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CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio

The Birds are Back

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The Birds are Back

Still messing with the Arturia Keystep 37 and learning new stuff. I find it amazing how the on-board arpeggiator and sequencer can work independently of Ableton, so you can pre-plan, audition, and rehearse stuff before you trigger and record it into Ableton as MIDI files. It is SUPER nifty. The delicious ingredients list follows:

  • Arturia Keystep 37
  • A bunch of stock Ableton 9 gadgets and samples
  • Addictive Keys plugin (for dinkly piano)
  • Lounge Lizard plugin (for the Rhodes Electric Piano bit)
  • Yamaha Reface CS (for the screechy mono synth bit)
  • Novation Launchpad Pro (for various drum patterns and cymbal fills)
  • Audacity software (to record Bird noises found on YouTube)

This project started last weekend when my friend Keith was here. I was demonstrating the crazy stuff the Keystep does and just started laying out tracks. I finished the rest of it today.

As always none of this is perfect or etched in stone, but I had fun doing it and I like to listen to it. As always USE HEADPHONES!!!

(*As a special afterthought note: I just renewed my CtrlZStudio account. I noticed it started in May of 2010 (for those of you scoring at home)).

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio

New Arturia Keystep 37 Chord Mode Sequence Experiment # 1

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Made my first experiment with my new Arturia Keystep 37

IMPORTANT! THERE WAS NO PLAYING ADDED ONTO THIS! JUST THE INITIAL SEQUENCE AT THE START. The expanding of the sequence is all achieved by adding notes to the chord structure with the dials. (And well, because I like effects I played with some chorus and panning because YOU SHOULD EXPECT THAT OF ME BY NOW!)

BEST IN HEADPHONES!!!

Keystep chord mode seq 1

The ingredients are as follows:

  1. Created a few notes sequence very slowly which you hear immediately at the beginning.
  2. Added some sustain pedal just because.
  3. Went from 1/4 division to 1/8 division (faster) and removed sustain.
  4. Added the chord mode with a user chord I set up earlier and slowly increased the note count in the chord.
  5. Then reduced the chord note count and added sustain and slowed it back to 1/4 division.
  6. Then messed with some of the chord modes (5ths and sustained chords etc) while adding notes to it.

I’m in a bit of shock right now. So I’m going to step away and think about how I’m going to exist moving forward. I am completely blown away already.