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Bit of an experiment with layering guitars this week.

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a musician saves the planet... with the power of GROOVE!

made with roland SC-55 (CLAP plugin)

check the .mid here: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/superhuman+groovin/84101/

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Playing around with chops again, inspired by a piano lick and Dr. Strangelove samples. This time I found myself a bit frustrated with the technical limits of the P-6. I am now in a struggle with Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

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The name of this one is crossroars it's about someone who's trying to find the crossroads so they can learn to play the blues and they can't and then behind it. I improvised playing the blues and I did that before. I did the song part the lyrics for some reason after I did the lyrics and put the two together, the two tracks were on the same fit. The Guitar part decided to become a mono Guitar part when I registered it, but I'm not gonna change it because it's sort of an interesting effect. It's way in the background, but it still there and it's distorted as it's supposed to be, but I did the Guitar part just as a simple improv of the blues and the lyrics I wrote down ahead of time I thought about trying to clean it up and stuff, but that's gotten me in trouble in the last couple of weeks. I wasn't able to put anything in because I messed up my tune by trying to clean it up or trying to get it to do better or whatever and I've had this problem before of something been stereo than suddenly it's mono and I forgot what I did to fix it. I'll figure it out but it might not be by deadline so I've got it now. I'm sending it in now.

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ok decided not to kill myself this week trying to get this actually finished.

Here's the beginning of my first proper dunk tank remix.  (spoiler: the last 5 weeks have all been dunk tank """"""""remixes"""""""")

the original: https://weeklybeats.com/wangus/music/dunk-tank

closest inspiration would be rome in silver's Fool vs. Fool 2022 .  also thinking about the kinds of reimaginings Savant pulled on Alchemist pt2.

m8, all synthesis, no samples.

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the groove came first.  heavy downbeat.  It's actually a 200BPM project, so I get finer resolution for some off-kilter hits.

This is the first time I'm really experimenting with the wavetable options in the FM engine.  the main bass stab is a wavetable voice, i think the "asymmetry" table, layered with a subby 2op deal.  (A>B + C + D i think).

A whole second track doubles it with macrosynth "harmonics", which made the original dunk tank bass.  This is gonna end up 8 maximally-utilized tracks to fit all I want to layer in...

The kick/snare are solid.  The rest of the percussion needs some work.  My fav so far is the ride-cymbal-bell kind of sound, which is a hypersynth patch.  Hypersynth is solid for crafting hats.  Set an arbitrary "chord" spread out randomly, then turn up the swarm parameter to taste, then use SIN/FOLD/WRAP limiter to balance the metallic-ness and noise (wavefolding the cluster of detuned oscillators tends to smush it into more-white-noise kind of tone).

The lead says, hey remember the original simple square wave with some dirty modulation?  What if it were just All Dirt.  Big ol hypersynth unison, except for one voice doing a tritone.  crunchy.  Some swarm/width modulation sends it flying.

Then the chords, hey remember the original train-whistle-sounding warbly fluttery random-panned out-of-tune pads?  What if they were uniform center-panned, and approximately-just intonation for uncanny minimal shimmer?  (straight center-pan was a bit boring, so I did add a left-channel allpass EQ to splat it into a weird broken image)

so ya, i'm thinking of the elements of the original but exaggerated, either positively or negatively.

you're not ready for the section that will come next.  (i wasn't; that's why you don't get to hear it this week)

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rip wait I didn’t realize i had like fully inverted L/R phase on the chords.  it disappears in mono mix.  gotta fix that.

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Having a go at a 90's style rock track using Synthesizer V Hxvoc

Solaria on backing vocals.

Drums via EZDrummer, guitars and bass from Neural DSP Nolly, and Parallax

Lead synth via Synapse Obsession

Tried to go with a 90's industrial vibe for the video.

The solo is literally the first thing I played which is why it's a big ragged. I figured it gave a kind of Pearl Jam vibe.

The concept is a failing relationship where he fixates on being able to wind back and redo interactions that went wrong before realising that until they change the approach they will always be doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

Lyrics

On a day like this the stars refuse to shine

Standing at your door running out of time

What have I done

Where did you go

I can't believe it

All that I do  Just makes it worse

Why can't I leave it

I'll make belive

I'll build a time machine

Too cynical to tell you

How I feel

Turn back the clock

We start it all again

But it never stops

Why can't we change

What have I done

Where did you go

I can't believe it

All that I do  Just makes it worse

Why can't I leave it

I'll make belive

I'll build a time machine

Too cynical to tell you

How I feel

We can't change the road we're on unless we realise

We are just the same

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Another week of finishing off beginnings from previous weeks and writing sessions.

I quite like this one, trying out some new vocal harmony approaches, and making vocals more of a focus than guitar work. Guitar is tuned to EGDGBe - basically standard but with the A string down a step - no reason, just thought it could break me out of a rut and it worked!

think I might've been a bit heavy on the reverb in some places, but hey - it's all in the sense of fun and experimentation.

Thanks again for listening and for any comments! Have a great week!

Lyrics:

looking at me now

would you believe yourself

if the guy stood in front you

was screaming out  for help

its coming from those places

were we dare not think to look

if we admit defeat here

the what’s ours has been took

if loving you was holy

then loosing you was hell

thinking all the reasons

for the hand that we were dealt

if after all these years

you can’t look at me straight

iI guess I dodged a bullet

of a self I’d live to hate

I’m still  ringing from this summer

from the heatwave and the fights

we kept playing all this sad songs

like it would ever make things right

my friends say I look different

like someone who just survived

they just see empty spaces

that used to be my better side

if loving you was holy

then loosing you was hell

thinking all the reasons

for the hand that we were dealt

if after all these years

you can’t look at me straight

iI guess I dodged a bullet

of a self I’d live to hate

bridge

If i could turn the clocks back

I wouldn’t fix a single thing

Id just hold you in the door way

til the dawn began to sing

but we’re just ghosts inside a memory

haunting rooms we don’t belong

i’ll keep humming through the heartache

until we’ve written our last song

if loving you was holy

then loosing you was hell

thinking all the reasons

for the hand that we were dealt

if after all these years

you can’t look at me straight

iI guess I dodged a bullet

of a self I’d live to hate

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Aims for this week

Things I tried to do that I don't usually:

Build a track around pitching a sample up and down like changing tape speed, letting the track change tempo with the chord changes.No custom sounds.No fx.

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As always, there are process notes on my blog.

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prepare for the future, they say

while you may tire of carrying something now, they say

you'll be thankful later, they say

but don't take my word for it, they say

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