Happy Sunday folks and in today’s post, I’m sharing this great video on how you can use Ableton to create ambient chords for ambient music. Each cycle of notes always sounds different enough to produce generative music. You can of course grab certain elements that you especially like, drop them into clips to build a nice set of ideas.
He digs into humanisation and micro timing of notes, moving them away from strict grid positioning. Sounds much more organic.
Trust me this is a great way of working, controlling the way notes are triggered or not.
Another great channel
David Hilowitz is a great story teller on one hand and a clever musician on the other hand with a keen eye for simple ways of making music. A long time favourite of mine, YouTube gold!
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STOPI never owned a micro cassette, but I worked with people who used them a lot. I would not expect the quality to be great. I did use standard cassettes a lot as my main music medium for years. Now everything is digital, but you still rely on the quality of the microphone. I've seen @ale.dri use basic mics for lo-fi results. Of course now you have plug-ins to emulate those sounds.
Lofi is all the rage and thats great, it is encouraging us to seek imperfection in a world of pristine mass produced music. Artists like Yann Tierson, Olafur Arnalds and others are known for passing piano sounds through tape machines. So coool.
I did own a tape recorder once and loved it. I recorded stories for my Grandmother to listen to and did all of the different characters voices.
My mum used a reel to reel for her dance classes for a long time before cassette took over. He is right about belts perishing. I had to replace one in our record deck, but then it is pretty old.
I think I still have some cassettes, but don't have a deck set up. I had a portable mono one for storage for my BBC Micro, but that is long gone.
Tape was a convenient medium. You could pass around cassettes or VHS to friends. Of course a lot of copying went on.
Be kind, rewind.