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.
Grant
May 27, 2016
Day 273: Friday 27 May 2016
One Hundred:
Another pure Beatscape like yesterday’s, nothing but drum apps.
Also like yesterday’s this one uses three beats from three apps. Today it’s Attack, DM1, and DM2. Assembled as usual in Auria, with a little assistance from Dedalus, ApeDelay, and FLUX:FX.
Grant
May 27, 2016
Day 272: Thursday 26 May 2016
100:
A Beatscsape, nothing but drum apps.
DrumJam, Diode-108, and iSpark.
I did a little experiment: I made a beat in each of my drum apps at 100 bpm without otherwise trying to match them, then brought them together to see what would match and how. The beats from the above three seemed to go together and I was able to construct this track from them but the ones from DM1, DM2, Attack, ElasticDrums, and Patterning didn’t fit. I may yet be able to use those in related projects.
I didn’t use my more groove box sort of apps like iMaschine, BeatMaker, iMPC Pro, iElectribe, and Alchemy all of which I tend to use as drum machines with extentions, and three of which (BeatMaker, iElectribe and iMPC) I haven’t used enough to be fluent with.
I also tried to use Different Drummer, DrumPerfect, and Gumdrops but realized that I had no idea how to use them. Manual and YouTube trips required there I’m afraid.
As you can see I am a fan of drum apps (there are several that I don’t own yet) but I was surprised at how many I don’t use much or at all. Each one has slightly, or massively, different approaches and can give different results and I really want to be able to use them all to see what they can bring to my tracks.
On a related note doing this blog has made me realise that I don’t really use synths all that much. Drum apps and Grain Synthesis apps have become my main go to instruments for constructing the sort of sounds that I like. Subtractive synths in particular aren’t getting much of a look in. That wasn’t a conscious choice but it’s an interesting thing to discover.