Then, as I am wont do, I dumped copious amounts of vst plugins onto the outputs of Kontakt.
Mostly Audio Damages plugins... but also lots of cool freeware VST plugins that I've scrounged from the net. Only the best, most stable plugins - which also have a unique sonic characteristic

One of the most useful functions in Reaper for my particular workflow is the 'Save Live Output to Disk'.
That way Reaper records everything that it spits out. Remember to uncheck the 'Save output only while playing or recording'.

This way I can start and stop playback in Reaper, yet still record the leftover maths that is in the various buffers. I really like hearing this debris of numbers that have to unfold themselves, especially since I can continue to mess with the plugins' settings and have some 'bull by the horns' kinda control over the outcome.

The result was 15 minutes of audio, which I cut down to the choicest bits and came up with 2min 44sec
doors, windows, roof and floors

I started by listening to radio in the car on my way home. Already here I should have seen it coming. Skip to the end.... I wound up feeling a bit nauseous, disliking the world and generally feeling a bit half-hearted/arsed.

So when I finally made it to my computer, I simply wound up doing a one take improvisation using my voice, my ukulele, and Gleetchlab 3. Which is a good thing too since it helped me feel a lot better about things.

Anyway, an incidental by product was this piece of ambient music, clocking in at a little over 15 min.
AnotherLongWaveGoodbye

This is why I love ableton! Feeling particularly happy last sunday I sat on the couch for two hours and messed around in ableton, mostly the arpeggiator in conjunction with analog - and still some reasonable interesting tune came out (at least cathing some kind of naive mood):

Arp Boy

No keyboard, no controllers, simply a laptop, ableton, headphones and some cozy mood. The funny drum beat is a loop from the ACE TONE FR-2L with the Rhumba setting. The boogie sample is from my own sampled "seventies disco vinyl" sample library. As another funny side note the analog setting is simply the default "no setting" setting. One more thing is that I turned quantisation OFF, trying to make it more groovy....and sloppy. I guess that also explains the badly arranged breaks...

Lately I have been thinking a bit on how "my version" of a pop song might sound. I think this little sketch is one of the stones in that pavement. How would "your version" of a pop song sound? (challenge, hep-hey!)

If you want to hear the equipment played in a live setting you can go here on the 6th of sept. Though it will be the actual owners of the equipment that are playing on that occasion. If you do go, don't tell Ampel we borrowed their equipment.... we have yet to ask them =)

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