I made some music today and I used ...

[andrelafosse]

I'll play!



A film scoring exercise for myself using public domain stock footage, Alchemy 2 and electric guitar, done in Logic X 10.3.1

FX:

Airwindows Desk and Logic channel EQ on Alchemy 2

Airwindows Desk and Lowpass, Logic compressor, Scuffham S-Gear 2, TDR Nova EQ, and VVV on guitar

Airwindows Desk, Busscolors 4, Air, Purest Gain, Righteous 3, Not Just Another Dither, + A1 Stereo Control and Voxengo Span on master buss.

[garryknight]

Dune 2
Kick 2
Some loops and samples
Korg microKey 25
Studio One 3.5
Just the basic framework so far

[foosnark]

A film scoring exercise for myself using public domain stock footage, Alchemy 2 and electric guitar, done in Logic X 10.3.1

Nice



This is Bastl Kastle FM'ing Warps sine oscillator and comparator effect, degraded by Three Sisters (highpass filter), Freez (dirty sample reduction) and Disting (crude lowpass just to remove some highs). Kastle doesn't follow any sort of 1V/Oct pitch scheme, and my pitch CV was passively multed to four places which threw Warps' tuning off too... so I just sequenced pitches kind of arbitrarily.

Second synth is Massive.

A couple of Valhalla reverbs (doesn't matter which, everyone should just buy them all), Presswerk and Barricade.

The first take recording went on for too long and sounded kind of dull. In the process of trying to improve on things, I was just going in circles making things worse. So I went back to the first recording, trimmed the length down, used MTransformer to squash the kind of oppressive fundamental frequencies and pull out parts that had been a bit too subtle, and did a bit more dynamics tweaking. I think the rescue was mostly successful.

Ekranoplan B

[foosnark]

And another, early this morning.

Voice 1: Absynth, MTransformer & Korvpressor
Voice 2: Serum
Voice 3: Reaktor Modal, Dubstation 2, Transient Master, Pianoverb 2
Voice 4: 0-Coast, Fault
All: Barricade

[andrelafosse]

Sounding great as usual, Foo - not many can make me lust for modern hardware, but you're raising eyebrows over here. (And thanks for listening! Not trying to be a mutual admiration society, really...)

[andrelafosse]

A couple more hot off the press:



- Reaktor 6 (using one of the new Kodiak oscillator blocks) for the big farty bass
- Bazille for the swelling minor chord
- Real electric guitar + Amplitube 3 for the tremolo guitar arpeggios, with Vallhalla UberMod for ambient dubbiness
- XILS 3 LE for miscellaneous hauntology
- Alchemy for the percussion stabs



- Real electric guitar through Scuffham S-Gear 2
- Two instances of Alchemy for the gong-like stuff
- Bazille for the creepy swell towards the end
- Another Bazille for the tag at the very end
- VVV on an aux send

Big-picture processing for both: Airwindows Desk (on both individual tracks and master buss), misc. Logic X compression and EQ here and there.

Airwindows Busscolors 4, Air, Purest Gain, Righteous 3, and Not Just Another Dither on master buss, Voxengo SPAN to monitor RMS levels.

[ghettosynth]

Timeflux
Dust
Reaktor
Blackhole
Neutron, because I almost always use Neutron...


...and strangers

[Aloysius]

My imagination ...

[foosnark]

not many can make me lust for modern hardware, but you're raising eyebrows over here.

Thanks I really love the 0-Coast, and find modular really inspiring to mess with. I get sounds out of it I wouldn't in software -- in some cases that's "can't" and in others it's simply a matter of a different approach. And that approach has influenced how I work with software, too.

That said, I'm having FireWire trouble while trying to set up my new Focusrite Saffire Pro 40, so all my hardware is disconnected at the moment. New cable arrives tomorrow, and if that doesn't work I also have another adapter on the way that I'm hopeful will be compatible with my cantankerous computer.

So I'm stuck in the box for now unless I want to reconfigure everything again multiple times. I wound up making this with:

Tremor (through Presswerk, Permut8, Charlie Bucket (*), MTransformer, G8 Gate, Wow2, TB Equalizer, ValhallaPlate)
Arcsyn
Ephemere (through ValhallaPlate, Dubstation 2)

(*) Charlie Bucket is a weird-ass experimental distortion plugin I wrote. There's a signal S, threshold T, a bucket B, a capacity C, a loss rate L, and a bias X. For each sample:

0. Multiply S by a boost factor, and do some harmonic distortion to it just because.
1. If S+X exceeds T, add the difference to B and subtract it from S. (This hard-clips S.)
2. If B exceeds C, add the difference to S and subtract it from B. (So S only clips when the bucket isn't full.)
3. If S is less than T, add the lesser of (T-S) and (B) to it, and subtract that from B. (Pour the bucket back into the signal, giving the clipped part some sustain.)
4. Subtract the lesser of (B) and (L) from B. (The bucket leaks, allowing more clipping.)

With the ranges of parameters I happened to choose, the result winds up being somewhere between clipping and windowed sync; it tends to turn areas near zero crossings into clipped stuff and then the bucket is too full to keep clipping.

[ghettosynth]

Thanks I really love the 0-Coast, and find modular really inspiring to mess with. I get sounds out of it I wouldn't in software -- in some cases that's "can't" and in others it's simply a matter of a different approach. And that approach has influenced how I work with software, too.

It's surprisingly flexible for how limited it appears at first glance. I had a chance to play with one for a few hours this past weekend. On the one hand it made me lust for hardware, on the other hand, I'm better off to just say no to new hardware.

It might take a few dozen more jam sessions for me to change my mind.

[foosnark]

Tine Valet

In order of appearance:

0-Coast, through ET-301.

Rings, with Three Sisters (for FM), Synchrodyne Expand (for modulation), through ValhallaRoom.

Una Corda.

Microbrute, with Mini Slew (exponential filter envelope), through Replika and Dubstation 2.

[foosnark]

Another example of why I don't use much polyphony. This is:

XFer Serum (max polyphony 2, usually 1)

WMD Synchrodyne & Synchrodyne Expand (max polyphony 1)

Mutable Instruments Rings (max polyphony 1)

(with Valhalla Plate, Valhalla Space Modulator, Acon Digital Multiply, TB Flx, TB Barricade)

[Pytchblend]

Tawny port, xoxos' special Black with Soundemote's SpiralGen2 (beta)

[ferranastals]

1. Synths & Pads : Nord Lead 2
2. Kick: D16 Punchbox
3. Top Loops: Some pre made stuff mangled and transformed
4. Bass: D16 Phoscyon
5. Effects: Reaktor 6

[garryknight]

Ethera, featuring Clara Sorace's excellent vocals.