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VlolilolV

By RajaTheResidentAlien on August 16, 2022 11:14 pm

made this one quickly so i could head out of town on a road trip for a bit, been dying to go(but last week had some extra stuff to take care of, then got lost in producing that old-timey track for last week's beat).
for this one, i made a max patch cobbled together from older patches(also, with aalto loaded as a vst plugin within the same patch... decided to try some aalto presets i never tried, too: 'Analog S+H Crystals'(from the standard 'pads' folder) and 'FM Plonk'(from the 'richard devine' folder) big_smile)...
I wasn't sure if I liked that, so then i went into Renoise, and worked on some beats for a bit, but there too, even though it was 4/4, when increasing lines-per-beat from the default '4' to '8' i got lost in some weird rhythmic division within the bar(probably something like a cycle consisting of 9/8 followed by 7/8)...
finally, started playing the recording/soundfile of the max patch from my desktop(just within Finder), and playing Renoise back at the same time to see if they'd combine... they didn't really, but then i started to scroll around, plus start and stop irregularly in Renoise to make the playback jump around causing the beat to get truly uneven... i felt that made the two go together much better; didn't want to bother routing interapp audio(from finder to renoise), so i just used the 'Screenflow' screencapture app to capture the result. learned you can add audio effects within the 'Screenflow' video-editor(i chose 'Cathedral' setting for its reverb lol ...plus tried apple's standard AU PeakLimiter and their EQ and lopass...)... realized i probably should master it more clearly(probably lopassed it too much by the end), so i took the output audio file from Screenflow into Logic for a final pass at mastering(FabFilter: Q3, MB, C2, L2). In total took me about 2.5 hours, but it actually turned out longer and more interesting than expected(even if the lopass and compression is still drastic lol) smile

here's the max patch, it comes in two parts...
first, an encapsulated version of the 'sinc function' patch i referred to in my older track called 'Tøø$trange' from week26, you have to save this one specifically named as

› SincGrain

and with the above patch located in the same folder as this next one, you can save this as any name you'd like, i just called it

› SincGrainPlay


...when saved from within max, it should add the '.maxpat' extension to each of these files... then you just close and reopen that second 'SincGrainPlay' patch and with the other in the same folder, it should load it up as an abstraction properly(also, i created the abstraction pretty quickly and the argument/attribute titled 'pitch' would probably be better named 'frequency' XD... just letting you know in case you feel like working with it beyond this patch big_smile)

And that's about it! (really hope this description/upload goes ok, i might not be around on Sunday to check.. will edit later if not.. at least the mp3 will be up)

Thanks for being you
Staying pure and true
To the weeklybeats voodoo
This is how we do
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Audio works licensed by author under:
CC0 Creative Commons Zero (Public Domain)

August 22, 2022 5:15 am

Ipaghost

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August 22, 2022 7:41 pm

2haf

I'm all about that brooding low-key sense of unease in my music, sign me up fam. Love it. Enjoy the roadtrip!!

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August 22, 2022 10:41 pm

license

palindromically spooky!

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August 22, 2022 11:18 pm

ilzxc

I like that there's another Fabfilter enthusiast here, 'cuz I opened your max patches for Earthshine (and other tunes) the Fabfilter vst~ objects "just worked" (except that I don't have MB authorized, 'cuz my workflow's obsessive multi tracking instead of MB compression). I should use other things.

Secondly, what a groove this is -- the beginning noise is all sorts of desolate, but really enjoyed the lighter side of the sound design here -- unmistakably Raja all the way through.

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August 23, 2022 3:21 am

Jason Nijjer

Enjoy your trip, where are you going?  Lots of layers of sound to unravel on this one, gets your attention from the opening drone and rewards with all the intricate percolating bleeps and blips.

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August 23, 2022 1:29 pm

Q-Rosh

very experimental textures but tasteful and enjoyable to listen to. well done.

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August 23, 2022 3:34 pm

mzunguko

another one, just listening along doing some work and it was over, could listen for much longer.

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August 23, 2022 10:08 pm

Cosmic Cairns

A really cool sonic journey.  Lots of awesome textures.

