Category: Music
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Chasing DFAM’s “stepless” feel across other synths
How to approximate Moog DFAM’s analog, continuously variable sequencer on other hardware? DFAM baseline Arturia MiniBrute 2S Arturia MatrixBrute Sequential Pro 3 Buchla vs Eurorack compatibility Tiptop/Buchla 200t that feels DFAM-like Takeaways
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Ableton Live 12.1 effects with sidechain option
Ableton Live 12.1 (Standard) audio effects that let you feed them with audio from another track (“Sidechain” input) Device What the sidechain does Where to turn it on Compressor Classic ducking or keyed compression; optional side-chain EQ Click the little triangle on the left of the device, then hit “Sidechain” inside the panel. (Ableton) Glue…
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Dub Techno
“Dub Techno” got its name from merging two foundational styles: Jamaican dub (known for its spacious effects, heavy reverb, echo, and stripped-down arrangements) and techno (originating from Detroit’s electronic dance music scene). Producers in early ’90s Berlin—especially Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald of Basic Channel—were among the first to blend the minimal 4/4 pulse…
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A soundtrack for a romantic sci-fi movie that does not yet exist
For “Memories of a Space Odyssey” I tried and used only Arturia Analog Lab V sounds. What came out seems to me reminiscent, for tone but not quality, of a new Blade Runner movie. It is available on Pond5 for licensing.
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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
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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.
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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,…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.