I found a cool setting with my mutable clouds yesterday that made my drums a lot more interesting:
And I made this quick jam with it:
I am using the MI ears to compress the baseline with my kick!
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Ugh. I was meaning to publish a song on my metal one-man-band every month, but while recording a disease-themed black metal song, I got covid. Gotta appreciate the irony. Minimal lung capacity for a while after that set things back a bit, but seems that I’m mostly healed. But anyway, sickly screaming, ugly guitars and minimal amount of synths for Priestess of Pestilence: Snakebearer - Priestess of Pestilence - YouTube
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Hey!
I finally uploaded a generative Krell patch primarily using my DIY Kosmo and a Korg Minilogue as a drone 
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I love a Krell patch, and this sounds lovely.
I have slowly been working my way through the videos on this channel, just a shame they are not in a playlist.
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I started a series on YouTube making short pieces of idealized film scores. I have always had a difficult time actually finishing or releasing anything and am finally pushing myself to do just that. Hopefully you guys enjoy
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I love the cheeky instructions, the suggestion of a story left half-told, and the old school (alte Schule?) Kosmische style. As the kids might say nowadays: much Edgar, very Klaus. I hope you will make longer pieces. This is a good appetizer.
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Thank you! I appreciate that so much. I’ll definitely try for longer pieces, but my arranging capabilities are going to need some work to keep things interesting
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My apologies in advance as this one definitely relied on a computer and some DAW trickery.
Sampled a bunch of my DIY synths for most of the melodic content.
Drums are sample based and sequenced in Renoise.
Cheers
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Created a little jam with hard-synced oscillators. Not really a song but here it comes anyway
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Playing with the new version of Ableton
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Very cool track, like it !
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A lot of my music isn’t modular in nature, beyond using the instrument as a very standard voice. Here’s an example of stuff I like to do where a modular is concealed:
I’m using Reason’s Complex-1, Propellerheads’ take on a minimal modular system (you can see it at 0:45). Renoise + Reason have been my combo of choice for those kind of compositions lately.
But I like the spontaneity of virtual modular performances where it’s all improvised, either nothing or little written/sequenced in advance. Here’s one such performance from 2 years ago:
The beating heart of this song is Meander, allowing for coherent harmonies and progressions on the modular, and the patch uses techniques that would be difficult in real hardware. It doesn’t show up much in the song… It flashes 6 minutes in haha. Had many interesting conversations with the author of this module about those kind of modular techniques.
I’ve been looking to hybridize those two seemingly unreconcilable techniques. The closest I’ve come was a song I posted in my intro post already:
Unlike the previous video where I had to split footage randomly, the controller cam and screen recording are fully synced to the actual performance. You’ll see from the finger twitching I pretty much become possessed halfway in and they start moving on their own.
The MIDI controller doesn’t act as a mixer at all, it is used to steer the performance instead. The faders control the melody: specifically, the 8 faders constitute the bassline (muted when at the bottom). It’s quantized, and the first fader is the root note, controlling everything else, like the guitar chords, the melody, etc. Also using Reason’s complete knock-off of MI Grids, lowpass filters on everything instead of mutes, effect triggers, stuff like that.
But while Reason has CV and Audio patching, it ultimately follows the studio rack metaphor. Getting any of the techniques I use there to work is unreasonably difficult.
Anyone here working with similar techniques?
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I finally made something half way decent lol. its a remake of a track i made years ago and seem to use it for learning new DAWs or LSDJ or whatever pops up thats new to try.
Im lacking in effects like Reverb and Delay etc… but thats next on the list of things to make.
Here we are, Ruffage.
The audio is low on here and i could do with tuning the Res on Rene H/LPF so watch your ears/speakers.
And yes… i did self clap… sue me. im happy XD
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Just made a playlist of stuff I’ve made using MiRack and the BSP. No extra lead bits mostly just riffs and ideas. Nothing is fully finished.
Id appreciate some feedback and ideas. My drums are lack luster and boring. That’s something I’m going to work on by making more styles of music and actually use EQ and effects to give them their place…
Anyway, enjoy some junk =D
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Nice work, lots of little fun ideas in there.
Might be contrary to your philosophy, but maybe record or export some tracks as audio, one piece at a time, and chuck em in a DAW or a tracker and cut em up, slice em up, filter em up, glitch em up and just generally go to town on them.
Personally, I tried being a purist, trying to sequence everything so I could play full tracks on real hardware live, but I quickly found it limiting, I’m no 8 arm octopus. I’ve had more success jamming little loops, recording them, then having them loop in the background to add another layer, or change it up to create a new section, then stitch it all together in a DAW.
Cheers
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Not a bad idea! I’m trying to make a hands off approach. I’m going for a programmable band member lol
Thing is I’m not a drummer or a bassist so it’s a bit hard to make ‘their’ decisions. Kinda makes structure a challenge haha. I’ll try that out though see what I learn.
I did enjoy using DAWs though, it was very easy to cut n chop bits n run them through groove slice and get a whole new feel.
All i seem to be doing with modular is writing on guitar, splitting it to the two seqs and riffing it out. It starts off like a funky guitar piece and ends up changing to some odd dancey stuff lol where I want to be making (as static x call it) evil disco.
Small steps though whilst I learn the ways.
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A long random self evolving patch. Kosmo and Euro. Enjoy.
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More experiments at 170
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