--The post what you are working on *right now* thread--

[Aerial Boundaries]

Cool, forton! I had a broken toy-piano that sounded just like that.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9761645/romkom.mp3

Made zis. Is gawna get the rap vocals if I get around to it.

Oooooh I like the live drum sample in the background, and the percussion over all

EDIT: mmm lush fadeout too

[Cupz]

Thanks aerial! Glad you enjoyed. The theres more then 1 live drum sample though, theres like 6 on top of eachother.

[FortonServices]

Cool, forton! I had a broken toy-piano that sounded just like that.

Yeah, I dropped it and now some of the sounds and tempos on the built-in rhythms don't work properly. But I can make some cool pad sounds with it if I use guitar pedals. With this particular one, I ran it through a Holy Grail reverb and a DOD Stereo Phaser. I recorded to cassette and really cranked the input so it distorted all the reverb, Distorted reverb is one of my favourite sounds ever.

On the topic of broken synths, I have a Casiotone, I forget the model, but it doesn't have a power supply and the batteries are starting to run out. It makes the pitch drift in and out of tune, and gives it all these weird distortions. I love how it sounds but I'm aware that sooner or later I will have to get a power supply!

[Cupz]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/976 ... pedies.mp3

This is next level for me.


Also, get these posts songs fast, they're only up for a short time and are sneak previews to my new ep

[Cupz]

OOOOH.

[FortonServices]

Ah man, I just came here to check that out and it's gone now.

[FortonServices]

Hey guys! ఉదయం is an early morning improvisation I did a few days ago on Octatrack, Monotribe, and Volca Keys. Disjointed beats and analogue blips galore.

Nice work. Were you using the sequencer on the Volca Keys or just playing it? I've not had a lot of luck with the sequencer, I just can't get it to synch with my DAW.

[FortonServices]

After a thorough series of mix checks on various mediums, I have finally finished mixing the first Polypores album. Here is a teaser video I made for it:



What I'm working on right now is, not listening to it for another week before I start mastering it for release.

[Cupz]

Is that sony vegas I see? <3 Some cool sounds in there as well.

[FortonServices]

Nothing quite so sophisticated I'm afraid...

[subset]

Hey guys! ఉదయం is an early morning improvisation I did a few days ago on Octatrack, Monotribe, and Volca Keys. Disjointed beats and analogue blips galore.

Nice work. Were you using the sequencer on the Volca Keys or just playing it? I've not had a lot of luck with the sequencer, I just can't get it to synch with my DAW.

Thanks man!

The Volca is running its own sequencer. I'm syncing it to the Monotribe which in turn receives sync impulses coming out of the Octatrack's cue output.

I tried to MIDI sync the Volca at first, and then slave the Monotribe to it, so that I don't have to lose an audio channel on the Octatrack for the sync signal, but the MIDI sync of the Volca is just terrible!

The analog relatively sync is decent though, and you can use the internal sequencer then. If you have a spare output on your soundcard you can try the same.

[FortonServices]

Hey guys! ఉదయం is an early morning improvisation I did a few days ago on Octatrack, Monotribe, and Volca Keys. Disjointed beats and analogue blips galore.

Nice work. Were you using the sequencer on the Volca Keys or just playing it? I've not had a lot of luck with the sequencer, I just can't get it to synch with my DAW.

Thanks man!

The Volca is running its own sequencer. I'm syncing it to the Monotribe which in turn receives sync impulses coming out of the Octatrack's cue output.

I tried to MIDI sync the Volca at first, and then slave the Monotribe to it, so that I don't have to lose an audio channel on the Octatrack for the sync signal, but the MIDI sync of the Volca is just terrible!

The analog relatively sync is decent though, and you can use the internal sequencer then. If you have a spare output on your soundcard you can try the same.

I just got the Beats. That seems to synch with MIDI far better, as you can set the actual BPM. So I'm going to try synching the Beats with MIDI, then use the synch out on the Beats into the Keys, see if that works.

[GH]

Not new music, but new video

[Cupz]

Haha awesome video, GH! I love how subtle and hypnotic it is!

[The Telepathic Kid]

Catching up on stuff from a few pages back, this might be a long post - (I've left out the media embeds because I don't know about twoism, but on other sites too many embeds slows down the page.):

Working on some GY!BE inspired stuff recently.

Loved this, only complaint would be the brevity, and that's stretching it. I love the texture of the piece, the feedback and acoustic guitars really work well together to create that droning feel.

A try with an ambient mantra track, repetitiv, simple, with synth piano and guitar.

