Jamuary 2023 jam journal

[Ben Asaro]

Tore down the setup today and redid it for improved workflow, but it took AGES and now I'm burnt out lol.

I replaced the JV-1010 and SR16 with the JV-1080, and figured out a way to mult the mono fx send from my mixer two 3 separate fx units so I can mix them in any way I like (used a 1:4 headphone amplifier to do this)

Whew!

[Eddy Deegan]

Apologies in advance for the dodgy keyboard playing on today's jam, I'm not a keyboard player.

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

Definitely an '80s vibe going on there

I'm heading out for the evening to see a friend play a gig and am out tomorrow night also but I'll try and get that Van Halen jam in shape and uploaded over the weekend. Need more hours in the day

[Ben Asaro]

Today's jam was a lot of fun after the re-org.

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

[Drew Stephenson]

I'm a sucker for anything with sampled radio comms on!

[Ben Asaro]

Thx for listening!

[Arpangel]

Today's jam was a lot of fun after the re-org.

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

This is good, love the brutal bass sound, and those chords too, have a fascinating sci-fi feel about them, very synthetic, great.
Just a feeling that it could have gone somewhere else, more development needed.

[Ben Asaro]

Today's jam was a lot of fun after the re-org.

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

This is good, love the brutal bass sound, and those chords too, have a fascinating sci-fi feel about them, very synthetic, great.
Just a feeling that it could have gone somewhere else, more development needed.

Thx!
When Jamuary is over I will revisit some of these ideas.

[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.