A couple of weeks ago, I posted some of the old Haywire Transmission stuff I did prior to joining the project to the page. Some posters on another message board mentioned that they enjoyed that stuff and it spurred me into looking into using it again. So, on Saturday, after my wife and I got back from an appointment, I spent a couple of hours putting together some stuff for us to use in the project.Â
Using FL Studio has some nice aspects but it can also be a huge pain. One great aspect of using it is that it gives us the ability to employ a huge number of instruments and sounds in one package that pretty much plays itself when set up properly. It’s great as it makes the 3 of us sound like we’re playing 20 or more instruments sometimes. It can really fill in the sound, giving us some freedom to try other things than we normally would.
However, it’s not a very flexible program to use for live situations and can be difficult when employed with groups like The Chill because the basis of the music is improvised. I’ve learned some methods of changing the sounds in a live manner but it can be frustrating and limited.
In any case, because we’ve been working on The Daily Routine theme lately, and I work primarily on computers all day, I thought it’d be interesting to throw in some midi bleep-bloop and glitch sounds in there so we tried it out yesterday and it went well.Â
Unfortunately, it looks like the recording equipment may have had some difficulties however, so it looks like we may not have captured the session as we’d hoped. Neil will listen to what was captured yesterday and hopefully, it’ll still be enough to post a couple of worthwhile songs to the website.Â
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