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Cheers! Although I would have like this song to have a shorter runtime, I am pretty happy with how it came out. Thanks for listening!

Very much agreed!

Yes, it is! That is based on one of the stock presets. I had to remove the reverb from it and I think shorten the attack.

@@ProfessorOddfellow Happy you stopped by to listen. Cheers!

Xanadu is one of my wife's favorite movies, so I am not sure I am going to mess with the formula!

@@taskboymusic Sara and I both love it. It was our first date-night movie. :)

Cheers, Wabbit. I am using Jamuary to put my nose into some of my lesser used gear.

Thanks! I probably should have noted somewhere that the order you see the synths in are also the order of the tracks on the KeyStep Pro controller (the keyboard). So when I change something on the KSP's green section, that's the drums, the orange section is the MicroMonsta 2, the yellow is the Lemondrop (natch), and the red is the Nymphes. This will hold true for all the Jamuary videos.

Thanks for listening, Oddfellow!

"It is a poor shepherd that blames his flock, Apostle. This failure is yours and yours alone!" --Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

@@nanocyde_artist Cheers, Nano. Thanks for listening!

@@cravecave505 Cheers! Thanks for listening, Crave Squared! I have a grind that I was going to use this month, but mine has a high noise floor. I'll show it off at some point.

But also, I made this in a doctor's office waiting for a routine medical test to complete! And I didn't want to mess the 2 day of jamuary. Art imitating life and all!

Cheers! Auxy is a wonderful prototyping tool. Although its sounds are limited, what it does, it does pretty well! My son used it to make game-oriented hyper-music for some time before moving on to FL Studio. Auxy is one of the best MIDI composition DAWs that I have found for iOS. GarageBand on iOS just does not fit my workflow well enough.

Thanks, Wabbit! You get up way earlier than I do! Cheers.

And because you keep haunting my channel is why I am burning sage sticks and worrying rosary beads right now! (j/k). Cheers, Oddfellow.

When I work in Auxy, I think much more in terms of calls and responses between parts. Don't know why this does not happen for me in other apps and devices. Cheers!

@@ProfessorOddfellow Cheer! Thanks for listening. I had to redo the video entirely because I dis not capture the audio from the first version. A pox on these new-fangled machines!

@@krazywabbit Cheers, Wabbit!

@@synthseeker Well, it beats the first version which was an uptempo version of Cage's 4'33".

Cheers!

It is a unit that when I come back to it, I am not disappointed. I am using the same gear for Jamuary.

Cheers, Oddfellow! Happy you enjoyed it.

That is the plan anyway…

@@Reconsiderate Cheers, @reconsiderate.

I agree! Perfect soundscape for the threshold to the new year. Wintry, full of mystery. ☃

Well this comment is easily my favorite! Cheers, Oddfellow.

Cheers, @Reconsiderate! I am happy you are enjoying these basement tapes. This series is focused on maintaining the discipline of daily music creation over all over considerations. There are more polished tracks available on this channel and soundcloud (soundcloud.com/taskboy3000).

Cheers!

Thanks, Luke! I am trying to wring out new sounds from these units. I am consciously rotating the roles each synth takes in a given track. As you say, four “tracks” is really enough to sketch out a tune!

What do you mean "back"? :-D

It was call "Love Never Bytes" and it starred a young Ricky Gervais as the luckless robot lothario who tries but fails every week to charm a new love interest. The show pulled in some amazing actresses of the period including Cybil Shepard, Ally McGraw, Happy Day's own Erin Moran. There was even a famous (and puzzling) cameo by the great Lauren Bacall whose utterance of the show's tag line "Ouch, my circuits!" became a successful pickup line for about a month in 1983. The noisy brat neighbor was played by Drew Barrymore!

@@taskboymusic Classic! I bet it got a Golden Turkey Award!

@@ProfessorOddfellow Cheers, Oddfellow. This tune follows an old formula I learned as a kid, so you can expect to hear another iteration of it in Jamuary!

@@krazywabbit Cheers, Wabbit! Thanks for the listen.

Exactly! More fun with filters and white noise in Jamuary!

Thanks, Oddfellow. The jam hits a stride around the 2:00 mark.

I won't! I am getting comfortable with the basement setup and gear. I want the Jamuary tracks to move outside of my comfort zone (which this series does not do). I am learning more about the KSP and the Bluebox, which are the two bits of gear essential to the production.

Thanks for listening!

Right back at you! I hope Santa brings me a Move. That will be a February toy...

Nymphes is *weird*. ;)

How is that a bad thing? Yes, the nymphes can make weird noises, as I hope to explore more in January. The Typhon’s filter is equally squelchy.

@@JoeJohnston-taskboy I didn't mean BAD. I meant weird bloops...which I *like*. :P

Cheers, Wabbit!

@@ProfessorOddfellow Higher praise cannot be asked for. Cheers, Oddfellow!

Cheers, Prof.! As I eluded too, the next wek of videos are just documenting me practicing with my gear for Jamuary. I would like to post one video a day then, but my life has a rather a lot of obligations that do preempt my art and my hobby. Still, as I have observed from many other people over the years, doing a solid month of practice on art will show signs of improvement at the end.