Is anything ever really ‘Finished’ now? Not sure, but in the mean time…
Really soul restoring to be playing real bass again, kicks in hard after the second chorus. #RiffyFun.
Composer-Producer-Sound Designer-Educator-Drunkard-Pervert
Is anything ever really ‘Finished’ now? Not sure, but in the mean time…
Really soul restoring to be playing real bass again, kicks in hard after the second chorus. #RiffyFun.
Just messing with the MicroFreaks Voice Oscillator.
Been playing with the @ArturiaOfficial #MicroFreak. Its FUN. Its Bonkers Fun.
Sadly it also has a very unappealing digital ‘noise’ (a friend referred to it as “DigitalHash’) so more delicate sounds are not really viable, but cranked up its pretty bloody usable.
Its quite an interesting cross between ya bog standard 1 Osc subtractive, and something more modular with some west coast elements. Consequently as a sad old synth geek, it’s quite interesting. The conductive pads that respond polyphonically are really what made me get this as it seems like an interesting controller for future projects regardless of its own synth engine. Anyway, its a hilarious machine for creating riffy ‘acid’ type synth loops. So I’ve been reliving my 90’s dance producer life, and wishing i’d had one of these back then.
From the very Wonderful Jeff Rona
“Modwheel’s new WaveSkimmer is a deceptively simple and incredibly powerful instrument. I am always looking for ways to add subtle movement and rhythms to my cues, and WaveSkimmer has pretty close to infinite sonic and musical possibilities. It’s helping me with my deadline right now!”
Got tasked to make some samples useful in EXS24…
Decided to take it up a notch…
ALCHEMY is rather GOOD.
Been head down in instrument design, needed a short spell thinking in a different way to clear my head so…
Via the ModWheel.co.nz
MODWHEEL
PERC+ features 128 patches for Kontakt 5.5 or higher. It includes cymbals, bells, gongs, objects, small percussions, tuned instruments as well as upright piano and a viola da gamba. With up to 10 round robins and 20 layer velocities depending on the instrument.
We bought it back in 2014 and having used it extensively we’ve had some ideas on how to make it an even better user experience. So the interface has been streamlined to make this huge library more immediately useable. The patches are the same but following MODWHEEL’S simple principle of ‘less is more’ we’ve redesigned the GUI curating a few choice functions on the front page for the user.
These include Envelope, Tuning, Body, Reverb, Delay, Arpeggiator and Stutter Key. And of course all the usual Kontakt functionality is still available via the spanner tool.
Get your copy by making a NZ$45 donation to Tironui Music Trust
As with the original concept proceeds of sales will go to a music charity – this time one based in New Zealand.
We’re supporting Tironui Music Trust who are based in South Auckland, NZ. http://www.tironui.org.nz
They provide instruments and tuition to kids aged between 8 -12 at low decile schools (schools in lower socio-economic communities) They can play string or band instruments and learn the basics of reading music, playing an orchestral instrument and performing as a group.
Also Not an 808.
Just messing around with the Grids and the AI
Want it? Have it!
BlumRutBeat-kg
Timphonia Tutorial Walkthrough from MODWHEEL on Vimeo.
So over the last couple of months love been working with the very VERY brilliant www.ModWheel.co.nz guys building a Timpani Library.
Im delighted to say its released and is seriously Brilliant.
Given that i spend most of my time playing with the more bleeding edge sounds generators, its been an interesting discipline to keep within the bounds of this somewhat retro oeuvre!
Teaching aid… When trying to learn a bit of software, i make scratch tracks.
Heres one of them:
Chase Sequence that just Fizzles out?
Another ‘found file’ imagining a somewhat steely image of robots trying to chat each other up in a bus station.
Ok so I’m having a moment or two of Reverie…
Rather proud of my synthetic scratch DJ patch.
2010
My iTunes decided to throw this rather strange noise, done with a modular software synth sampler Gate/CV thing…
It gets interesting about 20 seconds or so In.
Listenener discretion advised
WAY back in 1989 i recorded a rather brilliant band called VRAG… they were the fore runner to the somewhat more famous Machine Gun Fellatio.
had dinner with 2 members last night and one of the guys still had the original 16 track multitrack… (Fostex E16 i think)
Fond memories…
Really enjoying LogicX’s new Alchemy synth. (was a Camel Audio product)
Made this little noise using only 1 Oscillator and 1 filter and 1 held note.
This toy is a beast.
Came across this track i did a couple of years ago, while trying to sort my rather messy iTunes library.
Early onset Alzheimer’s has meant i have no idea how this track came about.
Enjoy…
Rather repetitive visuals from a trip to sydney
Some Pond,erousness
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