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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread

#21,601
I’ve actually been working away on a few ideas again. I’m still dealing with family chaos that’s taking up about 2+ hours a day, but something got my brain going. I’m working on sample slicing and manipulation with the Erica Sample Drum and delays and reverbs. Nothing worth sharing, but it’s interesting to listen to what familiar effects do with unfamiliar sound sources. Voices and drums through my usual filter and effects chains get really interesting.

The ataraxic iteritas VCO gets interesting with a band pass filter. All the wave table weirdness pokes out in unexpected ways through the frequency sweep.
 
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Spectrum said:
Been working on my "big" synth rig for an upcoming show, laying down some new programming and patches, etc. One thing I've realized is that I want every instrument to have a delay effect available. Every synth plus whichever bass or guitar I'm using. More delay.

More delay pedals. Always more delay pedals. Delay is my sickness.
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I’m getting into mixing issues and wet/dry situations. I think what I need to work on is a mono dry “center” for some sounds and a stereo wet path for effects. I’m trying to figure out how to bounce this all down with the VCAs and line out modules I have at my disposal. It gets funky.

I’m enjoying running samples in reverse into a reverse delay and getting a “forward” sounding result. I could just go forward into a reverse delay and still adjust the wet/dry on the delay but I want the forward sound to come from the reverse delay effect.
 
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In an odd twist of fate, I got a new publishing deal for some of my past and most of my future songs and co-writes. This company did great for Legendary Shackshakers when I was in that band. So I’m currently going through all the electronic stuff I’ve done in the past few years and putting the songs into catagories. Currently putting together a more light hearted electro/acid adjacent sort of thing, to be followed by ambient/IDM stuff. I think most here would hate my more electro leaning stuff, but I’m having a ball putting it all together and deeply regret selling my Norand Mono now. Gotta get another one!
 
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I don't know, I dig electro sometimes.

I recorded a neat thing Sunday but it was plagued with annoying little buzzes. My usual tricks for cleaning them up took the edge off a little but not quite enough to please me. So I was fighting with it tonight, and tried masking it with a filtered swarm oscillator drone. That not only covered it, it made the track better. I had to draw in automation curves in the DAW instead of playing the level/timbre with faders, and I probably spent more than twice as long editing than I did recording the track in the first place, but hey, I rescued it.
 
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dukeorock said:
In an odd twist of fate, I got a new publishing deal for some of my past and most of my future songs and co-writes. This company did great for Legendary Shackshakers when I was in that band. So I’m currently going through all the electronic stuff I’ve done in the past few years and putting the songs into catagories. Currently putting together a more light hearted electro/acid adjacent sort of thing, to be followed by ambient/IDM stuff. I think most here would hate my more electro leaning stuff, but I’m having a ball putting it all together and deeply regret selling my Norand Mono now. Gotta get another one!
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Make that jackhammer kick drum slam so they can shake those booties on the dance floor!!!

If they dance and are having fun, you’re doing it right I say.
 
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dukeorock said:
In an odd twist of fate, I got a new publishing deal for some of my past and most of my future songs and co-writes. This company did great for Legendary Shackshakers when I was in that band. So I’m currently going through all the electronic stuff I’ve done in the past few years and putting the songs into catagories. Currently putting together a more light hearted electro/acid adjacent sort of thing, to be followed by ambient/IDM stuff. I think most here would hate my more electro leaning stuff, but I’m having a ball putting it all together and deeply regret selling my Norand Mono now. Gotta get another one!
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awesome. congrats.
 
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dukeorock said:
In an odd twist of fate, I got a new publishing deal for some of my past and most of my future songs and co-writes. This company did great for Legendary Shackshakers when I was in that band. So I’m currently going through all the electronic stuff I’ve done in the past few years and putting the songs into catagories. Currently putting together a more light hearted electro/acid adjacent sort of thing, to be followed by ambient/IDM stuff. I think most here would hate my more electro leaning stuff, but I’m having a ball putting it all together and deeply regret selling my Norand Mono now. Gotta get another one!
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If you're talking about this kind of electro, I'm 100% on board...

 
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Spectrum said:
Been working on my "big" synth rig for an upcoming show, laying down some new programming and patches, etc. One thing I've realized is that I want every instrument to have a delay effect available. Every synth plus whichever bass or guitar I'm using. More delay.

More delay pedals. Always more delay pedals. Delay is my sickness.
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This has me very intrigued: Nautilus — Qu-Bit Electronix
 
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lucas303 said:
This has me very intrigued: Nautilus — Qu-Bit Electronix
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I just saw that. Wow.

Nautilus is a complex delay network inspired by sub-nautical communications and their interaction with the environment. In essence, Nautilus is a stereo delay consisting of 8 unique delay lines which can be connected and synced in interesting ways. Each time Nautilus pings its sonar system, the generated topography reveals itself through the delay, all while staying in time with the internal or external clock. Complex feedback interactions plunge sounds to new depths, while related delay lines pull fragments of sound in different directions. Manipulate the delay lines even further by configuring the the stereo receptors, sonar frequencies, and aquatic materials that filter the space between Nautilus and its surroundings.

Though Nautilus is a delay effect at heart, it is also a CV/Gate generator. The Sonar Output creates either a unique Gate signal, or a unique CV signal algorithmically generated from Nautilus’s findings. Drive other parts of your patch with pings from the delay network, or use the generated topography as a modulation source.

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