the spaghetti void
By wangus on April 10, 2022 11:39 pm
uploading 30mins before the deadline??? what?
OP-1, all internal synths/samples, recorded straight to internal album. Minor touchup in post, as usual. (including one cut because i wasn't snappy with the play button in one moment)
This turned out quite different than expected. I had the main melody in mind for a while, and some thoughts on adding variations in timing/harmony to build out some structure. In my mind, I was first picturing an Anomalie-esque jazzy midtempo jam, with little flourishes scattered all around, and a clean production throughout. I don't have the jazz chops nor production skills/wherewithal on the OP-1 to achieve that.
Got some slappin drums (up to 4 layers of resampling/reprocessing in the OP-1 drum sampler...), a mellowly icy introduction of the main melody. But then a crash into a sloppy, choppy, floppy chorus. And the only idea I really had for developing the track was turning the main melody into an arpeggiated texture, so we get some fairly impromptu harmonies there, and not much else.
A pitfall I run into a lot: finding some crunchy harmonies on a keyboard, which sound really cool stepped through in isolation, but don't deliver in the track because my synth sounds don't gel as well as a solo conventional piano timbre, and in real-time the chords go by too fast to register.
OP-1 fun:
* Plenty of G Element modulation. So fun for pitchbending and manual vibrato.
* Some drum loops recorded an octave up (2x speed) to tape so I could resample a >12s loop into the drum sampler. Effectively halving the sample rate each time.
* At some points, through resampling, there's a drum beat that's: stock kit > CWO > Nitro > Phone > Nitro (with the half-rate resampling each step...). I think there's drum dynamics envelope Element LFO modulation going on at every step, in addition to Nitro's built-in envelope following.
* I think this is the last time I'll ever use that crappy built-in piano sample...
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