#Dubby minimal two-tracker - lots of notes about both tracks

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weary topaz
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Downer - 92bpm, A dorian

  • The main melodic line is an Instrument Layer with a Polysynth, an Organ (pure sine preset), and a VST called Visco. Visco is morphing between two sounds on a slow, async LFO. This runs into an FX Selector with 6 different delays or reverbs. The FX Selector is set to Keyswitches mode, so it switches on incoming notes. I'm sending the notes from a Stepwise on a separate instrument track. I got this idea from some YouTube video. The benefit is you can play with probabilities of picking a certain FX layer, by making the step sequence more or less busy, and because when two notes coincide it's going to switch to the higher pitch.
  • The kind of buzzy, sometimes spiky offbeat synth part is also Visco, I went pretty nuts playing with this plugin. I've got 4 LFOs modulating different parameters at different rates. The notes are the 5th and the 6th of the scale, to emphasise that dorian feel. It's not going into any delay, but the repetition and changes in shape make it feel like it's echoing to me!
  • Other tuned stuff - pads, bass - are Polymers.
  • I dragged in a recording I made of a dawn chorus at a lake here in New Zealand, set to tape stretch mode, and pitched / slowed the whole thing down.
  • Drums are grouped and there's a Filter giving a basic 2-pole lowpass. Two different Curves modulate cutoff at different rates, one just adding a big spike every 16.74 bars. 😅