I really like Korg Gadget, it’s a fun way to put down quick ideas with powerful and varied synths. I usually don’t feel the need to change the sounds once I export the project to Ableton. This track started as a jam session on Gadget and it wanted to be a happy but melancholic old school hip hop beat.
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This one started from a jam session on GarageBand for iPad. It’s a shame that it’s such a pain to export projects from there to other DAWs because it’s a nice tool for idea generation. I found this growling sample and the atmosphere made me think of a cave with a wild animal inside, getting closer and closer…
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This creepy drum & bass track started from a jam session on GarageBand for iPad. I found this repeating percussion that made me think about insects crawling and skittering around, then looking for vocal samples I found a weird one that was just a person saying “skin” and it fit the crawling insect imagery.
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This is another one that came through from a jamming session in GarageBand on iPad, it wanted to show a tense atmosphere and the feeling the something is going to happen, so I chose vocal samples that could add to that.
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This dark trap beat came from a random jam session with my bass, just playing whatever and recording, then trying to build up ideas with any interesting bits that came up. Curating ideas from the universe or something like that.
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This one started out very differently as a rough idea, it was more of an aggressive atmospheric suspense movie kind of thing, but it somehow evolved into a pretty chill beat. I slowed down the bassline and added sparse piano runs and a mysterious dreamy vocal pad.
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This is an experimental electronic track with an emphasis on percussion and an ostinato bassline, surrounded by an ominous piano theme and a tense atmosphere.
This one started from an idea session (“splurge” in Mike Monday MMYL terminology) in Garage Band for iPad. It’s a neat little app, but moving projects from it to Ableton Live is too much of a pain so I haven’t used it much since then.
After the very first session the track really knew what it wanted to be, this one would have been finished much earlier but I wanted to find new sounds for some of the parts. I think the sound changes made it better so It was all good in the end.
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This one wanted to be a nostalgic, dreamy beat from the start, so I chose the vocal samples to match.
This week I’m continuing to notice a theme with my releases. I loved this track a few weeks ago when I finished it, but now I’m not so sure about it. I’m thinking that this is normal insecurity and the process of getting used to putting things out to the world.
My path to mastery is going to be long, I know that well, but I have set up a good system that will allow me to release my work and learn from it. Just have to trust the process.
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Week 3 of my challenge to release one track per week.
It’s strange how I was very excited about this track when I finished it a few weeks ago, but now I’m not anymore. I think there are two things happening here ata the same time: self doubt and improved quality control. Either way, it is not up to me to decide if this is any good, as long as one person enjoys it, it is worth releasing.
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