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roland exercise

By Q-Rosh on February 18, 2024 1:10 pm

this one-take jam on a Roland Juno 60, Groovebox MC303, Spaceecho RE150 and the R8 was made around December 23 with my old dusty and hissing Fostex mixer, I did not use for 25 years. The track has some good moments, has qualityproblems for sure, is 100% spontaneous and was made without further intentions. Listening back I heared a 80-90-00ies vibe in this, what seems to be no wonder, cause the instruments were all very well known in thoses days. Furthermore I liked the smooth groove, beeing surprised, I was doing suddenly groovy movements, a kind of exercise for me. maybe you feel it too.
I made the decision to load it up like it is, more as an oldschool-exercise-music from a tapecassette, than high fidelity contemporary digital beats. I did reduce the soundrange even more with my recordlathe version, I uploaded as wilcox-rawcats.

This does feel a bit different from some of your other sonic excursions, but it's a pleasantly smooth ride.  It really settles into a nice little groove and just goes.  The tones are soothing and nostalgic.  A rewarding trip for sure.

It doesn't sound bad at all. Reading the description I was thinking that you might have find some cleaning plugin before sending this but if it is just taking the original and transfer it to digital world, it is good as it is. Hi-Fi is overrated! smile

I always wanted one of those 90s grooveboxes.  I like the lil arps that get introduced and have this sort of fluttering effect to them.  Oooh and the sorta scale-ride you do halfway thru is neato smile  Interesting to hear your style coming thru these cool pieces of gear.

A smooth groove indeed. big_smile Love the unique blend of timbres on display here. Nice work!

The R8 was a drum machine I always wanted to try.  I really like drum machines and trying to push them to their extremes.  This is a playful little journey of grooves and melodies.

Funny you mentioned Roland too as I updated my os a couple of week ago and I only found out that my ROLAND usb to midi adapter no longer works damn it.  Hah.

I was bobbin' my head to this while working on my taxes and completely forgot I was listening to WB, just thought I was dialing straight into the cosmos with this one. Thumbs up!

Very cool, digging the little panned stabs in my headphones.  Lots of wild spacial stuff going on.

It must be nice to get to play to an old insrtrument you have not used for years. It's like sitting down for a coffee with an old friend. Even though it's a synth and not a guitar, you get some great organic tones from this track. I like the moogish sounds it sometimes produces. It feels like the track is alive, which I guess is a benefit of playing live and recording. There is a lot of variety of sounds as well, from the percussive to the smooth. That's a nice machine!

i really enjoyed this and the first 2min are super strong. the sound design is really complex and layered and intricate with keeps me very engaged. I think there is a nice tension to it being improvised that comes through. it reminds me a bit of Can in that way (RIP Damo). The last couple of minutes are really chill and nice as well, beautiful way to land the plane. great track, favorited!

really nice outcome for a single take jam, the panning sounds great in headphones

like that vintage tone you were able to achieve here

Great exercise of the old gear. Cool you broke those machines out and made this. I'm enjoying the result, lots of details popping out. Feels like walking in the park in the evening experience for me, looking up at some stars starting to emerge.

Absolutely love the sound of this, era of music that was so important and influential to me, everything has such a warm sound to it, love how you create that warm sound from these otherwise cold machines.

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