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This is another Missed Connections song. Lyrics taken from this post:

https://southjersey.craigslist.org/mis/ … 44953.html

Instruments:

Martin X2E Acoustic

Fender Sonoran Tenor Acoustic

Mellotron (Arturia V Collection)

Vocals

Processing:

Vox - Manley VoxBox, LA-2A, Echoplex tape delay

Acoustic guitars - Pultec EQP-1A, Decapitator, Hitsville Reverb

Mellotron - API 560B EQ, Arturia Fragments Delay

Master Bus - SketchCassette, Pro-L2

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this week I was seriously out of spare time, so I made a technical decision. I didn´t go to my studio space at all, I just took one keyboard (Roland Vsynth), one effect unit (Strymon Big Sky) and a recording device (Fostex R8) to my home and bashed quickly together a few short pieces, when I had a some moments to spare... It was actually very refreshing to work just with one synth and skipping all the midi work. I just used the arpeggiator and played the rest in realtime. I did rather complex rhythms by recording a few minutes of arpeggiator improvisations and then added another track with more of the same. After a few false starts I got the tempos almost synced without any midi and it resulted in interesting  and lively results. I just had to keep the tracks very short, so that the arppegiator tempo stayed more or less the same, without too much drifting. I think I will make the tracks for the nex few weeks with the same method...it was actually quite fun and liberating,

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I wasn't very focused this week as I didn't have a specific idea to drive my experimentation. I only knew I wanted to have the Stylophone CPM-DS2 as the main drone. So I did start with it.

After that, I wanted to try out other machines that I haven't recorded to tape yet. So I brought the Sonicware Liven Texture Lab on the 2nd track. This simple granular synthesizer got fed with one of the jingles they play in subway stations in Tokyo. It's a patch I've used several times already but I feel it has something special (and it plays well to cover the high end register).

After a first listen back, it felt like a distant memory. I then embraced the idea of creating could play while someone dies (the death soundtrack if you will). They say you relive your life in fast-forward when you die and I found that this connects well with the cassette tape medium (a single line where you record what happens).

So then I prepared a few of the field recording I took on my phone the past few months, as memories of my own life. And I played them on the 3rd track using the Blackbox (nice sampler from 1010music) and adding some reverb and delay to transform them as distant memories too.

And then I saw the Roland S-1 lying around and since I still had a 4th track free, I thought: heh why not? So I added this looping 1-bar pattern with a few modulations here and there. That felt like the spiritual element of a near death experience so I kept it in.

All in all this unexpected collage of sounds wasn't sounding too bad, although a bit messy (and life is messy and so is death). But then it all made sense when, again, I switch the speed from HIGH to NORMAL. The slowing down of the cassette tape added that indescribable vibe, and it made the whole track better.

I finally drenched it in the Nightsky reverb and recorded straight to the Zoom L-12 (no Golden Master this time as it had some buzz that I couldn't get rid of). I added a tiny bit of EQ and compression with Ozone 9 Elements in Audacity and voilà! Bon appétit.

Thanks to all of you who left nice words of encouragement. I hope you'll like this track too.

Have a nice week everyone!

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First attempt at singing something with lyrics. I tried learning vocal mixing with this track, and managed to do a little bit of something (also with the help of my friend who's also doing this challenge!) Some of the pitch I didn't manage to fix but that's alright. The lyrics are in Finnish:

the house in front of me

you're just dancing there

I go through the mirror

into another world

I wanted to come up with lyrics quick so I just looked over to the block of flats outside of my apartment and remembered there's a neighbour about the same age as me on the other side. I have this feeling of kinship towards her. Just two people trying their best.

I recorded this with my phone, with a small Rode clip-on mic. Learned something new again this week!

<3 Laura

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I had a busy weekend with family visiting and little time for the musicks, so here's a quick Sunday Night Acid Loop™. Had to resort to a cheesy bass line and folksy drums, but I tried to liven it up with diverging stereo acid. Recorded live to three tracks with manual drum muting for "arrangement", with slight edits in post for detailing.

Thanks for listening, take care!

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  `-'-'`---'_.(__. `-'-.. 

                           

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Hi there, this week is something very different than what i uploaded so far but somehow closer to what i usually write.

I stumbled upon ChipNomad by accident on a discord server and decided to check it out. Its basically the M8 workflow and system (so LSDJ navigation layout but with all the M8 improvements attached to it) but for the AY-3-8910/YM2149F soundchips. So basically 3 channels of bleeps and bloops.

This was my first attempt at writing something on it and i decided to go a bit more sound design oriented instead of melody writing to learn about the soundchip some more. Its very funny to use because you can play noise at the same time as melodic waves but from my understanding the noise oscillator is shared between all channels so there is tons of fun fooling around with envelopes and using noise to give square waves some more attack.

Overall im very satisfied but it could have used some more variation but i ran out of time so its basically just a copy paste for the „second part“.

The reason why its called GenreNomad is basically me not being able to stick to genre „limitations“ and just do whatever i want no matter if its a desktop daw or a soundchip used on the 1982 ZX Spectrum.

It also has a slight stereo shift between the 3 channels (a slightly left, b center, c slightly right) which adds a lot of separation for „same“ sounding channels.

Overall im very pleased with the workflow and the interface so if you feel like trying it too check it out over at https://chipnomad.org/ and make sure to share your stuff in the discord!

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This started as a game intro song that was so fully formed in my head that I was worried I was copying someone else's song. But then I had lots of problems trying to translate that into a song. The bass rhythm sounds much better in my heard, but sounds a little "stiff" in my final track. I tried using a MIDI keyboard against a drum track to figure out the timing, but I had so much lag that this approach was impossible. I need to get that figured out so I'm able to use this technique in the future.

I also spent a bunch of time trying to come up with different instruments and planned to finish everything up on Sunday, but when Sunday hit, I realized we have a bunch of family stuff planned, so I had to quickly throw some speed trash together just to get something out for the week. Hopefully next week is better...

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Jamming on guitar, sampling it, cutting and tweaking it. Done on the M8

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This is a conversation with percussion and synthesizer. One side is telling a simple sentence and the other side is going off on them not believing them. Years ago I was playing in a band in Pensacola, Florida playing at a club called the trio club and a girl I knew accuse me of not going to work instead I was going to a bar because her sister saw my car at the bar and reported that I was not working. I was at a bar.

And I said of course my car was at a bar. I was inside playing guitar with the band and she went off so this is sort of reminiscing of that conversation a couple of days later I have never met her sister a couple of days later her sister who claims she never went in a bar showed up and I met her. It turns out she was a regular at the same bar so she had actually seen me in the bar. She just didn't know me and I didn't know her. I did not let the cat out of the bag and tell on her sister, but I did have a little more skin in the game with her after that, her sister never said anything bad about me.

It was just funny what people do and think.

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