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Music makers - let's hear your recent jams!
Hi everyone - newly minted Tildes user and Reddit refugee.
I want to know how many of my fellow DIY amateur (or absolute pro) musicians are around, and where your recent jams are posted.
What kind of music do you like making - what's your workflow?
I play accordion. My most popular video is playing a song on an accordion-like MIDI controller that I built. You can hear my other recordings on my YouTube channel.
I record videos using an iPad mini on a stand, using the default camera app and a Yeti Blue microphone on a mic stand. (I also use GarageBand briefly to check that the volume is right on the mic.) I'm not too sure about the microphone, but at least I can plug it into the iPad and put it where I want. This gives me a setup where I can record by pressing one button. After doing a whole bunch of takes over several mornings, I eventually get one I like, transfer it to Apple's photo app on my desktop computer, trim the ends, and upload to YouTube.
It would be nice to improve the audio quality if I can do that without making the workflow any less convenient.
It also would be nice if I could play a song well without having to do a bunch of takes. I've learned to be patient. There's always tomorrow!
This is insanely cool - the wheel moving is so mesmerizing. I can't think of just how much time and coding and 3d printing and what not would have gone into this. Honestly the sound quality is pretty good! Considering this is triggering samples on the computer I'd expect it would be great.
I wish I could play a song well without multiple takes either! But it is what it is hahah.
When you said "MIDI Controller that I built" I was expecting something far jankier. That looks amazing and professional quality, I love the exposed wheel.
Nice sound, thanks for sharing!
I make all kinds of sounds, this particular band is more on the punky side
I also have a more heavy band and a more spaghetti western metal band.
This music vid I made for a song I haven't put out on Spotify or anything yet cus I'm finishing up the release.
https://youtu.be/C5BWuZ06G78
That's an insanely fun video - brings to mind some old school punk vibes. Rock on dude!
Good times!
Oh man this is right up my alley, what a jam!
This is the last thing I made, a couple months ago: https://soundcloud.com/snailboytunes/ya-know
Was working on an album at the time, with like 8 or 9 short songs produced, but I think this guy kind of blew the rest of them out of the water... so I stopped. Then again, it takes me years to produce anything anyways, so maybe I'll come back to it. This is probably Track 2, at least.
Workflow is... uh... I use a waveform editor to cut samples of things, and use a lot of paste-over and fade-ins and outs, reverses, VLC plugins, etc, to make chopped-and-screwed beats and stuff. My attention span used to be way longer back in the day, so producing longer tracks is tougher these days, but I'm working my way back up. Garageband seems to have dulled my senses in the interim.
I think you should continue my friend - this is a tune that does blow things out of the water - there's more where this came from FOR SURE!
Yeah this is a banger. I agree, you should continue!
Great groove! Keep working on stuff homie
I'm working on my solo debut album right now. I put out an instrumental EP called 'Paratext' in December and a little follow-up single called 'Parting'.
Noise Job is also working on some new stuff! Scheduling continues to be a hinderance with the two of us on different continents.
On more personal news I got my professional home studio built and it's been a blast just working on anything there.
Added to my liked songs on Spotify - this is one of those extremely chill background songs that I can keep listening on and on. The feeling of waves is intense. What synth is that?
Thank you! The "wavy" synth is actually two different Ableton suite synths stacked on top of each other, one is a stock one "MPE Airy Pad & Sub" and the Dust Particles synth by Arovane which I think is from one of Ableton's packs. Cover it in some EQ, delay and reverb and you're cooking!
Trippy stuff! What’s the vision for the new solo album?
I guess it kinda is haha! The solo album is gonna be a collection of songs about all kinds of personal stuff and thoughts about where we're at as a whole. It's in Finnish and it's pretty far along. I'm aiming to start dropping singles in the fall in the lead up to the full release. It's shaping up to be something pretty great, and it's gonna be special to me regardless of how it turns out.
That’s what it’s all about :) - best of luck with it!
For real :) Cheers! I might post something about it here when when the rollout is happening, too.
A classical composition I wrote a long time ago.
Waltz in G# minor for solo piano
Whoa - this is new! I have never heard from someone who composes Classical piano scores. Was this performed by you as well?
Yes. That's me in the recording.
