Tiny Wires / "Royal Azure" (Novation Peak, Digitone
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
- OK, I know it's not January anymore, but I started this jam before the month ended. The Peak and Digitone excel at chords and tonal sounds, so I wanted to take the opportunity to write something more harmonically interesting. I'm also trying to get better at making longer arrangements using hardware sequencers, which is always a challenge.
I got a few parts of this in a state that I liked but then got stuck and poked at it for weeks. It was never quite good enough but it also wasn't getting better. Eventually I decided to just sit down and record the best arrangement I could put together and get it done. It's supposed to be a jam after all.
The Digitone does most of the work here: kick, bass, looped synth line, and lead melody. The Peak is doing the drone in the beginning and the big string pads for the last half. The patch is very simple: just a couple of square and saws slightly detuned. Around the middle, I turn the oscillators all down and the noise up to use the Peak as something approximating a cymbal swell.
I'm happy with how the chord progression and the melody at the end came out. But it was definitely a challenge working on something that uses multiple patterns in the Digitone. Every time I tweaked a sound, I had to remember to copy the changes to all of the patterns. If nothing else, it's made me appreciate my DAW.
I don't know what's going on with that super long hair on my hand.
I FINALLY AFTER YEARS OF Nearlies ,,recrived my PEAK ..And BOY was i not dissapionted ..such accustics and body ..cant wait to explore under the hood ...GREAT TUNE 😋😛
I could listen to this all day
This is the best compliment. Thank you!
Wonderously good 😋😋😉👍jaffa
That is absolutely beautiful. Great job! :)
Just incredible. I really like the peak, it's quite underrated but great for pad sounds. Perfect pairing!
Such a clean track, reminds me of a new morning, waking to a sunrise after a long journey. Has this.. you’re coming home feel, well done.
Thank you! What a great description.
Wow the Peak sounds so lush and awesome, love Novation's filters! Great arpy overlaps in this ❤🔥
Yes! The filters are so good on the Peak.
Great job - The peak just sounds lovely
Woah this is so awesome. Great jam
Excellent! Enjoyed that.
Very clean man! I have both of those boxes and I am like you where I love the experience and Immediacy of dawless jams and happy accidents but if I actually want to finish a song I need to use Ableton. I have a lot of hardware and VST synths and started using MOTU Express 128 to marry all of this together in Ableton. I’m using Launchpad Pro MK3 for sequencing and daw control.
Great jam! Like it a lot!
Very nice! Thank you
Nice!
awesome peak patch, i'm still trying to figure out how to make my own
This is wonderful, thanks for sharing. I'm thinking of getting a Peak to go with my Digitone and Digitakt. Do you find the Digitone sequences the Peak well?m also whee did you get the Peaks stand? Thanks.
Yes, the Elektron boxes go with the Peak like peanut butter and jelly. Sequencing works really well, and their features complement each other well.
For the stand I'm using the aluminum Peak stand made directly by Novation (store.focusrite.com/en-gb/product/novation-peak-stand/NOVAC17~NOVAC17). A little pricy, but works great.
Awesome Jam.
I have no experience with the Digitone but have you looked at dedicated hardware sequencers like the Squarp Pyramid? I left the daw(Reason) world because sequencing was too time consuming and working from home made using a computer unbearable for hobbies. The Pyramid feels like a nice mixture between live jamming and deep programming.
Also any plans to release an album on other streaming platforms like Tidal or Spotify?
I've thought about a more powerful hardware sequencer but i feel like I'm still just stratching the surface with Elektron's sequencers.
I agree 100% of being tired of staring at a computer. That's the main reason I started exploring hardware. And it is really fun having a more tactile experience. But I have to say that it's so much easier to build up interesting arrangements and layer effects in Ableton Life. I have more fun making music on hardware, but I think the music I make in a DAW is better music from the perspective of the listener. Balancing those is hard. One think I'm considering trying out is a Push 2 to see if that gives me the tactile experience of hardware but the flexibility of a DAW.
One thing I've found is that making music on hardware gets a lot less fun as I try to make better and better music. If I make a little jam using just a single groovebox, it can be a joyful experience. But the sound quality, effects, and layers are limited by what a single box can do. As I've started making jams with a few pieces of hardware like this one here, the sound gets better, but now I have to deal with saving patches, sequences, and other state across multiple machines, fighting with cables, mixing, etc. All of that sucks some of the fun out.
I dream of a single groovebox with the specs of an MC-707, the hardware and UI design of an Elektron machine, and Korg or Novation's sound design.
No current plans to put out real releases but I hope to eventually when I feel I'm at the point where I have something worth going through the mastering process with.
Your music is so refreshing and inspiring to see the Digitone in action. One of my favorite channels along with RemixSAmple. Excellent work, looking forward to hearing more like this in the future. Love to know that synth lead sound on the Digitone at 4:10. Is that a stock sound?
The pads coming in around 4:00 are from the Peak. The sawtooth pluck that gets sharper around 4:10 is from the Digitone. I'm opening up the filter on a custom patch. I don't recall the exact details, but I think it's mostly a single oscillator with a lot of feedback. I realized that you can approximate subtractive sounds using just feedback on a single oscillator and then closing the filter. The melody around 4:30 is, I believe, a stock sound, though I don't remember it's name. It's really nice.
Awesome, Just bought a Peak ( and have a digitone and takt ). Was it easy tot connect the peak?
Yes, super easy. Just a 5-DIN MIDI cable from the Digitone's MIDI out into the Peak's MIDI so that the Digitone can sequence the Peak. Then two 1/4" TS cables from the Peak's audio out into the Digitone's external in to bring in the audio from the Peak and mix it with the Digitone.
@@tinywires what a nice synth te peak is. Question 2, I cannot get velocity from the digitone midi to peak working. Do you?
@@mickvdzwan Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know if I've ever sequenced external MIDI velocity from the Digitone. For this track and others, I think I've always done either pads or simple melodies with no velocity variation.
Did I see that right? are you using TWO filters on the peak?
There's just the one filter, but I adjust a bunch of other parameters throughout, in particular the levels of the oscillators and the noise oscillator.