Caterer
By onezero on May 8, 2022 11:42 pm
Some unexpected turns this week: I noticed that the power cable for my Focusrite A/D was frayed, with bare wires. Turns out, that replacement part is out of stock everywhere, as is the nearest Novation/Focusrite equivalent. So I ordered a generic one with the same specs (12VDC, 1A, center+) while I work something out, whether that's from Focusrite, or a retailer that gets one in or something.
Except...the backup adapter's arrival was delayed from Friday to Saturday, and then to late Sunday. So this week's track is entirely in the box, with no physical instruments. (Finally I did get it, and it does work!)
Having come up with some vaguely funky, but weird and slow drum parts, I went several rounds before finding decent instrumental voices to go with them. Having attended an Ableton meetup a few weeks ago, one local composer demonstrated how he likes to drop samples into Simpler and turn them into something they're not: melodic samples can be easily modulated into drums; drum hits can have a very short segment looped into a tonal instrument. So I went that way for a couple instruments.
Drums: 64 Pad Kit Rock, though with a touch of Corpus (membrane) for extra weird resonance. And, of course, the usual Max Humanizer.
Simpler: one floor tom sample with a short segment looped for bass, and one bowed/rubbed xylophone sample, for the vocal-sounding line.
Electric piano: E-Piano MkII Old.
Collision: High Pad.
Everything but the drums got auto-pan.
Sends: one Echo plugin, one convolution reverb, and one Valhalla Supermassive.
The title comes from the number 436 being in the Lazy Caterer's Sequence, but that sounds a bit pejorative. (Shouldn't it be the efficient caterer?)
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