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A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with an electric guitar sitting to the left of the desk, a bass guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a MIDI keyboard on the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Recording the bass and drums for @[email protected]'s upcoming Christmas song has gotten me into the mood to try record a short little something of my own. 👀 I'm trying to do some kind of cool minor pentatonic thing, we'll see how it actually comes out. 😅 I've got the bass riff recorded so far and it's sounding pretty good, next stop is some lead guitar over the top of it. (The MIDI keyboard may or may not end up being made use of in the final product.)

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Posted on 15 September 2024, 21:12

Metal Tones in A Minor Pentatonic

I made another short little song! This one is 100% me playing all the instruments (guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard) rather than doing it via loops, and I'm very pleased to report that I didn't need to quantise the drums at all, I smashed the timing (the same can't be said for the guitar and bass guitar, they both need a _little_ bit of nudging, though I didn't realise they needed it until I had recorded the drums). The guitar was a bit frustrating to get right, I had most of it but the little "solo"-esque bit in the middle required quite a few takes. I also subsequently realised that if you have the loop mode on and are recording something, it'll just keep looping over and recording the whole looped section as a different take, so I did that for the drums and ended up recording it like nine or ten times through then listened to them back and picked the best. The guitar and bass sounds come from Two Notes' "Genome" software (https://www.two-notes.com/en/genome/), I had quite a bit of fun dialing in the sound, and I used my Epiphone SG Standard rather than the JIVA for a bit of change.

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Posted on 5 May 2024, 15:05

Alchemy

Granted I was already mostly done when I took that last photo and it mostly just required tweaking and mixing, but I present to you the finished product! Very happy with how this came out, and I'm even happier with the fact that Logic Pro's quantise functionality also works on audio files to get them into time as well. 😅 I called this "Alchemy" mostly because the genesis of it was me playing around on my MIDI keyboard with the "Alchemy" plugin when I discovered that female choir preset. I also played around more with getting the reverb right, added compression for the first time (I'd never really played around with that before), and made very good use of the new "Mastering Assistant" feature that came with latest Logic Pro update, it really made a hell of a difference in how good the final mix sounded.

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Posted on 22 November 2023, 22:29

A wide-angle photo of my standing desk in its standing position, my laptop and main displays both have various parts of Logic Pro showing, there's a MIDI keyboard on the desk in front of my regular keyboard, and sitting alongside the wall to the left is a bright orange guitar amplifier and an Ibanez JIVA guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

Aww yisssss. 😎

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Posted on 22 November 2023, 21:51

A photo of a Roland A-49 MIDI keyboard in white sitting on my (also white) desk. As the name suggests it has 49 keys, and has a number of buttons and knobs on the left hand side.

It look longer than expected, but it's finally here! 🎉 The keys are _very_ nice-feeling, there's a really good weight to them. And I haven't read the manual yet so I have no idea what this is about, but the very lowest key is marked "Panic".

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Posted on 27 October 2023, 14:59

A product shot of the Roland A-49 MIDI keyboard in white. As the name suggests it has 49 keys and has a number of buttons and knobs on the left hand side.

I've decided to continue my musical journey and get a MIDI keyboard and actually learn how to play it! 😁 I actually had an M-Audio something-or-other keyboard ages ago (nearly twenty years in fact: https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1423) but in a similar story to my guitar from 2007, due to the lack of decent learning resources I never actually stuck with it. It turns out that the "Melodics" app I use for learning drums _also_ includes a whole course for keyboard as well so I'm going to take full advantage of it! I did a bunch of looking around and settled on this, the Roland A-49. The reviews are all glowing and apparently the key feel is very good as well. I could have gotten the black version and probably had it in my hands this week because the white one doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere, but I think the white looks far cleaner and sleeker.

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Posted on 2 October 2023, 19:42

A photo of a 17" PowerBook G4 sitting on a desk, with a full-size MIDI keyboard in front of it.

WOO! My keyboard arrived today! 😀 And it’s fucking huge. And I’m well aware I have absolutely no musical talent whatsoever. 😉 GarageBand has a metronome so you can keep time while you’re playing... I couldn’t keep time even with it on, heh. But dammit, I will persevere! 😉

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Posted on 28 April 2004, 19:43