Just a thing. Demo. Jazz trio with MIDI drum loop as metronome. The sole purpose for this piece's existence is as a demo of using a single reverb for all instruments with aux sends solely responsible for tone shaping, dynamic control and pre-delays into the one single reverb. Starts dry, then reverb track unmuted, then muted, then unmuted. Reverb as "glue" at the same time as clarity of separation.

Trio dry to single reverb

self-imposed challenge: play with the extent to which the EMT-250 can be used for depth and dimension using only it. 4 tracks = 808/909, rhodes, fretless bass and a bass harmonics finger-picking track. No delays are used in this track. Everything starts dry, perc track gets dimension first, followed by everything else getting wet at the same time. Main aim is to sound dry and intimate, no sense of reverb, but to use it for auditory streaming and separation. Tracks obviously sound wet relative to the really dry opening, but without that reference the track should appear very dry.

Depth & Dimension - single reverb

Self-imposed challenge: in a funk mood, small sounds, glitch elements, arrangement space, no real chordal sense (minimal chord movement, focus on listening to rhythmic devices not harmony changes).  Has to leave lots of space for the funk-oriented melody with wah/vocoder filters. 

funky glitch sparse

Glitch loop made out of sundry kitchen appliances and some other bits and pieces. Just experimenting with sounds and tempo and moods. In a reflective Prince mood given his passing a few days ago.

KitchenAppliances

Kitchen appliances with a little dressing added.

KitchenAppliancesDressed

Started playing with multi-output routing in Kontakt and Logic to demo how it works, decided to not do anything funky, picked an extremely well known but simple movie theme to avoid getting the funk juices flowing, but ended up there anyway. Sigh.

Kontakt_Logic_Multi

A dose of 70s cheesy funk goodness. Song whacked together in Logic Pro to demonstrate to a few students some advantages to velocity and timing variables (groove), mapping modulation data for expression, track offsets (pocket) and other MIDI madness. All in good fun(k).

Cut The Cheese

Poly-metrical stanza using single notes against each other. i.e. First meter only plays one note at intervals specified by the meter, second meter plays a different note, and so on. Every "meter" is 16th-based (i.e. 4/16, 5/16, 6/16 etc). Formula for this one is 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 15, 17, 19, 23, 34, 61

Polymetrical Melody

Holidays. Visiting a long lost headspace. Threw some chords together and the rest fell into place in about a day. It is what it is, rough as guts in many ways but also focused in others. Cruise-mode with a little heat, inspired by pulling out some old fav instruments and amps to give them a bit of a strapping. (Musicman 5-string, Eden Highwayman, '62 Strat, Fender Reverb 22W with Celestion Greenback G12 x 2, Mesa-Boogie mark V 10 watt with Celestion Greenback G12M x 2). Thanks Steve for the drumming.

Mattinay