'Xperience' - New Original Music - A 30 Minute Timed Writing Challenge - Electronic/Instrumental + Walkthrough

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I was a bit bored last night and

Track 17, Dyad Stabs
I figured a timed challenge would be fun, so I set a clock for 30 minutes, and began to make some stuff up. The intro is just a single square wave synth, which I added the 'Valhalla Freq. Shifter' to, then just spun the Shift knob all over the place, haha. As you may be able to see in the above screenshot, there is a Group at the top of the track list that is blanked out, made up of 4 synth tracks. This was where I began, but I thought it was pretty boring, so I wound up leaving that behind, keeping the drums (in the group that follows) and altered the bass (Track 11), then just added stuff on top. Unfortunately, that wasted a good 13 minutes, haha, so I was little behind, but I think the result is actually kind of cool. It definitely needs more work, and some additional layers, but the strange, somewhat dissonant lines over the constant droning D in the bass, and the effected drums, wound up being a decent idea. I added a gate on the drums (which consist of two kits, both from NI's Komplete Start package), so all the hits cut off pretty quickly, which made for a really sharp, driving sound. The bass is pictured below, and just sticks to D's, and the occasional 5th up.

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Track 11, Equator Synth Bass


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Track 14 was a Strobe2 synth, which has a crazy sort of

Track 18, Fill Line
compression effect, so some of the hits come out loud, and others are really smashed and tiny. I bounced that to an audio track, and it provides some of the weird dissonances in the background, adding an Eb and a Db over some parts where other instruments hit a D natural. Track 15 is the distorted swell sound at the end of each section. Track 16 is our hihats, which were just recorded from the Nerve demo. Track 17 is the little dyad hits, which play Dmin7 (really just a C/D) and an Fadd9 (G/F), with the other instruments filling out the rest of the chords. Tracks 18 and 19 all add some little synth lines, just to get some more textures involved, and provide a little extra weirdness. Track 21 is another random compilation of vocal samples, mostly from the Komplete Start package, and finally, Track 22 adds an ascending Dmin7 chord on the 1 of each 4 bar section.

Enjoy the results of today's timed challenge!



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