Undulate Dawn
By Tone Matrix on April 21, 2024 2:29 am
Managed to not fall down this week so that's a good start. I started exploring pads in Zebra and had one of those experiences where every patch felt like it could be the start of something pleasing. I wanted to just wrap myself in long drawn out simple soothing chords. Turned the bpm down to 70. Just the swaying of a soft warm pad always helps me zone out and distract myself. As I started to noodle around for some piano melody ideas and get into a slow jam Ableton said "Hold my beer/mouse". *POOF* went the ableton full screen and project. Ok that's fine (I overconfidently said) I'll just reopen it and the handy recover feature will kick in and I'll be right back where I was. Reopened ableton and it even loads quicker with the new version annnnd *POOF* ......... ohhhhhhh noooooooooeees come baaaaack
I couldn't recover the darn thing! Lost a very productive couple of hours of ideas worth unsuccessfully restarting my computer like a doofus. Even though it had a backup from earlier that backup did not have a huge piano melody I accidentally noodled and couldn't recall. So this track sorta took a slightly different more ambient direction in that it didn't get developed more. I might have had added a few more lines here and there but overall I'm happy with the result. Just a bit scared now that I might have another ableton issue leering it's eyes upon me. I spent the majority of this week's process feeling like if I didn't finish (export) the song sooner it was going to crash again and I was going to be back to where I was. A bit paranoid feeling unfortunately. I think that's another reason I had been gravitating towards the improvised piano solos. Less computer headache possibilities. Anywho hopefully I sort this out soon. Head is healing thank you for all the nice comments and especially checking in and listening each week.
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