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I managed to port Dronage Terminal to iPadOS. It was a quite challenging task, even with the help of Claude Code. Anyways, I decided to compose this weeks tune fully on the iPad version, record it on iPad, normalize it with an app on my iPad (Wavebox!) and even upload it from a browser on my iPad! This was the final "test" to validate if I could release it on App Store. I think we passed the test!

Enjoy!

Screen recording from iPad:

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Made using the OP-XY … I have a small EP coming out in a few days as I’ve been spending the last few weeks reintroducing myself to the sp404 mk2.  That’s definitely not one that you just remember after a year of not touching it.  But I really enjoyed making my first SP404 album so I want to put something out on 404 day this year.  Oh crap that’s tomorrow… well gotta go!  Hope you enjoy this track.  I’m also planning to start making some OP-XY ‘tutorial/sharing  my experience with the device’ videos.  I set out to learn every thing I possibly could about it when I first got it (so that I could determine if it was worth keeping before my return window was up).  Ultimately I kept it but also kept on that drive to learn it inside and out and I feel like I have some good insight to share.  If that interests you at all stay tuned!

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Enjoy.

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Back at it with both hands this week. Wrist still pretty knackered, hopefully it will be better after the easter break. Another creation with no intent, I picked a tempo on a whim and started playing.

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This is the first week I'll be making music with the m8 headless. I barely dipped my toe in here, the possibilities with the m8 are overwhelmingly huge.

It is unfortunately also a week where I'll be traveling and away from my usual setup so I've had to submit what I can as a place holder, its a little more than a 1 loop sketch. I have hope I will have a chance to record something remotely but if you are reading this, that didn't happen.

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General MIDI vs. turntables

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This is quite a departure for me

The challenge this week was to create something using Hemiola. Music with ambiguity between the rhythm being grouped in 3 or 2.

I also wanted to explore Synthesizer V further and write a more conventional song.

I did this by having a harp playing an arpeggio in 3/4 and vibraphone playing the same chords in 4/4

The song is harmonically very simple with a basic line cliche progression with the bass note walking down over a static chord.

The Harp and Vibes are from a Roland XV-5080 which sounds quite good for a 90's rompler I think. The flute solo is from Arturia Augmented Woodwinds and the piano is the Kawaii model from the excellent pianoteq.

The ghostly noises are from Arturia Fragments.

The track was made in Bitwig.

Story

The lyrics tell the story of Clara Schumann

Clara was a virtuoso pianist and the wife of the composer Richard Schumann (A master of hemiola).

He was envious of her ability and attempted to stretch his hands using a machine leading him to paralyse his fingers and becoming reliant on her to promote his music.

He was introduced to the much younger Richard Strauss who he felt was the saviour of music and promoted as the "Favoured of the muse" unfortunately Strauss fell in love with Clara and the three of them ended up in a love triangle which drove Schumann mad leading to him throwing himself off a bridge and then checking himself into an asylum.

Strauss then moved into the Schumann home looking after his wife and children, but never acting on his love due to his great respect for his mentor Schumann.

When Schumann died Strauss moved out and finally died of grief when Clara died a few years later.

This song is their story.

Lyrics

Far away

Longing to hear you play

Notes I wrote for you

Turn the page

In every score I made

Lines in three and two

And if you were here I would hold you

In these broken hands

But I gave you to

The favoured of the muse

Flute solo!

In my ears

Demons and ghosts appear

Screaming out in A

On the bridge Clara I think of you

Lost in three and two

And if you were here I would tell you

I lived inside your hands

But I lost you to

The favoured of the muse

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Back to chiptuning for this week on the M8, this one is a weird detuned fast paced experimental groove with heavy modulation over the macro osc vocal preset, enjoy ;)

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