Hey Paul. This is beautiful. Yours, Paul

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This is my bit for this Disquiet Junto. It’s been over a year since I last participated, due to all kinds of mental issues, but I’ve always kept reading the prompts. Today I happened to read them just after getting frustrated with a track I was making and giving up. Turns out I can have somebody else do the rest, so this was the perfect opportunity for me to participate again. Gear used: Ableton Live 10 Suite + a sample pack of african percussion. And a mouse and a keyboard.

EDIT: Apparently I didn’t play close attention to the instructions and didn’t read the bit about panning it left. My apologies.

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Really love the sound…nostalgia for 1980’s documentaries on nuclear power. like the way you laid it out nicely - no hauntology cliches required.

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Wow thank you! I appreciate that. Be safe and well.

If you’d like to contribute to something in a less typical meter, that’s the track for you. There’s also some polyrhythms in the finale.

The track is open to vocals, guitars, drums, and any kind of high frequency sounds. Most of the right pan is also free.

Technical details

120BPM, 5/4 meter
Chords: [F, Gm, F, G, Am, G] x2, Dm

Two Moog Mother 32 synthesizers working as a duophonic voice. Bass provided by Novation Circuit Mono Station.

I panned the Mothers 80% left but left the bass centered since that will make the final track sound better.

Music

SoundCloud (24bit 44.1kHz FLAC to download):

Ableton Live project with frozen synth recordings:

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Disquiet0429
alone in a group
• Key: BPM: 75 Time signature: 4/4 DAW: Reaper
• Instruments:
• Plug-ins: Taiko drums, Triangle
• 3 tracks: 2 Taiko and a triangle

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Woah what a load of lovely stuff to check out! I really enjoyed listening last week btw - don’t comment much as often doing other things while listening - but very much enjoyed it, playlist was gelling as if intentionally curated somewhere in the middle there, it seemed to me!

Anyways, hope this track suits some peeps. Looking forward to further instructions!

"Self-isolation is the norm here in nowhere somewhere, so knowing you’re all out there in there makes me feel more companioned than usual, actually. Hope all are well.

I woke just in time to dash outside and grab a couple of minutes of dawn chorus this morning. Then I recorded myself tapping and clicking and kind of mumbling about slightly hesitant tiny adjustments regarding some pleasantly inconsequential unmystery. Then I requested [fiddle~] to follow that, playing what it read into a very basic synth. Then I made some fine edits in Reaper, and did my best to tweak the levels a bit. Exported in mono so should be easy to pan left. I wanted to make something without definite rhythm or tonality, in order to leave that side of things as open as possible. A somewhat silly sort of soundscape."

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An idealized guitar player (hence the title) plays a little A-B-A form composition that could never actually be played on a single instrument. The music was generated algorithmically using some RTcmix software tools I have been developing to play and rotate sets of pitches, rhythms, durations, and dynamics via MIDI. I used Logic Pro’s Steel Guitar patch for playback.

78BPM

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I’m a little stressed all the time right now, so I thought I’d channel that into this track. It’s a little longer than required, so the next participant can feel free to chop it up and rearrange it as needed!

I recorded some organ glissandos using my Nord electro. I knew I wanted some tremolo to fade in and fade out, so I experimented with using Ableton’s Max4Live Shaper and Envelope Follower tools, which were fun to explore.

The Envelope Follower controls Amount of the tremolo (the tremolo is actually Ableton’s Auto-pan plugin with the Phase set to 0, so there’s no stereo effect), so that the tremolo kicks in 500 ms after an audio signal is detected. I wanted it to be a bit longer, and now in retrospect I see that would have been possible by setting it to follow rhythm instead of time.

Then, there’s a Shaper Max4Live plug-in set to constantly decrease the Rate of the Auto-pan over 2 measures. It is mostly synchronized with the organ part. Sometimes the organ part breaks free of stuff happening every 2 measures, so it’s a little out of synch with the Shaper, but I think that’s ok - it adds a little variety.

Then I ran the organ sound through Izotope’s Vinyl plug-in and also Klevgrand’s DAW LP to get s ome distortion and vintage sound. I especially like the middle part - I might resample that myself and use it in a beat.

The final step was Klevgrand’s Grand Finale plug-in, which boosted my CPU usage to like 112% :smiley: Well worth it!

Here’s a little instagram video of recording the glissandos: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-BKHXABXLe/

And a screencapture of the tremolo FX chain in action:

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https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/raal-disquiet0429

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Despite the shelter in place directive (or perhaps because of it) I’ve been quite busy recently. Subsequently I’m fairly late to the game on this one. In this case I wrote a chord progression and decided on a structure in advance then started with a one take piano part. I added some synth sounds, then a synth pad based bridge. I’d like to have refined it all a bit more but time was short.

My original plan was to create a full piece then remove parts to make space but that seemed “too obvious” so I decided to try and just make my parts and leave some space for others. I was moderately successful in this though I’m not sure how well it’ll mix for others.

Hardware wise the piano is a Casio CT x700 the section 1 pluck is a Korg NTS1, the bridge pad is a peak, the bridge bass is a bass station 2; send effects are Boss 500 series.

Musical details. 89 BPM in 4/4. 2 sections, A is 16 bars, B is 8 bars arranged as AABBA (with a 1 bar rests before and after the bridge). The A section uses a Dm, Em, G, Am chord progression (2 bars each). The B section is E, F (2 bars each) alternating. I don’t have stems or MIDI, just the SoundCloud upload so I could have deviated from this but that is what I planned and remembered.

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cool sounds :slight_smile:

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Some remarkable work coming through – distinct voices, unique flavors, wide variety, and already well over 40 individual contributors. This is going great. I’m excited to see what comes through during the final 24 hours of this projecr, and then what people make with it next Thursday when the instructions for the second round go out via the email newsletter.

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Hey Guys

I haven’t been around for a while - Ive been busy as all get out
but now Ive got all the time in the world… so Im back

I decided to just put up some bass grooves at 104bpm in different keys
cut them up and use them however you like if you wish
enjoy

hoping you are all safe and well in these crazy days

SityPhoxx

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OK. This is my second time here and the first was disquiet0117. Please forgive if I am in any way out of format or expected form. The primary thrust of my submission began with an experiment and familiarization with AudioModern Riffer 2.0 and built from there. The Soundcloud post has pertinent details and I assume we can also discuss it here, though I am not altogether familiar with Lines either. I look forward to reading about and hearing your submissions and truly hope I can become more involved with this group I have been lurking in for some time. Thank you for any pointers, course corrections, and input!

Ray

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So a “noob” question about the pan left-thing: is the idea to keep there when adding to the song, or spread it back out or… ?

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Modular and semi-modular noodling. This was an MS-20 drone, with a 2hp Pluck, and Neutron driven by a 2hp Turing Machine. The MS-20, Pluck and Neutron were stepped via a sequential switch as well as being brought in and out via the mixer. In addition an NTS-1 was driven by a SQ-1 sequencer. The SQ-1 also served double duties by modulating various parameters on the Neutron and also the Pluck. The SQ-1 also acted as master clock. All of this without additional effects and only the left channel.

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I think you can assume you’re supposed to keep left. Marc wrote the following somewhere in the topic and I guess he wouldn’t have if the plan is to change the pan position:

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Another guitar track for everyone’s perusal :slight_smile:

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Thanks. As @Jet said, it’s just part of the plan. For now, keep it panned left. This coming Thursday, a new project will make use of it.

As @Jet noted, if you don’t pan it this week, that’s fine. Someone can, in the process of using it, pan it themselves to the left in the future.

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