Currently trying to break out of my anxiety-hole and make music with a guy I've been practicing with for a while. He does guitar/vocals and I play bass. We've recorded a few jams but nothing concrete just yet. I'll throw an old one in. It's sloppy but I think there are cool ideas in there. https://youtu.be/T3rItmNwmqg
Also, I'll post a song I played bass for a long time ago with a different group. One of my favorite lines I've come up with. https://youtu.be/8vshOBWPPSc
Love the interplay of the guitar and bass there. It's got a very garage rock aesthetic to it (likely because it is garage rock? haha!). But it's also got a bit of a post-rocky flavour which I'm really digging. I'd love to hear more where that came from.
Thanks! We have a bunch of rough drafts but we haven't gotten around to actually recording them properly. Had a rough spell for a bit but slowly I've been enjoying playing music again
The most recent thing I've completed was this conversion of ARYX.S3M to a Commodore64-format chiptune, using Furnace. I used MilkyTracker to see the note values, and sort of just built out the sounds as needed in Deflemask, initially, and finished it in Furnace.. I generally aim for house, techno, or weird IDMmy stuff somewhere in that area, but have been pivoting into chiptune.
For a look at what I tend to do, I tried to make a 4-track EP for Timasomo, our annual creative sprint event, but was only able to get to two tracks down. Then it took me longer to get back to mixing things decently.
My process is generally that I'll hear something in my head and bang it out. I consider this as the seed that I'll build around, and try to see what feels right, both for structure, or style. In general I prefer to try to aim for more generative and progressive stuff that gradually emerges and pulls back and reveals subpatterns I didn't plan on. That was especially the focus of those two tracks, as there's sort of a generative element to see what emerges from what I put down over time, and I'll add/remove something occasionally when I feel the need to change things up.
Very acid feels on that Timasomo track. I think the bassline getting its filter and resonance opened just makes me jam out instantly.
I never got into trackers - even though I have always enjoyed sounds made by trackers - I think I tried out a couple when I was a kid - I played this arkanoid clone with a BANGER trance soundtrack that got me into trackers... but I got so confused I quit. Sigh - wish I persevered. I got into music very late (during the pandemic) - wish I had done it sooner.
Oh wow when does Timasomo kick off? It'd be sweet to be a part of it. I got so much out of Jamuary and NaNoWriMo - I want to get back to it.
Timasomo is in November.
I had wanted to make music and found MilkyTracker in 2007 and persevered. I pirated FLStudio at one point, then went to Aldrin (a Linux-only BuzzTracker clone), BuzzTracker, OpenMPT then Renoise. Many of them are kind of obtuse, with Renoise, Furnace, and Milkytracker being the easiest ones to work with, IMO, and OpenMPT in a close 4th. Furnace lets you make chip-specific music and provides all the information you'll need to do it in the application, which is immensely helpful.
For one of the Timasomo tracks, I'd been using Acidbox V2 in Renoise, since it's one of the few things I can't really get to sound/program right in any DAW without using some sort of emulation.
It’s been a while since I managed to release something new (although I’ve been sitting on a single for over a year because I have failed to finish the backing vocals). We used to do a song a month though. It’s all here: https://pedestrianzero.bandcamp.com/
In terms of workflow I do most of the writing then my producer/drummer does the making it sound good using protools.
Whoa - the production of Falling Face Forward is so good. I love how in your face the music is - and I really like your voice man - it's got grit. Great tracks - followed!
I bought a DAW on sale a few months ago and started poking around some. The music I produce is kinda all over the place genre-wise, but I like to call it "music for a video game I'll never make." So a lot of them are designed to be like, looped infinitely while you're in that part of the game world, if that makes sense.
I haven't uploaded many, but here's the latest one. I think I like how it came out a lot.
I am imagining a top down fast paced shooter somehow. Like Hotline Miami, but with lasers and spaceships... I'd play this game!
Which DAW are you using?
Magix Music Maker. The version with all the bells and whistles went on sale for like $35 which is impulse buy territory for me.
I picked up guitar during the pandemic...you definitely don't want to hear my music, but I love it. I got into bass and uke too. Because I make music just for fun and not to perform, I really like acoustic songs with fun percussive elements. I just think it's fun to slap the strings or do some fun fingerpicking.
Lately, I've been having a lot of fun poorly playing Stop this Train by John Mayer. But I've also been fingerpicking the Toy Story theme, and that's amusing.
Same! I picked up a guitar during the pandemic lockdown and got obsessed with it thanks to Rocksmith. Something about playing the strings makes me calmer somehow. Very meditative.
