Nick Blanc

Not entirely different, but a clear cut melody line (or hook) is not something I do a lot. It came out really nice if I may say so myself. Layering the synths gives this huge sound that I like. Cool one.

One of our best ones yet. The track kicks, sounds and melody are pretty on point and Inge is on fire! Had fun creating this one and recording Inge afterwards. Yeah I know, not entirely live but hey there's always next time.

Thanks for the extensive comment. The mixer is a midi mixer which basically can do unlimited channels. It has a forward button so I could 'scroll' through all the channels. But it has no feedback on which channel it is, so when you do that, you quickly lose track of what channel is on what fader. So I tend to just use the 8 channels. And if I want to control other devices, I use the volume or filter knob on those devices. As for live, as you said, I'm not hauling this equipment around. You could do a setup with just the Pulsar 23 and a synth or 2 and a laptop with pre recorded stuff, but I'm not interested in that. For the camera thing, yeah that would be cool. It could be done. Right now I'm filming in 1080p. If I switch to 4K I could zoom in without losing quality. I might experiment with that. Cool idea.

I'm playing some more with the Pulsar 23 and it's feedback capabilities. I'm still struggling with the looper but the fun never stops. The main kick is from the Edge.

Thanks! It's always a balance between 'what do/can I do live' and 'what is better left sequenced'. For excample, yesterday I was recording and I was so focused on the sequencing of the track I forgot to play one the synths I had picked out for live playing. Ands I have been asked to do some live stuff (not Tomorowland haha), but I'm not that interested. It's a hassle. But perhaps in the future with a small setup.

I decided to leave an unquantized loop in the Pulsar-23 as it was for some weird texture. Not sure about the outcome, but hey, here it is!

I don't know, it sounds a bit lighter and more mellow. So I'm calling it spring vibes. Really no special idea behind that, it's just how it came out.

It could have been heavier if I had added the MS-20 as a third melodic layer, but it was on bass duty. The melody can be a bit hard to follow. I was playing both synths with the Push 2, just noodling away without a metronome or counting and suddenly this melody popped out. So I recorded it and there it was.

Well, all the sources are analog. Of course there's fx and mixing/mastering. It came out fine. Not the greatest, but still fun to do and play.

Thanks, she is indeed. I'm lucky to have someone like that in my friends circle.

"Vrij" means Free. We thought it would be cool to record something in Dutch, so we did. And honestly I think it's one of our best ones. Enjoy!

Suddenly I'm getting all kinds of errors in the plugins. Missing content, etc. Relaunching the plugin a couple of times is the trick. Great design.

I'm continuing on the more clear cut melody path. This time a bit more call & response. A couple of riffs and melodies and a beautiful Prophet 6 with what I can only describe as a sea of pads. But, but most fun thing are the drum and chant samples. I recorded it on my phone a couple of week ago during an evening of heavy drinking with some friends. Got a text this week: "hey you promised to put the recording in your jams, where is it?" I completely forgot 😅. Well, here it is!

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Yes, we are back! I wish I could say it was great recording, but we had to record 3 times due to technical issues (and a dumb mistake by me selecting the wrong channel to record). But we got it done. The process was as fun as ever.

Very cool song! Takes me back.

Exploring the rougher side of the SOMA Pulsar 23, but with the melodic touches you're used to from me. I was a little frustrated because Ableton decided to crash, the recovery didn't work and I forgot to save. So I lost a couple of hours and had to start all over again.

It's not entirely different form my usual jams, but it certainly has another energy. Much more percussion and drums, so more like the tribal techno from the beginning of the '00s. But with a dark twist from the moody en growling Sub37. Man that thing bites. SOMA is also represented with the Pulsar 23 and that 'sheeny' drone from the Lyra-8. Great stuff.

Again, no such luck combining our schedules, but Inge could make it in afterwards to record something. I'm not a recording engineer, we are not professionals and this was out attempt at creating doubles. Which is pretty hard to do if you improvised. So, with a little bit of software magic and an, in my opinion, cool studio jam with lots of distorted drums, we have a very cool track!

At over 100 jams I'm beginning to lose all creativity for catchy titles. So yes, it's techno, it's relatively hard (the Pulsar 23 does the heavy lifting), it's analog (except for some swooshes and a choir sample in the break). So as usual, enjoy, I most certainly did. Finally somewhat happy with the camera angles. I'm getting there.

I don't know if that's a genre. Not really things that go together most of the time. But it kinda has that vibe.

This one came together a bit difficult, but the endresult is pretty good in my opinion. The Subsequent 37 really shines during the break. No Inge live, but luckily she had a free sunday, so she came by and recorded some vocals afterwards to spice it all up. I did mess up the camera angles a bit, nothing had entirely in frame what I wanted and 1 was pretty out of focus. So I need to check what settings I messed up. Well, still learning!

We're going long this time! All the more time to enjoy the lovely vocals from Inge. We had a couple of practice runs to figure out the right placement, hit record and off we go! I didn't plan the melody I was playing on the MS-20 but Inge matched it perfectly.

This is the suspected (by me) trickery that's going on. Thomann Europe has it listed at €311. Not quite in the middle, but somewhere thereabouts. In Europe this stuff is never on sale. But the list price is lower.

Phew, I was bit worried about the order for a second 😝. Thanks!