Welcome to my Lo-Fi Hip Hop Beat story….. Link to post here. NI Blog here. How it started….. So I read through our lo-fi hip hop beat a little bit, and the article recommends opening up Battery in Komplete Kontrol. I don’t have Battery currently, so this was the first challenge to overcome. For me, Read More …
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Moroder’s Lab
I don’t really think this song is really that good example of a Moroder style bass or sound. The title cam about in the following way…. The cover band I play bass in, La Fete Du Funk, was working on some new ABBA tunes to add to the set, and the chord progression is inspired Read More …
Family Night Movie Night
This tune started as chords on the piano. The kids were playing in the living room, and I was upstairs when this popped into my head. Another happy accident in the home. Downstairs I ran, to start the computer. While I wait for Microsoft to load, i tried the same chords on a string instrument. Read More …
Deep Groove
I honestly don’t really remember how this tune started out. It was one of these tunes, that I was thinking of something…. I know I played it on something I thought more about it. I finally sat down at my desk. 1bluebass · Deep Groove In The Floor Here is the video for this song… Read More …
Megaman
This song started on the Maschine. It was only bussed to Ableton for “better” mixing and mastering. It is inspired by an old friend of mine who I played many musical theater jobs with, and a few jazz trio gigs. The theater jobs were almost exclusively with Underscore Theater, though I do remember one with Read More …
Slipstream Chase
This song is inspired by some of the stop animation films my daughter started creating. This came up after seeing a few of these and being super proud of her. 1bluebass · Slipstream Chase
R2 Unit
This tune is old. I used to perform this one with Machine Tools as well. This might be one of the last tunes that I still have that was started back on Acid. I mean the old music software program by Sonic Foundry. I really used to love that program a lot back in the Read More …
Stretching Too Far
For the Song I am writing this entry from memory. There are no initial notes for this song. Finally had got this new VST working, and this popped out. That literally was how this song started. The initial working title was “Long Chords”. Couldn’t think of anything else. It seems that initial naming of something Read More …
Minor Illusions
The third song on my first album, Initial Experiments, was started as chords on the bass which is how the song starts. This is the first tune I recorded with live instruments along with VST instruments. Once I came up with the chord progression, I manually entered it into Ableton using the pencil tool. All Read More …