free
By ilzxc on March 8, 2026 10:53 pm
NANOLOOP 2 | FORS OPAL | FORS DYAD
no samples; process-based "speedtrash" (made in single session, performing the following steps in order):
0. recorded nano loop bass + pads into octatrack
1. recorded nanoloop octatrack samples thru chase bliss lost+found pedal
2. dyad drums -- kept making patters until one sounded like a kick/snare pattern
3. opal: randomized sounds, patterns, until stumbled onto something that seemed to go w/ the dyad bit
4. settled on a minimum number of patterns necessary
5. removed 3 dyad patterns and 2 opal patterns
6. went thru instruments one-at-a-time -- essentially treating each as a solo piece
7. checked mix & eased up on the saturation, since these are not solo pieces (heh)
8. bounced all voices separately (note -- not allowed to edit voices after this step)
9. mix & master, no breaks
all steps explicitly pre-planned except for (5)--pattern removal; and (7)--desaturating the mix. the goal was to make sounds fast, listen to the mix as little as possible, maximize work on one-voice-at-a-time, and accept the results.
called it "free" because I was free to invent a process and then was not free within this process but that's the point so asserting -- "free."
in other news, @gesceap has a new record out -- it's called RESELECTOR and it's really good, and there's also an ilzxc remix on there. there's also 3 other remixes, all of which are excellent, so you should probably listen to those, too. oh and the record itself is really good -- I've listened to it so much that the only track I finished while working on the remix folks said sounded like gesceap.
anyway, my remix is analog rytm (mk2) for the drums and the rest is m8-controlled FORS.FM instruments because that's the focus for now at least and it was kinda hard to make because Ableton latency sucks when sequencing stuff w/ hardware...
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