Nick Blanc

No not my 100th Christmas jam, I'm not a vampire. My 100th jam and who better to celebrate it with than Inge 🥳

I have Freepik, which I use for covers and general fun stuff. They also have a video creation department. These are 2 examples I created. First one was just trying some stuff out. The next one was for a friend who was feeling sick and I wanted to cheer her up. freepik__a-robot-with-angelic-wings-gracefully-turns-around__58383.mp4 freepik__this-heartwarming-cartoon-scene-depicts-a-lifesize__58384.mp4

It was a bit of a rush job, created, recorded, mixed, mastered and video editted everything in 1 day. Still, a pretty decent result. The patch I’m playing has a bit of an accordion vibe. I switched the XD off and realised I didn’t save the patch. Ah well…

Thanks, I would say I'm just scratching the surface. But I'm getting there.

Hmm, seems like an update just for Apple and Pro Tools users. I'm skipping it.

There are lots, Oora has an excellent video on it: And this is a mix of very chill dub techno, check out the track somewhere in the middle, minute 34. Just very relaxed, elements come and go:

While a bit inspired by it, dub techno is quite different from the reggae dub. That is often very bass heavy stuff, while this kind of more chill dub techno is more about the sporadic placements of the elements and the (subtle) modulation of space elements (delay and reverb). So for instance I have an extra bass note playing, but only every 4 beats, while you would normally have that bass play every beat or even faster (1/4 or even 1/8). New setup is coming along nicely. Everything is back in its place and almost everything is connected (again). But I still need to to do al lot of cable work because I'm switching to patchbays.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Like audible bass instead of the more subby tones I use now?

I had to record earlier in the week because of some big studio changes (visible next week, but you can already see a bunch of cables in the background on the floor). So sadly no Inge to accompany me. But still a very cool result. I did manage to sneak in a snippet of her voice, looped and strechted for some vocal assistance. See if you can spot it (well, it's not that hard).

We are slowly getting the hang of this. We keep practicing and making music. Everytime we learn something new. And everytime we make something awesome. We're both very happy with how this one turned out. On to the next!

It always baffles me how they come up with these prices. €999.95 €74.97. Yeah right, a thousand bucks for a couple of plugins 😵‍💫. For just 200-300 more you can get the hardware unit secondhand.

Here’s the result of an afternoon of music fun. Nice analog sounds, an amazing singer and (imo) a great track.

Poorly lit thumbnail, but at least the music side was fun Had a nice buildup and decided to roll with it. This is more techno-y without very clear breaks. Enjoy!

Thanks!

Lots of reverb and (granular) fx give this jam a lot of atmosphere with all kinds of glitchy textures. A bit live playing, even 2 synths at the same time.