Snd 53 - [22.02.2012]

Something a little different

Todays upload was going to be a replication of an old and slightly forgotten favourite electronic track of mine. Although quite excited to be revisiting this track, during its emulation things were sounding more like Plastikman than what I was aiming for. After adding some noise to start building a texture, I was suddenly struck at the similarity of it sounding like rain on a roof. Quickly I decided to leave my original plan and create something a little different.

I must admit I was a little hesitant to pursue this as it’s a bit of a cliche, and almost thought I should create something entirely different, but finally decided on persevering.

Hopefully todays upload makes for an interesting listen.

Snd 52 - [20.02.2012]

More scotch tape.

Today’s upload is chord texture that sits in an mid to high area of frequencies, and one thats subtle beating slowly removes the initial perceived hard edge to this sound.
Again I have used the DX7 algorithms as a starting point, today using number 4.

An update to this website should hopefully come today and so I wont say to much more in this post and will get on with bringing it to you.

I will leave it with a quote that was tweeted by Scott Belsky of Behance this morning.
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
- Eugéne Delacroix

Snd 51 - [20.02.2012]

Scotch tape.

A simple sound and sticking down of a few notes for todays clean sounding upload. Simple tones with a touch of EQ, using the DX7 operator algorithm 1 in the Nord.

It is quite ‘nice’ sounding, but could perhaps be used as a starting point for something else.

Snd 50 - [19.02.2012]

Operator 32

The first of many uploads to come utilising the 32 algorithms of the DX7 synthesizer, these are modelled in the Nord Modular as direct conversion made by Wout Blommers.

I have often wanted to own a DX7 and more so in recent times, and so you can imagine my joy when I found this advanced programming website by James J Clark, which includes the DX7, among other emulations and synthesis techniques. This should keep me going for a little while.

Todays upload more specifically is simply 2 notes, occasionally released and pressed again. I think it sounds pretty decent.

Snd 49 - [18.02.2012]

3 notes

I decided this morning I was going to create a sound that is a simple a chord using envelopes, filters and simple LFO’s.

I remembered when using my Nord Rack 2, a much simpler synth, a rather complex sound can be achieved by simply balancing the parameters, something I feel I have let slide a little while working with the complex patches of the Nord Modular.

Today’s upload is a reasonably rushed sound (its a bit hissy and flat), consisting of a basic chord randomly alternating 3 simple notes, G, D and E, with a touch of EQ, but it already has a great deal more excitement about it than say yesterdays overly busy effort.

I like it and so might work on this sound more tomorrow.

Snd 48 - [17.02.2012]

Revisiting again

Today I am again revisiting a sound that was originally created using a combination of Nord & computer processing. Todays version of this sound created in the Nord Modular differs perhaps in that it is less refined than the original, although I am not entirely sure of that at the moment to be honest, and I will explain why.

Snd 47 - [16.02.2012]

Revisited

Todays upload is a revised version of a sketch me and Lucia created on the Akai S2800.

Originally it was using an old record full of different tones and sound phenomena as its source, recording each sound into the Akai using it much like a loop pedal.

I remember this time being an incredible moment we shared with us both using equipment at the same time to create, something quite different to how we normally work, that being generally quite separate.

Snd 46 - [15.02.2012]

Pokk!

I have often found when I create with sound, a particular type of sound occurs having a sort of filtered ‘thonk!’ quality to it. This can be heard slightly in todays upload, an emulation of a sound I had forgot I had created, found on my hardrive this morning.

I like to think of this sound simply as ‘pokk!’.

The reference being for those who didn’t find the garish image for today enough of a hint, is from my memory of my favourite and first Dare Devil comic called Visionaries, written by Kevin Smith and illustrated by the incredibly talented Joe Quesada, and possibly my favourite inker Jimmy Palmiotti. What a combination.

Snd 45 - [14.02.2012]

Brief Pulsar Experiments

A quick and brief entry today.

This one is experiments in finding ways to create as close as I can to the sound of Pulsar Synthesis.

Although technically this is incorrect, the similarities in how one pulse influences another in peaks and filter-like ways, much like the correct version, does yield a pleasing result.

As I say this is only a brief post, so I hope you enjoy the upload.

Snd 44 - [13.02.2012]

Remaining rain

I have always enjoyed rain. I remember as a teenager growing up in my home town of Swanage, I would stand on the edge of the cliff, looking out to sea, my most fondest memories of those times are being alone and experiencing nature on its stormiest of days.

I remember liking, and still do now, the smell of someone returning home, carrying the scent of rain with them, like a cat coming home for its food and with it a lingering odor of oil from its sheltering under a car.