Well, it has been another week... (*^﹏^*)... rough on lots of levels I think. Work has been consuming a lot more of my energy than usual... and you know... <gestures wildly at just all of everything> (.づ◡﹏◡)づ.
But I continue to draw breath, and eat food, and so I made the little buzzy boxes go burr as the blinky lights danced about, and it brings me solace. I'm actually pretty pleased with this weeks track because it feels like real progress in working with hardware. Like it feels like a really productive workflow is coming together. I did have a few extra hours to spend on this weeks (i.e. I started at noon on Saturday, instead of 5pm), but I also spent some time refining some of the sound design elements earlier in the week... and given how time consuming sound design with a modular synth can be, that made a pretty big difference I think.
At any rate I hope this track finds you as well (and, for the northern hemisphere folks, as warm) as is possible. I certainly have found all the music and comments you all are sharing to be a welcome refuge from the various storms of the world right now.
‹ Production Notes
Once again, this is (almost) all hardware multi-tracked into Logic for the final mix down and mastering. Though this week, everything was sequenced and recorded in a single take. I just armed all the tracks pressed record and pushed buttons and turned knobs until the end of the track... then I added the risers and whooshes using Vir2's Phoenix.
The reason for the name, is the whole track started with a patch I put together using Deckard's Voice, which is then sent into a reverse delay, and then into a gritty reverb (both via separate FX Aid modules). One of those happy accidents where I just kinda bumped a slider, and suddenly it sounded like a flute... I kind of built the rest of the sound pallet around that. The bass is again Pizza into Ghost, but I have a single envelope modulating the FM Index, the Ring modulation (in Pizza), and the filter cutoff (in the Ghost). Then I'm sending it into a SCPL, where I have a slow LFO morphing the mid range boost up until it starts to clip. I was a little disappointed though, when I moved everything over to a multi-track session in Logic, because the SCPL clipping sounds MUCH better straight into the mixer, than it does going through the ES-9 (for some reason that I don't understand)... but I guess that's just a reason to progress to the point where I'm recording things in the TASCAM.
The rest of the synth parts are again coming from the Virus TI2, and I had some fun with a few presets that just had a ton of movement to start with, then I played the macros for the performance.
And drums, again the Syntakt... nothing fancy here, and most of the movement and color actually came in the mixing phase with liberal use of MTurboDelay, and MTremoloMB. Driven largely by my disappointment in Overbridge not actually capturing the panning I sequenced into the Syntakt... like it's in the main mix out, but that's not really helpful in my setup. But, I suppose it did lead to me discovering the Space-Time preset in MTurboDelay... and I kind of love it, so, still a win.
I think the production came together much nicer on this one than in previous weeks... though I had planned on using the Oneiroi to get some textural elements, which never materialized. So, I think that might be my next goal for this rig. ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ
