Fake selfhelp guru (intermission)
By laguna on April 29, 2018 11:58 pm
My best friend suffered a really strong sciatica crisis being on his own, with the rest of his family on holiday. He's been staying at my place since last Thrusday, nursed by me and my mother. Not a lot of time to make music, apart from brief ideas when everybody's sleeping.
That's how I came up with this one: started as an sketch in the superb VCVRack under Linux, then I exported the sketch to Ardour to capture the jam, adding some sort of exxagerated tape saturation (the hissy intro in the beggining).
Since the patch is clocked by a variable lfo in a sequence of 7 steps, I tried to do some more mangling with the sample, this time under a more stable clock. I dumped everything to Renoise and started chopping samples. I was kinda happy with it, but time ran out.
As a last resort, I threw everything into Ableton and performed a few mastering tricks trying to unify this mess. Almost no structure beyond the mere sketch, I know, but I'd love to turn this one into a more advanced groove. Maybe removing some of those mechanical beats and using breaks, instead?
At least this time I think I had a pretty important reason for failing to complete a proper song 
My friend is awoke and he is barely able to walk. Time for his medications. I hope to catch up with the comments and upload some pictures of the patch in a few days.
Have a great week!
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