New album #ProductionDiary! After an untoward amount of time spent futzing with the second track, I finally set it aside earlier this week, then spent a couple days or so working out a way to move forward.
I landed on setting up and recording some jams, with the intention of slicing them up and building tracks out of/on top of them. After a day's worth of setup and troubleshooting, I came up with this:
I haven't often released stuff before it's finished, unless it's just a throwaway, but I thought the Jan itself was pretty fun overall, and I know from experience they end up sounding A LOT different by the time they're done so decided to give it a try. Who knows, maybe it will build up hype for the #NewAlbum.
Time for a quick #ProductionDiary Update! I'm basically back in #PreProduction, or more accurately in a hybrid preproduction/writing phase. Set up another jam last night and it was really flowing, sounded great. Going to do another performance of it tonight, then start another new one ... Finally feels like progress instead of treading water.
Landed on a basic setup to work with (Hydra, 0-Coast, Strega, MPC, DrumBrute Impact with the Launchpad Pro sequencing). For each jam I add one other synth or piece of gear to keep things fresh. So far it's been great, really nice not having to set things up before I start jamming.
Haven't made any attempt to wrangle the jams into something more cohesive yet. Plan right now is to generate a dozen jams to work with, and then spend a few weeks cutting them up, arranging them and producing them. I'll be back to let you know how that goes!
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