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By dancramp on February 4, 2024 5:43 pm

Something a bit different for me this week. No m8, all iOS using Cubasis, Senode, Pure Piano and Crudebyte Oriental Strings. I created a set of pentatonic scale runs in 5/4 time in Senode and ran 3 emitters through it - one at double speed and an octave higher, one as intended and the last at half speed an octave lower. 5 scale runs created - one for each note of the scale. The emitter would go through the scale run then go to another root note from the runs at random and repeat.

It’s created some nice textures, the different speeds creating a bit of a pull between 4/4 and 4/5. I then recorded the output into Cubasis, doubling each emitter and using that to trigger Pure Piano and Oriental Strings. I the. Put a fade in on the strings and made a couple of edits to the midi where I felt it would sound better slightly different.

I wanted to do something a bit ethereal and kinda incidental movie sound. I’m not sure I’ve achieved that and I would probably make further changes but I’m happy with it.

Beautiful! Really interesting to hear about your workflow. I’ve tried making music on iOS myself but never committed fully to it. Might give it a shot later this year smile

cortx wrote:

Beautiful! Really interesting to hear about your workflow. I’ve tried making music on iOS myself but never committed fully to it. Might give it a shot later this year smile


Thanks! Yeah, I've been collecting a lot of iOS music stuff - synths, DAWs, midi generators and effects, but I don't manage to do much with them. I'm loving the m8 in general for it's workflow and ease with which you can put stuff together. It feels like a lot of iOS stuff is kinda a port of a desktop, just harder to use with fingers... They sound great though, maybe I can start integrating both of them!

Very pretty, the strings bring to mind a faraway land.
- Spider

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