Steve,
Many thanks for another thoughtful answer!
stiiiiiiive wrote:I prefer the first one, though this is unusual since I'm more a pad guy than a percussion guys as far as synths goes haha.
I fins the textures you get interesting, but sometimes I feel like some background track of fx or... je-ne-sais-quoi could bring much to you tracks. It could be a feedbacked delay mixed very low, or some kind of harmonic pad.
I guess you're right. I try to do just that by adding spacious reverb in Ableton afterwards, but I still treat the MFoogers as an instrument, and my sketch recordings as recordings of a single instrument, so when doing anything later in Ableton I try not to overdo it, so as not to lose the "singleness" of the whole thing (hope I'm not complicating this too much… :-).
My dream set up would be me with my modular stuff + a drummer (be it with acoustic drums, or playing a drum machine with pads, analog or sample based - anything to keep things interesting, I guess :-).
stiiiiiiive wrote:However, I also think you like the way you make this at least as much as the results you get; patching, pressing record and let's see. Maybe some more tweaking, some more evolution could make those minutes more of interest -no offense, just reacting to your challenge of getting he track listened to from the beginning to the end ;)
You're right again – still, the last one was supposed to be some sort of an ambience/background stuff based on changing timbres rather than anything more. Anyway, my aim is to be able to make/play short pieces, approx. 3 minutes long, but with enough going on to make them interesting. But for that I'll have to seriously work on my skills. The thing is, I don't have the time to really practice (I don't have a separate workplace for my music - I have to set it up every time I want to play). Excuse, I know, but still :-)
Once again, many thanks for your answer – especially for saying what you liked, why you liked it, and what you didn't like (the latter being probably the most part helpful :-)
Cheers,
Lukasz