#13

cool sounds :slight_smile:

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#14

Fantastic concept!

You might want to do a search on here for Garlands or Vulneraries to hear something else vaguely related exploring the body of a guitar as resonator. It’s also father and son duets, so there’s some background layer there…

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#15

All sound is but textures to form a pallet

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#16

https://soundcloud.com/matthewh538/acoustic-expanse-disquiet0395

Really great concept this week.

I downloaded the Ableton project and worked solely within that. I duplicated the track a couple of times:

  • Some “chords” which kind of set the rhythm of the track
  • A twangy melody playing over the top
  • A simpler version of the melody with some auto filter plugins applied
  • A long sustained single C note with a bit of frequency shifted echo applied towards the end

Reverb, delay, frequency echo and filter return tracks

There is what sounds like a bum note at some point. I couldn’t quite figure out where it was coming from since all of the tracks are built up of very simple (4 bar!) loops. I think it must be something on one of the effects tracks because it only happens when I listen straight through rather than if I go directly to the timestamp where the problem happens. In the end I decided to leave it in because its kind of unexpected so the brain suddenly becomes alert again and it gives it a more natural feel.

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#17

lovely drone, i really like this

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#19

The biggest guitar in the southern hemisphere is in Narrandera, Australia… also some of the biggest waves can be found in Australia. So I had to do surf music with the samples. I just took the individual samples and arranged them into a surf riff based on based on string and fret numbers. Add drums and reverb. It came out really strange :slight_smile:

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#20

The playlist is now rolling:

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#21

Thanks Marc for the prompt, and thanks @bassling for the great samples!

I downloaded the individual samples from big-guitar.com/download, dropped a couple into Ableton Live Simpler along with a percussion loop, then set up my Casio MIDI guitar to play the samples. “S1F12-mic3” comes in first, on the bass-- eerily reminiscent of a DX-7 FM bass, with a nice percussive edge. “S1F4-mic3” then comes in on the rhythm, sounding a bit like a subdued Hammond B-3. Last comes another copy of “S1F4-mic3” on the solo. I added a bit of chorus and reverb to make it stand out a little.

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#22

I used the first three “BENDS-mic…”-WAVs, because they contained voices and I liked them. I granulated these sounds with different tools and joined the results of 10 different sessions together again. I added some very subtile live sequencing accompaniment just to connect me to the guitar players.

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#23

I randomly started to play some arabic notes on my keyboard and this came out, maybe because I’m frustrated to not have seen Aladdin on the cinema. Then I only just added one note of the biggest guitar on the universe to this and voilà.

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#24

https://soundcloud.com/big-guitar/basslings-theme-for-big-guitar-disquiet0395

This week I tried jamming with the samples using my MIDI guitar and it sounded terrible.

So I went back to basics and made a bassline using the Live instrument, then added some of the sampled instruments from Ableton.

I liked the expansive theme and this result feels a tune for traveling highways.

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#25

This is a “back to basics” track for me - I decided to work with the original stereo samples directly, with no processing whatsoever other than some up-front editing of the attacks in the sound files (to make them all even in time) and applying envelopes to the samples as they played to simulate a more natural decay.
The opening “riff”, which returns with variation twice, is played on the highest string the first time, and on the next-to-highest for the last. I experimented with a “random walk” approach to note generation: The selected note moves up or down the fret by randomly-chosen intervals of 2, 3, 4, or 5 half steps. Interspersed with this are sections with “strums” of the strings, generated via algorithm across the samples on all strings. Accompanying these strums are overlapping playbacks of samples on a lower string, enveloped to remove their attacks.

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#26

Here’s my attempt at this week. When I was listening to the samples, I ended up really liking the clicks and rattles from the strings hitting the top and frets. So, I started building a percussive loop out of those accents and as I kept granulizing, resampling, and processing the different samples it eventually ended up into this power ambient kinda thing, and I kinda like how it turned out.

Also, whenever I saw the words “Big Guitar” on the screen I kept thinking of “Big Time” so I was playing around with the chorus melody from that song and the different melodic elements came from very loose adaptations of me playing with that. Heh.

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#27

evolved in Kontakt & Ableton Live Lite

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#28

Wonderful samples! Thanks @bassling for contributing this project!

A selection of snippets were used in TidalCycles for a bit of granular fun …

Have a great week!

h u :slight_smile:

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#29

Found a loop playing with the samples in Ableton. Built some other instruments out of some of the other samples plus one out of Tension.

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#30

I had to make a 12 hour drive yesterday, so this was my playlist for the day. There’s a whole lot of really interesting stuff here, I especially liked the way the guitar was often used as a percussive element. Great prompt, and great job by everyone who has participated so far. Thanks for making my drive less of a chore.

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#31

er, the process? right - I kind of made noises until I utterly hated it and couldn’t bear to do any more work on it…

one of those days

it’s a good sample set though

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#32


Utilizing Roland DJ 808 I programed some drums and played the ROLI and Launch Pad Pro App. I then used the Sampler and MIDI arps for the Guitar until I found a tone I liked. I wanted to attempt to use a traditional guitar with a traditional controller set up of EDM. I enjoyed creating this one. I set up the Drums on the Roland DJ 808 and set to a beat using the 909, 808, 707 and 606 banks. I also for the first time modified the drum sequencer and EQ for it during playing. Using the ROLI ROLI noise on the ipad and Launchpad on the ipad I played in some loops into a channel with a looper and EQ compression into the DJ inputs of CH 4 on the Roland DJ 808 from the iPad. I used the LINK in Abelton to sync all of the devices. In ROLI Noise I set up a Block and the Seaboard to play. I switched between the Launchpad and RoliNoise app while recording loops to the ROLI Noise application being looped thru CH 4 back to Abelton’s looper. I finally used a arpeggiator and the sampler with the transient section of a bar to get the guitar tone I liked and a few midi notes I input. I also uploaded my Roli Noise session to NOISE fm https://noise.fm/VonnaWolf/wolfs-southern-gg-disquiet-junto-0395

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#33

I used the Ableton session, grabbing a couple of samples at a time to make percussion loops, each of which got different effects: beat repeat, delay, echo, resonator, grain delay. When I listen back I have no idea where the downbeat is, which, hurray?

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