Live Synth Jams 01-02
One post in and I already had to stop myself compulsively self-editing. But hey, I caught myself. That's a good step.
Anyway, after saving for a few months I recently acquired a Novation Peak synthesizer, which I was very excited about because it's my first hardware polysynth and it's also pretty fucking cool. But more importantly, I now finally have three sound generators.
The first one was the Arturia Minibrute 2S I bought last year. I got it because it was affordable and seemed like a good staging point for getting into modular, which I eventually want to do. Then I added the Roland TR-6S some months later, because after jamming for a few months on a single analog monosynth, the first thing I was always reaching for in the DAW was a beat.
And now there's three, which means we've almost got a full band. I have plans for more, but it's starting to get pretty damn fun already, and with some careful sequencing and performance, I could probably put out some good songs out of just those three instruments if I wanted to.
For now I'm happy to not worry too much about perfecting a performance, and focusing mainly on jamming and having fun. When I was a teen I spent 10 years straight playing the piano every day, and as it was a digital piano, I often reached for alternate instrument presets, and in particular I loved to layer them. I adore the piano, but I always wanted more than just one thing to play on, and it's been a long time coming but it's finally happening.
Anyway, I'm trying to just keep things recording whenever I jam, so if there's a segment that I think sounds good, I can upload it to YouTube and bother my friends and family to listen. These are the first two.