Archive for the Audio category
Grant
June 26, 2016
Day 303: Sunday 26 June 2016
ASX:
Today I am indulging in a side of my music making that hasn’t got much of a look in on this blog recently. I am interested in exploring the boundaries and limits of what music is. Specifically I have been thinking about silence and about noise, about silence and sound, about noise and non-noise, about the place where all these things meet, and what they might say to each over a coffee or a beer.
I use Addictive Synth to make the noise, Auria to structure it, and Caramel and Dedalus for extra texture.
Peace Out Tracklings.
Grant
June 26, 2016
Day 302: Saturday 25 June 2016
QB2B:
Still playing with the downtempo electronica beat thing. Gadget again featuring here with a little help from Addictive Synth, which made the explosions, and of course from Dedalus and Auria with out whose help I would be at a loss.
Grant
June 24, 2016
Day 301: Friday 24 June 2016
End Credits:
I’m calling this Downtempo Electronica though at 110 bpm I’m not sure if it qualifies, but then I have no idea exactly what qualifies as Downtempo so I’ll just go with my own categories I guess.
I’ve said it before and no doubt I’ll say it again, Alchemy is one fun and easy to use app. Every time I touch it I get something that I like. Unfortunately it is no longer available on iOS if you’re starting out but you can get it for desktop I believe.
Anyway Alchemy, AudioShare, Dedalus, and Auria is all I used today.
Enjoy.
Grant
June 23, 2016
Day 300: Thursday 23 June 2016
Bombast:
More Downtempo Electronica this time courtesy of iKaossilator. Like Figure which I use yesterday it’s a fun little easy to use app that is really geared towards EDM style things. Another such app that I have used occasionally is Auxy. They each take a different approach, they all have their limitations but that adds to their charm I think. With all of them I usually attempt to subvert their EDMish paradigm, typically by using slower tempos, effecting them, or cutting and arranging them in Auria, perhaps placing them in an unusual space.
Today was a fairly straight forward take on the idea. I began by making a song in iKaossillator at 90 bpm and then jamming it into AudioShare (by muting and unmuting the 5 parts) with DubFilter and Dedalus in the effects chain. Then I loaded it into Dedalus and recorded it at 0.80 sample rate therefore lowering slightly and giving a final bpm of 72, not super slow by my standards but certainly providing a laid back sort of groove which I prefer.
Thanks for listening trackers and may all your days find you in a funky laid back groove 🙂
Grant
June 22, 2016
Day 299: Weds 22 June 2016
Figure Of Speech (Blah Blah Blah):
I’m continuing to embrace my inner ‘blippy bloppy’ today with Figure 🙂
So after I made a thing in the app I exported all three parts to AudioShare via AudioCopy (if you are unfamiliar with Figure it gives you three elements to play with: a drum track, a bass track, and a lead track).
Once in AudioShare I treated them with FLUX:FX and Caramel then imported all the effected and uneffected parts to Auria for arrangement and/or assemblage.
Grant
June 21, 2016
Day 298: Tuesday 21 June 2016
Icarus Summarizes:
I have been continuing with my experimentations with the Abu Dhabi and Bilbao gadgets in Korg’s Gadget, and while it’s been fun I’ve struggled to make a whole track by beginning with them. So today I have combined three of these attempts into one track whose genre I am therefore going to describe as Patchwork Beatscape HipHop (hee hee).
I loaded some beats that I made in Alchemy and ElasticDrums into Abu Dhabi as well as using some inbuilt stuff.
I exported the tracks into Auria and spent ages collaging them together then finally added a two word vocal which I cut up and arranged into the timeline.
Grant
June 20, 2016
Day 297: Monday 20 June 2016
Crazy Mars Procession:
An Ambient Soundscape.
I began in Sparkle, doing a jam using a mixture of files made in TC-11, iElectribe, and iMaschine as both Source and Target (I confess to total ignorance about how Sparkle works, I just play with it and see what happens).
I then loaded the result into TwistedWave where I slowed it by half and lowered it by an octave. Then I lowered that by another octave.
All three versions went to Auria for arranging, where I also added a few moments of an iElectribe beat and some moments of a MicroBrute sample.
Grant
June 19, 2016
Day 296: Sunday 19 June 2016
Dragonfly Rising:
A Beatscape today made entirely in Gadget. I really struggled to get anything today but must admit that in the end I’m very pleased with this.
I experimented with some Gadgets that I’ve barely used: BilBao and Abu Dhabi, loading two instances of each and using my own files to load into Abu Dhabi for cutting up (iMPC Pro). I must admit it was a lot of fun. I also used one instance of London and one of Darwin (for the bassline).
I also used AudioShare, Auria, ApeDelay, and Dedalus in the process.
Grant
June 18, 2016
Day 295: Saturday 18 June 2016
Nit Picking (for The Lord):
I have no idea what to call this one, I’m going with ‘Abstract Beatscape/Vocalscape’ but I’m not entirely sure if that’s right, though it’s an accurate enough description I suppose. Which is fine, we don’t have to cater to obsessive genre labelling now do we? We don’t want to hand the world over to the marketing people do we?
But I digress.
This piece revolves around the juxtaposition of two elements; each one simple but filled with subtle changes, each coming and going and sharing the space in semi-regular but subtly changing ways.
At 9 and a half minutes it’s a fairly long track but, for me, the small variations and unexpected fluctuations hold my interest throughout. Let me know what you think.
The beat was made with Patterning and FLUX:FX in AudioShare. The vocal was made with Samplr, FLUX:FX, Auria, and AudioShare. Both were made on different days a month or so ago and have been sitting in AudioShare awaiting their moment in the sun. Today I put them both into Auria and collaged/arranged them as you hear here. (hee hee I said ‘hear here’ hee hee)
Peace out tracklings.
Grant
June 18, 2016
Day 294: Friday 17 June 2016
Indus Valley Sunday:
An Ambient Beatscape made from a simple combination of iMPC Pro, Shoom, and Auria.
I had difficulty today getting any results; I made three tracks but ended up throwing away two of them and even this one had to be rearranged several times until it finally swam into focus.