Yaya
By RajaTheResidentAlien on February 13, 2022 7:37 am
YoYo! I made this chill-house song, 'Yaya' mostly in Renoise... decided to try some basics i'd never tried before... Apple makes a janky basic plugin called 'MIDISynth'... i think it just plays sine-tones... i dunno, but it sounded great when pumped through a little bit of Renoise distortion and then into both FabFilter and ValhallaSupermassive reverbs(that's the main pad that starts the song). In addition, i used Aalto and Kaivo plugins for the other synths, and I played guitar, bass, and sang(also took my voice into Logic real quick to use 'vocal transformer' for the formant-shift, then back into Renoise for the cutups).
A friend of mine offered me a commission to make him some chill-house music to help him focus at work(but i don't see myself as an artist who'd enjoy making a whole set of songs that help people stay in their comfort zone... i think we got a problem these days with people just wanting to create playlists for specific purposes(aerobics workouts, driving, meditating, making love, etc.), never branching out into the unfamiliar(who says you can't make love to Iannis Xenakis?? eh??? but if you make a love-making playlist, i bet Xenakis won't be on it cuz people prefer music to conform to their idea of love-making before its even begun, probably out of fear of how their love-making might conform to their idea of music if they don't control the music before doing anything 
)... so i turned the commission down, but told him i'd try to make a few house tracks every now and then for him, anyways, because i don't usually make house, so at least for me personally, this IS braving something outside my comfort zone, hehe 
) <-look at that lengthy explanation go full circle, hahahaha... ok then, hope you enjoy the track 
and here's a vid for it, too, made quickly in Jitter using footage from my car driving on Highway 128 towards the coast(hint: there are less asshole-Mendocino-cops on Highway 128 than on Highway 101 and 1 
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