Music May 2024

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-18T21:08:39.491Z

been working on the weekend mornings for the past four months and im getting pretty tired of working seven days a week. i think im getting a little burned out but im really hyped for the payday that it’ll deliver me soon enough. gonna get me outta credit card debt.

made this one right when i got home. finding more interesting sounds on the reface when playing with the FEG/AEG slider, and the LFO on the filter with some nice release.

Kegeratorz · 2024-05-19T00:38:40.282Z

Sounds great as always!

schoolbabyboy:

think im getting a little burned out but im really hyped for the payday that it’ll deliver

Burn out is real! Not a resolution but looking at the positives definitely keeps it at bay!

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-19T13:44:37.688Z

thanks dude! yes indeed, the positives are keeping me with it. its also nice to be spending this much time with my dad this frequently, we certainly weren’t seeing each other as often despite the fact we live in the same city.

and im making sure a portion of the payday buys me a new toy, got my eyes on an op-1 i think, many nice things to look forward to while i round out the grind.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-20T03:13:01.570Z

pushing through the brain fog, my dad thinks we’ll be done with this job by the end of next weekend, im thinking thats wishful thinking, maybe two more weeks imo. looking forward to a summer of normal, relaxing weekends

made this one with some reface sounds (one even sounds like a harmonica) and then i played some piano over it. got some bluesy notes in there

Racoonovic · 2024-05-20T15:58:19.551Z

Hello! Excuse my English (I use Google Translator). My name is Dani, I am from Mallorca (Spain), and I wanted to share with everyone on the forum the first video I have made on my YouTube channel, where I make improvised techno with my beloved Octatrack MK1 and Behringer Edge.

I hope you like it!

https://youtu.be/_spOqNG78n4?si=lcjvovpU-zmrj69o

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-20T17:44:50.415Z

for sure dude! sounds hard!

you may get more eyes on it in this thread linked below, the thread we are in right now is more about specifically making tunes every day in the month of May

Share your tunes (Part 1) Our Music

Isso… perfect for Sunday lunch at grandmas.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-21T03:26:12.816Z

been watching a bunch of red means recording op-1 videos to cement my original op-1 GAS, think it kinda rubbed off on this chord situation. im a fan of it, im always happy when im this far into a month of tunes and im still getting stuff that feels new for me.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-21T20:54:21.825Z

challenged myself to whip up a beat in the 30 minutes i had before i had to leave for work this morning, just finished it up on the 404 on my lunch break. starting to feel a lil formulaic, gonna have to hit a new flow soon

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-23T01:45:01.336Z

saw a dude drop his food wrapper on the ground at the intersection outside my window. short one today from the 404 looper, gotta go see off a friend whos moving back to Sweden.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-24T01:29:14.049Z

lookin forward to the final week of tunes. todays was enjoyable to make, i really like having a decent lil digital piano on deck at all times so i can play random melodies when the feeling strikes. i feel instinctively more creative with how i approach rhythms on piano keys.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-25T06:07:31.906Z

didnt get one out today, feeling okay about it. did other very good things instead and that is a-ok with me. back at it again tomorrow folks.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-25T22:16:46.125Z

this ones kinda fun, whipped it up early in the morning and finished it up after work, forgot what it sounded like and im into it

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-27T05:11:22.508Z

hung out with the family tonight, got to hang with my baby niece for longer than usual. wild watching my parents still making the same kind of stressful “doin’ too much” mistakes i see young first time parents making all the time at work. chilling out goes a long way!

slapped this together to meet todays quota. felt like a nice unwind of my day. i fully committed to getting an op-1 field. my big old paycheck is arriving within the next couple weeks, and hot dam im ready for a summer of fun with an op-1

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-27T20:01:06.316Z

im hyped on todays tune, its a jammer. getting some plans together for the mixtape ill record these on once i finish up. i have an old “how to be the best golfer” cassette that i think ill record over. just realized i’ve made over an hour of music this month. thats alota tune!

Kegeratorz · 2024-05-27T20:13:17.368Z

schoolbabyboy:

mixtape

Look forward to it!!

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-29T04:44:06.071Z

got another fun one today. started it off on my lunch break, brought the ep133 into work and got most of the rest done at the snack table with the final two stragglers. they were digging the tunes, one of them was hitting the table with one finger in the same way i was hitting the pads. getting these kids into beat making early!

i like the main chords synth sound, made it on the reface cs with the oscillator sync osc type, i think its wonky

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-30T01:23:55.139Z

recorded todays a little different than usual, tried to do three steps at once by switching scenes live on the ep133 while also playing my impacts and tags live on the 404. then i only had to do one more round of recording the effects with cassette and the 303 sim on busses 3 & 4. streamlining my process more and more!

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-31T01:20:32.332Z

todays kinda sucks. i made it at work and got the kids groovin but they start dancing to just a kick and snare so not always the best critics. got nothing else to do tonight tho so might make some more tunes, i dunno.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-05-31T03:07:06.182Z

alright i like this one way more. i was noodling on the digital piano and recorded some loops on the 404 looper. at first i was gonna try to make it be an ever evolving loop deal, but i wasnt totally sure how to record the looper output directly. i also didnt try at all so maybe its really easy. anyways, i took one of the loops i made, reversed it and ran it through zan-zou. never found a way to use it in my normal tunes but it makes this one reversed 4 bar loop sound like its constantly changing? i dunno but its sounds dreamy. plinked along over the top with some more piano notes. another very meditative ambient experience. i use an old iHome speaker as my main speakers and the bass in this was really wrapping up my body. felt like the room got choked when i cut off the sound.

only one more day! feeling pretty proud for making it all the way, pretty not proud with the whole failing to quit tobacco part tho. but i heard back from two different therapists today who actually have in-person availability so that is an unexpected result from this month.

schoolbabyboy · 2024-06-01T02:27:57.647Z

we made it! the final day of music may! it was a fun ride. thanks so much for hanging out and checking out the tunes my friends. as i said earlier im gonna compile my favorites on a tape, ive got a few funny ones to choose from. ill probably end up doing that tomorrow.

this is a fun beat and i decided to challenge myself a little more by doing the same thing i did a few days ago where i recorded all the tags and impacts live while switching scenes, but stepped it up to an extra level of difficulty by doing the FX too. i think this kinda forces me to chill on the fx (lol everyone says i should) and gets me practiced for doing a more involved live set. could be a cool thing to do. and i filmed it!