The evolution of a jam. Here’s an expanded version of a mix I started a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been playing around with compression to blend the sounds and fatten up the bass a bit. I don’t really like the last synth part I put in to move into the soon-to-come next section, but it’s a work in progress. Cheers.
Consider it a burst of inspiration. I was just going to play around tonight when this popped up.
I threw in a basic beat loop and began jamming with an old riff using a sweet echo synth in FLStudio. Fortunately, FLStudio makes it easy to lay down MIDI tracks, so I put the basic synth riff down in about an hour.
It seems Acid Pro works better for finishing the production, (probably because I’m used to it), so I added some acoustic beat flourishes after importing the basic synth/beat track.
I know it’s only a minute long, but I suppose you’ve come to expect that from me. Hope you like it!
FLStudio experiment continued. Added a bit with a drum machine (you can tell I’m not a drummer), and played around with the cutoff function on one of my synths at the end.
Definitely a work in progress, so please don’t unfollow based on my musical meanderings.
I’m hoping to dedicate more time to music in 2012. Over the past few months, my basement has gradually morphed into a makeshift studio as I’ve inherited my dad’s Yamaha electronic piano and added a better MIDI controller, an Alesis iPad dock, and a few new software synths over the past few weeks.
With the little time off I have, I’m finally dedicating some time to learning FL Studio and developing tracks using fewer loops and more of my own MIDI-based sounds. Here’s my first stab at playing around with them. (Sorry for the brevity, but it takes me about two hours to put something like this together. I hope to flesh it out into a full-fledged piece in the next couple of weeks.)
For the music geeks: The intro synth sound comes from the Animoog synth on my iPad. The beat is generated using the pattern machine in FLStudio, and the arpeggiated synth is a pattern created by me using the MIDI keyboard controller with the Toxic Biohazard synth.
All it takes is a nudge.
Thanks to a nod of encouragement from @Puggpaw and @KirstensDesk, I decided to capture today’s mood in a simple chord sketch.
I do want to pause and remember those brave first responders who responded then, and continue to respond when tragedy strikes. But I don’t want to relive 9/11 and see those images again and again and again.
Those of us who lived through that day will always remember, without the reminders.
I just downloaded FLStudio Mobile for my iPad, and I’m blown away by its powerful simplicity.
The mobile version has some serious editing power, and workflow is a breeze. Until Nanostudio comes out for the iPad, this will be my musical sketchpad on the go.
I hope all these little bits will someday come together as something more substantial, but tiny meanderings are all I have time for these days. Better than nothing, I suppose.
