I haven’t done any music in a very long time. This should be now a new start.
I’m a perfectionist, so when I did a some tracks a few years ago I was obsessed getting them right, doing one iteration after the other, many times, for months. In the end it was a frustrating experience as I never got something finished, or should I say, something that I considered “finished” and I was happy with. I got so frustrated that I stopped doing any music at all for several years.
When I got into modular about 18 months ago my aim was to try a different approach. Keep it simple. Focus on some hardware/software, don’t use everything. Do not overcomplicate. Get things done even if they are not perfect. Embrace mistakes when they happen. And finally, do the music I like myself.
Well congratulations Ben! This was a perfectly enjoyable and very nice piece, perfect enough for me, says someone always fighting his own perfectionistic gene. And now I look forward to the next one… Do you have a link for the case on ModularGrid?
and yeah, perfectionism would mean i would never get anything done. i’m a big believer in the open source mantra: release early, release often. even “works in progress” are often liked by people. i also believe in happy accidents. an imperfect performance is better than none.
i do what i enjoy. that’s what i make music for. and if other people enjoy it as well, even better.
and as you see, we here enjoy this what you’re doing. so, do more of it!
So, I got my stuff back home. I carried some gear over to my workplace over a long weekend, helping me to concentrate on music. That was a success, without doubt!
I had about 500 ideas what I could do but I had to stop at some point to get something done.
For example, I first tried to integrate my Volca Nubass as a lead synth. That did not work out very well, so it went back on the baseline. I did kill the levels with the resonance at some point, not sure how I could miss that…
I also tried to integrate Maschine Jam as MIDI controller which works quite Ok but I guess it needs a dedicate module at some point. Mapping various parameters gets quite tedious… also, I want it to work as a step sequencer without Maschine-software…
I will do a second take in the next few days before I take this patch apart. First, I need to watch my levels more carefully, second I think it could be bit longer… that been said, I really do like the atmosphere this piece has
Lush. Definitely embrace the mistakes. They can sometimes be the best bits of a track because it just works and you’d never have thought to do it that way.
all the upcoming modules i made( MpSeries,for mpk25 specifically are missing the smooth integration, without need for mapping).
i have 40 presets on mpk25 so each one is on different channel.
for now i use them as a Strip including midi-cat+module () …