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Challenger XI: Work Without Ears

By angellis on September 25, 2022 11:04 pm

So this week I decided to compose a track on my phone with no sound. Just worked visually in caustic and exported hoping for the best. I was interstate and was thinking about what would be a fun challenge. Patches were selected purely by the name and watching the vu to guess the attack and release. Levels were pure guess work, same as the ducking compression.

For what it is, I think it worked out ok.

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I'd say it worked well enough.
- Devieus

impossible good hits.

haha, thats a fun idea, to make a whole track without listening to it. Considering that I think you did a great job. In VCV rack I will sometimes spend a huge chunk of time working without listening, just setting up logic, then have a second session actually playing with it and seeing what it sounds like.

Wonderful piece. These ASMR triggering beats paired with these leads and pads were a brilliant combination.

Devieus wrote:

I'd say it worked well enough.
- Devieus

Pure fluke I have to say. If I had chosen the drum samples rather than complete kits who knows what kind of mess this would have been!


Q-Rosh wrote:

impossible good hits.


Thanks!


PieBaron wrote:

haha, thats a fun idea, to make a whole track without listening to it. Considering that I think you did a great job. In VCV rack I will sometimes spend a huge chunk of time working without listening, just setting up logic, then have a second session actually playing with it and seeing what it sounds like.


Experimenting is almost more fun than actually composing sometimes! I really should get VCV Rack. It looks fun but also such a rabbit hole. How do you find the end result? Do you go back and re-tweak or just live with the choices and build from there?


dr0ptpacket wrote:

Wonderful piece. These ASMR triggering beats paired with these leads and pads were a brilliant combination.


Thanks! Didn't know the percussion would be like that until I bounced it. Was extremely happy with that part of it. Its an idea I wouldn't have thought of doing, but the guess paid off!

angellis wrote:


Experimenting is almost more fun than actually composing sometimes! I really should get VCV Rack. It looks fun but also such a rabbit hole. How do you find the end result? Do you go back and re-tweak or just live with the choices and build from there?

It is indeed a rabbit hole, I find it so expressive! I usually just record a few sessions and pick out my favourite segment(s) and comp them together with some amateur mastering in ableton live

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PieBaron wrote:
angellis wrote:


Experimenting is almost more fun than actually composing sometimes! I really should get VCV Rack. It looks fun but also such a rabbit hole. How do you find the end result? Do you go back and re-tweak or just live with the choices and build from there?

It is indeed a rabbit hole, I find it so expressive! I usually just record a few sessions and pick out my favourite segment(s) and comp them together with some amateur mastering in ableton live

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