Holocene final draft

Couldn't help myself

I have 8. I upgraded for their new monosynth. Buttery basslines coming soon. I may even have to try it out on some of the finished tunes.

Layering sounds

This is a new instrument to me, and as I'm not used to 8 strings and foreign tunings, one with a real learning curve.  However, picking basic rhythms seems to work well in this context.  I ran this direct into my mixer.  The amp was not mic'ed.  I also added just a touch of compression from my previously mentioned software purchase.  Someone obviously doesn't share my enthusiasm.

Soloed:



A portion of this same solo within the song:

Track count

I'm not ready to wrap this up yet, and I've got 19 tracks open in this song.  Usually, I rarely have to switch track banks in my hardware.  I have kind of a haunted vibe happening in this song right now.  We'll see where it goes.

At first I was excited

... about having reached 1,000 views on this blog.  Then I realized that half of those are probably me.  Wait, not the 4 people that visited this week from Brazil, though!!  Viva los Brasileños.  For the overall non-US visitor leader, Russia holds that title with 48 total views.  

Holocene ideas

Here is something I may use to branch off from...  It seems like a good starting point for the intro to verse transition.  Still playing with the bass line. Cut, chop, paste, repeat.  I added some original pad movement by combining my Alesis Ion hardware synth with some modulation and sidechaining.

Something about this song..

...begs the use of sidechaining.  Working hard on the project on this long weekend.

Snare roll ducks drums in the beginning, bass ducks kick toward the middle.  I've only used a little LFO Tool so far, so no true sidechaining using compression until now.  Sample of my initial remix idea to come soon.