The Passing Storm
26/04/20 21:41
Recently I was inspired to write a new song. And my muse was kind to me and a complete song popped out quickly. However, this entry is not about the new song. I am currently in the process of recording this new piece but while I was in the studio auditioning new keyboard sounds for this new piece, serendipity struck and a new instrumental piece was born. I can see from the log it has been 5 years since I released my last instrumental.
This one was created all in Logic using stock instruments. There is a synthesizer sound that is run through an arpeggiator, This is an Alchemy patch called "Mystical Vox" run into the stock arpeggiator on up/down. two octaves, with variation 4 selected. I added some randomness to the level of the key downs to give it a more "human" feel. I was playing this part manually but my fingers got tired and it occurred to me that an arpeggiator could play that fingering easily.
I used the Desire Orchestral Kit for the drums and just edited the drum patterns in the piano roll. The drums are bussed into both a large and small reverb with a touch of chorusing to give them a unique "room" feel.
The erhu is an EXS24 patch that was also bussed into two separate Space Designer aux busses just because this is a new concept for me that I am playing a lot with these days. Both the drums and the erhu busses along with the direct patch are mixed into the output strip so that the reverb has a lot of control.
The piece echos a passing storm which could be the April thunderstorm that was passing by that day, although I think my mind was also noticing the rhythms of an epidemic. Is that thunder I hear or the loss of another soul?
Take care of yourselves and please, please consider carefully all of your actions. The virus can help us more clearly see that we are not separate islands floating together in the sea of life, but that the world is truly one living thing; or should I say that this vast universe is all connected.
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This one was created all in Logic using stock instruments. There is a synthesizer sound that is run through an arpeggiator, This is an Alchemy patch called "Mystical Vox" run into the stock arpeggiator on up/down. two octaves, with variation 4 selected. I added some randomness to the level of the key downs to give it a more "human" feel. I was playing this part manually but my fingers got tired and it occurred to me that an arpeggiator could play that fingering easily.
I used the Desire Orchestral Kit for the drums and just edited the drum patterns in the piano roll. The drums are bussed into both a large and small reverb with a touch of chorusing to give them a unique "room" feel.
The erhu is an EXS24 patch that was also bussed into two separate Space Designer aux busses just because this is a new concept for me that I am playing a lot with these days. Both the drums and the erhu busses along with the direct patch are mixed into the output strip so that the reverb has a lot of control.
The piece echos a passing storm which could be the April thunderstorm that was passing by that day, although I think my mind was also noticing the rhythms of an epidemic. Is that thunder I hear or the loss of another soul?
Take care of yourselves and please, please consider carefully all of your actions. The virus can help us more clearly see that we are not separate islands floating together in the sea of life, but that the world is truly one living thing; or should I say that this vast universe is all connected.
Soundcloud Link
