I’ve spend the last year slowly getting back into making music after buying a Digitakt to focus my electronic composition around. It’s been a wonderful process so far, but meticulously slow.
Hit Jump Win - My first track took an unexpected turn toward Chiptune:
Safe Confinement - is, I guess, dystopian synthwave and has born the weight of lockdown:
My setup involves DAWless composition on the Digitakt, which I try to use as fully as possible to sequence samples and over MIDI my: Streichfett, Circuit Mono Station, Argon8M, Reface CP and most recently some soft-synths too.
I like to split my process into distinct phases:
- sound design across my synths
- composition, sequencing with the Digitakt
- Recording Logic Pro, using Overbridge and a multichannel audio interface to record everything at once
- Arrangement, recording additional parts, pairing back
- Mixing
- Mastering
The process has been slow as I’ve tried to improve my composition, mixing and mastering skills as I go. But this setup has been enjoyable I’ve been able commit to completing each phase and to move my production forwards.
I think the next track deserves a quicker birth…