Making step sequencers is fun! I want to get better at understanding how to control them, but had a blast experimenting for day 27

Greenpoint

This time, I took a lot more control over the step sequencer and thought harder about arranging & song structure. The transitions and rhythms are not quite where I want them though :/

Also, my first time recording audio samples!

Court

Today my soundcloud account was almost suspended! Sorry copyrighted clips, won't try to remix you again :)

Today I worked with existing beats, but used "cues" to break them into parts that I could mess around with. In this track, I focused on transitions and fun progressions. The melodies could use work

This track is dedicated to Cody, my poor puppy who has pneumonia



Today I got my audio interface in the mail (Tascam US-2x2) with a mic and headphones. This track includes some audio samples I recorded with pretty strong effects. Also had this one in C minor, focusing a lot more on melody + staying in key than on rhythm

Lincoln

This is a weird one, but my goal was to use only vocal tracks with audio effects (with one cheat midi track). Turned into.. something :)

Also learned a ton about sidechaining and glue compression. Interesting how I can use one signal to counteract another (so one never really overpowers the other)

Delancey

This one came out of nowhere, it just happened. Feeling the half diminished 7th chord though



Starr

Got more familiar with Impulse here and focused more on audio effects with some basic melodies. I had a lot of fun and started to better understand how much delay can impact a transition 

Manhattan

Ok, new approach! Only work on one type of sound a day, but from scratch. 

I created this trance sound in operator, with some help from simple delay, reverb, EQ and a beat repeat. I mapped the sounds to my MPK and tried messing with the rhythms on the fly. Really fun, so looking forward to using this instrument rack elsewhere

Prince

This was a tough one! Making a bassline from scratch. The first part is only the sub (so you need some low end to hear it), then I added some high end freqs (square and saw waves). 

After that, a filter to create an actual bass sound. There's also some reverb bouncing off the notes

Bobby Matson