Obsidian
By Tone Matrix on October 25, 2020 12:43 pm
Novation released their special edition of the Bass Station 2 "AFX Station" recently. There's honestly nothing too special about it unless you're a major Aphex Twin collector or haven't pulled the trigger on a BS2. The color scheme is a bit more minimal and it has the logo. Woop. Of course I already own the awesome Bass Station 2 hence my enthusiasm. I'm also more fond of the blue color scheme on the original. Thankfully Novation also released the new patches for all BS2 owners. So my lazy arse finally got around to trying out some of the new patches Saturday morning. There's a lot of cool new inspiring patches that make use of the new features. Basically the Aphex part turns the BS2 sorta into a drum machine.
Some of you may remember a fellow WBer alumnus, 'Perplex On' from 2014. Well he has been making a name for himself making all sorts of cool tracks with awesome visuals and has been known to dabble in the BS2. I highly recommend you youtube his work. Turns out he is one of the artists who has his patches featured in the new update that is pre-loaded on the AFX station. The 6min patch preview video is pretty insane.
Soooo long story short I used one of his cool patches to make this week's track. I started this while it was raining cats and mogs yesterday. All I could think about was "damn I'd like to nap some more in this peaceful rain". So when I stumbled on this patch the simple chord progression quickly came to me and Bob's someone's Uncle. The beat that I made was pretty bland until I threw one of those ableton effects on it giving it a sort of faux breakbeat feel. I apologize my coffee has not kicked in yet so I'm one giant run on sentence today. Lastly this was the least amount of tracks I used. Kick, Snares, Hats and Novation PerplexStation. Thank you for reading this far you've earned your nap and/or beer.
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