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Of Times and Places Long Forgotten

By scottux on March 9, 2014 10:12 pm

Gear: OP-1, Korg Volca Beats, Logic Pro
Ideas going in: I picked up a new piece of kit this week, and I was more than eager to try it out in a new WeeklyBeats, so I made this song around the assorted drum patterns I'd invented on the Korg over the two days after I bought it.
Reflection afterwards: The Volca Beats is awesome, but it definitely has a very characteristically unique and not always appropriate sound. I actually found it difficult to find sounds on the OP-1 that I thought would match with the analog thumpings of the little black box I'd become so enamored with. I think this reverb heavy synthy/brassy mix (a very stripped down, three instrument arrangement, which I generally don't try out too often) sounds good to your ears. I'm worried I got a little too excited with the reverb or the side-chained compressor, so let me know what you think. ALSO! I am pretty sure I didn't mix this loud enough overall, so turn up before you listen!

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March 11, 2014 9:04 am

Tone Matrix

i like those opening chords a lot and the melody throughout is suhweet.  the only volume thingy i noticed was the intro was a tad louder than the rest of the track.  love that main synth brass sound though smile

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March 11, 2014 9:38 pm

sinewave

+1 on those opening chords, was fun to guess where it was gonna go after that. Many nice ideas in here...did it all go into the op-1 and then mastering in logic? Did you use album or separate the tracks in logic?

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March 13, 2014 10:40 pm

scottux

sinewave wrote:

+1 on those opening chords, was fun to guess where it was gonna go after that. Many nice ideas in here...did it all go into the op-1 and then mastering in logic? Did you use album or separate the tracks in logic?

I actually recorded the entire song, sans drums to album in OP-1 and exported the album to Logic from there. Then, playing along with the progression I'd already defined on the OP-1, I jumped between saved sequences on the Volca Beats.

Tone Matrix wrote:

i like those opening chords a lot and the melody throughout is suhweet.  the only volume thingy i noticed was the intro was a tad louder than the rest of the track.  love that main synth brass sound though smile

Dude, I didn't know if the song was gonna make it until I found those chords. As for the volume, yeah, I got a little too excited with the side-chained compressor, and it just ended up keeping the OP-1 track down the entire song. I'm gonna put a new version of this song up on Soundcloud soon.

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March 14, 2014 12:13 pm

cTrix

Really enjoying this mate.  I can't believe the amazing stuff people track on the OP-1.  Fun times!  (do you use this on public transport by any chance?)

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March 14, 2014 2:55 pm

Techmonkey

One thing I love about all your tracks so far is that they just catch the perfect moods the titles allude to. Really nice track. Very cinematic and full sounding.

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March 16, 2014 9:56 pm

scottux

cTrix wrote:

Really enjoying this mate.  I can't believe the amazing stuff people track on the OP-1.  Fun times!  (do you use this on public transport by any chance?)


Caltrain, yeah, but work bus is usually where I do a lot of my writing.

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November 4, 2014 3:06 pm

laguna

Fits quite perfectly, IMHO! Great track!!!

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