We (wife/best-friend and I) made a trip to the Oregon coast to walk on the beach, read books, make meals together, and sip some wine. We each took along some of the fundamental accoutrement of our favorite hobbies. For me, that meant a couple of desktop synths, a tiny keyboard controller, and my laptop with Logic Pro.
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While watching an impressive storm rage on the beach/ocean in front of us, I improvised a piece. I played the Peak and the Trigon-6 with the same midi input and decided I quite liked the combined "patch". The Novation Peak patch had a faster attack and so is more in the front. I had a darker and slower attack patch dialed up on the Trigon; it provides more of the atmospheric and darker part of the sound.
After playing it back, my wife wondered aloud if it would be possible to capture some of the ocean sounds, so I added "wave" acoustics using noise generators and filter sweeps from both the Peak and Trigon. Later when I got home, I recorded some of the counterpoint "flute-like" melody with the Minimoog. I spent more time than I would like to admit creating the rhythm/drum parts with hand-baked hits through EZ Drummer kits and Punch Box. And the occasional seagull chirps are from a sliced up loop that I found in the Logic Pro library.
It is very much an atmospheric/ambient (aka boring) piece. But it evokes good memories for me of our time there.
Or, the spotify link:
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