I’ve been playing with Launchpad a lot recently the brilliant app from Novation. Late in the evening I love to have a play with it. There are some fabulous sound packs out there and mix these with some samples or synths of your own. You can have a little ball. Hope you enjoy my very random genre hopping foray tonight. Peace. Xxx.

DJ Set 07 07 2022, 23/23 - genre hopping on launchpad.m4a

Rings

Building Bridges

Check out my blog at https://peakd.com/@nicklewis for more details on my synth lab, as I like to call it. Exploring VCV for this track.

041122 - 001

Another modular VCV jam that I've named after the theory of relativity!

Relativity

I was experimenting with the very nice Bleass Monolit plugin on the iPad running within AUM, my favourite combination on the iPad. I combined this with LoopMix for the percussion and sequenced the melody. It’s a nice little track. Enjoy!

Monotif

Renoise Test

Yesterday my OXI One was delivered and last night I tried it out with Bitwig and this is what I came up with.

Awakening

Tonight’s jam with the OXI Coral, exploring a few ideas

3: Receive From Bus A - 120 Bpm - 001

A simple downtempo melody that can be expanded upon to become a full track.

Syntakt pattern 1

Thanks for listening to these two tracks. They are both based on the same basic pattern but in one I've used a major scale and the other I've switched it to D minor. All sequenced using the brilliant Oxi One and a modular rack comprising of an Oxi Coral, patched via a Mimeophon to the audio output. 

As ever I've not named any of my tracks other than to use the project and file name taken straight off my Bluebox, the device I use for mixing and recording to audio files.

GEN1-02 - 2-00001

GEN1-02 - 2-00000

I think buying the Polyend Tracker is going to open a new creative part of my brain, as in this track I explore guitar, vocal, synth and house style drum beats a lot more than in my other work, which is more ambient/chillout. 

Feels like a new chapter might be about to unfold, which is exciting.

The track ended up as a well rounded long pattern last night on the tracker. This morning I added more slots in the song design screen, creating space for some other variations and indeed further samples at a later point.

When complete, you'll find it on my Bandcamp profile.

Polyend Tracker - a late night's jam (work in progress)

https://ecency.com/hive-176363/@nicklewis/syntakt-daily-pattern

02-2-00000-cosmic-pattern.wav

I have just got my hands on Ableton Live 12 beta. The chords and melody were created using various new tools in the latest DAW and the drum track was created using XLN Audio's Life plugin, field recordings transformed into beats.

Monday Jam 12th Feb 2024

The other evening I was exploring UVI's new version of Falcon alongside Ableton. I love it!

I switched through various libraries with the product and recorded this collection of ideas. All fairly raw, no editing, just a bit of reverb on the send.

Cinematic - Medley - 1

This evening I spent a bit of time building something in Bitwig Studio, using a technique to generate a melody in the Polygrid along with a pulsating bassline and a drum loop. It is another of my musical sketches, that I will develop further in the future for release later this year.

Track 2024 - 02 - 19 2241

Monday - 26 - 02 - 24 - Sketch

I put this together last night in Bitwig and this time the track focuses on nothing but drums. The techique is to drop a set of drum loops and a number of single shot recordings into the Clip launcher, setting up follow actions to either play at random or in sequence and from different points in each of the loops. The end result is something that has a good groove but isn't entirely the same throughout.

Very Percussive Stuff 2024 - 02 - 27 0756

Arturia Piano V3 meets Pigments, in a stacked setup, same keys driving both instruments at the same time. Lots of delay on each note too. Just composing some ideas for another day.

Sunday Composition 3rd March 2024

Earlier this week I sampled the train journey from Paddington to Liverpool Street on the Elizabeth Line. I wanted to combine this with a set of samples provided by the Roland SP404 and playing live on the OP1 Field. The aim to create a raw, unedited jam in one take and share it.

Thursday 14 March 2024 - Sampler/Op1 Jam

Good morning everyone, I would love to know if people have naming strategies for their musical sketches like this track, I've been trying out different ideas and not convinced with any lol!

The track itself stems around a guitar riff sample I bought from tracklib a little while back and sliced on the Digitakt, added some beats and a foley sample and voila!

Saturday300324 Jam (Guitar and beat)

I've always been inspired by the old Detroit Techno scene, people like Derrick May and his use of drum machines. In this case I was using the Digitakt, some stock samples plus a couple of my own and set up some patterns. I jammed for a good seven minutes and love the results of the session!

ZOOM0062_Tr34

I create electronic music using a combination of hardware and software instruments from my cosy home studio in Berkshire. I also run a Podcast called Modulations that features recent found sounds and created soundscapes.

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