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One Synth One Track pt 2
@pichi I had to start a new thread for this because the previous one wouldn't open on my iPad with all the quoted soundcloud replies. Is there a way for the board to not render soundcloud gadgets in quotes?
Anyway here's my submission. All done with 001 Marseille Piano in Gadget. A 2 note riff repeated and layered.
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Cool Track. Very krautrockish.
I also had problems with crashing browsers when trying to open some pages here. Here's my solution: go to (Chrome) settings and then to Bandwidth and turn Preload Webpages to Never. Do the same in Safari. Hope that helps.
Thanks @pichi is that setting on the iPad or desktop? (I'm not with my iPad at the minute)
For the iPad.
I'm starting to get a bit fed up with Gadget. It’s an alluring notion to have the whole thing happening in one app, but I’m now starting to see it not as a workstation, but rather as a fairly sophisticated multitimbral synth / sequencer — i.e., not as an island. The thing is, each and every gadget synth is too limited. They have patches, and I habitually start with init for them, but really it doesn't matter which patch I start with, I’ll end up traversing through each possible patch anyway during the course of the tune. There’s hardly any point in having a patch memory on such limited synths. Once I’ve finished this, I’ll get back to my neglected other synths and do it the hard way — stringing everything together outside of one singular app. Gadget is good to use sitting on the tube going round London, if you don’t need to change stations often. Using a collection of discrete synths that way would be a lot messier, which is probably why I home in on gadget more these days, but I really can’t take any of those limited synths seriously any more.
I'll take a listen to that later as I'm at work.
Regarding Gadget, I find the limitations actually help to keep focus a little so that I don't spend hours noodling around with one synth and can actually get down to writing something with structure. Sure, the Gadget may be limited compared to other more complex synths on the iPad but they are not too shabby and can be put to good use in combination.
I find the ability to quickly start on an idea without much startup cost especially useful.
@syrupcore: here you go
sunrizer only
This track sounds even more like robots communicating. At least musical robots.
So which one synth did you use to create this?
Great track. Really out there! Sounds like you really know your way around Gadget. I haven't got much done with it yet.
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Nice. Sunrizer sounds great. I just got it myself a couple of weeks ago.
Hands down, my favorite part was just past the halfway point when the wicked wah-wah filter sweeps started playing along with the beat. So cool!
Interesting points. I hear what you're saying. A synth like Helskini or even more so Brussels really just makes one type of noise. Brussels is so limited it's essentially just one patch, a filter, some reverb and a couple of gate effects.
However, other synths in Gadget have a bit more flexibility (Wolfsburg, Phoenix, Chiangmai).
The thing with Brussels is that although it's just one patch really - it's a pretty useful patch for a Reece type bass so I like it... And if you modulate it a lot it's pretty good. But that's just me.
I think that we can all agree that in pure synth terms the big iOS synths are much more versatile and deeper. But when you want to make a whole track Gadget gets it done and there are ways to push the synths as far as you can (eg pointing a midi LFO at them). You can also import something special in from another synth. And what I'm doing now is taking the whole thing into Auria for mixing where you can add a lot with the plugins like Volcano and Saturn.
I think that often the best tracks use simpler tones combined and modulated in a way that makes perfect musical sense - rather than it being all about the patch anyway.