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Thanks to @jwmmakerofmusic and @sevenape for letting us know about this.
I thought I would have a go although it’s not my normal thing and I hesitated when I heard how good the pieces were by @Svetlovska and @rottencat but hey, lifes too short to worry about such things.
The ‘seed’ for this is Resolution by the Mahavishnu Orchestra (if you know it you can just detect it) which lasts for 2 mins 10 secs and then all of the effects pick it up. I love the way that creations like this have a life of their own once they get going and it’s almost impossible to predict what’s going to happen. Not even sure it qualifies and apologies… I don’t do visuals!
BTW @Svetlovska, I want to tell you that I like your track a great deal. No drama, just subtlety. It does the hard-to-accomplish trick of giving a sense of constant movement and firm groundedness very very well.
@rottencat : thank you! I checked out the other pieces on your YouTube channel - coming from such an accomplished creator, your kind words mean a lot to me. I am a fan of your work.
My fan club has doubled in size! 😃
Skiiid is such a great app. One of my favorites.
Most recent drone piece from 3 weeks ago.
Percussion does eventually make an appearance, but the drone goes on.
Apps: Finger Fiddle, AudioStretch, bs-16i, Audio Reverb, Mid East Drummer, Grand Finale, recorded in ToneStack 8track recorder. Thanks for listening.
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/xaJkkhyo9M7MkNDH9
@GeoTony : nice sense of mystery here
@JeffChasteen : that percussion! if Hari Krishna did drone 
Here‘s mine. I created three droning loops in Ableton Drone Lab, exported them to my iPad and mangled them in AUM with a truckload of effects. Visuals made with Imaginando VS.
Absolutely brilliantly haunting and gorgeous! Well done!
Now onto @Martinj 's piece.
Absolutely gorgeous! Like floating in the afterlife. Wish this piece lasted a bit longer.
I loved it!
Thanks so much. I might have to steal „Floating in the Afterlive“ as title for a bandcamp release with a longer version of this piece and one or two other drone pieces…if you don’t mind 😊
LOL! Sure.
It’s very cool 😎
I wonder, does this qualify as a drone?
I used three samples stretched in PaulXStretch (one of me cracking eggs, a piano riff from me playing a popular children's song live at one of my gigs, and a random djembe loop from freesound.org) and laid them out in Cubasis 3. Used Grind and Panflow on the eggs and piano and highpassed the djembe loop. Then I polished with Velvet Machine, Stratosphere Cloud Reverb, and Reelbus. Normalised in Twistedwave.
@Martinj : gosh darn it. Now I know there’s a thing called Ableton Drone Lab. Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in…! Well, I’ll put it on the Black Friday Wishlist… This is a lovely, evolving, calm piece and a great ad for that rack. Wished it had gone on longer… Thank you!
@jwmmakerofmusic : don’t know if I’d call it drone, just on,er, technical terms purely because of the minimal harmonic content, but it certainly is very atmospheric. Like the quieter passages of an Eraserhead industrial hellscape soundtrack. And such a great origin story! After all, you can’t make an experimental movie soundtrack without breaking eggs, apparently.
Hey, @jwmmakerofmusic / everyone: it just occurred to me that as well as featuring on our own individual SoundClouds/BandCamps/whatever we could put together a Forum BandCamp Drone Day compilation album… just a thought.
That movie is amazing in its sound design and soundtrack! I was going for that more industrial soundscape, so I'm glad.
What would the definition of a drone be mate?
Once defined, I'll try again tomorrow and post something tomorrow for sure!
Lol!
That'd be awesome! Count me in!
Happy Drone Day everyone!
@jwmmakerofmusic : I wouldn’t presume to attempt to define drone, I’m an amateur at this myself, obvs.
Wikipedia gives us this:
“ Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained tone branch of minimalism".
The entry on him includes this:
“Composition 1960 #7 proved especially pertinent to his future endeavors: it consisted of a B, an F#, a perfect fifth, and the instruction: "To be held for a long time."”
An example of his work:
(At 15 minutes, btw, this must be La Monte Young’s version of the three minute pop song. Most of his pieces run an hour or more.)
The Drone Day organisers, helpfully, say:
“To awaken tiny vibrations in our skin and between all our bones.”
Well: that narrows it down, then!
https://ablaut.bandcamp.com/album/drone-day-2021
About the discussion wether or not it should be restricted to a drone sound with tonal variations, it seems that the drone-day site have contributions where they use "sound-foliage" also.
happy drone day…
here’s something I did with my favorite app, nanoloop.
The first rule of Drone Club is…
Ah, nanoloop - that’s a great app, @willg : nice use of it!
That’s a thought I had, too. And it‘s a thought I like. I‘d be in.
Really great stuff here, I only had a rough listen to everyone’s pieces yet, but I‘m sure they‘d make a nice compilation.
Here's my take. I wanted to do some drony metally stuff for quite a while. And Drone day became a perfect deadline for it.
Warbly goodness from VHS synth, also Bass 808 sub bass and Roli Noise through a bunch of effects. All sequenced by OODA in AUM.
I find it very hard to articulate what (to me) makes a good drone track. All the posts are great (keep it up) but my favourite is yours @willg . Perhaps more soothing, melodic… don’t know!
Here’s a slightly different audio only version of the track I posted earlier…
…never stop talking about it.
I made another one. Once again, I’m not sure if it strictly qualifies as a true drone.
I liked making it, though.
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Hi everyone! New around here (great forum) & would like to offer something for Drone Day. Haven't made many drones so far but might try another one later today. Made this a few days ago with Mononoke into FAC Phazer into Flux Pro into Eventide Mangled Verb into FAC Alteeza. TB Barricade on the Master. AUM. So many cool interpretations on this thread.
Happy Drone Day to all!
https://id23.bandcamp.com/track/chaotic-oscillations-drone-day-2022
Hardware into iOS/ via usb - then processed/mastered on iPad Pro .
Soundcloud linky later.
Enjoy sensibly!
Hi everyone and happy drone day!
I recorded some synth’s through Rymdigare into gaussfieldlooper and took the speed down. I’m not very experienced in making drones so I hope it turned out somewhat decent
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CeG3lrRD3JK/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
I’ll be catching up on some of the more recent posts here later.
Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet's Drone Day live stream seems to have a fair bit of iOS created material on it, including videos made with LumaFusion. It’s on now, but obviously you should be able to catch up later. Well, hopefully - it’s really good.
And I’m rather hesitantly posting my piece for Drone Day, partly because I did the video and then realised after I’d posted it I’d used the same preset as @Svetlovska , for which apologies. That would explain why I thought it looked cool when I was browsing in VS! Plus it may be too harmonic, not droney enough, and it’s made with my hardware synths, though processed with iOS effects and recorded in AUM. Oops, crisis of confidence…
Anyway: https://youtu.be/UePnohRY6eQ