The band I’m in very recently released an EP that we’re really proud of. Bits of post-rock, bits of indie rock, but overall a fairly unique sound we feel like. The whole thing was self-produced by our drummer and recorded in a linen closet so there were limitations, but we really put our hearts into it. Check it out on Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/album/7yc17YKhIRcKXWzOtYKqZ7?si=Ksj2jy5MSaGKAswpMuz2OA
As far as our workflow, it’s about what you’d expect for a quintet. We have two people who write the bulk of the material early on (guitar stems and vocals) and the rest of us build on that with our parts. We have three guitarists so emphasis is placed on making sure each part is distinct yet complementary. Bass and drums work with each other to lay down a solid floor for the songs, and once we have a full song down, we take our time modifying the parts until we feel like it’s acceptable. We hear our sound mostly for live performance, as it’s our strongest showing. Translating the sound to recording has proven difficult, but we’re getting there.
Nice. I like how it has a very dreamy and chill production, even with the band size and choice of instrumentation (e.g. the kit is not exploding everying, even though it's clearly getting hammered from time to time). 'See You When I See You' is my fav so far.
Thanks so much for listening! See You When I See You is our favorite as well. It came about more organically than the rest of the songs: we were noodling around as a group and just found that sound and ran with it. The song was sparse at first, but adding the synth made it pop.
We all come from various musical backgrounds, but half of us come from hardcore so we were trying to take what made that music so enjoyable to us and translate it to a dreamier feeling. Our live sound is very dynamic and on the border of “too much” at times, but we know when to blast and when to reign it in. I feel like this EP is a good stepping stone for us to flesh out the sound a bit more for the full-length album.
Sounds cool. Yeah, I think you can get away with dreamy and 'too much' at times as long as there's cohesion and focus on stage (which I'm sure there is). Ever listened to Brutus?
I had not until now, but I really like what I hear. They’re right in line with many of our influences as far as how they orchestrate. I love the emotion in her voice, it brings so much energy to their music.
Yeah, I really like them. That 'driving' dreamlike quality works a treat.
Whoa I would LOVE to hear you guys live. Is there a recording of your live songs?
Still going through your EP - Tandem is a great song - I love the post rock feels on it. Very very cool shift halfway through.
I recorded a solo album last year in the span of five months, after kind of giving up on my previous band project of 10 years: https://greytrout.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-lightning-strike
I recorded bass and guitar myself and used a combination of Logic Drummer and Addictive Drums 2 for the Drum Parts. Was really fun, as I’ve never used much reamping or vocal double tracking before.
This is really cool. I really loved that lead guitar tone in the first track's end solo. Did you do the mixing yourself too? or just the tracking? Your voice reminds me of some desert rock band, but I can't think of which one.
Thank you so much! Yeah I like that tone too. I was planning on re-amping that solo, but in the end i left it pretty much unprocessed. So it’s just guitar, a silicon fuzz face and playing with the guitars vibrato bar.
Yeah, I did all of the tracking, mixing and mastering myself.
Listened to the whole thing! Really enjoyable, super sweet, I love the atmosphere going through the whole album, really enjoyable guitars. Great closing track!
Thank you for your kind words! It’s nice reading someone getting the atmosphere of tracks you recorded. I guess it’s not something every listener notices right off the bat.
Woah dude - this is a professional production! Desolation is a great track: the solo hits the spot; I'm still listening to the rest of it. Great stuff - do you play live?
Thank you for your kind words! Yeah I believe Desolation is also my favorite track on the whole album :D great to know someone else likes my stuff
No, I don’t play live at the moment. I have not had good experiences with other bandmates in the past and playing completely solo, I’d have a hard time recreating everything, you know.
I mainly make electronic music on a DAW since I'm not very good with instruments (I can just barely play some simple songs on the piano). I compose game esque music since that's where my interests lie. I also for some reason really like making orchestral music even though I don't listen to it myself. My workflow is usually picking one part of the song to compose first (usually the chord progression) then composing a 2 bar loop that will later become the chorus. After that I just keep adding sections / variety to make the main idea more interesting.
For my learning points I still think my melodies suck, but I have been just throwing down random simple chord progressions and putting a melody over it since my teacher said doing it more causes you to improve. Furthermore I'm way too much of a perfectionist so it's very hard for me to start working on a song because it /has/ to be better than the last one which sucks lol.
