WINTER WANDER
By PeterM on February 4, 2024 4:06 pm
This week's song was inspired by a winter walk in the forest near my home. I could hear the wind blowing through the trees and could almost hear what sounded like soft flutes playing in the overtones. There were a few birds chirping in the trees and it sounded like a sort of synth arpeggio line. And then a large raven landed in a tall tree and played an epic guitar solo that filled the forest with rich wailing tones. And the whole time, I never missed a stride.
Although that is a true story, what actually happen this week was quite different ...
I started with a recording I made of a walk in the woods in the snow. I thought I would try to focus on building a song with just an arpeggio line and no drums. I was really struggling with this to get a pattern that I liked and to keep it interesting. The real breakthrough came when I lost an afternoon's worth of work by not saving and then having my M8 crash when I unplugged the USB. So I started again.
The second time through, I found a more interesting pattern and some OK pads. I liked the bass sounds I made and the arpeggio line was better. I was messing with randomly changing the oscillator on each note of the arps with the wavesynth engine and it started sounding a bit like an electric guitar. Since I didn't really have a plan for where to take the building energy in the song, I though, "why not a guitar solo?" I was also kinda influenced by a conversation with my daughter where I was telling her how songs used to have guitar solos in them when I was growing up. So, there you have it!
Besides the walking sample and the flutey pads, the sounds are all M8 internal synths (wavesynth, macrosynth and FM).
If you made it this far, thanks, and if you have any feedback, good or bad, I'd love to hear it.
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