Archive for the Tracks category
Grant
March 17, 2016
Day 203: Weds 16 March 2016
Community Announcement:
A silly, fun little piece of electro poppiness, quiet but insistent.
All the sounds in this are from MitoSynth arranged in Auria. Simple but fun.
The Video:
Sometimes (or maybe I should say often), my vids are an accompaniment to the music, a fun after thought not necessarily intimately related. But I do enjoy it when, like this one the visuals and the music join together to make a greater whole.
I filmed myself dancing with Imaengine, pieced it together in Pinnacle Pro, and processed it with CinemaFXV.
Wow, more video apps than music ones; that’s a new one for me I think 🙂
Grant
March 15, 2016
Day 202: Tuesday 15 March 2016
Nefarious Means:
An Ambient soundscape.
Two tracks of Shoom one with ApeFilter on it, combined in Auria along with a drum snippet made with iSpark, Sector, and Dedalus.
Grant
March 14, 2016
Day 201: Monday 14 March 2016
Flippant Grey:
A Beatscape.
Arturia’s iSpark with a little assistance from Cube Synth and Auria.
Grant
March 13, 2016
Day 200: Sunday 13 March 2016
The Pleasant Peasant Receives A Present; Of Pheasant:
Not something you hear from me all that often; an electronica, beatscape, blippy-bloppy, is-it-Acid-cause-I-used-an-808-? sort of a thing 🙂
Even when I use apps designed to blip and to blop I try to give them a different angle.
This is all Rebirth, my first attempt to use it though I’ve owned it forever. I jammed it into AudioShare with ApeFilter, AltiSpace, and Dedalus as effects.
Grant
March 12, 2016
Day 199: Saturday 12 March 2016
Passing The Baton:
A short but sweet Electronica piece from me today; at 2.40 minutes it’s one of my shorter tracks, almost in pop territory, and its fast which is unusual for me.
The beat is from iSpark at 200 bpm, treated with ApeFilter and Emo Chorus. While the arpeggio is from Addictive Synth set at 100 bpm and treated with Dedalus and Muckraker. They were recorded separately in AudioShare then combined in Auria.
Grant
March 11, 2016
Day 198: Friday 11 March 2016
A Quiet Life: Your Text Here:
A Beatscape.
The beat is made with Patterning using my own drum kit, it was constructed by jamming into AudioShare with Dedalus as effect. I then made the arpeggio in Addictive Synth and combined them in Auria. The occasional bass was also from Addictive Synth; I use the same patch but with the arp turned off.
The Video:
I combined some iColorama jpegs in Pinnacle Pro along with a FluxFX video, imported that to CinemaFX for the scratches, then into Generate for the movement.
Grant
March 10, 2016
Day 197: Thurs 10 March 2016
Someone To Trust:
An Abstract Soundscape with Spoken Word.
The drone section is from Shoom, the rest is from an iSpeech TTS file that I treated several times in AudioShare with AltiSpace and Flux:FX. All assembled as usual in Auria.
The Video:
I began by making several videos using FluidFX doing it’s thing to some abstract pics I had made in iColorama. I layered some of them in VidBlend, then layered some of those in Vjay. Next I assembled some of these together in Pinnacle Pro arranging them with the music, lyrics, blends etc. Then I processed that through CinemaFX to give a unified colour and texture, then through Generate. Finally I took these last two and blended them in Vjay.
Grant
March 9, 2016
Day 196: Weds 9 March 2016
Mr Richard O’Shea Has A Close Shave:
A Beatscape.
For those new to this blog a Beatscape = a soundscape made entirely or mostly from drums/drum machines.
In this case I use 2 drum machine apps: DM1 and Patterning. One beat from each app plus a reversed version of the DM1 beat (reversed using TwistedWave).
They were assembled in Auria where I cut up and arranged them along with a sample of the classic Hollywood western ‘richocet’ which I took from the 1950 classic Winchester ’73.
Grant
March 8, 2016
Day 195: Tuesday 8 March 2016
Momentus Trivialus:
A Dronescape, a Soundscape, a Beatscape.
The bulk of this is 3 drones from Addictive Synth each played into Auria while I played with knobs and settings. There are also three beats from iSpark, one treated with Muckraker; they are slow and sparse and occasional as befits the mood.
Grant
March 7, 2016
Day 194: Monday 7 March 2016
A Distillation:
An Abstract Beatscape/Soundscape.
For the music: Alchemy, Auria, Sector, TwistedWave, Caramel, Emo Chorus.
For the video: Pinnacle Pro, PicFrame, CinemaFXV, Fluid FX, Generate.