Archive for the Tracks category
Grant
March 6, 2016
Day 193: Sunday 6 March 2016
Frantic:
Following on from yesterday’s uncharacteristically fast and jolly dance track, here is another, this one even faster. At least the first part is, about two thirds of the way in I segue to a slower version of the same beat, which has a very different character.
iSpark was the drum machine app again today, I have been enjoying it very much all week. The synth sound is from Poseidon and the bass from iFretless Bass. That’s it really, a deceptively simple track.
Grant
March 5, 2016
Day 192: Saturday 5 March 2016
Seldom If Ever:
Unusually for me this is an upbeat and fun piece of EDM. Exact genre unknown.
Arturia’s iSpark on drums, Poseidon on arpeggio, me on vocals, all into Auria for arrangement.
Most of my stuff is slow and dark, so I thought I’d try something a little different 🙂
Grant
March 4, 2016
Day 191: Friday 4 March 2016
Speaking In Tongues:
A Beatscape/Vocalscape if there is such a thing.
This is related to yesterday’s track because both the beat and the vocals are from the same beginnings.
Arturia’s iSpark provides the Beat. The vocal is a complicated mix of iSpeech TTS, Reverb, AudioShare, TwistedWave, Borderlands Granular, and Sector. The bass is from iFretless Bass. The whole thing is imagined and put together in Auria Pro.
Cheers.
Grant
March 3, 2016
Day 190: Thursday 3 March 2016
Sock Puppet For Jesus:
An Ambient Beatscape with Spoken Word.
This week has largely revolved around two new apps: Arturia’s iSpark and Yuri Turov’s Shoom (which is still in beta).
Today is no different.
I began today by playing with iSpark; exploring it’s sounds and playing a little more with it’s song structure capabilities. I came up with a two and a half minute drum beat that I liked and which I recorded using 4 different drum kits. Next I loaded all four into Auria and made a 6 minute Beatscape by arranging and combining the four different versions.
Yesterday I made a 10 minute Dronescape by combining two slightly different Shoom jams. I felt this would make a good ground for my Beatscape, and sure enough when I combined them they fit well.
I still felt it needed a little more but didn’t want to start including basslines or leady things, so I browsed my folders of abstract jams and found two that I thought would enhance the track. One was made with iDensity and the other with Sparkle.
Now it was nearly finished but I felt it needed a bit more focus. So I called on Trudi.
(If you’re new here you may not know that Trudi is a fictional character who has been developing over the course of this blog. She condescends to take time off from her day job at Station FCKU to provide vocals for some of my tracks. Usually I type her words into iSpeech TTS, slow it down slightly in TwistedWave, and move it into AudioShare for a little Reverb which today was provided by Reverb from Amazing Noises)
She brought her own lyrics today 🙂
Thank you Trudi.
Grant
March 2, 2016
Day 189: Weds 2 Mar 2016
Cold Fire:
A Soundscape/Beatscape with Spoken Word.
The ambient dronescape is courtesy of Shoom which is featuring heavily this week because I’m beta testing it. The beat is from iSpark with the help of Dedalus, apeDelay, Dubfilter, and Caramel. They were combined in Auria and the vocals were recorded straight into their own track.
Grant
March 1, 2016
Day 188: Tuesday 1 Mar 2016
Momentus Allegorius:
An Ambient Soundscape.
This is an unusual track for me, not in the style but for two reasons: first I used Synthmaster Player which I’ve never really enjoyed before and never used on a track, and second because I entirely used included presets. It just all came together very naturally and I let it happen without stressing myself about making the sounds myself.
Once I had the basic track down I slowed it using TwistedWave, then loaded it into AudioShare and used AUFX:Dub and Dedalus on it.
Grant
February 29, 2016
Day 187: Monday 29 Feb 2016
Troglodytic:
A soundscape.
Like yesterday this track is inspired by my explorations of Shoom, an upcoming synth that I an beta testing. For me it seems ideal for creating ambient soundscapes and textures, at least that is where it immediately leads me.
This track is 90% Shoom, I have added a few instances of a sound that I have used before; made with BeatMaker 2 and TwistedWave.
Grant
February 28, 2016
Day 186: Sunday 28 Feb 2016
Abyssal Dance Floor:
A Soundscape.
Shoom ( a very promising new synth that I am fortunate to be beta testing) provides the soundscape here and iSpark provides the drums. Brought into perfect harmony in Auria
Peace out.
Grant
February 27, 2016
Day 185: Saturday 27 Feb 2016
Icarus Revisited:
A Diptych today, of soundscapes. Woo Hoo two for one!
The first track is a combination of two sound files combined in Auria. The first a Sector treatment of an iDensity treatment of a Korg Module electric piano jam, while the second is a TwistedWave treatment of an iMaschine 2 drum beat.
The second track takes a small piece of that twisted drum beat and loops it, again in Auria, and then adds a slow piano. I just used the inbuilt Lyra sampler and layered an acoustic piano with an electric one.
Grant
February 26, 2016
Day 184: Friday 26 Feb 2016
Doing Qi Gong On The Precipice:
https://soundcloud.com/grant-horsnell/doing-qi-gong-on-the-precipice
A Beatscape.
The new Arturia iSpark drum app is the core of this one, with a little help from Auria, AudioShare, TwistedWave, and BeatMaker 2. But 95% iSpark.