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kumo.productions™ - promo song project file

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here's the project file for the Billboard/Mont Duamel-esque piece I made for kumo.productions™ which you can listen to here.

note that you will get a warning saying that a lot of the media files are missing, but that is intentional and should be able to play the project regardless as long as you keep all the frozen tracks in its initial state.

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a visit to wintry shiribetsu - Audio + some stems!

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here are the audio files + stems for my recent release - 'a visit to wintry shiribetsu' EP for Zurich's 'Green Music' content.

The songs will be up on streaming sometime next month, so here's the early bird access for now!

Feel free to download the songs for listening on your local device / sample the stems etc. if you'd like!

(artwork will be updated once ready!)

'shiribetsu' winter ambient - project files!

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sorry for the last minute update, but thank you all for a great 2024!

here are the project files for ’a visit to wintry shiribetsu’ EP, which is a batch of songs I wrote as a sequel for Zurich's Green Music project.

stems for two of the songs (snowmelt, across the ice) and audio files are included as well! (it is a big zip file, sorry for that)

as always, no...

the chord rack - MIDI preset!

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here's an idea that sort of needs further developing, but would probably be an interesting concept - which is the 'chord rack' - a drum rack format midi effect that instead triggers midi chords.

to give a bit of a background story, I had the idea of this when preparing for a live show, which had a sequence of chord progressions I could not play live on the keyboard (because I can't play the keyboard :( ).

inside the rack is a stack of individual chord MIDI effec...

20240912 - project file!

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below is the project file for the demo tune I posted in the previous post!

inspired by the recent floating points tracks, the use of the Ableton Analog instrument paired with modulation to imitate the octave jumps of the Yamaha CS synths (famously used by floating points) might be one of the highlights of this project file (if that's a sort of sound you're into)

note that the proj...

20240912 (demo) - unreleased music!

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here's a little demo dance tune I made from last month, which initially came from a short loop on the Model:Cycles.

Feel free to download and listen on local devices / play in your DJ sets!

BPM is 132, key is D# minor.

stems are also available below so you're welcome to use them in your creations if you wish!

auto-chord progressions with LFO Eight (+sound presets)

The updated Chord device in Live 12 has improved by miles with the new semitone feature introduced in conjunction with the project key feature, so here's an idea and video on how I came up with utilizing the LFO Eight device and Chord/Scale device for generating chord progressions.

It can hopefully come in handy when you're out of ideas on writing chord progressions, or want to explore some chord inversions but don't know exactly what to do.

Also, I've attached some...

LFO Eight - a useful mappable LFO device

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I've always had this problem with the LFO device in ableton, which is that there's only one oscillator accessible from a single instance of the device.

Meaning that if I wanted to modulate a parameter with a sine wave, another with a saw wave, and another with a random wave, I would've had to open three instances of LFO.

So I've sort of come up with a solution which is this device - LFO Eight. As the name suggests, this device has 8 mapping slots ...

NEW SKIN remix - stems!

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here are the stems for the remix I recently did for the band Blumepopo!

also here's the audio to the remix if you haven't heard it yet, it's a different master from the released version but you're welcome to download it fo...

NEW SKIN (phritz remix) - project file!

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here's the project file for my latest remix I did for the band Blumepopo !

There weren't much references for this remix, other than the idea of wanting to do a polyrhythmic/ sort-of-math rock approach, hence the bit at 0:47~

Also I was aware of the other remixers on the album (quoree, 是 (ze), nu_imi ) and that they would also take a similar folktronica/organic electronic approach t...

jingle client demos (that didn't make it... but are still kinda cool)

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apologies once again for the lack of updates for this month too, the PAS TASTA album is in the final stages and thus have been quite occupied with it but that is coming near the end too (hooray)

here's another project file of jingles I did for a YouTube project back a few years ago!

I recently came back to it to retrieve some samples. then realizing that the arrangement and variety of sounds I made for this project was pretty cool and worth sharing (at lea...

how I make sync (ad) music - 2nd demo project file

here's the project file for the 2nd demo from the previous post , as I figured some of you might just prefer to look at the project file rather than skimming through the video.

hope there's something you can learn from the project :D

I also might share the project for th...

how I make sync (advertisement) music - the 2nd demo process

here's the documented process of the 2nd demo (I usually get asked to make 2 or 3 demos) that didn't get accepted as the final version!

This one is mostly unedited because 1. I didn't have time to edit it... and 2. there wasn't much to cover anyway as it got abandoned early on (didn't get accepted),

so I'd recommend watching the video from the 2024-08-31 10:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post

how I make sync (advertisement) music

here's a video of me making a piece from scratch for a sync (advertisement) work I did recently!

I made 2 demos (version A and B), and this video features the process of version A which was the accepted version.

the documented part was around 5 hours total (+ an extra maybe around 5~10 I couldn't record) and I figured that's too long to watch so I've shrunk it down to about 30 minutes (which is still kinda long but...)

Also , the last bits couldn't be documented so...

summit (fuji rock edit) - audio!

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here's the audio for the summit edit I made for playing at fuji rock festival.

feel free to download to play on your local devices or to play out in DJ sets, etc.

you can also access the stems here if you want to have a look or use the sounds in your production

summit (fuji rock edit) - project file

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bit of a small one but here's the project for the summit edit I made for fuji rock!

I don't think I've used any external plugins apart from some mixing plugins (pro-mb, pro-l) so most of the processing should be visible straight out of the box.

