ArpWorld
By laguna on February 23, 2020 11:55 pm
This one's a little bit rushed, really. Last Thursday I got a little bit sick, so I lost 3 quite productive days not doing much but watching Netflix in the couch (I did really enjoyed Locke and Key though).
On Saturday evening I grabbed my trusty and somewhat "meh" sounding Akai MPC 500 (the little one) and built a simple beat. I started with some squarewaves chiptune-style and went from there.
If anybody out there is using MPCs, I'd really want to know if it's just me or they sound really dull? I mean: I love them, but people often talk about some kind of "magical fairy dust" that hardware samplers make to things and frankly, I always end mastering the thing in Ableton. I had a really good time plugging the thing to my mixing desk and getting the "crunchiest" sound out of it with basic EQ and some guitar pedals (I'll post a daytime picture of my mixing rig for some nerd cred).
Two hours before the deadline I just have a four bar beat with all the squarewave arpeggios, so I cheated like the week before and used the drums as modulation for the melody (with a vocoder). It's kind of a cheap trick and with more time I had maybe combined the clean melodic tracks with it's "vocoded" version.
Anyway, I alternated some sections in and out, found a quite interesting FM pad for Ableton's operator and finished within the last fifteen minutes. Of course, I feel it could have better mastering and more development, though I think it's somewhat acceptable. Please let me know if I messed up on the mix.
Now I'm going straight to bed. Tired ears and tired body.
Have a great 7 days, Weeklybeats family!!!
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