Prompt: use pauses and silence in a creative way
Key: G minor
BPM: 87
I maybe went in hard on the guitar for my āpauses and silenceā as the prompt made me think of bluesy choppy guitar solos for some reason!
Percussion: Elektron Digitakt II samples made from Superior Drummer.
Keys: Digitone II and Moog Minitaur
Guitar: Tele-partscaster through Twin Bender Fuzz, Delay Llama, and Good Vibes modulator.
I left a bar of silence to go for a coffee.
That 70ās jamā¦ really nice.
Good tracks. Iāll post mine as soon as I can (being a new user).
Ran out of time today so went for a jam on the KOII. I feel it has an empty feel to itā¦ (If pushed to make something following the prompt)
Jamuary 2025 - KOII - Minimal Japanesish Vibe
Simple empty melodic vibe.
Made a 16 bar pattern and added a bar of silence splitting the last bar. Looped that 4 times, added some automation and recorded a take playing the Minifreak.
Sounds very well mixed and mastered.
Fresh sounding with the guitar in this synth-world.
Day 13. Today I struggled the most so far to get this done. The result is short and quite bad little tune. But I did and followed the prompt also. Yay!
I used this prompt to take one day off due to a severe case of loud tinnitus and used this time to work on my pixeled club which has been catching dust for far too long.
Iām prepairing a video to use for streaming on my channel which should play all previous released work.
The track used in the video is PAUSE which was a prompt last year on r/chiptune monthly contest.
Keep up the creativity <3
Prompt: use pauses and silence in a creative way
Key: G minor
BPM: 87
this prompt took me down a new path. got me playing around. was quite fun. not sure if I like the result but I enjoyed the process. thanks again jamuary.org
got creative on the silence bit but learning a bit about how to use the gate on the Reason SSL mixer and then threw around a few basic effects inserts in post.
Played my Yamaha PSR-W310 keyboard into some loopers. Thereās three separate loops going, one is at half speed. I used pauses but I think I played D and A on this. And I finally made a video. This was the scene reflected out my front window. Iāll post the longer audio version too if anyone wants to zone out to it.
Audio only:
Hereās an alternate version
A terrible jam from me. The idea was to have lots of space between beats etc. But despite being in the same tempo the beat didnāt match the synth (wouldāve served better for yesterday!). Then the squeaky noises drew my cat on top of me at which point I gave up!
hey too easy to hate on your own stuff but I actually really enjoyed the melody of this one. Had kind of a creepy shuffle vibe to the whole thing. Great work my dude!
I donāt really understand what happened but this ended up sounding a lot better than I expected. Nothing like reverb to make even the spaces between notes sound good.
https://on.soundcloud.com/XKcvKCwENWaaSH4i7
Another epic journey. I thought Iād be a smart arse and make my āsilenceā the 0v portion of a rectified square wave, then use that to trigger a sequencer as well as subject the audio to heavy AM. I had a ramp wave speeding the square up until it turned from choppy gated sounding stuff into utter carnage. I had that going into beads and it sounded great. The issue was that the dominant frequency jumping out wasnāt anywhere near G minor so I mostly tore it all out (forgetting to record of course). 30 mins later I ended up with a generic arp I could have made in piano roll in 3 minutes.
At least now I had my AM trickery playing the same notes as the pattern. I stuck to my guns with the āAM is silenceā philosophy and recorded some sections of each pattern through beads doing beads things. The usual afterthought bits thrown in and even a genuine silence for you purists. I think the mixing on this is fairly poor even for me. The lead that comes in toward the end is a good bit too loud. I had fun anyway
Edit: listening next morning, you can add āchord functionā to the list of tenuous things in this one. Yowzers.