If you don't have pro-l, just swap it out for a standard ableton limiter. (I had to do a +10 gain on the limiter for the newly added parts because I suck at mixing :( haha)

works with ableton live 12+ !

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prophet loops & samples

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here's a batch of prophet-6 samples I've recorded for various songs that I thought might be useful for you to explore too.

the audio above is an example of what's included (most of the samples aren't this long)

the gear used for these are mostly just the prophet-6 and the MOOD mkII (the glitchy pitched effects you hear in some files are from the MOOD)

also the bpm on the file names may be slightly inaccurate so sorry in advance if they don...

m4l device mini updates (SoT, MOOD clock operator)

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I’ve made a few tweaks to some of my devices so here's an overview:

sequence on trigger 16

I've added a new 'equal interval randomization' feature which allows each step to be divided and fixed to specified intervals, whose controls are located at the top section of the sequencer UI. the video attached briefly goes over the feature.

MOOD clock operator

the clock now works with two, three or four octaves which ...

oceanwaves (unreleased) - project file!

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I'm at this point where I'm showing you all the project file for my unreleased songs which probably isn't the smartest thing to do lol, but I'm kinda running late on phritz releases due to various surrounding issues (mainly distribution),

anyhow, here's the project file for the unreleased song I put up on the previous post called 'oceanwaves', a fairly lengthy, bonobo/o'flynn/etc. inspired tune that's relatively focused on the rhythmic elements and flow.

t...

oceanwaves (unreleased) + stems!

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here's an unreleased song inspired by bonobo/o'flynn & artists in that realm, that I plan to release someday (don't know when though, might not even ever come out lol) + the stems for it,

I'd like to kindly ask you not to release the entire song under your name (because I made it) but you are welcome to use elements of the stems in your song if you'd like to!

access the stems 2024-07-08 14:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post

MOOD clock in ableton...

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I was messing with Ableton's stock Looper the other day (since I didn't know much about), and turns it out, in conjunction with Redux, can do pretty much the same thing as the ambient enthusiasts' beloved guitar pedal, MOOD by chase bliss audio.

the link above is the ableton rack, which consists of Looper, Redux, and the custom m4l cl...

sunameri smoke (club opening edit) - project file!

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(EDIT: some of you asked for the stems so here you go!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cb0QI6iJR_C4GmqS6YekRcxbPrPJtZ5D?usp=share_link)

here's the project file for the sunameri smoke (club opening edit) which I've been playing at the PAS TASTA shows ( 2024-06-19 07:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post

tiny pool centennial (new project?) - demos!

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life has been quite hectic with PAS TASTA so apologies for the lack of updates on music production related topics, but here are a few indie pop-ish demos I've been saving for a new project that I'm (probably) calling 'tiny pool centennial'

while still needing to write a lot of lyrics and polish the overall production, here are some of the better demos that have a nice core idea (at least to me) that I thought are worth sharing.

might have shared some of these song...

rooms and reverb... (pt.1)

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here's a little video  about my love for small room recordings, and how unique of a tone they can be.

also the drive link attached to this post holds a few raw recordings I did utilizing the technique + some processed ones through granulator. feel free to use the samples however you'd like!

I've also been revisiting convolution reverb (ableton hybrid reverb) using these samples but that...

bonobo / floating points style orchestral piece (audio)

here's a song I did for an ad sync thing and did not end up getting placed, but still thought is worth sharing.

project file is up for the upper tiers on the previous post!

bonobo / floating points type ad sync song project!

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here's an orchestral project for an ad sync thing I did a while ago, with client references of bonobo / floating points

I'd say the takeaway from this project is, it's ok to use a bunch of presets if it sounds cool.

most of the sounds in this project are Kontakt presets (slate + ash Landforms, Cycles, Choreographs (yes they are quite pricey)) and orchestral presets such as BBC symphony orchestr...

a few utility m4l devices! (bms, MIDI LFO, keyswitches ii)

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here are a few utility m4l devices I may or may have not posted here before so here they are!

bms

- standing for 'bend, mod, sustain', bms is a simple 3 parameter device that allows the Pitch Bend wheel, Modulation wheel and Sustain pedal to be automated within the track automation lane.

Signal Frequency (or MIDI) LFO

- a mappable LFO device that takes the MIDI note's tonal frequency and modulates the m...

a lot of... riser samples!

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I figured everyone on here doesn't use ableton so here's a bunch (50 to be exact) of riser samples sampled from my infinite riser ableton rack!

use them however you'd like, as is or layer them with some other cool sounds for your sound design needs!

infinite riser Ableton rack (inspired by mr.bill's Massive technique)

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here's a little rack I made with Ableton's operator + stock effects + 'random on trigger' which creates a different riser sound every time you hit the 'Rand' button at the top of the macro rack!

It's really simple to use and really, really useful... (at least for me!)

I'll put up another post with 50 riser samples all made from the rack, so you can hear it in action for yourself

note: make sure to download the whole project folder and store it ...

writing with guide melodies & sampling

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here's a mostly uncut video of me trying to make a folktronica/ambient song from scratch!

+showing the idea of how using a guide melody for audio chops can help improve the cohesiveness or catchiness of your songs! (which is the key element of what I think separates a very good folktronica song and an ok-one)

the piano featured in the project btw is Ockpii's "Woodland Grand Piano" (Kontakt Library), highly recommend!