Few days ago I was working on a new instrument and needed to pick up some tools from my work table outside.
It was a rainy day.
While I was sorting through the tools, I started hearing a faint
tonal rhythm that reminded me of ethnic percussions and wondered where
it was coming from. It was the rain hitting a metallic trash bin that I
had left upside down in front of the working table.
I stopped for a moment and focused my attention on the sound. Besides the percussive noise of the rain, I started hearing some
overtones, so I got inspired to create a piece by expanding the tonal
resonances present within that sound. No additional instruments or
samples. I hope you'll enjoy it!
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A great demostration of the recording process of an excellent ambient soundscape:
Description:
A demonstration of my ambient recording process at Infraklang. I use a
complex routing on my Allen & Heath ZED 436 to feed the signal from
the Moog Little Phatties and DSI Prophet '08 to the effects and back to a
bus to feed the combined signal to my audio interface to process it
realtime through Logic Pro's phaser and silververb.
The
synthesizers are sequenced with Renoise + ESI M8UXL and are routed
through an array of effects: Moog MF-103 and MF-104Z, Maxon AD999, T-Rex
Room-mate and a Vermona PH-16.
R_Mem is a granulator by Inear Display effect plug-in with additional ring-modulator,
multimode filter and delay. It lets you deconstruct the input signal and
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driven by 4 LFOs and of a morphing system that lets you store two states
and crossfade between them. For even more radical sound mangling, both
state slots can be filled with random values.
The full version also comes with 50 royalty-free samples (24 Bit /
44.1 kHz) : a selection of dark soundscapes and sound effects carefully
crafted from a mix of field recordings and digital experiments.
R_Mem processing an ambient pad to add some glitches, audio demo by Valance Drakes :
Requirements :
- a relatively fast computer (R_Mem is cpu hungry, depending on grain density, so please try the demo first)
- cpu with SSE2 support
- Mac : Mac Os X 10.6 or higher (PPC not supported)
Introductory price 10€ - (all platforms and formats + 50 samples). Regular price : 20€. More details at ineardisplay.com
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