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August 24, 2022 3:35 am

ViridianLoom

Sounds like I'm receiving a strange message from the depths of space, what's out there? An alien named Raja perhaps? wink

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August 25, 2022 7:45 am

Kedbreak136

The little blip here and there sound like elevator noise when you reach a floor. With the low continuous layer, the deep kicks and the weird other sounds, it makes for a very strange journey. In an elevator. In a very high building. In a very worrying place. Like taking the elevator in a cyclopean tower in R'lyeh.

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August 26, 2022 6:38 pm

RajaTheResidentAlien

Ipaghost wrote:

2haf wrote:

I'm all about that brooding low-key sense of unease in my music, sign me up fam. Love it. Enjoy the roadtrip!!

license wrote:

palindromically spooky!

ilzxc wrote:

I like that there's another Fabfilter enthusiast here, 'cuz I opened your max patches for Earthshine (and other tunes) the Fabfilter vst~ objects "just worked" (except that I don't have MB authorized, 'cuz my workflow's obsessive multi tracking instead of MB compression). I should use other things.

Secondly, what a groove this is -- the beginning noise is all sorts of desolate, but really enjoyed the lighter side of the sound design here -- unmistakably Raja all the way through.

Jason Nijjer wrote:

Enjoy your trip, where are you going?  Lots of layers of sound to unravel on this one, gets your attention from the opening drone and rewards with all the intricate percolating bleeps and blips.

Q-Rosh wrote:

very experimental textures but tasteful and enjoyable to listen to. well done.

mzunguko wrote:

another one, just listening along doing some work and it was over, could listen for much longer.

CosmicCairns wrote:

A really cool sonic journey.  Lots of awesome textures.

ViridianLoom wrote:

Sounds like I'm receiving a strange message from the depths of space, what's out there? An alien named Raja perhaps? wink

Kedbreak136 wrote:

The little blip here and there sound like elevator noise when you reach a floor. With the low continuous layer, the deep kicks and the weird other sounds, it makes for a very strange journey. In an elevator. In a very high building. In a very worrying place. Like taking the elevator in a cyclopean tower in R'lyeh.

You all are too kind, thank you so much! heart

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August 26, 2022 6:40 pm

RajaTheResidentAlien

Jason Nijjer wrote:

where are you going?


(almost lost this one in the shuffle) i took a drive up the pacific coast highway, all the way to Klamath in Northern California, hiked around random beach spots, slept in the car, and just kept driving mostly big_smile

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August 26, 2022 7:11 pm

miraclemiles

More appearing behind every door, there's mystery hidden within

hope you had a good vacation, Love No Cal, I'm up in WA. I dig your notes on process, nice.

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August 27, 2022 12:26 pm

gesceap

I like that this can't be reproduced again.

The jumpy drums do work

Uneasy, uncomfortable, thank you

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August 28, 2022 7:59 pm

emily

what a fantastic adventure!  hope you are having one this weekend!

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August 30, 2022 11:40 pm

mnapoleon

the galaxy is a big place

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September 3, 2022 2:27 am

Tone Matrix

This was an inspiring listen to totally zone out to.  The whole spooky uneasy feeling really adds to the track.  It has a really organic sound like I'm sitting out by a pond listening to electronic frogs communicating smile  In other words, cinematic!

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September 4, 2022 12:51 am

RajaTheResidentAlien

miraclemiles wrote:

More appearing behind every door, there's mystery hidden within

hope you had a good vacation, Love No Cal, I'm up in WA. I dig your notes on process, nice.

gesceap wrote:

I like that this can't be reproduced again.
The jumpy drums do work
Uneasy, uncomfortable, thank you

emily wrote:


what a fantastic adventure!  hope you are having one this weekend!

mnapoleon wrote:

the galaxy is a big place

Tone Matrix wrote:

This was an inspiring listen to totally zone out to.  The whole spooky uneasy feeling really adds to the track.  It has a really organic sound like I'm sitting out by a pond listening to electronic frogs communicating smile  In other words, cinematic!

Thank You All, glad to hear it remained fresh and exciting big_smile

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September 4, 2022 9:23 am

fc

Fascinating use of Finder - the latest and greatest DAW from Apple, a sure replacement for Logic. Seriously though, this is fantastic. Both in the creation process but also the aesthetic output. Great job.

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