Jamuary 2023 jam journal

[Ben Asaro]

Jam 21 ... down to the last week!

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

Martin, this was one of your phase requests. Left sequence is 24 notes, right sequence is 23 notes.

[Martin Walker]

Jam 21 ... down to the last week!

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

Martin, this was one of your phase requests. Left sequence is 24 notes, right sequence is 23 notes.

And it worked well in my opinion - thanks for trying it!

Another suggestion for future tryout - try doing the same with two drum patterns, where the polyrhythms should be even more obvious and intriguing (I'm going to have a go at this myself in due course).

[Ben Asaro]

Jam 21 ... down to the last week!

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

Martin, this was one of your phase requests. Left sequence is 24 notes, right sequence is 23 notes.

And it worked well in my opinion - thanks for trying it!

Another suggestion for future tryout - try doing the same with two drum patterns, where the polyrhythms should be even more obvious and intriguing (I'm going to have a go at this myself in due course).

It sounded better than I thought it would, probably because it's very consonant, harmonically speaking.

It's MUCH easier to do this with modular bc I can set individual clocks for each track....

But I think an interesting experiment would be to have two percussion loops using Euclidean Circles, and then rotate the pulse by one degree every couple of cylces.

[Ben Asaro]

I'm having an absolute BLAST with this current setup of: KeyStep Pro, JV1080, TX7, Volca FM. More jams with this setup coming up!

And I have my first major complaint of the KSP: the SEQ and ARP buttons are too close together. It's too easy to accidentally press ARP when you're switching patterns and get no sound when playing live. They really should not be directly next to each other, imo.

[Arpangel]

I'm having an absolute BLAST with this current setup of: KeyStep Pro, JV1080, TX7, Volca FM. More jams with this setup coming up!

And I have my first major complaint of the KSP: the SEQ and ARP buttons are too close together. It's too easy to accidentally press ARP when you're switching patterns and get no sound when playing live. They really should not be directly next to each other, imo.

I’ve got a KS37, I find it overall very confusing, it’s not intuitive in any way, the only good thing about it is the keyboard feel.

[Ben Asaro]

Jam 22 -- home stretch now!

Piece of a song that's never existed

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

[Drew Stephenson]

Interesting glitching, deliberate?

[Ben Asaro]

Interesting glitching, deliberate?

No, I have no idea what happened but I liked it so I didn't bother bouncing it down again!

[Eddy Deegan]

Again, very reminiscent of the '80s and I like that a lot

[Martin Walker]

Again, very reminiscent of the '80s and I like that a lot

This times a hundred

[Ben Asaro]

Thanks, Eddy and Martin!

Today's jam is another excerpt from a song that doesn't exist, https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

[Drew Stephenson]

Sounds like a TV soundtrack to me, during a late-night car drive along a coast somewhere.

[Ben Asaro]

Sounds like a TV soundtrack to me, during a late-night car drive along a coast somewhere.

LOL that's a very common reaction to this one, so I guess it must be so!

[Drew Stephenson]

California highway, at night, some dude probably wearing jeans and a jacket with the sleeves rolled up...

[Eddy Deegan]

In my mind's eye I see a tall cabinet containing a large CRT, big colourful sprites smoothly scaling from small to large, a playfield with stripes to indicate the velocity at which you, the player, are heading into it.

... and can I mentally manifest the slight smell of a hot pair of Motorola 68000s and/or a Z80 or two? Why yes... yes, I believe I can!

[Ben Asaro]

Jam 24; a bit more synthwave-ish stuff.

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

[Ben Asaro]

Jam 25; we're in the home stretch now! https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

This one reminds me of EVE Online.

[Drew Stephenson]

This one's a bit more up my street.

[Ben Asaro]

I try not to do the same thing too many times in a row!

[Ben Asaro]

Today's jam is heavy on the atmosphere. I really like how this one turned out. The percussion is from the JV-1080 Bass & Drum expansion card; it's a tom sample played waaaaay down in pitch.

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

[Ben Asaro]

The last of the jams I stockpiled when I suspected I was coming down with something. I played the drums in real time on this, pretty happy how it turned out.
I call it Cyberpunk Casbah.

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

[Drew Stephenson]

Today's jam is heavy on the atmosphere. I really like how this one turned out. The percussion is from the JV-1080 Bass & Drum expansion card; it's a tom sample played waaaaay down in pitch.

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

Very atmospheric, and cinematic again.

[Ben Asaro]

Today's jam is heavy on the atmosphere. I really like how this one turned out. The percussion is from the JV-1080 Bass & Drum expansion card; it's a tom sample played waaaaay down in pitch.

https://soundcloud.com/user-329043613-5 ... al_sharing

Very atmospheric, and cinematic again.

Thx! Yeah, that's some of my bread and butter stuff. I was definitely starting to feel sick by then and needed something safe to get through the jam.

(Historical note: I was struck down by a cold/flu thing on Monday and my fever only broke this morning; so I've been using the stockpile I made right after one of the kids got sick, expecting I would go down soon after. Turned out to be very prescient of me, because that's exactly what happened!)

[Drew Stephenson]

Good forward planning but sorry to hear that, hope it clears up quickly and smoothly.

[Ben Asaro]

Good forward planning but sorry to hear that, hope it clears up quickly and smoothly.

Thx! Today was my first day being human again and I'm feeling better every hour!