Happy new year wishes to all + Come down track for morning ravers

Wishing you all a happy new year. I am not the most active member but thanks for a great forum and a good year passed

Couldn't quite figure out how to embbed the soundcloud link

https://soundcloud.com/crckln/pareidola-1

I like the way everything comes together tonally, except perhaps for that acid bass. I dunno, though?? I mean it's a well done acid bass & I can't think of anything offhand that I'd put in its place. It just makes the track sound like an Aphex track to me. I dunno man I'm picking straws here

That pause around the 50 second mark is mayyyybe a little too long. Feels like the track ended, went off to get a snack & watch the fourth season of the wire

Hi Cryptowen,

Thank you for your comment, I had stopped working on this track and after 3 months I found the patterns and some other stuff I did by accident, and a friend suggested that I should finish it. I had exactly the same feeling as you, it feels a little too much like Aphex, and maybe not, dunno. I like his stuff, who doesn't hehe

It was meant more like a kind of elektro track to start with and it evolved into something else.

The pause is entirely on purpose, I tried to make it longer and shorter but didn't like it so I kept it this way.

Everything is done in one take, nothing edited or post processed. All modular, it's can be kind of a hassle to make modular tunes so in that respect I am glad that I finished it. And it feels good for me to finish things, even though it rarely happens after I have gone modular, but it's definetely something I will start doing in 2015.

Maybe that is why it's a good new years tune :)

  On 1/3/2015 at 11:40 PM, Cryptowen said:

That pause around the 50 second mark is mayyyybe a little too long. Feels like the track ended, went off to get a snack & watch the fourth season of the wire

lol,

yeah pretty daring, I say keep it :) . About the track, didn't do that much for me, it has got all the usual suspects when it comes to the sound selection, oldschool drumkit - check, moody pads - check, acid squelch vibes - check. I think you can push it harder, more variation instead of looping the same patterns all throughout til the end.

I think you are right about the patterns, but for me it's finished now. I have some other projects going and want to start using the computer again.

Think I focused a little too much on changing the drum sounds instead of changing the patterns

Nice track in your spoiler :) Really cool

  On 1/6/2015 at 11:37 PM, acidbob said:

I think you are right about the patterns, but for me it's finished now. I have some other projects going and want to start using the computer again.

I hear you, from the ex to the next ;) .

Just read this is a one take modular session in your reply to Cryptowen, do you always just record the master out or also record the individual channels? If the latter, might be cool to revisit the separate stems for re-arranging, apply extra processing for your next project?

I just recently bought a RME UFX with 12 inputs, but I have been using a combination og mixer and the few available inputs before that.

But really there is no way I can record individual tracks, there is way to many, even for this piece I just posted, think it's about 10 synth voices and 5 drum machines. I like to layer things.

I had a dream about a small jungle/dnb record for 2015 that I would like to do instead.

Kind of miss the way you can sit with a beer and do beats etc. In a DAW without thinking about wires and how things will act the next time you turn on the machines.

Sometimes the feeling to continue or alter a track can dissapear and you have to revisit it again in a couple of years, hope that makes sense.

If you want to do a remix you are more than welcome :)

  On 1/7/2015 at 4:03 PM, acidbob said:

But really there is no way I can record individual tracks, there is way to many, even for this piece I just posted, think it's about 10 synth voices and 5 drum machines. I like to layer things.

You could group layers based on type; drums, pads, bass etc, instead of recording every separate layer?

Been trying to do something like this in Renoise, instead of programming the structure beforehand, put recording plugins on the group outs ( http://anarchysoundsoftware.co.uk/anarchysoundsoftware/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/anarchyrecorder.zip), loop sections, patterns of a song and record the midi-controller jamming to .wav's.

You end up with a lot of material which can be a chore to go through afterwards to select, cut out the bits that work, re-import them for re-arranging, but on the up-side you get a more searching, organic sound imo. Moar possibilities.

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If you want to do a remix you are more than welcome :)

That'd be fun, but I have no time for it at the moment, maybe another time?

You are completely right, and that is a good way to work. But my concept for a longer period has been to get away from the computer so that has been a no go.

But now I want to integrate the computer to my setup. But a completely different kind of music (I hope)

Yeah sure, maybe I will PM you if I got anything that could be fun