I hadn’t done a ‘slow build’ track for a while, and it felt appropriate here. This piece was developed from my audio demo for scene slot modulation. I used 3 stock samples - a drum loop, a vocal loop, a melodic loop, and one single cycle waveform from Adventure Kid. I challenged myself to use only 1 pattern, 16 steps long, without independent track lengths or scaling. So the arrangement was performed using only a few features - just the crossfader, scenes, and track mutes
Although I recorded a couple takes where I activated scene modulation I ended up selecting a take with only manual scene changes - the scene modulation helped me generate ideas but I didn’t feel that actively using it was necessary or helpful for what I was trying to accomplish at the time. With the use of additional patterns and MIDI loopback I could have done this as a purely ‘hit play’ performance, but that didn’t seem very interesting to me
this song reminds of the tracks where I used to always skip the first few minutes so I could get right to the ‘cool part’ when I was a kid - now I’m the jerk that puts a 5 minute build in there 
