The Studio Log - What Did You Do In The Studio

[Shabdahbriah]

Made sure the Spectrovox works. VCO direct out, check; breaks out the Swarm... and now the fun begins! Make sounds like I have never heard before- check!
We need some more experimental noise right! I hardly know what I'm doing but I can definitely say I'm keeping this.
I also know these two are my core for the case I get.

Congratulations. Those two should be an interesting and versatile combo. Welcome to the 'experimental' (fun) sonic exploration side. a.k.a, "because I can".

[Constructed Identity]

Made sure the Spectrovox works. VCO direct out, check; breaks out the Swarm... and now the fun begins! Make sounds like I have never heard before- check!
We need some more experimental noise right! I hardly know what I'm doing but I can definitely say I'm keeping this.
I also know these two are my core for the case I get.

Congratulations. Those two should be an interesting and versatile combo. Welcome to the 'experimental' (fun) sonic exploration side. a.k.a, "because I can".

Yes, if you have read my posts on here, you know I've been considering euro rack modular for a couple years now... It was always how to start and other needs, but now I'm all-in and I am planning a unique and useful system.

[WatchTheGuitar]

Lots of fun without end product. Hooked up my new Cobalt 8 and made a patch that went pretty nicely with MIDI guitar. Behringer K2 turned up and had a great time with that, especially processing drum machine audio. I do have a MS20 mini, but this takes up way less room and I actually prefer controlling it as I find the angle is much more conducive to playing with than on the near vertical Korg.

[foosnark]

I've been on fire lately -- 3 weeks ago I started working on this album after several weeks of not really making music. I could call it done now, except there's at least one more idea I want to finish.

Despite having the idea I might do a "dry" album without delay or reverb for once, instead I've gone all in on dirt including distorted/messed-up delay and reverb. Partly just going into weird Myth and Sumu patches, partly jumping on Lair and Doomagorgon, and partly inspired by the Bruxa release that got me rediscovering Strega, but also throw Integer and other stuff in there. I mean, it's not like I usually make clean music anyway, but I must be burning off some frustration or something because everything is turned up to 11 this time.

Maybe the last track should just be pure, pristine sine waves to make the listener go "WTF?"

[Shabdahbriah]

I've been on fire lately -- 3 weeks ago I started working on this album after several weeks of not really making music. I could call it done now, except there's at least one more idea I want to finish.

Despite having the idea I might do a "dry" album without delay or reverb for once, instead I've gone all in on dirt including distorted/messed-up delay and reverb. Partly just going into weird Myth and Sumu patches, partly jumping on Lair and Doomagorgon, and partly inspired by the Bruxa release that got me rediscovering Strega, but also throw Integer and other stuff in there. I mean, it's not like I usually make clean music anyway, but I must be burning off some frustration or something because everything is turned up to 11 this time.

Maybe the last track should just be pure, pristine sine waves to make the listener go "WTF?"

Sounds like the fun part, to me. But yeeeeah, that Bruxa release has definitely sparked some "despite/partly/partly/partly/but/I mean/but/I must/maybe", energies in me as well. It's all good, man.

[Constructed Identity]

Honestly nothing today as I was watching House of the Dragon season 1, but yesterday I was transforming some recordings I made with the Eowave Quadrantide Swarm sent through the Moog Spectravox into a unique techno track. What's interesting is I did it in sort of a reverse way - recording performance; then finding its BPM; then adding rhythm; then adding bass line.
I think it worked surprisingly well but it is definitely not same 'ol dance track formula.
Honestly it is kinda weird -that's what I like

[WatchTheGuitar]

Honestly nothing today as I was watching House of the Dragon season 1, but yesterday I was transforming some recordings I made with the Eowave Quadrantide Swarm sent through the Moog Spectravox into a unique techno track. What's interesting is I did it in sort of a reverse way - recording performance; then finding its BPM; then adding rhythm; then adding bass line.
I think it worked surprisingly well but it is definitely not same 'ol dance track formula.
Honestly it is kinda weird -that's what I like

It's kind of fun or a massive ballache doing post recording tempo matching depending on what you are looking for from it.

I updated to the latest ArturiaFX collection and been playing with the Efx Motions plugin. It’s similar to Cableguys Shaper and maybe not as easy to edit but comes with some very nice presets. I just stuck one instance on looping drum beat and another on a looping bass line and it’s like instant drum and bass, well it would be perfect if it had a rushing hats preset too.

[foosnark]

Slow day working from home (waiting to jump on any critical bug reports from final release candidate testing, but so far we are clean)... so I finished two more tracks today. (One based on a patch I started last night, the other based on a recorded session that needed some more editing and a couple more layers dubbed in.) Album is probably ready for mastering at this point

(I didn't do the pure sines thing, it didn't fit.)

Yesterday I was listening to some of my 10-year-old recordings and a few of the tracks sounded like I could have recorded them this week. Same aesthetics that I have been really into lately... but they were done in FL Studio, no hardware, no software modular (unless someone else's Reaktor patch), and linear MIDI sequencing. I could have sworn I heard Rings in there at one point, but it was a year before Rings was even released and two years before I owned it.

So it's really not the gear, it's the musician...

[justin3am]

Album is probably ready for mastering at this point

I figure you are doing your own mastering but if you are interested, my schedule is relatively empty for the next few weeks. I always process the first track for free and my rates are very reasonable, IMO.

[foosnark]

I'm doing my own, yep

[justin3am]

Cool, understood. Things have been slow around here, so I've started putting in the bare-minimum effort for marketing (which largely means pestering my friends, )

[foosnark]

Have been experimenting with more "broken" sound techniques especially with reverb, but talked myself *into* buying a module (Bunker Archeology) instead of out of it this time.

And also parallel bandpass filter stuff, trying to discover that I don't need Box of Angels (so far I'm not sure about that). I'm surprised there aren't more parallel bandpass plugins out there. Volcano can do it, but in the demo I wasn't really getting the sound I was looking for from that. Fancy routing in Bitwig, or Grid or VCV patches, might be the way.

Also thanks to an MW thread, spent some time convincing Rings to drone (without the easter egg that I never remember how to dial in and don't want to look up). I got some great material that way.

Mostly now digging deep into Rossum Morpheus, writing up notes and a chart of all the filter cubes (type, distortion friendliness and some notes) and turning down the default distortion in a lot of them. But it's really fatiguing on the ears to listen to white noise and sawtooth filter sweeps for hours at a time as you go through all 280 different filters (some of which are weird and complex). So I'm doing that piecemeal.

[Shabdahbriah]

Also thanks to an MW thread, spent some time convincing Rings to drone (without the easter egg that I never remember how to dial in and don't want to look up). I got some great material that way.

Thanks for the heads-up... just studied it. Good stuff.

Elements + 2x Rings = Much Joy!

[cryophonik]

Spent most of the day indoors to avoid the extreme heat (110F for the 5th straight day!) and finally made some good progress on a song that I started back in February. I really hate the vocals we recorded (they don’t fit the vibe of the song), so it’s been hard to get inspired to work on it. But I decided to just start from a blank slate and rebuilt the song around the vocals. So I finally feel like I have a vision to finish it.

[imrae]

I picked up Bitwig Studio in the crossgrade sale and have been slowly working through the manual and main features.

Am quite enjoying the workflow of pasting back and forth between timeline and clip launcher. The note slicing operator is quite a neat way of setting up polyrhythms, too!

Still feels like a lot of work to go before things really "flow", and I may end up bringing stems back to REAPER for final mixing. But there's a lot to like.