Fountain Simulation
By ViridianLoom on November 13, 2022 9:13 pm
Real brief idea made with the Microfreak. That synth has gotten so much hype over the last few years that I finally decided to pick one up to try it out. I figured this week would be a good opportunity to just play with it and try using it to make a song (or sketch out a mood). Even though I own a couple of other synths (Microkorg and Deepmind 12) I never really use them in my songs, often preferring the quick convenience of plugins like Spire, Massive, or the M1. So I started learning about the litterately Ins and Outs of midi so that I could record midi data into reaper, edit it, send it back out to the Microfreak and then record the raw audio back into reaper. There were a lot of snags in the process which was kind of causing my creativity to stall out to figure out solutions to problems. The first issue involved time-syncing the Microfreak to my DAW. Even though it was set to Auto and my interface was set up to send Reaper's clock, the arpeggiator wouldn't seem to work properly. It would be in tempo and start the arp, but abruptly end after one cycle, so I had to manually edit the midi data to play the arp continuously. Another problem was that sometimes I'd record a preset that had some kind of poly aftertouch effect that (I think) was causes the cutoff filter to sweep low to high, and then if I didn't edit that out of the recorded midi the cutoff filter would be set to 0 on subsequent recording attempts. All this is to say that I'm still a big noob when it comes to recording hardware synths and these things are probably easily fixed, I just haven't had the experience fixing them yet. Anyways, I figure I experimented enough for this week's entry and learned a fair bit about the Microkorg and recording hardware synths, even if the composition doesn't necessarily reflect that.
Oh and it makes me think of Zelda's Fairy Fountain but my imagination envisions a cyberpunk future where a person is sitting on a park bench in front of a simulation of a fountain.
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