I took a shot at rai.'s intriguing Summer Games challenge which dictates that you are not allowed to utilize the timeline. Needless to say, this was quite a challenge, especially if you want to create something remotely long with a decent level of variation. Fortunately, Audiotool offers a wide variety of tools, and some of them can be exploited to overcome the lack of timeline privileges (the title offers a cue).
In terms of sample content, the only samples appearing in this song are my own piano lines. Other than that, everything has been synthesized within Audiotool, making extensive use of the tonematrixes' note outputs and rasselbocks for rhythm sequencing and 303:s a.k.a. bass lines — the obvious choice (albeit cumbersome to program) for fully chromatic and non timeline dependent melodic sequencing.
may be just take this track for the hiphop challenge... but a bit reduces version, just the piano ....the tromped thing at
1:30
could be to much for a rapper... just to take part ;-)
Yes, the thought has actually occurred to me that the track might be somewhat rapable if I were to thin it out and give more room for the vocals. However, IMO the drums themselves are quite on the homogenous and repetitive side by themselves to work well alone in a rap context which is partly masked by exactly what's in the way of the vocals, namely the piano and the "trompy" lead. But of course, with a good rap performance the drums will have a secondary role and it might not be that obvious.😊
Thanks nico! :) I probably recorded around 50 different solos, whereas only 16 were considered good enough and only 10 of those made it into this track.
well u best the best song on AT of all time so congrats this song is fucking sick af holy its like a jazz funk Fusion but then you have that kind of New Orleans horn but that also kind of sounds like it could be on the first album of the Gorillaz god fucking damn how tf u do this all with out a time line i would love to see what u could do with a time line and the ability to make whatever you want.
Thanks for your kind comment! Even though I did not intend to emulate a specific band (virtual or real) it's always interesting to know what associations people get from my music.