The textured new age-y approach really worked well. I can sense a lot of Eno worship but the distorted guitar and the noise give it some edge which remind me of his collaborations with Robert Fripp, but it's different enough to make it not feel like a copy.
As an ambient piece, I really like it.

I found an old tape in my home "studio" and it didn't seem to work. I fiddled around with it on my four-track for a while, and eventually I found this on it.

I don't know what the hell it is, but it creeps me out.

I suspect it's something to do with different tape speeds, as I have a few different machines. One side seems to be really fast, the other side really slow. But I prefer the explanation that it is simply a ghost.

That is interesting to me indeed. Kind of related here is this file, for recently and free I got a Sony TC-105 tape player that had a critical sporadic speed control problem, and it came with a reel of tape too. I recorded it passing through a Moog phaser effect and tossed the player and tape into the trash can.

Here is the tape

I loved both of these, tape and sample based music is something which always fascinates me. The Caretaker, The Books, The Avalanches, etc. Stuff like that.

Hey guys! ఉదయం is an early morning improvisation I did a few days ago on Octatrack, Monotribe, and Volca Keys. Disjointed beats and analogue blips galore.

I like how this track is continuously growing and building, and then it moves into a slightly noisey weird third act. Really interesting structure to the track. I would have complained about the lack of melodic progression until I realised that it really wasn't about the melodics. The attention is in the detail in this track, and the production style is strong. Good work.

Today this happened. It sounds like ghosts. I was using a synth which cost me £10.

Wonderful stuff here, it sounds like Sigur Ros' Untitled #1, a little dirtier, grimier and less restrained. The distorted tones really add to the feel of the track, and I LOVE how the distortion cut out at 1:30, that short interlude introduced itself, and then the distortion came back. Those ghostly child like voices were beautiful and added to the track. This is incredible, it's weird, gorgeous, and not really like anything I've heard before. Brilliant work, sir.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9761645/romkom.mp3

Made zis. Is gawna get the rap vocals if I get around to it.

This is really good man, the rhythm is crazy, the beat is half time, but the track moves faster than that. It feels like it's perpetually slowing down and speeding up. I love the detail in this, it's fun, catchy but still enjoyable as a song. The change ups are great, too. I also love that quickly descending keyboard phrase which kind of leads into the snare. It's a great way of using melody to keep the rhythm and the momentum, and makes it feel like the entire track is working in unison, and not just beats with melodies over the top.
This is a stand out production from you, really top notch.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/976 ... pedies.mp3

This is next level for me.

This one was a little less enjoyable, but I think it's because of my lack of understanding your language. Still, the backing track was pretty nice.

love the sound collage approach here, it makes for some really interesting textures and sounds to along with the beats. Good stuff.

GH - That video is great, and the music is pretty good too. It takes your attempt at sampling and moves it into a new place. Once again, the melodies don't always work, but the snippets have a more kinetic approach to them. Keeps the music moving and interesting, even if the melodies don't.

[FortonServices]

Thanks Nick. And thanks for the Twitter reposts, much appreciated!

[The Telepathic Kid]

Oh... that's not intentional, I just hooked my account up to my Soundcloud all the way back when I thought Twitter was worth my time.
That account is just a puppet being used by my Soundcloud.
:p

and I know I said "incredible", but when I use the word, I actually mean it.
It made me open my mouth in awe, and go "holy shit this is spectacular".
Like really, that track is one of the best things I've heard this year. When you release your album, it better be up to the level of that track, because you've proved you can do something really special!

[FortonServices]

Haha, that's a lot of pressure!

The track came completely by accident, and was done a few weeks after I'd finished writing the album. So the album doesn't quite sound like that, as it was written in a more traditional way, with keyboards and a drum loops I made. But a lot of the sonic elements will be similar. I do enjoy decay and degradation in music.

But everything I've worked on since last Sunday (when I created that track) has embraced that new way of working and writing, more reliant on chance and accident for the initial composition, then building upon that.

I tend to work on this stuff a LOT, and I'm always trying new things. So my rate of change (and hopefully improvement) is fairly fast. This week I have come up with about 4 or 5 usable ideas, all based round the more experimental/accidental nature of that track I made on sunday.

[FortonServices]

Oh, and I forgot to say, thank you so much for those kind words about the track, I am really grateful for you sharing your thoughts on it. Like most obsessive/insecure musicians, I'm a sucker for feedback from others.

[IanRedpoint]

I agree with TTK - some really good sounds on that track. Better still that you're understanding why it worked and applying that experimental attitude to whatever you make next.

I also love degraded sounds but they never seem to make it into my own music. I'm always drawn to more traditionally synth-generated tones. I don't add half as much post-processing to them as a lot of people on here. The challenge is doing it without sounding gimmicky.