Archive for the Audio category
Grant
June 7, 2016
Day 283: Monday 6 June 2016
Penny For Your Thoughts:
A Beatscape.
Made with Elastic Drums and DM2, I made a beat in each centred around the same bass drum pattern, recorded them into Auria using Wow2 as a plugin on one. Then I slowed it in TwistedWave and ran it through AUFX:PeakQ to tame the EQ a little.
I intended to add some more elements but ran out of time. On reflection it does seem quite finished as is but I may update with a new version if it seems to work. It is not uncommon for me to spend ages adding stuff to tracks only to go back to an earlier less cluttered version. I do value simplicity.
Grant
June 5, 2016
Day 282: Sunday 5 june 2016
Jelly Baby?:
A very slow and sparse Beatscape made with iMaschine 2 jammed into AudioShare with ApeFilter, Dedalus, and ApeDelay, then rearranged in Auria with a version of itself treated with Caramel and AUFX:Dub.
Grant
June 4, 2016
Day 281: Saturday 4 June 2016
Inflexible Shot:
A gentle piece of slow almost ambient electronica courtesy of Korg’s Gadget, which you may have noticed is getting a workout this week. This track is my most complicated use of Gadget so far; using 10 tracks, 12 scenes, and 6 different Gadgets. I’m sure that is nothing to many users, but I lean towards the simple.
I recorded the result to AudioShare then effected it with Dedalus and ApeFilter and imported both versions to Auria where I blended the effected track so it gave a more subtle texture rather than being overwhelming.
Finally I exported all tracks from Gadget and imported just the bass and the tinkling piano sound into Auria for some emphasis and to add some delay to the piano.
Grant
June 4, 2016
Day 280: Friday 3 June 2016
Maschine A Day #15:
I have been continuing with my little side project of quick tracks using either iMaschine 2 or Alchemy, if you recall I chose these apps because they each have 4 tracks to use which gives a broad enough palette of sound to work with and I find them both easy quick and fun.
I’m not posting all of these on this blog but occasionally, like today, they make an appearance.
This one has no effects applied, it’s simply iMaschine 2 jammed (by muting and unmuting parts) into Audiobus.
Grant
June 2, 2016
Day 279: Thursday 2 June 2016
Perambulate (Before It’s Too Late):
A slow and calm ambient piece today, a break after yesterday’s frantic trip to dance land.
The initial sketch was made in Alchemy but I exported the individual tracks, both audio and midi, into Auria for more controlled arranging and to add some more synth sounds. I used one track from Addictive Synth, one from Poseidon, and two from Auria Pro’s inbuilt FabFilter Twin2.
Grant
June 1, 2016
Day 278: Weds 1 June 2016
The Disconnect Foundation:
Today I left my comfort zone and made sort of dance track. EDM I believe is the umbrella term.
I continued with my exploration of Gadget and decided to leave it at it’s default 128 bpm instead of slowing it down to my preferred speeds, it’s mostly about loopy dance styles so instead of subverting the paradigm I thought I’d run with it.
The sounds and loops are from Gadget but I exported to Auria for the final arranging, I find that easier and more versatile.
Hmm only two apps, that’s getting pretty low for me. Though I did make 6 tracks in Gadget: two instances of London, two of Bilbao, and one each of Chicago and Amsterdam.
Grant
May 31, 2016
Day 277: Tuesday 31 May 2016
Little Bridge:
An Ambient Dronescape today for your delectation.
Made with Gadget, recorded into AudioShare with ApeFilter, Dedalus, AUFX:Dub, and AUFX:PeakQ, plus a little assistance from TwistedWave.
Grant
May 30, 2016
Day 276: Monday 30 May 2016
The Tale Of Flying Bertha:
Beatscape!
I felt like having a play with Rebirth today, it’s a little fiddly and little more ‘blippy bloppy’ than I usually get, but I’ve been slowly learning to embrace my inner blip and blop. So no worries.
I jammed onto AudioShare with Dedalus and ApeFilter (because I wasn’t in the mood to struggle with Rebirth’s song mode today) then moved to Auria where I did my cutting up and arranging and added a hit from yesterday’s Impactor recording for good measure.
Grant
May 29, 2016
Day 275: Sunday 29 May 2016
What?:
Another Ambient Drone with beat, like yesterday’s. In fact it is the second in a proposed series, all using the same bedrock of sounds coming from the same Session in Shoom, and using the same structure of Ambient/noise/drone with occasional beat (plus occasional other elements).
This track uses Patterning for the beat flavoured with Caramel, as well as ApeDelay and ApeFilter on the drone. Recorded and arranged with the help of AudioShare and Auria.
Grant
May 28, 2016
Day 274: Saturday 28 May 2016
When?:
An Ambient piece today, long and slow and gentle. Must be the hangover speaking.
Mainly Shoom but with a little DM2 and a little Trudi spoken word (iSpeech TTS, AltiSpace, TwistedWave). Also some help from Auria, AudioShare, Caramel, Crystalline, DubFilter, and ApeDelay.
I particularly recommend the Shoom, DubFilter, ApeDelay, Crystalline combination. It sure is a thing of beauty.
Peace Out trackers, I hope that you enjoy your saturday.