A Game Within A Game
By mattnida on January 31, 2014 2:24 pm
Once again, more of a technical exercise this week than a fully-fldged tune.
One of my ambitions this year is to master the Korg Wavestation (or at least the VST plugin, which is functionally identical to the hardware even down to the squint-inducing interface and the need to constantly save EVERYTHING all the same before you move between pages). I'm not ashamed to say that I'm on a bit of a 90s new age tip at the moment, and I quite like the idea of using the Wavestation to make "one finger tropical rainforests", as I've heard them described.
Anyway, to that end, this track is a single patch (or "performance") in the Wavestation plugin, running in a single instance in a single channel of Ableton. All the drums, pads, etc have been spread across the octaves of a single keyboard, so they're all playable at once. All effects* are in the patch (minus a bit of extra EQ at the end).
It's plastic as hell but I'm quite pleased with it. Definitely more to come from this machine.
* The Wavestation's effects infrastructure is absolutely hellish. Need to get my head around that one better.
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