Boperator
By onezero on August 31, 2014 5:20 pm
Another one that really fought me. Similar to my piece for week 32 that used different tracks of Ableton's Analog as the only instrument, I thought I'd do one that used Ableton's Operator as the only instrument. There's a lot of possibility for manipulation, but I think I'm less of an additive FM synthesis fan than I am of subtractive analog(ish) synthesis.
I worked on some beats throughout the week, threw them out, and went with some others. I ran into trouble with the melody and pad lines--they seemed too straight-organ-y, but then too FM-y when I added extra voices. In the end, a couple 8-bit voices in the bass worked out, and then I tacked on a coda with the more organ-like stuff.
Does it work? It got a positive review from the kids, so I'm going with it.
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