There are some days where the feeling just isn’t there. Today was one of them.
Polyend released a new beta for the Tracker today, 1.3.0b1. It added a bunch of new features, including the ability to monitor the line in during playback, and destructive time stretch. For this jam, I wanted to try both out.
To test out the time stretch, I took an 80 bpm guitar loop from Samplified and stretched it to 95 bpm. It was a bit warbly, so I added chorus and reversed it. That is the opening part of the song. Given the ambient sound that came from the loop, I decided to go in a more mellow direction. I sampled a couple of my Pocket Operators (PO-32 and PO-16) and my Korg NTS-1. I also used a live bass guitar sample, and a Circuit Monostation sample. Finally, I added my trusty Korg Kaossilator to the line in with a little 2-bar piano loop.
It turned out…fine. There wasn’t much motion to the song. I specifically avoided making anything that sounded like a melody, and maybe that was the missing glue that could have stuck it all together. At least I got to play with some new features on the sampler.
