This is the end.
I thought I’d go out with a bang…though it is more of a, not whimper, but something in between.
The goal here was to use things that I have loved this month to make a final track. The Polyend Tracker and Elektron Digitakt have been amazing partners in music making. I wanted them to finally work together. The concept was supposed to be two samples, one sample set. The samples were either sounds that I have used throughout the month (8-string, Microfreak Modal, PO-32 kick) or sounds I gravitate towards (string plucks and live-sounding drums).
I had a thought of bouncing back and forth between similar themes using the same samples, but sonically, precisely because I was using the same samples, it started getting muddy. So, I ended up limiting how many tracks and what sounds I used between the devices. I had to drop entire parts because it was chaos. I also added a single cycle waveform part to the Digitakt to create a little more sonic variation.
In the end, I think it worked out all right. But the conception was definitely different than the execution.
Was it an epic grand finale? Nope. Do I feel like I ended the month on a positive note? Absolutely.
This has been a really great month of daily music making. It was occasionally exhausting. But, in the end it was totally worth it. I hope you enjoyed too.
I’ll try to write a set of wrap-up thoughts after I have some time to process. Thanks for following along!
