This week I had more time to work within the studio and on my computer. It’s a rare occurrence I haven’t used the OP1 instead favouring ableton live with FM8 to create most of the synth stuff. The track also heavily features the field recording samples I have taken throughout the past few years:

This Weeks track was Made on the OP1 and Ableton Live with Processing. Mostly in my car as I have been waiting for work. The background of the track features field recordings of crowds which i have been collating over a few years:

This week’s track was made around a busy weekend of drinking and eating next to bonfires. I started the week on the OP1, designing a collection of drum patterns at 130bpm. The samples were then added to ableton live where I used them as the building blocks of the track adding instrumentation from software by Ableton, Izotope and Native Instruments:

All instrumentation for this track and drums were made on the OP1 and imported into ableton live for mixing and processing.

I had some more time to work on the arrangement in ableton which includend some more work glitching up the drums adding effects, panning, compression and EQ to the mix:

I’ve managed to do it yet again and forget to update my site about my weekly beats project. I will be putting them up throughout this week again to catch up.

On Week 43 I was doing a lot of travelling and didn’t have a lot of time in front of a computer let alone my studio. So instead I decided to do the whole track inside the OP1. It started with the Organ sound and its chord structure and I slowly layered other instrumentation on top to create a self-reflective and sombre track I hope you enjoy it:

This Track track it’s made up of two parts. A mix of both the OP1 and a Nintendo 3DS. The first Two minutes focus mostly on OP1 samples and then after the two-minute mark a more freeform and alternative sound comes out of the use of the M01 software for the 3DS.

I picked up the Korg DSN-12 piece of software for Nintendo this week and decided to make a track using the software. All sounds are from the DSN-12 exported into ableton live for mixing together.

It’s amazing the amount of textures you can now get from musical equipment that is available on devices so portable.

This weeks track is an all OP-1 joint based around a heavy distorted bass sound. The track was mixed with ableton live but every sound was produced by the OP-1.

This Weeks track came together today when I added the guitar to it. It’s a slowly drifting piece that features use of Teenage Engineerings OP1, My modular and an electric guitar.