OK! I admit. This was rushed. It started before I got the Novation Launchpad Pro. This was all done (linear) in arrangement view and just banged out and improvised. There are 3 drum patterns here. The 2 most used are recorded at a completely different BPM and then FORCED painfully into a different BPM and it made this crunching glitchy affect which I thought was neat. This messing with the BPM caused the first drum pattern to have almost a breathing sound in it that I did not expect. The beauty of errors! The third drum pattern I just threw in at the end. The Conet Project samples are responsible for the counting radio voice. I butchered the crap out of those to make it a little more bizarre. Good in headphones though.
The track sort of falls apart at the end where I gave up. I just descended the stupid chord I was pounding on this arpeggio that was completely out of time and then shoved it through a grain filter to make is fall apart and end abruptly.
It was nice when it started. But I gave up. Giving up was never so much fun!
I created this one in Ableton using the Korg MicroKey MIDI controller keyboard.
The haunting Harold Budd piano is the Atmos VST. The Grand Piano and Bass are stock sounds from Ableton. These were played in as clips and launched from the Novation Launchpad Pro. The haunting voices pad was a stock Ableton sound as well, but was played in LIVE in real time in the arrangement (winged it). Quite happy with this one. Ties well to the image above. (Atmosthing1.mp3 was done with a more synthy bass I didn’t like and didn’t have the improvised haunting voices pad).
2/11/2017 UPDATE !!!
OK. I confess, this track is something I am very proud of. I don’t know why but I listen to it a lot. One of the things that bothers me is the volume of the ghostly chorus. It seems to overwhelm the Harold Budd type loop going on from the very start. It seems the calm set up at the very beginning is immediately shattered by the ghostly chorus. I went in and remixed the levels a bit and dropped the chorus back more so you could hear the Harold Budd-type piano loop. Here’s the results.
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