303 day

March 4, 2024 — ~enamel

A little jam on the Roland T-8 for 303 day.

tags: bleep-bloops, synth, 303, roland, t-8

plateau delayverb

January 6, 2022 — ~enamel

My new favorite VCV Rack jam, playing around with the incredible Plateau module from Valley

tags: bleep-bloops, vcv-rack, synth

you can see the emotion

October 4, 2021 — ~enamel

Some synth / meme bullshit using VCV rack. Our friend competed in a speedrunning tournament and the commentators thought he looked quite sad. So I turned it into an "exploration of dark emotions using sound and memes" (see I told you there would be bullshit).

tags: bleep-bloops

808 day 2021

August 9, 2021 — ~enamel

A little love song to the 808. Also my first Ableton project.

tags: bleep-bloops

vcvrack_06

August 9, 2021 — ~enamel

My favorite VCV Rack jam so far, a bass drum, a snare, two voices, and a whole lot of modulation.

Also I might as well post vcvrack_04 and vcvrack_05 for completeness, I wasn't too happy with them but here they are anyway.

vcvrack_04

vcvrack_05

tags: bleep-bloops, vcv-rack, synth

vcvrack_03

January 25, 2021 — ~enamel

Tutorial #3 was on the voltage controlled filter. I also was playing around with controlling the knobs with my new midi controller, the Arturia Minilab MkII. Not too happy with the outcome here, but made a video to document it nonetheless.

tags: bleep-bloops, vcv-rack, synth

vcvrack_02

January 6, 2021 — ~enamel

Continuing on Omri Cohen's beginner patches series, this one focuses on using an LFO to modulate the pulse width of a square wave and mangling the envelope generator. I also learned a valuable lesson about making sure your envelope is actually attenuating your signal.

tags: bleep-bloops, vcv-rack, synth

vcvrack_01

January 4, 2021 — ~enamel

A VCV Rack patch I made based on the first patch in Omri Cohen's tutorial series https://youtu.be/RTdVbR_qTWg

tags: bleep-bloops, vcv-rack, synth

uncle giveaway lullaby

December 21, 2020 — ~enamel

Here is a creepy meme song about a clown that gives away bad games. Happy Holidays!

tags: bleep-bloops

metaknowin

October 19, 2020 — ~enamel

Woke up today and decided to write a rap song. I need to learn to beatbox.

tags: bleep-bloops

everydays 22

August 22, 2020 — ~enamel

Got a new mic, here is a little sound check comparo I did

tags: everydays, bleep-bloops

everydays 20

August 19, 2020 — ~enamel

Played around with an 808 emulator that you can find at https://io808.com/.

tags: bleep-bloops, everydays

everydays 18

August 1, 2020 — ~enamel

In the itch.io racial justice bundle I came across an app named Drum Brain. It allows you to use a Rockband drum set to create drum loops. It is pretty cool on it's own, but then I realized you can load in your own samples, and since I am a terrible drummer I also was very happy to see a quantize function in there.

So I loaded up a bunch of 808 samples and made a nice little loop. Really fun to play around with, basically using a e-drum set instead of a sequencer. Here is the sequence and the output.

tags: everydays, bleep-bloops, drum-brain

everydays 17

August 1, 2020 — ~enamel

Livestreamed a tidal cycles improv session, was not really feeling it and it was sort of going nowhere and then it just came together all of the sudden. Ended up liking the outcome quite a bit, and it sort of surprised me.

tags: everydays, bleep-bloops, tidal-cycles

everydays 16

July 30, 2020 — ~enamel

Playing around with tidal cycles, the main beat was stolen content, but worked some other stuff in that I enjoyed

tags: everydays, bleep-bloops, tidal-cycles

colorful clarity

July 24, 2020 — ~enamel

Started to play around with Hydra, ended up in a jam session

You can play around with the Hydra code here

edit: oh yeah this was my everyday, streak 11

tags: everydays, bleep-bloops, live-coding, tidal-cycles, hydra

bop it

July 22, 2020 — ~enamel

A little jam session in tidal cycles using bop it samples

tags: bleep-bloops, tidal-cycles, live-coding

algorhythms

July 21, 2020 — ~enamel

"Live coding" in the general sense is creating art using code, usually on the fly in an improvisational way.

I have been playing around with music production using a patterning language Tidal Cycles, where you can create patterns and sequences of samples and synths among other things.

Here are a few of my explorations using it

tags: bleep-bloops, tidal-cycles, live-coding