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I put organs on this one.

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So I gave "throat singing" a shot this week. It should really be called "nose singing" though cause all the resonant tones come from your sinus region. I'm not very good at it but I was able to get some passable resonances out of it.

Put together some hand drums and tambourine with synth bass, backing pads and beat. Spent about 2 hours putting the patterns together for some reason. another 2 hours recording and chopping the voice, hand drum and tambourine. another hour fixing it all together for about 5 hours on the waves.

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MOAR TRANCE. Mostly M8, vox and fills and builds in Ableton along with the mix and master. Trance is basically a playground right now for me, some things work, some things don't, but it's actually a very 'forgiving' genre in terms of what you can do sound-design-wise so it's well set for experimentation. There are conventions to the arrangement too but a lot of flexibility there as well.

It's tricky to master though, because it's basically a wall of sound with precise percussion. The high end is sounding loud to me right now Sunday afternoon on my "makes everything brighter" headphones, but I think it's okay.

This track started out very dub-techno sounding because of some cinematic improv samples I used for the pad, which again, goes to show how the tools can turn something completely different into trance music. The vocals are doing their thing effectively but I'm not satisfied with this treatment yet, more to learn, a lot of variables that can fuck it up.

There will be more trance music to come - the M8 is really suited to building this stuff - but this following week I gotta finish my entry for the Red Means Recording Discord challenge, "found sound ambient", and we are going horror-ambient. I'd planned a horror-ambient cycle at some point anyway so might as well get a start, though we might be alternating genres a bit for a while.

Meanwhile, the horror-ambient stuff is gonna be proving ground for a setup for Starry Night Cowboy.

I ramble because I am exhausted and largely traumatized! Hooray!

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Crow

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OP-XY

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*headphones recommended on this one*

It’s Week 21. Here’s a little chaos. - Two separate projects made on M8 and thrown into Ableton to mix together (plus add a bit of post-processing).

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Yamaha Reface CS and Eventide Space

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Yups. Here we are again. I had some time today but I decided to play a computer game for the first time this year. Here I am cap in hand owning up to my POOR behaviour.

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This started as the last pattern I made before just selling my Novation Circuit this week!

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Yet another last minute M8 track. This ons is inspired by a swedish play called "Mother's Day".

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