Fuzzy feeling
By laguna on March 1, 2026 11:59 pm
Good things : This week I understood a thing or two about chords, improved my own RaspberryPi-based MIDI router and came out with some quite decent synth phrases
Bad Things : I didn't knew what to do with them.
I build this 12 bar loop using the Novation Mininova and played my TB303 clone over it, though I could not match the levels. Everything struggled with everything in the mix.
Although I use the vocoder many times to create movement, this time I modulated the main synth motive because all the different elements were recorded a little "offbeat" (because of MIDI latecy?), so if I used a beatbox over the ostinatto, I could hide the misaligment.
The beat used for modulation is not the one you actually hear. It was too heavy on the snare and a little bit boring. I was lucky to find some 808 beats on my personal archive (after trying a lot of grooves).
I had to play a lot with the 303 timing. Maybe my MIDI router is not working that well? No time for an A/B test, of course (this is Weeklybeats).
So here you have it. The arrangement is nothing to write home about, but I run out of ideas.
I hope you have a great week full of musical inspiration 
All I wished was a sparse synth track
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