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Is being forced to be at home for a while making you more creative, music wise?

For me - no. I stay at home most of the time.
Staying at home is not a problem for me, because I'm disabled.

I've been a bit more creative lately, but not because of the lockdown. My main PC is not rigged in the new room yet, so I've been starting to use Fasttracker II, or more specifically a modern clone of it that works on modern systems (the original software was released in 1994). Going back to trackers is pretty fun because it is so limiting.

Here are some tunes I've made with it.

Good tracks!

Paralytik wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:51 pm

I've been a bit more creative lately, but not because of the lockdown. My main PC is not rigged in the new room yet, so I've been starting to use Fasttracker II, or more specifically a modern clone of it that works on modern systems (the original software was released in 1994). Going back to trackers is pretty fun because it is so limiting.

Here are some tunes I've made with it.

Hey - so these 3 tracks were made with a tracker and not with Reason? Anyway, digging the Shallow - would be cool if you'd record singing for it. Superbly clean sound too.

And digging the Sunny Balcony - very good in both, the sound and production. You're good at the chiptune stuff.

Yeah, they were all made in the Fasttracker II clone that eightbitbubsy/ Olav Sørensen has made. I've talked a bit with him over in the #modshrine channel on EsperNet IRC. Here's a link to his page if you want to check it out.

I've used some drum samples I had lying around, but most of the "melodic" sounds are sampled from Youtube using Audacity, then sequenced in the tracker. There are no fx or eq in it, so everything that sounds like a delay effect is actually manually placed notes with lower volume. Took some hours to program the Shallow beat, hehe.