Veracohr Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Greetings Piepeople! I decided to do an experiment/project for at least the next week, during which I will produce and publish a new piece of music every day. Why, you ask? Well, partly because I have nothing better to do, and partly because I normally take such an absurdly long amount of time to complete songs that I wanted to force myself to do otherwise. So here's the deal: starting today, I will post a file every day until next Thursday (7 days). If I think I can handle it, I'll keep going after that, but I only guarantee it for the next 7 days. Don't expect these files to be good, or complete, or long, or consistent in any manner. I will spend no more than 1 day on each piece. Feel free to join me if you want, and feel free to critique the music as you want. If you want to join me, try sticking with informational format below: Date: October 9, 2009 Genre: Acid BPM: 180 Length: 5:05 Equipment/Software Used: Drums - Sonic Charge μTonic Bass - Novation BassStation Rack Intro Pad - Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver Keyboard 303 sound - Audiorealism ABL2 Melody - Native Instruments Pro-53 Outro Pad - E-Mu Orbit V2 Sequencing - Ableton Live 7 Mixing/Mastering - MOTU Digital Performer 5 Story/Info: I started this yesterday, as you can tell by the file name (1008 = October 8. Here in the US we put the month first when writing a date.) Yesterday I was in a bad mood, and on the way home from work I listened to Nine Inch Nails' "Broken" and part of Slayer's "Reign in Blood", so I wanted to make something fast, hard and dirty. I finished pretty much all of it last night in about 5 hours of work, although I was interrupted in the middle when I had to go help a friend with something, so I was up really late and got about 4 hours of sleep before work this morning. The only thing I did today was some minor tweaking on loop arrangement and changed the sound of the ending chord, plus the mixing and mastering. And before anyone mentions it, let me mention that I know it ends horribly. Keep in mind that I produced this in (at best) 1/90 of the time it normally takes me to complete a song. I had to post it today, and I just couldn't spend any more time coming up with a better ending. http://www.veracohr.com/audio/1008.mp3 - 192kbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen dream Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 is that really 180 bpm? maybe i'm getting young nice idea and looking forward to hear pt. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malevol3nt Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I used to do this as a kid. Just slap on some tracks as fast as I could, without caring too much about quality or whatever. Can be fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 I didn't have much today: Date: October 10, 2009 Genre: Mood music? BPM: 110 Length: 3:45 Equipment: Drums - μTonic Pad - PEK Lead - Native Instruments Massive Sequencing/Mixing - Live Mastering - DP Story: By the time I finished yesterday's I was pretty drunk. I tried to start on the new one, but all I got was the drum sounds programmed and the loop written. I started the day with a nice hangover and have been sitting around watching episodes of Family Ties. I didn't have much creativity so I just found a sound already on my PEK, which I'm not even sure I programmed myself, I think it might have been the one factory preset I've kept. So I just fucked around for about an hour and half and here you have it: http://www.veracohr.com/audio/1010.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needle ninja Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 Nice Start! The first track just needs to be finished up a bit. The second has a long way to go. Inspration has never been even keel for me. I'll throw this in 2 Genre: Tech Trance (i think) BPM : 124 Length: 4:30 Sounds: z3ta+1 - bassline Battery 3 - drums Juno 106 - sounds Cakewalk Rapture - pads Dimension Pro - melody from 2:36 Moog little phatty - bass Drop Zone 1 - wisp sound samples from a sci-fi collection... Sequencing : mix of live and step In Search Of still don't quite like this, spent too much time on it perhaps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 I just remembered today that the next few days is going to be really tough to get this done. This week is my office's quarterly national sales meeting, which means I'm busy with work people even after work, plus tomorrow I've got my bowling league. Date: October 11, 2009 Genre: Ambient BPM: 80 Length: 6:40 Equipment: Pad - PEK Bass - BassStation Tinkly sound - Native Instruments FM8 Drums - Reason Recording/Mixing/Mastering - DP I didn't program the FM sound myself, I'm not that good at FM. I just went through and found a preset and tweaked it a little. I had a hell of a time trying to find a high pass filter plugin that is controllable via MIDI CC. There's a multimode filter plugin in DP that isn't too bad, but the cutoff is only controllable via MIDI notes, not CC. I tried downloading some free ones, but what I found wasn't controllable at all, so I ended up just using an LFO instead of manual control for the cutoff. I kind of like this actually, it might not be too bad if I wanted to develop it further. http://www.veracohr.com/audio/1011.mp3 In Search Of still don't quite like this, spent too much time on it perhaps It's got some interesting bits, it could be something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted October 13, 2009 Author Share Posted October 13, 2009 Okay, so technically it's the 13th as I type this, but it still counts as the same day since I haven't gone to sleep yet. Date: October 12, 2009 Genre: Trance (Classic Trance?) BPM: 130 Length: 5:12 Equipment: Drums - μTonic Bass - Pro-53 Pad - Reason/Thor Beep - Reason/Subtractor 303 - ABL2 I know this is boring, but I had a super busy day. I wanted to so some thing "classic trance", but honestly I wasn't into trance during the "classic" era, and I think I've really only heard a little of it http://www.veracohr.com/audio/1012.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 I simply can't do any Daily Music today, I'm far too tired from work-related stuff. I'll post one tomorrow, but I still won't spend more than a day on it. Just like the ones I've posted so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needle ninja Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I just remembered today that the next few days is going to be really tough to get this done. This week is my office's quarterly national sales meeting, which means I'm busy with work people even after work, plus tomorrow I've got my bowling league. Date: October 11, 2009 Genre: Ambient BPM: 80 Length: 6:40 Equipment: Pad - PEK Bass - BassStation Tinkly sound - Native Instruments FM8 Drums - Reason Recording/Mixing/Mastering - DP I didn't program the FM sound myself, I'm not that good at FM. I just went through and found a preset and tweaked it a little. I had a hell of a time trying to find a high pass filter plugin that is controllable via MIDI CC. There's a multimode filter plugin in DP that isn't too bad, but the cutoff is only controllable via MIDI notes, not CC. I tried downloading some free ones, but what I found wasn't controllable at all, so I ended up just using an LFO instead of manual control for the cutoff. I kind of like this actually, it might not be too bad if I wanted to develop it further. http://www.veracohr.com/audio/1011.mp3 It's got some interesting bits, it could be something. It needs more structure. That's the problem with most ambient, it doesn't have an identifiable structure - they get all these nice sounds and then just put them together without a form holding it all together. That's why I hear the criticism 'ambient is just noise' because song structure is still important, even in ambient. It's also why I don't collect ambient, I don't feel satisfied listening to most I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needle ninja Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Its weird, but I have made some of my most popular stuff in short periods of time. Maybe music is like cheese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veracohr Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Its weird, but I have made some of my most popular stuff in short periods of time. Maybe music is like cheese. Some of it is, certainly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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