I think it's important to finish tracks rather than have them be good. I got so much out of Jamuary this year - 31 tracks of varying quality but at least 2-3 that I genuinely liked, which I would not have gotten if I didn't sit every day to complete and publish. I think that's really the key - turn up, produce. The quality will go up on its own.
‘The Mezz’ from Berkshire, England is my main project. The band’s still very new but we’ve pieced together a few cool music videos.
I’m super proud of this one https://youtu.be/PaYHQY_3QpI
This one’s probably our most summer-y:
https://youtu.be/kpqPEf5BSoA
Feel free to AMA :)
I've only watched the first vid so far, but I love the mood! Subscribed
Thank you! It was great fun to make.
Dude this is so old school punk rock - I really enjoyed listening to it! You should be proud of the song and the music video - looks like y'all had a lot of fun!
Workflow questions are always just so interesting, with such a diversity among musicians even of such potentially similar sounds!
Personally, with my music tending to be built upon sample manipulation, electronic, and instrumental passages, I find myself naturally creating with the workflow of, for any given song, recording a few hours of instrumental improvisation before listening through and identifying little parts that stick out to me as potentially being a little bit special, and with those bits (if they exist!) I form a foundation of a song by taking these sections and manipulating them. From there, I tend to find that the music flows naturally once this foundation is present, with new sections and passages relatively intuitively following. It's such a rewarding process!
I hadn't made this connection until I started writing this comment, but I note now the similarity to what I'd read in an interview with Jonny Greenwood about the writing of Radiohead's Idioteque; it seems to be a similar philosophy, which I think is interesting.
As for what I'm working on right now: I'm taking the A-side of my last single, April Drowne May Live (https://idforgivenessfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/april-drowne-must-live), which was probably that philosophy that I described as it worked best for me, and trying to create a live set therefrom to be able to tour it a bit. I'm quite excited!
Wow - this is quite a track actually. I'm trying to make something with found sounds, samples etc. for a challenge entirely on the Synthstrom Deluge on their Discord. This hit some place that I wanted to go.
There's something about samples of people speaking, filtered out in the background that really speaks to me, along with all that radio static and noises. I don't know why - it really hits the spot. I'll read Jonny Greenwood's interview now.
Very kind of you to say—thank you.
My apologies with the inaccurate Jonny Greenwood interview link; I've corrected it now to go to the interview itself.
I hadn't heard of the Synthstrom Deluge before, but it looks very impressive! As somebody recently tempted by the new Push 3 controller for Ableton which seemingly aims for a similar space, especially the MPE capabilities, I'm quite interested in how you find that bit of kit.
Yeah I got into Ableton Live recently (was recording on Reaper mostly and doing DAWless jams most of the time). I realised that the Deluge works the same way as Live's session view and I realised I should've at least tried Live lite when it came with one of my MIDI keyboards so many moons ago. The Deluge is an incredible piece of kit - the creators recently made the firmware open source so I'm excited to see the new possibilities there.
I was a sort-of well known producer and DJ for about 10 years, and recently got back into it after a hiatus of almost the same length.
I make Drum & Bass now, my latest project is called HCKRS and is in the same lane as stuff from Metalheadz, Technique and Eatbrain if those labels are your thing. I made loads of Dubstep and Hip-Hop before that, which is what I was more known for, so this new project is change of pace for me.
You can check my latest track on youtube here, it's out everywhere next Wednesday so if you dig it or my other stuff, throw me a follow wherever you listen to music for more!
I saw your new track pop up in my notifications the other day. I'm one of those thumbs up. ;) Good shit!
Thanks man, I guess you’re now my oldest fan ;)
Hah, yeah I guess I am. I wish I had known you were still producing music after all these years so I could have kept up with it though. But I'm glad to have rediscovered it now. Been a long time since I last listened to Jungle/DNB regularly too, but now that I am, I'm wondering why I ever stopped. :P
I mentioned this guy named "Pizza Hotline" in my comment about my current fave DNB Artists over here, but you specifically would really dig him and that whole scene. It's very "suburban basement n64 nostalgia ... but a rave"
Ooh, thanks for the rec. After a quick listen I am digging it so far. Good fusion of Ambient and DNB, so definitely right up my alley! I'm gonna save listening to the rest of it for when I do the next invite topic on /r/tildes though, so I have something to keep my mind occupied while I hand the invites out. :P
Whoa - a celeb!
Icebreaker hits HARD. Just the right oomph I needed on a Monday morning commute whew. Definitely following on Spotify and YouTube.
