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Herbivorous -- Happy Birthday Herbie Hancock!
In celebration of this day, I give you “Herbivorous,” my homage to the magnificent Mr. Herbie Hancock, born this day in 1940. Happy birthday, Herbie!
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Wow, extremely tasteful, thank you! And happy birthday Mr. Hancock.
Thanks so much!
Little factoid: The drums are a loop sampled from Palm Grease from Herbie's Thrust album.
Excellent! What album is that from?
Cool one @Lady_App_titude! That’s a great track, to a great musician.
Very cool and a whole lot of dormant memories flooding the brain😂
I think it’s Sunlight, 1978.
Fun and understandably retro. I just commented about a plant themed album by @monomatik. I’m feeling all leafy inside! Have a great weekend ms. Aptitude.
This is outstanding! Great performance and production. This just screams Herbie Hancock. Love the long awaited harmonica solo! Herbie would be proud. Great tribute.
😍fantastico
🙏🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
Just beautiful!
I wonder how we could let him give it a listen 😃
Maybe at https://www.herbiehancock.com/contacts/
He might dig it. I know I would!
I liked the Arp and harmonica patches a lot. How did you make those?
👀👍🏻
You're like everyone's favourite sister - she only comes around once in a while, but when she does, everyone has a great time because she lights up the room like magic.
This is really smooth and groovy.
I love this tribute to Herbie. I'm wondering which apps you used in this case. 
Especially for the harmonica solo. It sounds real (unless you actually play the harmonica?).
I'm assuming you used Digital Performer to bring it all together. If I ever get a Mac, I may consider getting Digital Performer, simply because the music you make from it is wizard! That is, IF I ever decide I want to go back to using a more traditional DAW workflow rather than my hodgepodge pre-Logic iOS workflow. 😂
A bump for those who missed this.
Thanks everyone for your interest and nice comments. I will try to answer everyone’s questions in one post, but if I missed something, feel free to ask again.
So, the way this track evolved..
I started with a drum loop sampled from a classic Herbie track (Palm Grease). Then I added a bass line, which I believe came from Syntronik (Taurus bass pedals) or Arturia Minimoog, or perhaps a bit of both. Pretty quickly I built up the first minute or so, including the scratching and the harmonica part, which I did using fake harmonica (synth, plus various plugins). I doubled the harmonica part with a super fat, nasty ARP 2600 sound, which also is used in the synth solo that followed.
I didn’t set out to do a Herbie tribute track, but as things evolved it became clear that is what it was becoming. Then I came up with the title. As is often the case for me, the first minute and basic groove comes rather quickly and easily, but then I get stalled on where to go next. Then after quite some time, I came up with the Clav part, which I believe came from IK Multimedia. A couple of other synths were used, including Synthmaster and Oddity 3 for the bass in that section.
Once again, it sat dormant for many months. At one point a friend of mine expressed interest in collaborating on it, but months went by and that never happened. I wanted him to do a Rhodes part, because Rhodes is a key sound for a lot of Herbie tracks, and my friend owns a real Rhodes, but after it became clear it wasn’t going to happened, I decided to forge ahead, doing the Rhodes section myself. The pads come from a Fairlight. Both Arturia.
Next I knew there had to be a harmonica solo. I spent a lot of time working on that. I had a very convincing harmonica sound and I got pretty good at doing fake harmonica-like riffs on keyboard, but eventually I decided it needed a real harmonica. I found this fantastic player, Ross Walters, and that made all the difference!
There were probably a couple of other synths that were used a bit here and there, but that’s the basics!
And yes, Digital Performer is my DAW for this and pretty much all projects. When I got my first iPad years ago, I did a few projects entirely inside the iPad, usually with stuff like Beathawk or Gadget. Nowadays I use the iPad more as a starter point for developing ideas, or for specialized tasks, like Geoshred. It’s just so much more efficient for me to work in a desktop environment, where I can leverage decades of experience. Screen real estate alone, is a major consideration. For example, my current set up has 4 monitors.
Well, I decided to post it to the Herbie Hancock official Facebook page and got a Like from whoever runs it (which I'm absolutely certain is not Herbie himself, but still nice.) I would have been happy to just not have it instantly deleted!
Who knows what Herbie himself would think. Hopefully he might get a chuckle out of seeing his head devoured like broccoli at least.
Who knows? It just might be Herbie himself. I’m sure he digs people who dig his music. When people say nice things about mine, it makes me feel great. I thought the picture was very funny! I bet he laughed out loud!
This is impressive. 🥰 Thank you for the rundown.
Right on! 👍
Ha, indeed that was a funny bit (pun intended). Hopefully Herbie will hear it.
Maybe someday we'll collab.
Not sure how we'd go about it, but it'd be a fun project. I love your music and your work ethic. Possibly the best music producer here.
Great track, obviously from the little known follow up album Head Munchers…