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It's been a tough few weeks, and I'm feeling very weary. Rather than push myself and stress about trying to make something "good enough," I decided to go more ambient this time. I've had this patch I really like on the TEO-5, and I haven't figured out how to fit it into a song I like, but I really like this simple little two chord progression, and it's been a fun meditative thing for me to come back to periodically. I decided to just have this be mostly that, with some norns randomization with awake (technically the awake synth doubled with an astrolab mallet patch). I then ran everything through some iPad FX just to give it some crunchy noisy lofi feel, and I called it a day.

It's not going to blow your mind. Hopefully it gives you some space to breathe and rest. Hopefully I get some, too. God has been good to me this week so I'm going to try to breathe and count his blessings to me.

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Early week upload. Little to document. Submitted email for substitute teaching district requirements and awaiting response. Reading PKD shorts.

Updated:

LC's b-day dinner and hangout. Took P out to throw some poppers in the front yard. Sat on the steps throwing out the entire box.  Can't speak yet but, expressing opinions. Worked on puzzles w/ him at the restraunt so mom and dad could eat. Received response, working on paperwork. Transcripts needed. KB shared news of pregnancy w/ class. They were very excited for him. Organized gifts on their own and filled his white board w/ suggested names. Very heart warming to see, reminder of the joys of working w/ kids. Looking forward to doing it again. Rave history deep dive again. Cut samples and uploaded to digitakt. Made another song and started another. Decided not to upload. Will work on. it more maybe used for next week.

Fill out media section later. Heading to Thai Buddhist Temple.

Software Used:

BlackHole 2

Ableton

Renoise

audacity

ReCycle

Inphonik RX950

ALM QuaidraVerb

Izotope Ozone 10

Open EMU

Cosmic Corridor

Wave Rider

Buck Rodgers

Short and sweet... Nostalgic for old Casio SA-35 keyboard. Found samples from SA-10 online (uses same chips and sounds). Used in Renoise to make melodic parts of track first (20 minutes on 4_25_26). Sampled emulated Atari 2600 games while playing them. Not a gamer. After years of chiptune in the 2000's-10's learned to appreciate older gaming tech and some games. Soft spot for the 2600's simplicity and sounds. Made a small library of 2600 samples. Used for drums. TR-8 library from previous weeks used with a Sine recorded through the hifi reciever from last week. Chopped sample from 70's funk playlist on youtube. Finished rest of song on the 27th after collecting samples over a few days. spent about 2 hours on and off tinking with things. Trying to explore more digital sample based music away from usual synth workflows.

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I put this on Instagram earlier in the week. It's another thing made with FMS, the secret thing that I’ve been testing for the past few weeks and I can now tell people about :)

https://lo-bit.club/fms

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Second pass at using Ableton Note for a track. Really enjoying it and it is surprisingly capable.

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Trying something cinematic

Performance Notes:

Deluge ynow

Sh4d 10:50

  Thru lost+found useful_amb:11.5:3 mix:9.5     

   blend:12.5 symp_rez:10:2:alt:2 LtoR spread:L

Hydrasynth F003 knit attack:40 decay:140

Vermona tri32 Noiz eg 8:9:10:2 VCF 2:11

  Thru shallow waters+ mood delay

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This was lost in translation

Moog Matriarch through tape, slowed down, through Hologram Microcosm through Valhalla SuperMassive o_O

Additional percussions courtesy of Fors Opal

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Since some people didn't know a lot about satyrs last week, I had to explain.

I picked all the presets that had to do with wood, forests, spirits, etc.

› Lyrics‹ Lyrics

According to legend, he is

a kind of a cousin of a nymph

a bigger daemon than an imp

a popular answer in a quiz

A horny spirit of the woods

Did I say horny, I meant horned

Full with the wine god's coronet

hiding nude between the shoots

The satyr,

humourous,

satirical satyr

One was once morphed into wine

Marsyas was, like me, into songs

lost a contest against the gods,

after all, they are divine.

They seemed to have a lot of fun

rolling their bellies through the trees

their members were not quite too wee

today from mind and world they're gone.

The satyr,

humourous,

satirical satyr

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I think there's some cool things going on here

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I started with tinkering with a Korg Minilogue, then did some automation of some FX and resampled into a main synth loop. Then added some drums from Splice and did some weird split chain FX and automation. Eventually adding some other synth and violin samples. I kinda struggled with this, never having a strong idea of arrangement or hook. Vaguely Flying Lotus inspired, but kinda ran out of time and glad just to have this. Glad it's done, time to move on to something else.

* Splice Samples for drums, violin, pluck

* Bass from Ableton bass instruments

* Synth from Korg Minilogue

* Transit, Valhalla plugins

* Gullfoss + Izotope Elements for master

Total time: ~4 hours

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