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A live synthesizer and sampler jam performed entirely on hardware.

This piece started as an exercise on piano, and really deserves partial songwriting credit for my amazing piano instructor (thanks, Shannon!). I created the three sections of the song, and, when I had a few minutes during a busy day of work, sequenced them in the box with a Kontakt piano. From there I added a band (bass synth, drums, a weird arpeggio, and brass) and exported the three sections to the Octatrack.

I also knew I wanted to play the melody line on a mono synth. I tried it first on the SH-101, but it wasn't right. On a whim, and because I hadn't touched it in a while, I put the PWM Malevolent on the table, and it had the perfect ghostly-but-textured sound I was looking for. The Malevolent is an underrated synth that sounds a little bit different than anything else out there at the moment.

Once I got going on the Octatrack, the song came together quickly. As always, the Octatrack is the perfect device for taking sketches and ideas and turning them into finished songs, thanks to its arranging, mixing, effects, and most importantly, its scenes.

All in all I'm happy with where this track ended up, even though I'm always a little more unsure about my halftime pieces than the fast stuff.

Thanks for listening.

Elektron Octatrack MkII - sample mangler, mixer, effects (including for Malevolent), scenes
PWM Malevolent - synth melody (through Octatrack's effects)
A non-exhaustive list of plug-ins used during building the track: Noise Engineering free oscillators in Reason 12, Olafur Arnolds piano toolkit in Native Instruments Kontakt, Devious Machines Infiltrator 2 (on arpeggio), Future Audio Workshop SubLab XL

Performed and recorded live to a stereo output, with EQ, compression, and limiting on the master.

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