Most of us are just a few hours away from making music that we love listening to like this song that I made in just a few minutes with just a year of experience making music as a hobby! I named this song "Pentatonic Spacer in Lost Arch" based on the names of the scale and presets I used to compose my 27th track since I started making music for fun in 2017. I love listening to music that is beautifully instrumental with no lyrics and no words!
My intention is to make intelligent dance music or IDM that brings the fun of electronic dance music or EDM into a more thoughtful realm of less predictable and more experimental realm.
I also aim to spend the smallest amount of time possible making a track because this allows me to keep listening to a new song I have made each week and gives me the best odds for composing a masterpiece!
How did I compose this track?
Using my digital audio workstation Ableton Live 9 Suite, I picked the presets and synthesizers below to begin!
- PL Spacer 7S preset on Serum synthesizer with MIDI effects putting notes in the major pentatonic scale using major chords and an arpeggiator.
- BA Ampology [CFA] preset on Serum synthesizer with MIDI effects for major pentatonic scale plus major chords.
- Lost arch preset in Sytrus synthesizer with the Push 2 set on major pentatonic scale.
Next, I recorded actually playing the song in live with Wirecast 8 on my Mac Pro using a screencapture card to get the video and mixed the audio live on the recording with over 400 randomly selected drum loops allowing me to play and record the song in real time on the first try.
Then, I chopped the beginning and the end of the recording off in Camtasia with an export into a WAV file for @dsound and an MP4 for YouTube.
Finally, I uploaded both files and then am able to link back and forth to help cross promote to listeners! The video is available on YouTube for those of us preferring to watch the live creative process!
I am grateful for all that I have learned from my mentor Tomas George with Digital Music Masters at digitalmusicmasters.com without whose help I doubt I would have stuck with producing music through so many changes in my business and personal life!
Thank you for reading about my 27th song uploaded to YouTube since I first started producing music in 2017 and my fifth song uploaded exclusively via audio available for free with CC0 to dsound.audio/#/@jerrybanfield which is on the Steem blockchain!
Love,
Jerry Banfield
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