One of those days, wherein all your patterns seem to work against one another and nothing is coming out right. You feel caged and stressed and …
The percussion is in theme with a 4/20 kick and quintuplet on the hi-hat every beat (of 4). Check. Bass is a random selection out of 4 5-note sequences (for a total of 20 notes). Check. Pads are 4 chords (two of 4 notes with 5 semitones between and two of 5 with 4 notes with 5 in semitones in between) in a 3-4-5-1 progression. Check. But these are all technicalities … generative and sequenced.
This is my purely generative entry to the VCP challenge #64 - 4/20 … indeed many of the settings of the patch modules are on “4” or “20” …
The video is a semi-automatic visual improvisation using random variations of Conway’s Game of Life.
Funny how patches often happen. I wanted to heed the 4/20 with some sample from Hits From the Bong/Cypress Hill or the like and make some ~ambient dub but while trying out samples with Shapemaster sequencing Autobreak I found this industrial percussion in the 1932 sound of Cab Calloway’s “Reefer Man” and things went Techno. (Just noticed, in case you noticed, that music and video are out of sync. Ah well.)
At one point I was hoping to be first in here but then other people where faster than me. Darn it. I’m not a drugs guy (in spite of the psychedelic imagery) so I decided to be inspired by another important event that happened on 4/20 this year and made a piece that starts chaotic and becomes more harmonic with time.
This is my first attempt at mastering in Audacity. I was trying to set the volume levels with compression and I got a lot of clicks no matter what I did. Probably operator error, using the wrong tool for the job. I’d been thinking about learning to use Audacity for a while and this seemed an opportune moment. Any suggestions on what plugins I should use in future?
What clicks are you referring to? During that fast early part is sounds a little clicky to me, is that it? And of course you should use my Comp module to keep dynamics in line in VCV
I tried using a bunch of different compressors but I was trying to equalize the levels over the length of the piece and it just seemed easier to learn Audacity in the end. I’m assuming the clickyness at the beginning is just the result of changing pitches really fast. It was when things slowed down that I had problems. I’m still not really sure what I’m doing with compressors so I don’t use them much.
haha, you must be referring the infamous mix of Metallica’s “and justice for all”. I like to hear the bass player. Although I must admit that last time I was in a band I did fire the bass player for playing too loud (and other infractions, like playing in A all the time).
