well, i have not really posted much for a long time, but i actually have been doing the odd bit and piece. i've upgraded to ableton suite 8, and i've learnt a lot about how to use it, moreso than i've been trying to actually make music to listen to. this is my most recent effort, and i used a couple of new tricks and ideas that i've picked up since my last post.



this version is a "live" rough-cut. basically i laid out all the elements for the track one by one, then once i had the pieces in place i hit record and brought things in and out of the mix, tweaked effects and triggered different clips. i haven't done any post work on it, and i have a half page of bulletin points of things that i need to fix, but i still think there's some pretty good sounds in there. i don't have any sort of control surfaces at the moment, so this was all done with QWERTY and touchpad, which explains why some of it is pretty rough.

the various elements are some field recordings, synthesised birdsong and insect noises, a hohner pianet emulation, a sampled bowed double bass, and some 808 samples for the drums. there's also a buffer/stutter effect thing and an emulated software analog delay in there too. man, when you look back on that list there's not a lot of "real" instruments, i'll have to try to replace as many of them as possible with recordings of the real versions.



this is another, much smaller and less complete clip. it's only got the drums and mellotron, so it needs a few more tracks of sound, and obviously it only goes for 30 seconds, so there's a need for a few more variations too.