How it was made:
During cyber monday I purchased Audiority's Grainspace and Polaris plugins. A few hours ago I spent about 90 minutes messing around with these two. I had Grainspace as the main "instrument" being fed with a short snippet of audio from an old recording I did for a music class of a junior high school. They sang their cover version of "Gimme Some Loving" by The Spencer Davies Group.. so naturally I thought this would be good material to feed into Grainspace and make an 18 minute epic ambient/glitch/electronica opus.
Grainspace was followed by FabFilter Volcano 2 which does all the various cool filtering and rhythms that counteract the chaotic glitchy rhythm mayhem that Grainspace outputs. This was then fed into an aux that contained Polaris where I tweak the synced timing. This is where some of the clicks and pops come from. I didn't feel like removing those even though it'd be possible with post processing in iZotope RX.
Once I had about 90 minutes worth of material I started chopping it up and creating the song. It's done on two tracks that most of the time play together. I've automated volume, panning and stereo width. Mixing was done on the mixbus with various plugins mainly to give the audio some density and finesse. I also added a very faint Valhalla Room reverb on an Aux but it's about -24dB down into the noise floor so you don't really hear it at all. It just provides some glue (you'd notice it if I'd bypass it). I also added Acustica Audio Lemon delay plugin for the same purpose. It does some hard left/right muted ping pong stuff that provides additional glue and rhythmic vibrancy to the track. Again it's way down into the noise floor so you can't really hear it except in one specific part of the track where I rise the volume. Any real delay you hear will be Polaris.
All knob tweaking during the 90 minutes of audio material gathering was done with the mouse, juggling between the three plugins. I switched through various presets in FF Volcano 2 while keeping the wet/dry mix of Reaper at 0% so as to avoid unnecessary glitches and clicks. The main droning note throughout the song is done with Grainspace resonator filter section, tuned to the same note as the incoming audio source had as root note. What I learned from this experience is that tweaking virtual knobs with a mouse is tricky and probably nowhere nearly as fun as tweaking live with knobs.
TL;DR: Bought a few plugins. Made a track.
Smoke 'em if you got em, guaranteed enhanced experience.
-bM
I like it overall and how it changes through. This is nice music to play int he background. It could even be in a techno-thriller movie.
