Ragnar Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/supergrandmatales324/pear-acid-test I also made custom filters in BLOK for this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
747Music Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I like this. It's abstract with that piano, but especially with the velocity/volume control of the percussion. It's quite nice actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Waxlimbs Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 That was interesting! Very meticulous work with the drums. I wish there was a melodic development of some kind, but I can see that wasn't the focus. Cool stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest active galaxies Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 It's OK, you're obviously going for an abstract feel, so it's obviously going to lack a conventional groove. Personally the drums sounds all feel too clean for my taste, some intelligently applied fx could be useful in developing this further. I'd ditch (or completely rethink) the two-note piano lines, which irritate after a while and detract from the whole, (for me anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 I can see what you're trying to with this stuff, but to me this seems very unfinished. Or maybe empty is a better word. The two-note piano line, as bezhin said, gets pretty boring near the end, and you don't really introduce any new elements throughout the track. It does bring some kind of structure to the track though, which your older stuff lacks, so it's not all bad. Also, I always quite liked music with random sounding drums, but in this track the sounds themselves are too basic and doesn't really work with this kind of music. It's really technical and cold, so the analogue drum machine samples sticks out like a sore thumb. It'd be nice to hear this whole random/abstract thing you've got going used for something a little more... finished sounding. Maybe I'm being too harsh. Am I being too harsh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 sounds like just some reverb on some random drum samples and 2 notes of piano? don't get it - is this meant to be a track? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvatorin Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 the drums patterns are actually really interesting. you could turn this into a phoenecia-ish track (they always have really unpredictable programming) if you replace the drum sounds with percussive squelchy noises, add some ominous bass rumbles, and expand the vocabulary of your ambiahnce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted September 9, 2012 Share Posted September 9, 2012 I quite dig the drum chaos but the two note melody does get bothersome right quick. You know I think this is the kind of track that would be more effective live, with a drummer totally going mad on his kit while a piano player keeps playing those same two notes, but changing the emphasis & pacing in a way that fits the groove. All recorded in a warehouse somewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnar Posted September 10, 2012 Author Share Posted September 10, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/supergrandmatales324/pear-acid-drums ok here is the finished drum section of wip acid track (sorry if that was unclear) Also no piano because people found it annoying. Also did some compression/dynamics to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hma Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I actually much prefer first version, piano is nice, has meditative quality to it and it keeps the drum flow together . I think second version loses all that...that compression is unnecessary, at least after reverb....in first version drums are unintrusive while being so wild, you should keep that mood. Overall, very good potential, just don`t loose focus on the good stuff that`s already there when adding more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hermann Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 Keep building and layering and building and layering man! This has some really nice ideas in it but I agree that it sounds a bit empty at the moment. I really like the use of the two piano notes but I wouldn´t mind if you layered some more piano notes gradually ontop to create some complex melody in it that you don´t realise at first but it graduallly becomes one, if you get what i mean. I really like the off-beat, or at least strange alternating time signature feel to it. And yes, I think what you´ve done with the percussion in the alternating velocities etc is amazing. Sounds really great. Good luck with the rest of it! (I´m assuming it´s unfinished?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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