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Musically, the melody and the bass came first -- melody from the #opsix and the bass from the #Hydrasynth. The crazy synth pad/vocalesque thing that dominates the back half of the song is also Hydra. #MiniBrute2s provides some analog plucks throughout. Lots and lots of #Foley in this one, most of it stuff I created myself, including a rainstorm I recorded by sticking my #Zoom recorder in the window well.
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This one started as a jam based around the main repeating melodic sequence. That was played on the #Arturia #MicroFreak. The #MiniBrute2s joined on bass if memory serves, while the #DrumBruteImpact handled drum duties. I recorded a jam of ten minutes or so with this setup as a multitrack on my #Tascam Model 12.
#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary
#MusicProduction #Workflow #HomeRecording #HowItsMade #Model12 #Gear #GearTalk
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The main bass sound is #Arturia #MiniBrute2s but it swaps out with a #Roland #AlphaJuno version here and there; the MiniBrute is the heavier, sludgier fuzzier one, the AlphaJuno version has some nice stereo width and a much smoother vibe. The AlphaJuno is also represented (in the intro and the break) in the one of the most famous sounds of all the time, the OG "rave hoover," a preset called "What The."
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During My #InstrumentDays phase, my notes say I added some #Arturia #MiniBrute2s (one of the main melodies) and some #Roland #AlphaJuno (an element of one of the builds). Other #instruments you can hear are the #ASM #Hydrasynth (high strings); #Korg #Monologue (main bassline; sweeps that were actually done with a keygroup sampled #MPC instrument I made before I sold the actual #synth); and last, a ton of #MicroFreak all over the place.
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But the final finishing touch for this one came from the #Morphagene. Well, the Morphagene run into the #QPAS and #Mimeophon, then topped off by the #DesmodusVersio #reverb. A special reel of more weird human sounds I made that played forward on one side and reverse on the other got good and Morphagened up. That got sliced into a bank's worth of samples (16) and those samples finished the track -' it's all that whooshy uncanny valley stuff.
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In terms of its #arrangement this track features the #TR6s drum machine, the #Arturia #MiniBrute2s on bass, #Hydrasynth does the deranged organ, #opsix on the main chord/stab sounds and one repeating sequence. That was roughly where I left the song in the #recording phase. When I came back to it in #production, I added #KawaiK4r (some harmonic support for the chords) and #Roland #AlphaJuno (MKS-50) to it (lovely analog choir, recorded hot/distorted)
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From Nov 18 to Nov 22 I had #InstrumentDays where each day I would take a specific instrument, and just add a bit of it to as many of the in-progress tracks as I could. It went like this:
Day 1: Add #Arturia #MiniBrute2s to 3 tracks
Day 2: Add #KawaiK4r to 4 tracks
Day 3: Add #VolcaDrum to 2 tracks
Day 4: Add #Hydrasynth to 2 tracks
Day 5: Add #Roland #MKS50 (aka #AlphaJuno) to 4 tracks#PsychedelicGhostStories #ProductionDiary #HowItsMade #MusicProduction #Workflow
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My use case, to be fair, is something no artist would have been interested in, or able to do, even if I could have paid them. I was using it to generate images based on my proposed song titles, then using those images to determine if the song was a) worth pursuing and b) what direction to take it. I was trying to create a unique #visual #references or #MoodBoards, in essence.