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Speak, Ye Wiggling Whales

By miraclemiles on January 23, 2022 9:34 pm

Oh boy, week three and already feeling challenged to get something done! To give myself a head start I used a few tracks from an older song, deleted the drums, and played live drums. I keep thinking I'm going to do some mellow tracks. I've learned that what ends up being created in the end may not be what you expected, and that's Ok. Made it so all the synth parts are from the Arturia Mini v3 plugin, their soft-synth version of the mini-Moog. Spent some time trying to make mix work and getting an arrangement down, a process both fun and annoying in ways. Kept some of the vocal tracks I did through a talkbox emulator. Duplicated the drum tracks with some filtered and re-pitched sounds for some flavor.

I'm going to take something from this, probably drums, and share for this weeks Disquiet Junto "Magic Number 1 of 3" project. The first of this years three or four part collaboration project, where the first week you share something with room for others to add more, then in subsequent weeks you build upon what others have done until you have three person track. Fun way to collaborate!

Title of this: some of the vocal stuff I did said "speak," them for some reason I named some of the synth clips "whales", and also this made me wiggle a little.

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That bass synth provides a fun funky groove.  I can see whales wiggling to this for sure.  Lots of great sounds throughout as well.

Lots of incredibly satisfying synth sounds in here, love it.  That collaboration project sounds awesome, looking forward to hearing what comes of it!

*reads the title*
*presses play*
*first sound*

LOL

literally whale sounds, wiggling.  NOT clickbait.

the drums are great!  this has a good live noise-improv jam to it.  noisey but has a nice melodic foundation.

Shit those drums... You have 2 snares?

killer groove man. And all the synths are pretty fun too.

CosmicCairns wrote:

That bass synth provides a fun funky groove.  I can see whales wiggling to this for sure.  Lots of great sounds throughout as well.

Thanks, fun and funky are words I like! Go whales! They need to wiggle!



Chrisfoo wrote:

Lots of incredibly satisfying synth sounds in here, love it.  That collaboration project sounds awesome, looking forward to hearing what comes of it!


Thanks for listening! I'm going to have to use this synth more, it was fun to play with for sure. I'll likely share that Disquiet Junto collaboration track I make as a WB in a few weeks.



orangedrink wrote:

*reads the title*
*presses play*
*first sound*

LOL

literally whale sounds, wiggling.  NOT clickbait.

the drums are great!  this has a good live noise-improv jam to it.  noisey but has a nice melodic foundation.


HA! VALIDATION. I am not crazy for hearing whales then! I was thinking it was kind of clickbait title, but I knew I heard heard whales in there, glad you did too! smile
Noise improv jam is cool description, I totally see that and like it. This was improvised and captured. Didn't set out to do that but it evolved how it wanted. This comment made me smile, thanks.



djippy wrote:

Shit those drums... You have 2 snares?

killer groove man. And all the synths are pretty fun too.


Glad you liked the groove, thanks! I hoped the sense of a "human" played groove would come through.
So right now I'm playing on electronic drums (an Alesis kit with the mesh heads, feels pretty real ... but cymbals do not ... ) and recording both audio and midi into Ableton. Then I can mess about with the midi and change sounds and stuff. Would love to play acoustic drums, but this is what works for both space and noise issues in my current little office/music room. While it has some drawbacks (like hitting rubbery cymbals), its been awesome to have the recording control, and there's some cool features to play with. I never did quite get good at micing up acoustic drums.

miraclemiles wrote:


Glad you liked the groove, thanks! I hoped the sense of a "human" played groove would come through.
So right now I'm playing on electronic drums (an Alesis kit with the mesh heads, feels pretty real ... but cymbals do not ... ) and recording both audio and midi into Ableton. Then I can mess about with the midi and change sounds and stuff. Would love to play acoustic drums, but this is what works for both space and noise issues in my current little office/music room. While it has some drawbacks (like hitting rubbery cymbals), its been awesome to have the recording control, and there's some cool features to play with. I never did quite get good at micing up acoustic drums.

I feel you, drums are tough... I do have some workflows now to work with acoustic drums and OK microphones as well. Room itself takes big part on the sound. It is definitely easier to use e-drums and addictive drums or toontrack to get a "clean" good sounding drum sound.

I do have a roland td11 as well at home and I really am having a struggle to "Feel" the instrument, but this is still very cool.

Really like the way you manage to wrangle all these sounds together into something so fun. I say "wrangle" because I feel like if I tried to do the same it would be an utter mess, but I really enjoyed this!

I love the funky acid bass. Again, the live organic drum really brings life into the track - that beat at 2:00!

The voice based samples are a fun idea, they act like a percussive element - that's an interesting idea. Very original and creative track.


specifically the bit at 1:20 on

really great drumming in here. Alltogether a wild inferno.

Huge drum sound! A bizarre and pleasing universe

that project you linked to looks fun/interesting! 


Some really nice sounds on this one, super fun track, always like the vocoder stuff you put into your tunes

Once again excellent drum grooves.  This was a fun listen.

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