Economy of thought
By Continuous Nonlinearities on May 31, 2026 11:40 pm
I think this is a track that I should come back to and work on more in depth. This is not a statement about this being incomplete or a comment on quality, just that I think there's more that can be done with it and I've only got a limited amount of time. I can feel that something else but it hasn't been grasped yet. Maybe at some point.
I've been taunting myself with ideas of new gear all week (all the last few weeks, really, though amped up this week) but acquired nothing. I have new gear I need to develop my relationship with already, anyway!
Of my new gear, I spent a bit of time learning more about how I can use my 20% More, which finds its way in here on two almost-hard panned guitar tracks with squeals and birdsongs and occasional hard gating, run into my even newer Parting and Dark Star for air and flight, and controlled by the Conflict of Interest for birdsong/squeal melody. Seems a good combo.
Less Pulsar-23 this week, it made it in as a somewhat-hidden bass line (while the main sequenced bass pattern is Prophet 6). I've been thinking about midi and wanted to actually *play* its bass module with a keyboard, but I don't have any midi mergers so it's either sequencing or keyboard control. But I have resolved myself and decided I must get a midi router/merger/utility all-in-one magic box, and have been studying my options. This is one of my new gear ideas that has taunted me, in part as an alternative to Getting Yet Another Keyboard When I Have So Many Keyboards And There Is A Desktop Option That Costs Much Less. But utility builds on itself and becomes a monster where I say "But if I get this, then I can do this too, and then maybe I could do this, and maybe" and then one little thing gets 3x the cost added in accessories to Build the System. It will almost definitely happen.
The special guest this week is the Ensoniq ESQ-1, making the pads and ethereal bell-like sounds, which were kind of an accident - I had a pattern sequenced from ages ago that started playing that part when I started my sequencing, but it worked. It has a certain chill to it that is interesting. There seems to have been a auto-panning set in the sound that I was not expecting. So it is what it is.
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