The M.O.U.S.E.
By jemmons on August 7, 2022 1:52 pm
Off in an AirBNB, so I thought I'd check out some of the Roland Cloud plugins I got with my promo subscription. This is all Juno 6, TB-303, and TR-909 but, like, 5 of each because it’s in a DAW. I'm undecided on the Roland Cloud implementation, generally, but that’s pretty cool!
The title is nonsense. My project name started out as “m-house” because I intended to make a melodic house track before I realized have exactly zero grasp of tenants and strictures of that genre. But by then I already had a preset on the Juno called "Mouse Pad" which I thought was too cute to give up. In the end, the song sounded very un-mouse like, so I made it an acronym because acronyms make everything feel more rock-n-roll.
It was fun working in DAW again, and it was a good chance to remember all the way in which I adore Logic. And this is probably the most controlled and shaped (and therefore, perhaps, the most “me”?) song I've made for Weekly Beats. But it was also a great reminder of the pitfalls associated with perfectionism, how limitless potential can be the enemy, and why the “constraints breed creativity” mantra of the DAW-less world were such a draw to me in the first place.
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