A quiet one

rottencat

3 instruments

MU Waverley piano

A pad from Twin 3

A beautiful Decent Sampler instrument - Dusty Ring Keys

This one takes a little while to get started. About 5 minutes. 🙂

Let me know what you think

Svetlovska

Lovely! I like the quiet, unhurried restraint of it. Reminds me a little of pieces by sometime Eno collaborator Hans Joachim Roedelius:

I keep forgetting about the Waverly instruments.Imshould use them more. I also looked for the dusty keys thing too, couldn’t find it for some reason. Is it on the iPad Decent Sampler store?

Also, the visuals are giving me a flashback to a gig I covered in London’s ICA in the 80s where the main talking point was the musicians’ (I think it might have been a Dadaist electronic solo act called The Dave Howard Singers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dave_Howard_Singers) revolutionary ‘live video Synthesizer’. It projected visuals which looked a lot like that. But was a hefty bit of kit about the size of a fridge. Progress, eh?

No sign of the video Synthesizer here, but this was his biggest, er, ‘hit’:

JanKun

@Svetlovska said:
Lovely! I like the quiet, unhurried restraint of it. Reminds me a little of pieces by sometime Eno collaborator Hans Joachim Roedelius:

I keep forgetting about the Waverly instruments.Imshould use them more. I also looked for the dusty keys thing too, couldn’t find it for some reason. Is it on the iPad Decent Sampler store?

Also, the visuals are giving me a flashback to a gig I covered in London’s ICA in the 80s where the main talking point was the musicians’ (I think it might have been a Dadaist electronic solo act called The Dave Howard Singers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dave_Howard_Singers) revolutionary ‘live video Synthesizer’. It projected visuals which looked a lot like that. But was a hefty bit of kit about the size of a fridge. Progress, eh?

No sign of the video Synthesizer here, but this was his biggest, er, ‘hit’:

You need to download it from pianobook, so many great instruments there

https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/dusty-rings-keys/

I live the triple felt experiment, I can play with it like a kid for hours without getting bored...

Roedelius track is beautiful. I used to listen to Harmonia and Cluster definitely should listen to his solo work. Didn't know he worked with Lloyd Cole !

JanKun

@rottencat said:
3 instruments

MU Waverley piano

A pad from Twin 3

A beautiful Decent Sampler instrument - Dusty Ring Keys

This one takes a little while to get started. About 5 minutes. 🙂

Let me know what you think

Love the very simple and minimalistic vibe. The visuals fits perfectly. Really interested in your musical approach. Do you play or write the driving MIDI parts or do you use some generative apps ?

bygjohn

This is lovely, and a welcome soother after getting emotionally shredded by @JanKun ‘s nuclear piece.

rottencat

Thanks @Svetlovska!

The MU Waverley Mellopiano Big Softy is my go to piano on iOS. It never disappoints.

I will second the recommendation of Pianobook. Many great and interesting free instruments there.

The Cluster and Eno records are dear to me.

rottencat

Thanks @JanKun!

I rarely write my own MIDI. I used PolyBud as a generator. To keep it from being too repetitive I ran it through midiGATES.

For the pad I used Autony with its wonderful Reliability and Quantity settings each set to about 50%.

rottencat

Thanks @bygjohn! I know what you mean about @JanKun’s piece. Quite harrowing.

As was @Svetlovska’s extrapolation.

JanKun

@rottencat said:
Thanks @JanKun!

I rarely write my own MIDI. I used PolyBud as a generator. To keep it from being too repetitive I ran it through midiGATES.

For the pad I used Autony with its wonderful Reliability and Quantity settings each set to about 50%.

So I have to dive in the generative rabbit hole! Not sure I should thank you for this one 😉

GeoTony

It was good when it got going 😊
Just kidding, it was excellent all the way through !
I also listened to @Svetlovska posting of Roedelius (which I enjoyed) but all the way through I could only think of the theme to the BBC programme Arena. On Googling I discovered that was music by Brian Eno so that sort of explains it.

rottencat

Thanks @GeoTony!

As far as I can tell it all goes back to Eno.🙂

Gavinski

@rottencat said:
Thanks @Svetlovska!

The MU Waverley Mellopiano Big Softy is my go to piano on iOS. It never disappoints.

I will second the recommendation of Pianobook. Many great and interesting free instruments there.

The Cluster and Eno records are dear to me.

Waverly is great, I also need to revisit it. I bet if it had had gorgeous pics like the decent Sampler packs, and had been priced higher, it would have sold better. Seems the dev has left the platform - our loss! If there is one thing Decent Sampler has taught me about paid sample packs, it is that you better make them beautiful looking.

I feel there wasn't much buzz about XinematiX. Many reasons there, bit of a disastrous launch, as well as a mediocre MPE implentation. But the UI just doesn't look expensive, in the way it needs to if you want to tempt people to spend hundreds of dollars, maybe even a thousand or more, on sampled instruments inside one app.

Nice piece btw!

rottencat

Thanks, @Gavinski!

I’m sorry to hear that Rob Jackson has left the iOS world. In addition to the MoodUnits I really like his various ‘Scapers.