May 10, 2024 (Borderlands Granular, Piano, Field Recordings on iPad)

Full session breakdown here on my Substack: https://andrewtasselmyer.substack.com...

An all-iPad session this time. A piano phrase is loaded into Borderlands Granular, which is scanning the sample and playing back 4 separate groups of grains: two are pitched up an octave, one is at constant pitch, and one is an octave down. These grains are fed through FabFilter Volcano filter, Imaginando K7D Tape Delay, FabFilter Pro-R2 Reverb, and a variety of other effects on channel 1 to add spaciousness and atmosphere.

The pre-delay and reverb sound of the Borderlands pianos are sent to a separate bus A, which is running Unfiltered Audio's LO FI AF and Chow DSP Tape simulator to give it a grungy, noisy, lo fi flavor. A few LFOs adjust the overall mix and filter cutoff on this channel.

Fugue Machine is sending 2 notes to Audiomodern Chordjam to trigger random chords in the key of F# Minor, which are then playing the string patch loaded in Decent Sampler on channel 3 (Dan Keen's "Soft String Spurs" library). The strings are sent through K7D tape delay and Velvet Machine reverb for extra spaciousness.

Finally, a field recording featuring overnight rain in my background provides the background atmosphere. The whole mix is summed on master bus B with FabFIlter Pro-Q EQ, Pro-C Compressor, and Pro-L Limiter.

There were a few hiccups with the frame rate and audio sync on my camera, so there are a few blips of choppiness.

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