Name: Gravity Handle by jstsch
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: Made for the RPM challenge back in 2007. Lots of arps and cold evolving pads, digital gnarly drums.

In Situ

With his second release on Digital Nomads Records, UnderTow shows us he is at home with many genres, Full-On being his favourite. With only a short break, this track doesn't give much time to take a breath. A pounding groove, sounds relentlessly flying around and a focused energy will keep you dancing. I'm not sure if my synapses are cascading, but the sounds in this track surely are. This is not the time to go to the bar for a drink. Cascading Synapse is another dance floor stomper from UnderTow!

UnderTow - Cascading Synapse preview

Made for the RPM challenge back in 2007. Lots of arps and cold evolving pads, digital gnarly drums.

Le Printemps

Gravity Handle

Droplet

Delete Then Install (The Grief Process) With Kalani Kordus

single live recording rehearsing for a live set, january 2019.

live set in studio january 2019

Axe-Fx III Firmware 12.08 features the best guitar pitch shifter I've ever experienced. It is insanely fast, which also makes it very tight.

Here's a quick clip to show my idea for a "Groove Shifter" effect where the shifted notes are offset in time to create weird syncopated polyrhythmic melodies. Using a dotted 8th delay technique to turn 8th notes into 16th notes is basically a cliché (a la "Another Brick in the Wall Part II" et al). Here, the pitch shift adds a cool twist. One expression pedal controls Input Gain of an extra Delay. Another controls Input Gain on a Plex Reverb. I improvised the guitar part to a drum loop and then layered synth bass and hihats. I'll try to develop this idea into something more structured.

It's a testament to this new shifter that you can't tell which notes are played and which are created by the effect!

Grooveshifter! Axe-Fx III 12.08 Pitch Block

Here's another example of firmware 12.08 for the Axe-Fx III. You may have heard that the Pitch Shifter was improved, but did you notice that this also applies to tracking in the Synth block? It does!

In this juicy acid-funk track, I'm playing along with the mighty Jab'o Starks (courtesy of Toontrack Superior Drummer 3). An expression pedal modifies the filter Q and also the sustain level of the ADSR to make the sound extra lively. Each section of 4 measures was played in realtime (on a Strat!)

FX-303!!! - Axe-Fx III 12.08 Synth Block with updated detector

Here's a quick solo over my FX-303 track. My hands don't really work very well so I had to punch in 22 times :-) This still reinforces the fact that Synth Block tracking is really good in Axe-Fx III firmware 12.08!!!

The synth block hits a filter and then an Octave distortion. Dig.

Axe-FX "303" guitar synth bass, plus synth solo played on guitar

Tundra

Imagine a world.  A world like Mercury.
A small world, little atmosphere.   Rich in metals and heavy elements.

Too harsh an environment for 'life as we know it'.

But somehow,  life started under the crust where it was protected from the harsh surface conditions, and then migrated to the surface, incorporating the heavy metals and elements in its structure to protect itself.

Their cells are like tiny batteries. They power themselves from chemical energy and radio active decay.

No atmosphere, no sound...so they communicate in radio waves.

Gravity Handle

jstsch

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