The Studio Log - What Did You Do In The Studio

[elxsound]

Thanks! I’m the first act and go on at 7:30pm PST, so I think that’s when the stream starts.

Going to the ER is always lame. Last time was for kidney stones. Fire Stick sap in eyes was less painful than kidney stones but much more panic inducing.

Damn nice set! Happy to have caught it and I think others are going to like it when you share it.

That first track starts off super strong. As a former performer (percussionist days), I thought you wouldn't have anything to build up to, but then there was more and more.

I'm seriously impressed.

[foosnark]

Tried out my Make Noise Minimod. Recorded another track for the album. Stayed up way too late doing it... zzzzzzzz

[justin3am]

Thanks! I’m the first act and go on at 7:30pm PST, so I think that’s when the stream starts.

Going to the ER is always lame. Last time was for kidney stones. Fire Stick sap in eyes was less painful than kidney stones but much more panic inducing.

Damn nice set! Happy to have caught it and I think others are going to like it when you share it.

That first track starts off super strong. As a former performer (percussionist days), I thought you wouldn't have anything to build up to, but then there was more and more.

I'm seriously impressed.

Hey thanks for watching! We had too much fun! Everyone's sets were really good last night. I was super stoked with the sound at the venue too. The bass wasn't as flubbery as it's been at some of the other places we play.

[elxsound]

Thanks! I’m the first act and go on at 7:30pm PST, so I think that’s when the stream starts.

Going to the ER is always lame. Last time was for kidney stones. Fire Stick sap in eyes was less painful than kidney stones but much more panic inducing.

Damn nice set! Happy to have caught it and I think others are going to like it when you share it.

That first track starts off super strong. As a former performer (percussionist days), I thought you wouldn't have anything to build up to, but then there was more and more.

I'm seriously impressed.

Hey thanks for watching! We had too much fun! Everyone's sets were really good last night. I was super stoked with the sound at the venue too. The bass wasn't as flubbery as it's been at some of the other places we play.

What was the raised/slanted instrument you were working with? I assumed this was the two pedal boards you showed in the other thread, but that didn’t look like Cascadia

[justin3am]

Yep, that was the Cascadia, hidden behind my sign. It's really small. Almost exactly as wide as the 64HP Pod that I use for the sequencer and joystick.

It's such an awesome little synth. I can go from acid squelch to feedback drone destruction without repatching. Audiorealism used to have a semi modular thing ABL Pro and Cascadia kind of reminds me of that at first glance but there are so many little details that allow it to get into some really diverse sounds, with just a few flipped switches.

I've taken cues from Foosnark about making better use control interfaces. Not only does it make it easier to keep the controls you want to tweak away from spaghetti mess but it also allows me to fine tune the range of control and more easily to return to default settings.

[foosnark]

Imitating a Doepfer A-130-8 VCA mixer (plus some panning). (Audio fed by Zorlon Cannon & Just Friends, modulation from Multimod converted to MIDI CC).

And also generating four different modulation signals from a function generator that was converted to MIDI CC, to sequence shifts in Multimod phase and transpose pitch signals.

Starting to build a VCV Rack patch too for the rest of the track...

[elxsound]

I've taken cues from Foosnark about making better use control interfaces. Not only does it make it easier to keep the controls you want to tweak away from spaghetti mess but it also allows me to fine tune the range of control and more easily to return to default settings.

What do you mean by better use control interfaces? Is this a matter of better selection of modules used in a live rig, or an additional control surface, or something else?

[justin3am]

I had just been connecting the outputs of my Planar, Gliss, 0-CTRL or a MIDI>CV converter directly to the VC inputs for the parameters I wanted to control, often with no attenuation. But with that approach, when I had to make a change to how things were controlled, it always required some extra surgery.
Now, I'm sending the same control signal to several attenuators or VCAs first (before I even decide what I want to control), so that I can more easily set the ranges the range of values for each destination without having to change the positions of the controls on the module itself. That gives me more freedom to later use a control that had previously acted as an offset, as a modulation depth control for the same parameter, without much re-patching.

I used to spend a lot of time in this mode where I was tweaking everything directly before I started building out the performance aspects of the patch. This lead to using controllers in different ways for each patch and accidentally making changes which cause the patch to break.

Now, I'm thinking about control schemes from the very beginning of a patch (as I do with sequencing) and I'm building common practices/templates with which I can develop muscle memory.

[foosnark]

Yep, I attenuate my attenuators more than I modulate my modulators.

[elxsound]

@Justin3am & foosnark nice!

I dumbly stumbled into something like that with a Jamuary patch. I patched 0-Ctrl’s pitch CV to 0-Coast’s mini maths before going to Strega and 0-Coast’s CV input. Really, all I wanted was to double up the cv out from 0-Ctrl, but I was wondering why I hadn’t tried that before. I could freely change the pitch from the mini maths without breaking the relative pitch between Strega and 0-Coast.

I know you all mentioned these things before when I first started out, but some of these things are just starting to click more (especially now that I’m not swapping modules out all the time).

[Shabdahbriah]

@Justin3am & foosnark nice!

I dumbly stumbled into something like that with a Jamuary patch. I patched 0-Ctrl’s pitch CV to 0-Coast’s mini maths before going to Strega and 0-Coast’s CV input. Really, all I wanted was to double up the cv out from 0-Ctrl, but I was wondering why I hadn’t tried that before. I could freely change the pitch from the mini maths without breaking the relative pitch between Strega and 0-Coast.

I know you all mentioned these things before when I first started out, but some of these things are just starting to click more (especially now that I’m not swapping modules out all the time).

These are a few of my favorite things:

Switch 4 – Joranalogue Audio Design.png

8×8 Buffered Matrix – Tesseract Modular.png

Sweet Sixteen MkII – Tesseract Modular.png

[mjolnir]

I've been seriously stagnating lately, but today I got some technical work done:

1) read a bunch of manuals on how to avoid Calamares bugs in the Arch/Manjaro installer
2) reinstalled Linux to an external hard disk (surprisingly, no problems yet)
3) started configuring Linux again from scratch

My philosophy is that maybe I'll be inspired musically if I have a stronger computer base.
And my computer is otherwise out of DAW space if I don't sideload to the other drive.

In the meantime, I will finally purge out the VSTs that I don't / can't use anymore.

Right now I'm running from the external hard drive. So that much did work out.
Peace.

[mjolnir]

I got a tune done after a very long time of incremental work.
It's only about 2m42s but it's one of my better tunes.
I might put a SoundCloud page up again later this year.

[mjolnir]

I got another tune done, this one better than the first one.
I spent all night working on it after I got the main idea(s) happening.
The remix didn't work out, but the reworking did work out.

I will try and set up a SoundCloud again later this week and post up the 2 (or more) tunes.
2 ain't a lotta tunes, but at the one I got done today is pretty good.
I'm trying to do stuff more like movie soundtrack material again.

I'll let you guys know when the SoundCloud page is up again.
Peace.

P.S.-The main tune is like the finale finished work of "909 County Fair Against Armageddon".

[Constructed Identity]

I can tell you what I didn’t do: reply to all of the dumb, meaningless posts on KVR.
Now that I am ‘at work’ I can summarize the weekend. I made changes to I crazy track I made with the Metal Fetishist because just because it isn’t pop, doesn’t mean I’m not going to get the details the way I want.
I also checked the video I put on YouTube and saw it got 3 views…
Last night I made something in 7/4 time- or was it 7/5 time? Can’t remember but it sounded good somehow.