Few months ago I worked on background music for my game and one ended up being It Never Ends, a sassy electronic chiptune that I ended getting too into and now it isn't very background-like anymore... Really need to get back into it!
My safe space is good ol' Reason 5. If it ain't broke don't, fix it.
Haha you know what this reminds me? Some Bit.Trip.Beat sounds. Definitely video game sounds. And yes - I agree it's not background-like at all - makes you sit down and listen to it - or at least interact with it somehow: perfect for a rhythm action game!
I've been working on some chill instrumental tracks about robots interacting with different aspects of nature.
I really enjoy having a picture or a rough story in my head, and then 'illustrating' it with music.
The first one is called 'Good Dream', which I put out last year. I will be releasing an EP with more of these tracks very shortly (I've been a bit slow as I really just make music for fun).
You can check out the initial one on Spotify or YouTube. This one is 'about' a robot falling asleep in a forest and having a dream where he can fly (but YMMV).
Edit: Also, if anyone would like to tell me what major genre they think this is, that would be great! I kind of find myself using general EDM and downtempo categories when there's nothing better, but any other steers would be useful.
Good Dreams is absolutely a chill downstep song but I can see what you mean by having trouble categorising it. It's like drone-y (without having any drones) but has some mild gamelan music vibes (I think it's the flute and the ethnic percussion). This is really good - you should make more! What were you thinking of with a Good Dream? I'm picturing a picturesque village in the middle of the woods with a flowing river nearby and you're just chilling and enjoying a warm summer afternoon.
Thank you for the kind words!
That's the one I described, about the robot falling asleep in the woods - you weren't far off! I like to think of my little initial 'story' as just one of the ingredients, though - once it's a finished track it's 'about' whatever a listener pictures.
I have three more tracks finished for the EP, currently on the final mix/master stages.
The other tracks feature a robot lost in a desert, one adrift at sea on the brink of giving up (but it decides to give it one final go) and one singing in apparent solitude on the top of a mountain (who gets a little surprise).
Thanks also for your thoughts on genre - at least my initial thoughts weren't totally off!
Oh right - you did describe it haha. I thought it was somehow a different song.
Looking forward to hearing more from you!
Thanks for making this thread! I'm taking my time, but trying to work through it and pick out some interesting stuff.
Coming recently from a popular link aggregator site (guess which), I'm loving the pace and culture here - a lot more personal and community vibey.
Yep me too! It's so peaceful and community-like. Very old internet feels.
My instrumental prog rock band just recorded an EP in my tiny home studio and started working on the next, with me playing the bass and guitar. Our earlier 2 albums were recorded with a different guitarist in an actual studio but the engineer moved to another state, and by then my screwing around with Reaper for a long time had gotten me good enough my bandmates were on board with just doing it here. Or at least worth the quality sacrifice for the cost savings, can't beat free lol.
I've also got a solo project (also prog rock but with vocals and less technical stuff) that I've put out a few singles under, and I'm working on a full album during the downtime for the first project. I need to be in the right headspace for it though
Everything I record is DI, except vocals and occasionally acoustic guitar. Amps are done through BIAS 2, drums are Superior Drummer 3 either tracked on my electric kit or just based on the surprisingly-great MIDI loops built-in. For processing, it's mainly some combo of stock Reaper plugins, and Soundtoys & Fabfilter.
I love how flexible Reaper is. It even has its own built-in programming language for writing plugins, which I've used to do some MIDI transformation stuff.
Whoa I really liked the EP! Memo has a really weird chiptuney+prog rock feels (at least to me - that intro synth riff sounds like it could belong to a NES game haha)
Reaper is da bomb. It's so easy to record stuff on it plus it's FAST. I got fairly decent at it for recording. I recently also got into Ableton Live and let me tell you the combination of these two is incredible. Sad that Live is incredibly expensive tho (I got the upgrade as a gift but I likely wouldn't have paid all of it myself lol).
Hey, thanks! Retro video games are definitely a huge inspiration. I'll be sure to let the synth player know haha. I've never used Ableton before. What do you use it for, instead of Reaper? I feel like I'd have a hard time with a workflow that uses two DAWs.
Imo Reaper is fantastic and bar none when it comes to mixing and mastering and recording stuff for a final polish. I do my narrations exclusively on Reaper because of how fast it is to get things done.
