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The Center

By onezero on March 30, 2014 6:05 pm

I had ambitions for this week, and life got complex--including a sudden Sunday afternoon gig popping up, doing a live soundtrack to a Reiki class.  (As soon as I'm done uploading, I'll be packing up and getting down there.)  I wanted to organize my Ableton Live set for this kind of thing, and test out the rig, so this was my at-home soundcheck.  Five tracks of Moog guitar, three of them with 50% ring modulation (110 Hz, 330Hz, and 440Hz), one with 3Hz for tremolo, some filter delay, lotsa reverb (based on the Cathedral preset), and some beat repeat on that modulated one. 

Rather than upload just ambience, I threw together some samples of my Indian drum and a free tabla single-hit library.  Kind of blissed out a bit.  That's ok.

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This huge atmosphere makes me feel blissed out. Great job!

Great raga. Very different from past week! If I understood well you programmed the tabla part? After hearing the piece gives me the impression that is just improvised!

donnyjankowski wrote:

This huge atmosphere makes me feel blissed out. Great job!


Thank you!

Reptuno(?) wrote:

Great raga. Very different from past week! If I understood well you programmed the tabla part? After hearing the piece gives me the impression that is just improvised!


Thanks!  Yes, i programmed them in Ableton live with single hit samples, mostly according to Euclidean Rhythm principles (odd number of hits over an even-beat measure, as evenly spaced as possible). I came up with a few variations I switched between, and that process was largely improvised.

This would be cool to hear in a chill out yoga style class or a really classy massage parlour wink

I like the emptiness in this piece.

Nicely stripped back piece.  Very cool.

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