Dance of Leaves
By onezero on November 2, 2014 4:19 pm
Unlike other weeks, I didn't have any specific idea for this track, so I played around a bit with some beats during the week to see if something would emerge. Initially I had some processed grand piano ambiance over it and some acid bass, but at the last minute I put down some baritone guitar that gave me a more interesting set of hooks and grooves, so threw out the other tracks. (That murky piano's kind of compelling, though--I'll try to use that in the future.) We have three tracks of baritone (two for rhythm/lead and one for basslines), all of them straight into Live, with an added return channel of slight frequency shift for fake tape wow and simple delay (3 and 5) for atmosphere.
Six (!) percussion tracks: two real drum kit (through subtle Saturator), 606, 808 (a couple downbeats at the beginning and end, and nothing else), K3M, and hand claps. That seems like a lot, but it seems to work as a nice blend. Some beat-repeat on a return channel for micro-fills. Two different reverbs, panned mid-left and mid-right; let's see if that makes things disorienting. (Probably not.)
One track of pads, which I came up with by playing with different Lemur controller instruments. The swirly one was the hex pads, just sweeping two fingers up and down in the right keys. The more random ones were me hitting the hex pads randomly. The steadier pads were sometimes the rotating sequencer, and sometimes the vector instrument, edited down to make it less dissonant.
Title because the wistfulness of the track reminds me of the blowing leaves of autumn, which we have now.
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