trial run
By Q-Rosh on April 14, 2024 9:35 pm
The new SP404 update this week took me some deep divings, to find out how to use the new features. I really like the Roland SP404, but I have to remember the shortcuts and keep the samples in order. I wanted to copy and delete all the programs and pads and start again with a clean fresh machine. In this case it was very timeconsuming, because I wanted to check everything before deleting it. It was already friday, when I started to find an idea for this weekly beat. It became an ambient drone with clicks and cuts in the mix. It had a vinyl static feel to it, but it is not comparable with the polycarbonate version I was doing with this song as well. (Listen to Wilcox raw cats!) But something still was missing. By chance I stumbled over a recording, that I recently did with a friend. He came around to show me his new guitar, which should be a Les Paul and a Stratocaster in one instrument. He played some short ideas and used several switch positions, looking for the right sound. You can hear it clicking in the recording. It is not me playing the guitar, but I really like it, the way he does, so I ask for his OK to release the material. (it would have been lost in a sea of data on my HDD!) It was not his intention to show his skills, while testing, but something awesome came out of his new guitar. I was surprised how sensitive he could control his brand new instrument. Not only he sounds like 3 guitars at once, the bassline, the rhythm and the melody, he also can create an ambience between melancholy and a confident mood. I liked the recording I did by accident and mixed it over my ambient drone.
I thank Aris very much for this nice tones and congratulations, he is a happy daddy for a few weeks now!!!
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