Nick Blanc

Already using it. I have my studio in my very suboptimal living room. I'm not putting up ugly (or less ugly but still nothing to look at) soundproofing.

Take that Korg! They are out there releasing a plethora of stuff, only to be absolutely PULVERIZED by this uppercut of a workstation. Did I mention it's a looker too? 🤩

Alright, the genre name keeps on growing, I don't really know anymore haha. There not much sticking out so it's more about the thing as a whole. I think I will change it up in the future where I will try to get 1 or 2 elements to be upfront. Just like a proper musician 😜

Although not my genre, this was a great listen!

The PPG Wave has been free or very low at some time I believe. The Streichfett is a cool plugin!

Bought it. The Newfangled stuff is top quality and it never hurts to have an extra delay.

Something a bit different this time, but still in my wheelhouse: I recently discovered the band (collective? family? They don't call themselves a band I think) Heilung and was blown away. It awakened my Germanic DNA and had me raiding villages south of the Rhine. In seriousness, I don't really know what it is, but it is my heritage and it clicked with me on a level I haven't felt before. So I immediately bought tickets to a show and made this Heilung inspired jam (or old Germanic inspired, this means droning instruments layered in octaves, lots of drums and singing, I didn't have the nerve or skill to add throatsinging haha). I made it my own of course, but it came out great imo. Enjoy!

You Americans and your WRONG date notation had me thinking this was a version upgrade 😜

Ah right, I meant the KingKorg Neo.

I'm working on a portable setup with some of the Roland Compact AIRA units, the IK Multimedia UNO drum and the Korg NTS-1. But this looks pretty pretty interesting to add. Bit pricey though, not for the unit itself because it looks great, just for my budget on this particular project.

Just like with the Grandstage X, I'm not sure what (besides obviously more polyphony voices) this will actually add to the Minilogue XD.

One of my favorites. I have a plethora of reverbs, but this one nails it pretty much every time.

Haha I'm up, I'm up.

Almost there! I'm close to completing a full year of doing a weekly jam. And this one is a bit special. It's a lot more chill and the vocals give it an extra edge. Yes it's just some lines of Splice, but there is always some stuff going on which make it fit, sadly. Anyway, it's always remarkable how soothing a simple 303 line with some delay and reverb can be. Enjoy!

Free upgrade for existing Gojira owners.

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

I love my distorted sustained sounds. This time I found a french vocal in Splice which fits very nice! Overall it has a certain dark but melancholy feel to it? Also a bit uplifting. Whatever it is, it was fun to do. I got a comment from a friend that it's more for easy listening because it's still a pretty calm track.

Thanks! Yes to my surprise is was fairly 'clean' (as far as it can be when not using headphones). I think the way I held the mic helped. But when compressing there was some really audible noise, so I had to be careful in processing. Luckily it's the same as the music that is already playing so it kinda blends in. When I didn't use the mic I just gated the signal.

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Ok first of all, I can't hold a tune if my life depended on it, so this is with every Autotune, Melodyne, Waves Tune Crispy Tune etc. help known to man. Seriously, I used all of it. But man it was fun to do. The rest is my usual synth heavy sound which I love. Lots of overdrive and distortion but with clear undertones. Oh and my camera app seems to suddenly not play nice and flicker a bit. Haven't found a way around that (other camera apps besides the native Pixel one don't let me do the 0.7x zoom, so it anybody knows one that does, let me know!).

Thanks! I'll have the new one up in a couple of minutes.

One of the best in its genre.

Thanks! I'm still scratching the surface in my mind. But doing it every week means learning something every week.

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