#1345

Cheers and welcome @soysos – fellow Pittsburgher here (or yinzer as we say, lol). I saw you and Sadie Powers perform once at a show, very enjoyable.

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#1346

On this 57th anniversary, I offer a musical presentation of Dr. King’s most eloquent speech in full. My motivation in daring to add something was to facilitate deeper appreciation of his vision, his paramount importance to my country, to my people. Please listen. Thank you.

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#1347

Excellent, really nice! Well done, thank you for sharing. I used to love listening to these old house music shows they’d play on Morgan State Radio back in, I guess it was the 90’s. I used to love those shows, sometimes the DJ’s would play this speech, and other civil rights speeches with the music.

This really took me back to those shows, it just had the same soulful, thoughtful, good vibe. I enjoyed listening, thanks again! :slight_smile:

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#1348

I’m happy with how this one turned out. I used my clapsticks, which I recorded w/ my new $20 Neewer NW-800 mic, which I’m really excited about having. My trusty Kalimba recorded and processed with NI Guitar Rig. Bass sound is Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizer Box, Novation Circuit & Circuit Monostation on bg pad/drone duties, lead parts are the Kanun from NI’s Middle East Series. Main drums are Maschine’s built-in drum synths & percussion section is the “Revolt Kit” from the “Grey Forge” Maschine expansion pack.

Everything was recorded, sequenced, arranged, and mixed in Maschine.

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#1349

Thanks! Where did you see us? That spot on Bigelow by the Bloomfield Bridge or somewhere else?
I adore Sadie, such a thorough and thoughtful musician/artist!

#1350

Hey, another track to add. The primary sound source is a small Serge modular. Syntrx is present again; just providing low rumblies until the very end. I’ve been listening to loads of Benoît Pioulard for the last year, and this definitely me leaning into that influence a bit.

This was a bit by necessity; the serge system doesn’t have a dedicate VCA at the moment. I tried for a week or so to use the Serge patch (with many fewer effects applied) as the foundation of a song, then bring in some other instruments, but it didn’t leave much room. In the end I decided to embrace the lack of silence :slight_smile:

The effects: the serge out is on a send going through a fully-wet ct5, which is being processed by, um, a couple / few Valhalla delays and a resonator. Boum is adding a lot of drive at the end of the chain.

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Serge thread
#1351

Yes, it was at 3577.

#1352

so so good ! i love hearing & pondering about melodic patches in serge world, they’re all too rare

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#1353

Thank you. Glad it sat so well with you. I listen to it at least once every year. Hope you will too :slight_smile:

Truth be told, I made it over 10 years ago. After cleaning up the audio of the speech, I used StylusRMX to construct the music from samples of individual instruments. It was laborious process, with lots of tweaking.

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#1354

Three Bandcamp releases. Pieces from 2018.

Til Sascha:

Using recordings from when my sister briefly played violin.

Aabo:

using recordings of a friend playing sax.

Geoin:

Manipulations of recordings of a homemade monochord with a computer-controlled DC motor.

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#1355
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#1356

It seems like a good solution so far. I may change my tune when I try to do more complicated things on it, though!

#1357

this came out this week :slight_smile:

playing drums, through the looking glass…

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#1358
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#1359

Wow another track!?

(A combination of really, really clicking with this little Serge setup & having a week off work to get over the hurdle of making my studio desk 50% presentable / figure out how the heck imovie works has gone a long way toward improving productivity of actual output, yay.)

Anyway, this is again Serge focused. I received some awesome support in the Serge thread on how to get a bit more out of envelopes, and I found a few other pointers that enabled me to squeeze another VCA out as well :slight_smile:

Serge here is accompanied by the Buchla Music Easel Command (not [yet] interoperating with the Serge) and Kijimi is providing some simple pads.

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#1360

such a beautiful sound.

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#1361

testing audius

edit: sorry embed doesn’t seem to work yet

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#1362

that last one got me hooked
a very alluring and mystical soundscape there(please take my money :wink: ).

#1363

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEmQPYWhXnI/?igshid=9o4kfsqh9j05

tidal

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#1364

Novation Peak and Shared System

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