Ableton really shines when it comes to creating music - the Session view is mindblowing in how good it is to just quickly whip up something that sounds good and moving things around. This video by Loopop made it "click" in my head and then just playing around with it made me instantly happy. It's one of those immediate music making things and it's really an instrument rather than just a recording medium. And it's got like tonnnnnnneees of synths, drum kits, etc. baked in so that's also easy to make stuff with.
I make some music -- mostly video game music since I make a lot of small solo games. I play guitar and also have a lyre that I play but am bad at. Most of the time I just use the guitar and lyre and sometimes my voice, record stuff into a DAW many times and somehow fiddle with things until it sounds good to me. I taught myself how to do everything music related so I do stuff my way, which probably isn't the best (or even a good) way. I use Ableton Live as my DAW. A pretty important VST for me is the MT Power drum VST, it's incredible how good it is especially considering it is free!
Here's a drone track I have created for a compilation made with a community of fans of drone music of which I am a part of: A Dryad's Wound, A Dark Scar. The compilation is here, it's very cool especially if you consider we all made the tracks in a single day -- if you like drone music definitely would recommend: Wisconsin: A Collection of Sonic Scapes
Here's the OST of a game I made, this one is just a small intro track improvised on lyre and afterwards a longer track which is created as backing for the whole game (yep the game is very short!): ULTRA INSTINCT NINJA MASTER of the Dark Forest OST
I also sometimes do some covers when I feel like it, here's a random one: The Microphones - Instrumental Cover
Whoa this is insane. Did you code all of Dark Forest on your own? How did you make it? I'm trying to get into game design as well - never fully immersed myself into it, but it's something I've always wanted to do...
Also how does one get into making music with a lyre? That's quite interesting.
Yep I made it solo in 48 hours! Well technically it uses Unity as a game engine, which is basically a foundation for common things that games need to do, which I obviously didn't make so I didn't make it fully solo. There are many ways you can do game design, it's easier if you are already a programmer, but you can learn even if you aren't and also there are many types of games you can make even if you don't know how to code. If you have any specific questions about game dev I'd be happy to answer them!
I basically just decided that lyres are cool so I bought a cheap one online (surprisingly it feels pretty well made) and I just play it. Improvising on a lyre is quite easy cause they are tuned to a major key, so basically just doing random stuff often sounds pretty ok. I also learned that I am not good at all at reading music notation and transcribing music for different instruments to lyre so I have created a tool which can take a midi file and convert it into a sort of notation that I can then play on lyre. It tries to transpose the music so it fits on my lyre but obviously a lot of music isn't made in the major key so it quite often doesn't really work. It's very rough and basically made only for me, but it does the job when I really want to make a cover of something that has .midi files online on lyre. I have it hosted on Github and it can be tried here.
Incredible! I am drawn to weird instruments - I bought a baglamas when I was in Greece and it's one of my favourite little things to strum around. Completely superceded the ukulele in terms of accessibility. I'm in the process of looking around for cool new instruments to buy when I go to Japan as a souvenir + collection. The taishogoto has got me very interested...
Oh yeah weird instruments are so cool! The only other instrument I have is a minibanjo, but that one is actually quite terrible, it also was very cheap but it also doesn't feel good to play at all :D. The lyre I have cost even less but is perfectly usable.
That's a great idea getting some from Japan, I'd totally do that too if I was in Japan -- I already saw some super interesting instruments from there and the taishogoto looks very cool indeed!
My latest, I do a lot of downtempo and synth wave stuff, all released under Creative Commons
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqk35Lf5tA
Here is my soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aapatheist
This is probably my best: https://soundcloud.com/aapatheist/gardenwav
And this is a good example of my style: https://soundcloud.com/aapatheist/inst-23
I've been producing as a hobby off and on for a few years, I mainly make generic synthy beats. Not sure what genre I fit into, just sort of pop / trap / beats / synth / whatever. Sometimes I do some real mediocre vocals and autotune them but usually don't put them on soundcloud.
Always interested in feedback. And hey if you follow me you'll be one of my first followers that isn't a bot or coerced irl friend! get in on the ground floor and all ya know
Followed! You should make a longer track of woah hey - I was just getting into it when it abruptly stopped hahaha.
What do you use as such to record?
Thanks! yeah it is true that all my tracks are too short. I use this microphone: https://hyperx.com/products/hyperx-quadcast-s-usb-microphone?variant=42438091866269 mainly because it matches my white RGB mechanical keyboard by Ducky. And I use fl studio for all the production stuff
RGB obviously means it's better haha. Lovely stuff!
