<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi, I did not know you have an Axe 3 (lucky you !), now I wonder how many people on earth are using this unit in this way … :P </div><div class="">From what you wrote, I see your process was quite unique and took some time between the stages :) but thx for trying to describe it cause I know it could be a bit tricky to explain those. Compare to my work flow, I don t see myself doing this because I don t often reopen old projects and readapt to them. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now days my work flow for this type of music is between knowledge and discovery as I am still often surprised to discover new sounds with mistakes eg : plugin the wrong Cv socket. The thing for me is to find an Universe-Ambiance aura first with improvisation, then add more elements (sometimes controlled by Cv or Step Seq, some other times just instruments played) … then the challenge imo is to articulate all of those ideas as something entertaining sonically but not boring at the same time, also it should not be too short and not too long … As it s already a challenge when producing, a Live set is still kind of witchcraft :)</div><div class="">but I think the new Logic pro 10.5 ( with Midi/Audio clips, kind of Ableton under xanax lol) may help me to do what I am looking for … </div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 May 2020, at 17:18, Tony Scharf <<a href="mailto:tony.scharf@outlook.com" class="">tony.scharf@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sometimes it will be a long improvisation on the modular or some other long piece of audio that I’ve created through the Axe FXIII (guitarists should not have all the fun! This thing is amazing!). </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">On this album, different songs started different ways. The first track, for instance, was started 8 years ago(!) when I had an Arturia Origin in the studio. I recorded a long drone piece of myself just playing with the UI (It’s still the best UI i’ve dealt with on a hardware synth. I’d love to get one again, but prices are kind of crazy on them). That sat on my hard drive for maybe 4 years, and then one day I loaded into Reason just because I found it again. Thats when I added the drums and processing. it just kind of fell together. Then it sat for another few years until I thought it may fit with the album concept I was working on. It was the perfect intro.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The other 4 songs came about much, much faster. Stelliforous (meaning full of stars) came about first, actually. It started off when Pigments 2 update was released and I was really digging into creating some sounds on it. It kind of turns into an analog v.s. digital competition as the song is about half software and half hardware. The Behringer Neutron filled out the song. </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I think my favorite of them was the last one, though. I’d recently reacquired the DSI Pro 2 and the day I got it, was the day I recorded the backbone track to that song as a long, one note modulation experiment. That one fell together in about a day after that. The other sounds just kinda came to me and I put them there. </div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">It’s interesting, really. There was a time when getting the sounds out of my head and into the world was a problem. Now, that’s never the problem. If anything, it’s having the time to sit down and do that work of giving form to the work that’s always buzzing in my head. Well, that and trying to mix for an audience with two ears when you’ve only got one…</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>