This project started out in Ableton Note with the two plucky synth sounds you hear at the beginning. I actually started composing this track on my iPhone late one night. I had not worked on music all day and I had the choice to either go to sleep or just put in 15 minutes. I only had my AirPods on me at the time so I even had some distracting latency to deal with, but I am really glad I started my track that way. I eventually moved to the iPad where I had more screen real estate to play out the pad parts. I also tried something interesting with the drums and percussion. I composed the beat in one drum rack in one scene and on one track, adding a percussive element to each of the sixteen pads in the App. Then I copied that beat to each scene and deleted elements so two were in each scene. I listened to the track this way and it was somewhat helpful to see how individual components of the beat worked with the overall song, but my real goal was to move into my main DAW and break out the individual elements to their own track. I like doing this because I feel like I get more control when it's time to mix and arrange them, but it is hard to do in Ableton Note where I am limited to 8 tracks total. I feel like this technique got me pretty close to my normal workflow and saved me some time.

Tags: electronic, week 23 2024, View by:thgirwnhoj