On & Uninspired
By RawTicks on June 21, 2014 3:05 pm
The lack of inspiration hit hard this week. I felt tired and terribly uninspired, had some frustrations not related to music making but which influenced me, and this is what came out of it... Whatever.
It's getting harder each week for me to keep up. I think I have a concept I could apply for the rest of the year that might help me a bit to keep up... more on that on the 27th week.
As for the track itself, beside being uninspired, one of the things I did was that I tried to exploit sidechain compression, expansion and gating on a droney sound with a beat as a source, to modulate the volume of the drone with the beat, and then remove the beat. That was done in Live, but it's not exactly doing what I was thinking when I had the idea. The concept is worth exploring further I think. In modular terms it could be done easily, using a beat as the amplitude modulation source on a VCA, and maybe sending the beat through a slew limiter before the VCA to smooth the waveform a bit, and sending a drone in the VCA input. This will probably be part of my track next week...
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