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Is this going to continue into 2025? I had a blast doing it through 2024 and would love to continue.
No, it is every two years.
The track you spent a few hours having FUN with, poured your self and ideas into vs over a prompt or a few cheap clicks means different things for both the listener and it's 'producer'.
Yeah I should say that in any case that I use AI, it’s just as a base/idea generator and I never use any of the generated audio.
I've been using AI for the past year to help with lyrics, and it's been great. Obviously requires some editing to go beyond how generic the results often are, but it's lowering the barrier that I previously had in terms of finding words to sing on my songs.
In the past 6 months or so I've also been experimenting with various music generators as well. Suno is a good one that I've discovered recently - it not only generates music, but also intelligible lyrics and vocal melodies. Of course I often don't use the results directly - it's more like hearing a song on the radio and being inspired to use the chord progression or vocal melody style in a different context. However, it's also fun to get it to generate a stupid song I'd never think of writing and then re-record it using live instrumentation and vocals.. which I have done already this year and plan to continue doing.
A lot of my songs this year will likely be silly little punk/thrash songs and there's no reason why short songs like that can't be seen as legit (cf. Short Music For Short People compilation, Syntax short song comp, You Suffer, etc). It feels absurd saying this as someone who is notorious for creating extended length tracks lol.
I don't think there's any official policing on it, but I just thought I'd create this thread so people who make very short tracks can chime in and feel just as legitimate as those who write longer songs 
First thing I noticed when people started commenting on my track! Would love to be able to reply again 
My initial goal was to make more generative music, mostly using Norns / Orca.. but so far only the first week was an example of that!
I still want to continue with that idea, but also incorporate some other stuff, like going deeper with some of the machines I've had for years and only scratched the surface of:
- Learn how to sequence in the QY70
- Make some really weird/abrasive sounds on the SY22
- Keep going with the Digitone
- Make more Nord Lead only tracks
Also, I really need to finish the sample packs I recorded sounds for last year, and almost more importantly, make demo tracks for them. I'm nearly done on the ARP 2600 pack, which will be appropriate to release soon, considering both Korg and Behringer have made reissues/clones of it!
I've got a lot out of landr this year, even though my weeklybeats tracks have stopped. Do you think we can keep the yearly account going? I'll happily put in some money if enough people want to continue it.
Yeah I'm slack.. I realise that not commenting on tracks also means that others are less likely to comment on mine, but I just can't find the time to listen, which is unfortunate.
Also, I have to say, even though we're only a few months in, I kinda forgot about some of the tracks from earlier in the year. I was going through some WAVs the other day and came across my week 3 track.. when I'm constantly making stuff every week I kinda just move on to the next thing; not sure if that's a good or a bad thing though. Maybe I should just compile all of the similar sounding weeklybeats tracks into one release at the end of the year..
I've missed one week so far. My motivation to submit something here is waning somewhat, as my youtube channel has kinda replaced this as a push for regular creativity (though, that's every two weeks rather than every week). Still, I'll see how long I can keep it up for..
Awesome! Good to see another vlog from you.
Here's mine from this week. A 1-hour track build; the beginning of my "linear music" concept. See description for more information.
Very interesting! I'm gonna look into that module, I love stuff like that.
Mine from this week is not much, but just a little binary trigger/gate sequencer patch I made on my Patchblock..
I'm going to extend it so it perhaps has a secondary output, maybe an inverse signal, or a reversed version of the pattern, or something like that.
Ipaghost wrote:Been meaning to start putting up some videos of my WBs for a while. Is this something people like watching?
Can not speak for all the people but I enjoy it
Here is mine this week. 4 phase shifted LFOs at the helm.
Lovely stuff as usual. I'm super fkn close to caving and putting together a small modular system. I know I keep saying it but I keep putting together cute little setups on modulargrid haha ugh
Somehow messed up the recording this week and only got a mono version
Can't go back or re-record since the patch is already gone. Such is the nature of live recording...
Sounds sweet!
Here's a version of my weekly beat (plus a second piece, made up on the spot) from this week recorded in my garden today:
Lovely track! Nice lush sound design. That setup looks great btw; I like the placement of the three volcas at the top.
Are you using the reface dx here or is it just backdrop? Love that keyboard!
I only used the DX as a controller, in the tutorial video, which was recorded in the same session:
Sounds lush! Some of the sounds remind me of what Autechre were getting out of their Nords in the mid 90s.
Here's my latest one, maxing out a single track on the Digitone..