I make mostly electronic music, probably best described as some kind of downtempo organic house/techno/electronica/whatever ;) Some of my latest track are this one https://soundcloud.com/user26b/pachyderm and https://soundcloud.com/user26b/platypus and https://soundcloud.com/user26b/jardin-foret
I have been working a lot on my sounddesign and arrangement skills for the last two years and I am looking forward to all the stuff I am going to learn in the next two years :)
I use mostly Ableton, Elektron Machinedrum, MAM ADX1 and a small-ish (260hp) eurorack.
Love the vibes actually - I like those descriptions. I can work with these playing in the background and my head keeps bobbing up and down with the beats - sweet stuff. What's on your eurorack! It's the final frontier for me I feel - one day I'll dive in - but likely in 10 years' time hahaha.
thx, glad you liked it ;)
My eurorack contains a MI Plaits, Braids, Erica Fusion VCO and a MN Mysteron and then lots of modulation sources and a Wasp Filter. I also use 6 outputs from my (dc coupled) audio interface to send pitch and gate information directly from Ableton (great for tracking melodies).
My grandmother passed a couple weeks ago. I recorded a piano arrangement of one of the songs she used to love singing: Minamahal Kita, a Filipino kundiman (folk song).
It also got me in a pretty melancholic mood in general, so I turned the Super Mario 1-UP sound effect into a sad little medley about growing up and living a life beyond gaming, but with a hopeful twist at the end that says I'm never gonna stop playing.
I've yet to upload that second song.
Sounds absolutely gorgeous - your playing is very sweet and melodic. I'm sure she's listening to it wherever she is.
I'd love to hear the Super Mario song - I find myself getting into these melancholic moods (and your piano certainly helped...) and finding myself longing for simpler times. Please do share it here.
Thank you for the kind thought.
This is still rough as it was the product of an improv practice, but here you go: untitled Mario medley. Some lyrics I noodled down along with the improv, mostly to guide how I wanted the song to make me feel but also because it was fun and the nostalgia turned into something funnier to me towards the end:
I've posted this elsewhere, but I'm proud of this small chiptune EP I did several weeks ago. The whole thing was composed in Dn-Famitracker, conceptually as a MegaMan-ish OST to a game that doesn't really exist. The story behind why I made this in the first place was essentially just me browsing through a couple old songs I made years ago and redoing all of them back to back to the point of me saying "alright, let's just roll with it".
https://cqns.bandcamp.com/album/wrath-of-the-omniphage
As you should be! This is like a throwback record man - I'd like to play this game now. Maybe you and @Tygrak can collab together to make a cool game with atmospheric and chiptune sounds.
Never got into trackers but always liked the output from them - I don't think the workflow is for me, but the sounds are definitely for me - ever since I sailed the high seas and got some keygens when I was a kid.
Hey - thanks a ton for the kind words, there does exist a bit of lore I've hidden away in the individual tracks in the Bandcamp, so I've already got something of substance brewing! I've always been a sucker for chiptune/fakebit style compositions, and I've been doing this sorta thing for YEARS. Guess it's time for me to step it up!
Hello!
I have a few recent tracks. I welcome anyone to give 'em a listen and let me know your thoughts:
Something Cozy
This was supposed to be a very heavy song, but I failed to build it up, so it ended up being rather chill.
After putting most of the track together, I sent it off to my father, who proceeded to return it to me with a few guitar tracks he'd recorded over it. I took those tracks, re-processed them in various ways, and added them throughout the song.
Channels
This was actually a song I made as a test after finally upgrading to Ableton 11 (from 9). Lots of samples, oscillators, and I even used a vocoder for my first time!
I also wrote the soundtrack for this short film in between the two songs listed above.
My workflow is "keep trying things until I get something that sounds interesting". I have many half-finished never-to-be-touched-again Ableton live set files laying around my computers, each titled simply by the date I started them.
I think you should do a remix of Something Cozy with some heavy distorted synths overlapping the main piano riff when the drop hits (at the 1min mark) along with all the other elements that are there. Hahaha - it's such a danceable song despite also somehow being cozy? Really like the chorus riff actually - I'm digging it.
I was NOT expecting the dubstep drop on Channels hahahah - great stuff!
Workflow-wise - I feel you! I have a bunch of random songs just saved halfway on my Deluge which never saw the light of day for being a full song.
Hell ya, I like the idea! Maybe I'll give it a shot soon.
Thanks for the comments :)