An amateur experimental composer
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.
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 🙂
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.
I need to break out of this similar structure. This one is not too bad but too repetitive. Needs a revisit soon.
A recent bout with insomnia that dragged on for weeks made me think about an anti-lullaby that would keep you awake instead of helping you get to sleep. Took a nice bell chime sound and distorted it to make it slightly discordant. Bit waivers back and forth between maybe relaxing and more aggro. Definitely like the way it’s going!
Decided to take a break from all the experimental stuff and do something more straightforward. A bit of composing and playing this kinda simple thing. I don’t typically use a lot of drums but this kinda worked out nicely. Will likely go back to it tomorrow or the next day and play with adding some kind of lead to it.
I guess I’m going to change the rules a bit. The “90 minute minimum challenge” since I seem to hang around longer when I have time.
Today’s track is more messing around with Objekt trying to learn more about it. This time I am still using the same patch for 3 tracks but each is tweaked a bit to sound slightly different. No composing this time, though, all me and the Linnstrument + Expressive E (which explains why the timing sounds off even though it shouldn’t).
Probably take another pass at this one down the road.
Took a little longer than planned today.. as usual I’ve come across a new musical obsession – a physical modeling synth called Objekt. I’ve only just started learning how to use it, but this simple track is a demo of the first self-made patch using it! A good bit of it is composed with me playing along on the Linnstrument but wow I can’t get over how incredible this synth sounds… it’s like creating your own fictional instruments and how they behave from nothing…
Looks like it’s off to read a manual! I need to figure this thing out!
Third 90 minute challenge is in the can and sounding bad! 😛 Truth be told I wasn’t as focused as I was trying to be. Got off to an interesting start composing the acoustic guitar part which I think turned out decently. Then I got into the vocal bits and there’s way more work getting them to sound right than I originally thought so my brain was spent by the time I stopped tinkering.
The intro bit doesn’t fit at all but I like the way it sounds so it’ll probably wind up being used somewhere else. I left a gap at the beginning to fill in later and after frying the last of my energy on the vocal part I noodled with a couple synths and the first 10 seconds are what ended up coming out of it.
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