Emotional Damage (semi-improvised piano session)
By jegasus on April 28, 2024 10:45 pm
Hello hello, welcome back to my weird little corner of the internet!
This week was another crappy & stressful work week, which drained a lot of my energy to create at all. This also really hampered my stamina to listen to ANY other submissions this past week, so my apologies to unanswered comments and unlistened tracks.
And to top it off, when trying to work this week's submission on Saturday afternoon, it looked like my M8 had bit dust. I think the M8 has come back to life since then, but I'm a bit too worried about claiming victory just yet. I'm keeping a close eye on it for now. Thankfully, there was an electronics shop nearby where I could pickup a Teensy micro controller for $30 and flash the M8 Headless firmware onto it to just get me through the weekend.
Given that my main music-making tool was possibly kaputt, I switched things up a bit. Before the M8 died, I had created a super basic loop using sounds from this hilarious video from Seven He.
So I rendered the loop's stems, moved them onto Reaper and started improvising on the keyboard using the Dark Grand preset from this Echo Sound pack for the Vital synth. Side note: Vital is super cool! If you're into synth VSTs and haven't checked it out, go do that now! It's free!!!
Anyways, I spent a lot of time just jamming and improvising some one-hand melodies (I can't play piano/keyboard for real) and found some cool sounds. After finishing the improv session, I went back and quantized everything and moved a few notes around to make it sound more cohesive. Which is why I'm calling this semi-improvised. It was improvised, but there was a lot of scrubbing later on =P
The basic "emotional damage" loop gets really old really quick, but I didn't have time to come up with variations of it and I can feel a migraine coming on, so I didn't want to push it.
Hopefully this coming will be less stressful. Wishful thinking, I know... Hahahahah...
Peace, folks!!!
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