"The Dark Energy Flows Within" Dark Ambient created in Korg Gadget

jwmmakerofmusic

So for the past couple of weeks, I took a mental health break from making music so I wouldn't experience a severe burnout/composer's block. Better a couple of weeks away than the inability to create for several months. I've been creating nonstop since the middle of May, and I felt I was "flying too close to the sun" and pushing my luck. Not only that, but after crafting "Afterlife", I felt like I couldn't top that piece (which, by the way, outdoing oneself shouldn't be the point of creating music anyways!)

So what made me crawl out from under my rock then? This...

https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/comment/989865/#Comment_989865

This wonderful patch created by @PulseEmitter . I didn't know Kiev was so capable of evolving soundscapes like that! So at first I copied the patch and IFX delay settings. Then I tweaked the Kiev patch until it was good, moved the IFX delay to slot three, popped on a saturator in slot one, tamed the sound a bit with an EQ in slot two, and slots four and five were FB Reverb and Reverb respectively for "hella reverb".

Then I added an instance of Montpellier, created an evolving fifths pad from scratch, saturated it, added hella reverb, rolled off the low end.

Then a second instance of Montpellier with the third, seventh, and ninth of the respective chord playing in an upper register. Hella reverb, and low end rolled off.

Finally, one last instance of Kiev, but with my own soundscape this time. Saturated it, hella reverb, rolled off the low end.

And finally, I mastered this in Cubasis with MagicDeathEyeStereo and Reelbus.

(I only wish we were allowed to have FX AUv3s in Gadget. Imagine Alteza and Stratosphere providing higher-quality Ambient reverb. But, part of the fun of Gadget is making do with what's available within the walled garden.)

LinearLineman

I remember when I was 12 and just started to jerk off. It was so great I thought I had to wait a couple of days between sessions! It was pure superstition, of course. All those wasted orgasms!

It may be the same for you, my friend, although you know what’s best for your creativity. I find the more i do, the more I can do. It’s like this with life in general, I think. Just my opinion, but I’d advise keep pushing the envelope. There is no bottom to the creative bucket if you’re coming from a soulful place, which you are.

Nice track, too.

rs2000

😄👍🏼

jebni

@LinearLineman said:
I remember when I was 12 and just started to jerk off. It was so great I thought I had to wait a couple of days between sessions! It was pure superstition, of course. All those wasted orgasms!

You have won the forum.

jwmmakerofmusic

@LinearLineman said:
I remember when I was 12 and just started to jerk off. It was so great I thought I had to wait a couple of days between sessions! It was pure superstition, of course. All those wasted orgasms!

🤣 And the reward for wildest metaphor goes to...

It may be the same for you, my friend, although you know what’s best for your creativity. I find the more i do, the more I can do. It’s like this with life in general, I think. Just my opinion, but I’d advise keep pushing the envelope. There is no bottom to the creative bucket if you’re coming from a soulful place, which you are.

Thanks mate. I definitely love what I do. I also love pushing the envelope, especially in Gadget. What's weird is, whenever I try some other app (such as NS2), I feel like I have way too many options, way too much freedom, and after a couple of goes in the other app, my creativity seems to stifle. With Gadget, despite it not having as many options for sound design as other apps, it liberates my creativity like no other app can.

Nice track, too.

Thanks again mate. 🙂 Unlike "Afterlife" which is plot-driven, I just wanted to create a simple evolving soundscape.

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@rs2000 said:
😄👍🏼

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