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@McD the timing sounds a bit off because the articulation played doesn't feel right (to me), I would have used an almost spiccato attack followed by a tremolo in the longer notes.
All string notes are notated with Staccoto dots and that helps a lot. I could compare Spiccacto garnished with Parmesan. I recall you looked into Staffpad and passed preferring to just play… having the chops to play complex timings is a huge benefit.
I get that, I still prefer playing and editing what I can’t play good enough.
Staffpad would be useful to me if I gave my score to a real orchestra though.
Like all digital tools, some fit some people better. It is really working for you while I couldn’t even stand the handwriting recognition
Just wanted to thank you for the tip on the SB app. I just bought it. It’s killer. Especially Killer Joe! I’ll prolly (probably) do something with it. In the meantime, here is the best version of all time!
For anyone that’s curious… the “SB” app is a new product from the clever lads at Session Band that have a new app called
“Quartet 1” with a live quartet playing the chords to 150 jazz standards similar to iReal Pro with chord charts. It’s $3 with IAP’s to export the stems/audio in a GarageBand Project format. Getting the audio out of GarageBand is r tricky but this video has the clues:
Boops in Loops
“Booptastic” !
What looks like chaos is often not chaos.
And what sounds frantic is sometimes slow.
I live this one.
Thanks for following along.
That’s pretty Zen, Joseph.
Composing over a Euclidean Sequencer loop…
I’m a couple of weeks late on this but Wow! That was a fun listen. Are those Staffpad sounds? I really like those pizzicato strings.
I need to re-open the score to answer your question.
The strings, woodwinds and those traditional percussion are all Staffpad parts. There are 2 audio loops used that were created
In AUM using the Euclidean Synth app as the generator.
Going back to this was fun for me too after forgetting how it was done.
I missed this, too. First time you ever got StaffPad to swing, I think. Like the bicycle bell, too. A bit of Spike Jones meets Ionesco.
Spike Jones! Yeah!
Started with some Bach like piano and layered it up like a Phillip Glass pattern exercise:
Very good! I can hear both Bach and Glass in this. The strings were a pleasant surprise.
Thanks for checking out my latest.
I liked it but the strings sound left something to be desired, IMO. Is that the StaffPad piano?
There are 3 distinct CineSamples CinePiano tracks and 2 SpitFire Felted Pianos in the mix.
Staffpad strings tend to have very slow attacks so when mixed with pianos like this that slow attack
Works against you… to fight that I often create a track with pizzicato for the 16th notes. I like the change in feeling that the strings bring to the overall typewriter like feeling by being the one instrumental section that can play legato. The motif of the Bach like parts are transformed into another century
Of music history for me and then the layering in a persistent Glass style updates to yet another century.
I guess this is my resistance to picking a single genre… probably why @Paulieworld was positive. He’s all about mixing conventions into new recipes with a lot of surprises and not just a couple.
As soon as the weather gets nice I will be spending time outside with my iPad. I bought Staffpad right before the weather broke bad and have been holding off for the right moment. I will have a lot of composing/production questions for you!
I recommend you start with MIDI file imports for the complex notated parts. Then you will have “components” to lasso for pasting into additional measures, parts. Anything you copy goes to a clipboard that works between scores so importing and re-combining into a master score is possible without ever using that pencil. I hope the pencil work doesn’t drive you crazy. My favorite pencil move is to touch a note and slide it to a new position… it plays each note along the way. There’s a bug that sometimes makes a note slide jump up 3 octaves and crash the app. After opening I use the erase on this note floating way above the staff. Once this bug made the project crash on every re-opening but I think they might have fixed that extreme case. It hasn’t happened again in a few months.
I think we might see an update before July. Looking forward to the demo’ed audio to notation feature.
I bought an iPad Pro to be sure my hardware was ready for the task since it was demo’ed when the M1 Model was announced.
Started with a harp pattern and quickly went for the throat:
I thought Wind Speed was great. Euclidean is excellent for inspiring new ideas and always seems to produce (for me) toe tapping rhythms.
I would have been happy with even more instruments thrown into Vipers Dance !
Always fascinating to hear what you have come up with 👍
Re-listening, I agree. I need some contrasting sections and to toss that tympani part as being stuck in the uncanny valley on my headphones.
Staffpad has this cool feature where you can highlight some number of bars and with one click open up a blank space of that number of bars with anything being deleted. So I can decide where the melodic repetition is too much and open a space for some B Theme that might use the rhythms or instrumentation of the A material to create ABA construction easily. That’s where this sketch and forget produces better work.
I’m still seeking better ways of using instruments to play off of each other to create passages that are greater than the sim of the parts. It turns out to be harder that you might think. A lot is just instantly recognizable as pretty bad.
Seeing how Beethoven or any other the enduring masters offers essential clues.
There are MIDI files of these master works that import into Staffpad for study and avoid the pencil data entry.
Love the intro. Then the percussion section comes in and…there will be blood! I would really like to hear you take several of your sketches and compile them into a major work. That would be very cool.
That strikes me as a challenge. I think I’ll aload a bunch into AUM file players and flip between them looking for interesting contrasts and see where that leads me for something in a longer form. Don’t wait up for me however. I’m in a slump I think.
You can do it!
I'm late to this thread. Boop Loop and others are sounding great @McD - can tell you're a drummer with all the amazing polyrhythms.
You can do it!
I know you’re expecting long form but I was watching (or listening really) to a TV show and borrowed an idea.
This is really good. It sounds like an opening theme for spooky comedy movie. Atta boy, Luther!
These must be live drums. If not, can you tell me how you did it?