your weekly thawkins

Thanks for the compliments on our jams! It has been really fun, completely different from playing with people in person and also from working solo.  I definitely recommend trying it out!

The only real downside is that most of the gear I hoarded over the last decade before it got too expensive is getting underused now since I'm down to just noodling on two instruments and looping them in the Octatrack while THawkins does the heavy lifting.

As per THawkins' signature, we're usually live on Tuesdays at 8:30 CET/2:30 EST on Twitch and Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zzia1LKspJRLsu0wGFP6w

Because of the way Ninjam's timing offset works the live versions I stream are a lot different than THawkins' stem mixes even though it's the same performance.  Mine are what I hear and his are what he hears, but on each end the other person's audio is delayed by two bars so things lie up completely differently.  It sounds like a terrible idea on paper but it actually works really well.

This week I just totally phoned it in and let a generative-random Live project play things for me.

I don't really know how this "generative" thing works, but maybe you could try "generating" several different tracks in the same key and tempo, and then use each of them in one track for more variety? I honestly don't know if that's possible or not.

  On 3/15/2021 at 1:58 AM, sTeh B L said:

I don't really know how this "generative" thing works, but maybe you could try "generating" several different tracks in the same key and tempo, and then use each of them in one track for more variety? I honestly don't know if that's possible or not.

Maybe "generative" is a bad word for what I am doing, but I made a thread about this in EKT general. Basically I just play a chord and I have a complex chain of MIDI effects in Live that does the rest. Choice of sounds is definitely important here, but I have gotten a lot of mileage out of this during the last couple of months.

My computer crashed halfway through this, see if you can spot where. 

My edited part of this week's livestreamed jam session:

And the whole thing in audiovisual glory:

Or if you just want a slightly different mix of the audio:

Another week, another livestream, another Ableton Live crash at the most crucial moment I swear it was autoupdating itself in the middle of me doing the jam. Accidentally deleting a MIDI track should not crash the whole computer.

Also earlier I uploaded an edit of last week's jam:

  On 3/21/2021 at 9:51 PM, thawkins said:

 

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Very pleasant!  Like staying up all night and walking out in the morning fog as it’s lifting

  On 4/16/2021 at 2:50 PM, Claudius t Ansuulim said:

Very pleasant!  Like staying up all night and walking out in the morning fog as it’s lifting

Thanks, I get what you mean by that comparison. This reminds me that I should get out more. Glad you like the track!  

Really tried to achieve something like real krautrock with this one. I mean it came out organically in the jam session, and then I tried to arrange and mix it nicely. Honestly I have not had the guts to listen to it after uploading.

Reverb! OrilRiver!

  On 5/2/2021 at 10:32 PM, thawkins said:

Reverb! OrilRiver!

 

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Just gave it a listen in the GAS thread and it's a lovely, lovely track !!

@Stock@eassae Thanks a lot. Glad you liked the track! Definitely going to use more reverb going forward (tastefully of course).

This week's livestream came out pretty well. Something for psychedelic space krautrock enthusiasts.

And here's a well-mixed* extract of one of the best parts.

* - it's meant to sound like that, ok!

And here's the full jam session that I made the above track out of.

This week I remixed an old track.

And here's the recording of this week's jam session:

So I spent some time and remixed and arrange the intro of that last jam session recording, feeling better about it than I usually do.

This is probably the best jam session we have had so far.

And here is the intro parts, slightly rearranged and remixed.

Some attempt at faster krautrock.

... which is a part of this jam session

But we also did a new jam session yesterday!

A short krautrock track I did using only a vanilla Reaper install because I was away during the weekend:
 

And here is last week's online streaming experimental jam session with fellow WATMM user Tubular Corporation: