Astronaut Lullaby
By kevanatkins on January 14, 2024 12:52 pm
Alrighty. Week 2, here we go! I didn't mention in my last post. This year, I'm constraining myself to Logic, which is a DAW I've barely used at all since I'm most familiar with Pro Tools and Ableton. Especially since I've decided not to renew my Pro Tools subscription, and I've tried for many years to get to into Reaper.
As far as the creative side of it, for this year I'm going to try and focus on things like better melody writing, harmony and more traditional forms of arrangement. Kinds of stuff I did, oddly enough before my music degree, but completely pushed aside when I went down the avant garde rabbithole. In previous years, I've kind of just stuck with production and sound art/noise focused stuff which, while fun, also kind of made the ideas feel a bit too throwaway and I never felt compelled to go back and listen to much of it. So it's quite a change if anyone here is familiar with past stuff.
This particular number is a mix of in-the-box and some live instruments, namely drums, bass, guitar and vocals. The vocals were the seed idea and I built from there. They're varispeeded down, which was something I initially had trouble with in Logic until I eventually found the SpeedFX mode of Flex Time. That's very much a relief because I really like varispeeding things. This one was recorded entirely off grid. I thought about doing a tempo map to open some sequencing options/make my life easier, perhaps, but I was in so far, so I just lived without a click on this one.
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