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Before you roll your eyes and think "Oh, an Aurora yet again and haven't we heard this Orbit City already?" Yes, that's correct. This is a literal blend of these two tracks, accomplished with a simple drag & drop container import, as shown in the new tutorial.
It is also a rare instance where I feel that my involuntary compulsion to layer too many lines on top of each other turns out to be fine. It's a mesmerizing texture of subliminal melodies, no clear foreground, all background, that makes a dense yet subtle experience. Every time you listen, you can choose to follow a different instrument and hear a different theme. Not sure what to call it, maybe maximalist ambient.
Polyrhythm works great with music like this (mixes 3:4 with 4:4). The melodies of both arrangements happen to fall nicely into line. This loosens up the whole thing and prevents a monotonous progression bar by bar, chord by chord.
I may be complete off the track, though. What do you think?
Fr., 26.04.2024 - 20:38 Permalink
They are somewhat similar, almost same length, slow moving, etc. But you can certainly also merge totally different arrangements.
Most music is organized around on units of 4, 8, 12 bars. So all lines that ornament around or move toward these transitions will somehow "fall into line" with the other arrangement, complementing each other. In this case the different time signatures get in the way, but there's still a common denominator where they meet again.
You can also move the inserted arrangement along the timeline (arrow keys) to test different alignments. That's a guarantee for nice surprises.
Fr., 26.04.2024 - 21:04 Permalink
I think this really shows the potential of the new container to library functionality.
Containers can cover so much more data nuances than just phrase loops and their associated data.
I’ve been trying out this feature today on one of my previous tracks, remixing and orchestral track!
Because I use VEPro there are additional complexities, as the VePro rack instances each link via network to a specific VEPro master instrument and this link gets easily broken. If anyone else is using VEpro, happy to share workflows and methods that might work here.
Fr., 26.04.2024 - 21:21 Permalink
I run a single VEP server that automatically launches new instances as needed (e.g. assorted Brass, Woodwinds, Strings. I use a device and preset for each. They are in the Repository). Whatever server was connected when a rack module was saved to a library will eventually be restored when it is imported. No manual intervention needed.
It may be more complex with multiple VEP servers on different machines, but we should probably discuss this in a separate thread.
Sa., 27.04.2024 - 09:04 Permalink
The Zoom room is still open. But I can't do screen sharing at the moment because the studio Mac is broken and I can't use a development machine for this.
I've started a separate thread here.
So., 05.05.2024 - 05:27 Permalink
So I read this post and saw the accompanying video, and did not initially realize the implications of this, I tried it today and realized I could save a whole arrangement and different versions of an arrangement not to mention different versions of a chorus and verses, this just blew my MIND!