Salut! Allow me to throw my little mazel tov cocktail into the mix here! Wasn’t sure I was going to make it, but this seemed like an important one, so … no time for recording, I used @bassling’s file from last year – thanks, Jason! Did some initial edits with Audacity, stretching and reversing and so on, then started with a pad made from a paulstretched bit in Logic. Didn’t like where that was going, so I threw this S&H effect from Fracture on it, played a little pitch shifted melody and sent that to a granular filter delay on one knob, and a filtered chord on another. Another track of fairly straight ice rattles was added with a smear and sttuter effect. It was at this point I noticed that previewing audio in the library was cutting into the 2 playing tracks in an odd, glitchy way, so I grabbed a take of that with Audio Hijack and this turned out to be the key to the call and answer, stop and start feel of the track, which I was quite happy with. The same pad from before with some eq and subharmonics created the stuttered bass to balance out the frequencies. About 3 hours worth of happy accidents over multiple passes, carelessly improvised. This is not really how I like to work, but circumstances have conspired against me. With more time I’d have liked to add pitch shifters to the S&H and bass and do some key changes that way, but will save it for another day. Here’s to a propitious 2021!
