W16 - 4_13_26 Monsters + 4_14_26 (2 songs)
By ENC_ on April 19, 2026 7:04 pm
Almost forgot to upload. Will have to write documentation later.
(Late Documentation)
AL worked on new Zine. Ate out while walking. Vaccine appointment. Got 3. Arms sore and feeling sick for a few days. In law house ready for construction but not temporary housing. Not sure if they would spend the night. Sorted it due to kind landlord (who'd of thought) and moved in instead. Helped setup them set up apartment. Ate dinner at market place. Helped KB setup new art school venture. Rode bike to the new rented space helped build easels and tables. Talked about wives, cars, and life. Hurt back by helping and later playing with sample SK-1 keyboard on the floor. Managed to sort it before got worse. Construction happening above. Confirms neighbor has moved out. Rumored health problems (by older downstairs neighbors) confirmed may not be able to self care for anymore. Brunch at local dinner and dropped off e-waste w/ K&T. Browsed by looking at shopping center. Looked for tool box at hardware stores. Could not find any good ones.
Picked up in-laws and had family gathering. Al's mom's birthday dinner at hotpot place stopped by farmers market and took her to massage. Took walk in neighborhood. talked with friends about Coachella performances and how to integrate some ideas live for Delorean Overdrive. Thinking of what to do for wife's b-day. Want to disassemble Delorean Overdrive live patch to use modular freely again. Need to document patch properly before doing so. Like to review verbalized poem recorded when driving back home previously. Looking at E-ink displays to show photos in apartment.
Late writing. Don't remember details well. Had to ask AL for reminders (4/24/26).
Media Consumed: Modulations (1998), I Dream of Wires (2014), 30 Rock, Coachella Replay - NIN (nine inch Noize), Chris Cunningham music videos, Joy Division music videos, David Bowie live clips, Randy Newman - Short People video, 808 State music videos, Madonna music videos, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92, Na Púcaí - Space Dimension Controller, MachineDrum - Room(s), Phuture - Acid Tracks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (re-watch), 7 (re-watch), 8, 9 (re-watch), 10, 11*, 12*, 13, 14*, 15*, 16* (re-watch w/ AL), 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
Gear Used:
[4_14_26]
Roland TR-8
Elektron Analog Heat Mk.i
Software Used:
[Monsters]
Ableton
Fors Opal (kick drum)
TAL-J-8
Sound-Toys Decapitator
TAL-Chorus
Inphonik RX950
Izotope Ozone 10
[4_14_26]
Reason Studios ReCycle
Audacity (quick sample edit)
Ableton (sample Processing)
Blackhole 2
Renoise
Inphonik RX950
Full Bucket Music Furry800
Tal-J-8
TAL-BASSLine-101
Plogue Chipsounds
Sound-Toys Decapitator
ALM QuaidraVerb
Moog MF-104s
Monsters - Originally created to try a resampled sampled bass technique described by MachineDrum. Used technique in the past but thought it was worth review. Exploring using sampling for synth tones more lately. Scrubbing starting point allows for interesting varied results. Wanted to try integrating less synthetic sounds and more complex chords. Trying to expand music theory skills. Originally longer song. Remembered, The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell's section on subtractive problem solving studies. Removed unneeded layers and shortened song down to most interesting part.
4_14_26 - Sampled borrowed TR-8 to make new library of sounds. Already have 808 and 909s samples so tried to add more processed version to mix it up. Ran through Analog Heat. YTer/podcaster (can't remember who) off handedly mentioned ReCycle being free and available for modern apple computers. Tried it out to automate sampling. Life changing. Shortened workload by several hours. Tested samples in Renoise. Test became full song. Wanted to add some breaks. Found a Apache break cover via tabla instead of congas/bongos. Sampled via Blackhole 2. Processed and chopped in Ableton. Made growl sample at the same time w/ operator. Learned how track sends work in Renoise. Stacked vsts and sends on drums. Pulling from Selected ambient works drum production (just a kind in his bedroom). Messy. Found polyphony bug when using ADSR modulators on samples. Fine for test song.
File Names: 4_13_26 Monsters, 4_14_26 Sounds and breaks (Ableton), 4_14_26 (Renoise),
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