Author: Marco

  • AI and stock photography

    AI and stock photography

    As a stock photographer and CGI image creator, I rely on AI chats to enhance my work and boost my productivity. AI chats are not only a source of inspiration for me, but also a valuable tool to optimize my workflow and increase my visibility. Here are some of the ways I use AI chats…

  • AI chooses the title for my track

    AI chooses the title for my track

    Suggest a title for a Simple and short carefree melody, that repeats itself with small variations, made of plucky sounds, synths and claps. I composed it! me to ChatGPT Joyful Echoes ChatGPT to me The Elektron Digitone helped me a lot. It is now available on Pond5: https://www.pond5.com/item/241564582

  • Accordi e acqua ritmata

    Accordi e acqua ritmata

    Ho usato due soli ingredienti per Water drips, water flows! Il condimento è stato fornito da qualche plugin nativa di Logic Pro.

  • Logic Pro: correctly routing MIDI from DigiTone

    Logic Pro: correctly routing MIDI from DigiTone

    I thought it was easy and straightforward but I was wrong: just easy. Sending the MIDI data from the four tracks of the Digitone to Logic, to play simultaneously four MIDI virtual instruments, requires a touch of environment. You create a Monitor, associate it to a track, and then route from it to four instruments,…

  • Graduated filters and Compressors

    I entertain myself with music creation and photography and I find it amusing that many terms and concepts and pieces of equipment are completely interchangeably. By the way, while writing what I just wrote, I couldn’t help but noticing that “I like music” usually means “I like listening to music” whereas “I like photography” often…

  • Violent, brutal DFAM!

    Violent, brutal DFAM!

    The MOOG DFAM is at the core of this track, now available on Pond5, that I baptised “The violent war of the marching robots.” Logic Pro glued all together.

  • A-harmonic minor Launchpad X diatonic chords sysex file

    A-harmonic minor Launchpad X diatonic chords sysex file

    I’ve opened my GumRoad store! The first item on sale is a SYSEX file for the Novation Launchpad X that presents all the scale’s diatonic chords laid out neatly.

  • Oh! Lo-Fi beat with organ and choir

    In the style of a lo-fi beat, I put together a few mellow sounds, easy chords, and some synth-esised choir. What I got is “Oh!”, available on Pond5. Logic Pro and nothing else for this. Enjoy it. As for the image, I made this up with Blender.

  • Sounds from other worlds

    Sounds from other worlds

    I made an abstract background of eerie sounds, and is available on Pond5 for licensing and listening. To make this, I played with the Sculpture softsynth in Logic Pro.

  • Metallic Clangor background

    Metallic Clangor background

    What can happen to the recording of a metallic kitchen whisk crawling on the bottom surface of a frying pan? Well, once edited, cut and stretched in Logic Pro, the result is “Metallic Clangor,” available on Pond5 for licensing.

  • Fading, wearing-off, decaying tape loops

    Fading, wearing-off, decaying tape loops

    Drawing inspiration from the famous tape loops by W. Basinski, I tried to simulate with Logic Pro’s plugins the continuous deterioration of a melodic tape loop: the end result is available on Pond5. In addition to the plugins shown, the Bus 3 was sending some sound to the Monster Fuzz pedal.

  • Concerto for electrons and positrons

    Concerto for electrons and positrons

    “Concerto for electrons and positrons” because… well, it is electronic music! The track is available on Pond5. I made extensive use of my favourite synth: Logic Pro’s Sculpture.