I’m having fun doodling with the PO-35. When I try to record a track, it doesn’t sound as much fun as I am having while I do it. Perhaps I should practice more and not make a recording after two improvisations, haha.
Want to give it a listen? Spülen is just a bit more than 1min long.
Next time I shouldn’t switch from pattern to pattern manually but just key in the entire track ahead of time. Then I can just interject samples and fiddle with the effects while I record it.
In any case, I’m having more fun than when I was doodling on the Animoog iPad app forever and not getting anything done.
As non of our laptops has a Line In anymore (boooh!) I couldn’t simply connect the PO-35 to a laptop and use Audacity to convert it into an MP3. I had to first record it on the OP-1, then mount the OP-1 as a drive on the laptop, take the AIF file, open it in Audacity, find my track in the 6min file and crop it. A bit cumbersome.
Perhaps I should buy a cheap analog to digital converter. Apparently Behringer has the cheapest ones. At the Loops & Bits shop they told me that they don’t sell those because the quality would be as bad as when using laptop Line In... But these days laptops don’t even have that!
Oh well, enjoy the analog to digital conversion via OP-1. 😄
I might even get a little album going! Here’s track #2, Rennen (22s). I think I’ll need to have more than just one or two ideas per track, though. As it stands, they’ll all be around half a minute long, haha.
Well, I think I managed how to do chaining and how to create patterns that are different enough to be interesting but still similar enough to belong into the same track, and some chaining, so now I need to experiment with adding live flourishes and effects... I present to you track #3, Afternoon Music (100s), using samples from dishes in the oven, moka pots, snippets of my voice and the drum machine that’s part of the PO-35.
#Music #Synth #Audacity
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yeah, toent super!
– Anonymous 2018-06-06 21:50 UTC
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ps: mit dem iphone kann man imho gut aufnehmen - ich nutze es auch als mikrophon fuer den synthesizer.
– Anonymous 2018-06-06 21:56 UTC
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Das bewahrt mich vor dem Kauf eines Mikrophons für Profis!
– Alex Schroeder 2018-06-07 06:13 UTC
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Joy (2min).
– Alex Schroeder 2018-06-07 12:57 UTC
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Followers (1:38min). This time I just created the drum patterns and chained them together, then I recorded some voice samples and played those, live. This I recorded on the OP-1 and gave it a listen. It seemed a bit bare bones so I recorded a second track with some more voice samples and these two together turned into the track. I might get the hang of layering, yet.
Sadly, yesterday I tried to buy the PO-33 K.O! at the local shop and they were out of stock. They might have one today but I keep wondering: was this karma? Was the universe trying to tell me I should just use the OP-1 for the things I wanted to do? My problem is that the OP-1 is so damn confusing.
For example: I switch to drums, then to sampling, I somehow manage to record a few seconds of material, and it gets spread over the keyboard. I adjust beginning and end of the samples. I play around for a bit and like it. I switch to the Pattern Sequencer and lay out a little loop. Then I switch to the tape and play the loop. Cool. But how do I make the tape loop at exactly the time the sequencer loops, one bar? At some point the last sample is now on all the keys, pitch shifted. How did that happen? How do I get back to the “drum kit” based on my recording? When I now press a key for a long time, many samples play in quick succession. What’s this? And I’m frustrated and confused and feel that perhaps I need the PO-33 to get a slower start to the entire sampling business.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-06-08 12:55
