I just added a whole bunch of great stuff to what was my empty album called "Everything".
manoamanoradio.bandcamp.com/album/everything
I'm working on another Canadian Eurorack Company/module feature that I will release as soon as I can get the video complete to celebrate 20 years with @empresseffects !!
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I have tamed the harshness of the post but I believe they were making two main points:
1) There is no love for synth music
2) Sequencing music is cheating and not real music
My Responses:
1) I think that there are a lot of people out there (and right here) that love synth music. I don't know that it will ever be as popular as Black Sabbath. I also mentioned to them that my punk/alt/rock band did not get anywhere near as much love as the synth music that I have posted. I admitted to them (and myself) that sadly my band(s) were not quite at the Black Sabbath level (yet).
2) I felt this same way with my bands. We had maybe 4-5 covers that we could play pretty well and that was work to get those sounding good. Then we would play a show and sometimes there was an artist who would hit play on the sequence they created and in a near flawless fashion; they performed their set. So, I understand their thought about something being sequenced as cheating, especially if they are in a band. But I offered that it is a different take on music that a traditional band creating and performing. I think of it more like orchestrating. I described to someone else my workflow and stage 1 was sequencing everything in logic. Sure there is a lot of prep that is involved and once it is sequence it is perfect and cannot be made not perfect (unless someone goes and movies all my little boxes around) But I compare that to creating an album. There is a lot of cheating that happens there too! (Or at least I did) You record a skeleton track with your band and I mess up a chord and then would do a punch-in over top of the one section to make it sound like I played flawlessly. They also mentioned that there are midi files out there that help with the sequencing and the notes.....that is also correct but there were always guitar tabs that helped me to learn the notes when I was doing it on guitar.
Anyways Sequencing and preparing it for Eurorack takes the longest.
Stage two is orchestrating - deciding who (what in this case) gets to play what and have that sounding pretty good. This is also the most fun part
Stage 3 is giving the different voices effects and modulation (another fun part)
Stage 4 is recording - This is all people see....I hit play and record things pretty simply with respect to video - Just two camera but for audio I usually do 6-15 tracks.
Stage 5 is mixing and mastering the individual tracks into a complete song. This is super fun too!
Stage 6 is editing it together with the video - which is sometimes super hard to line up. I usually try to do a beat cut, which just means changing the scene on beat. That makes it so that you dont noticed the transitions as much. For this one I edited the whole thing and then noticed that the audio was slightly off from the lights on the video when things actually happened. So I went and adjusted that, forgot to adjust all the cuts and now either the beat or the scene cut happen slightly ahead of the other. The video is my best so it is too late to change it now.
Anyways, I wrote something to this effect out as a response and then the person deleted their comment which deleted my response so I figured I'd add it to my little posts section here along with this photo of this nice dog.
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I got a pretty negative comment recently on my Black Sabbath cover. I considered just deleting the comment but instead I wrote out a long thought out response. I too had some of the same feelings that this person did about 20 years ago. I have since changed my mind and I wanted their comment and my response there so that anyone with the same thoughts could learn like I have. Unfortunately after I posted my response to their comment they immediately deleted their comment. I’ll try and remember a bunch of the key points and post it here on my little blog in a little bit.
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I just started exploring Canadian Eurorack companies! The first two that I have featured have been Motley Modular and @omnitone_music and I have a third one coming out soon where I explore @quanalogmodular4927 I'm excited to check out as many as I can get my hands on!
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Drone day notes. Drone day was pretty fun. I was able to record a video and post one into my Drone Playlist. It is very different from my past drones, this one has got a lot of pedals just doing their thing. It also has some modules but I think this is one of my first drones where I didn't use the Disting Ex dream machine. I released my drone earlier in the day because at night I attended the Open Ears event at Waterloo park. There were 5 fantastic performers including Andreas K from TCSS. He is one of the founders of the TCSS and he is always running an event and I have never heard him perform. It was cool to see. It was fantastic. All the other performers were great too.
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Is this a new feature? Since when can I post a post?
Thank you to my new subscribers! I finally got over 500! When I got to 300 there was a trophy and a congratulatory message in my dashboard. When I got to 500, nothing cool happened. It was a bit of a let down but I am grateful that you have subscribed!
I'm trying to release 2-3 videos per month from some of the different projects that I'm working on....
1) More Beatles songs covered by Eurorack - These seem to be my best videos.
2) I have some other requests on the way too - songs that I wouldn't have normally thought to do.
3) More Generative music with some studio and location based videos.
4) Starting on Canada day I want to start featuring some Canadian Modules and the companies that create them.
5) A New album project called "Syntax Error". I'm in the process of figuring out a process - coming soon!
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This channel is dedicated to the exploration of audio through the use of technology and traditional instruments. The All Weather Haulage project features music, modules, technology, math and the intersections of all these things. This channel was the second dimension of the MANO A MANO radio program that aired weekly on CKMS - 102.7FM for 15 year in the Waterloo Region and nationally in Canada on Earshot Daily.