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Hello everyone and hope you're having a great start to the summer! It's been a busy month of mixing (more on that later), visits and more, and I may have been overdoing it a bit again and needing to reel things in, but I have some super cool news to share with you this time on various projects and curiosities! Let's get started!
First of all let's start with some project updates! Better Than The Book's Ten Years On debut LIVE album (recorded at the debut LIVE show in February) is really coming along nicely and while I was only planning to do 3 full tracks last month then get back to some Jabun, I got on quite the rolling flow state and ended up getting MUCH more done than expected! All the instruments, guitars, bass, harmonica, drums, interludes and master mixing is all done now, with just the 3 vocal mics for 6 final tracks left to do, and 4 full tracks completed this month! I must admit though, it's been quite a listening/thinking workout and my ears are feeling a bit fatigued at the moment, so I've been taking a little break this last week to do some other things while I recover (more on that in a bit). With the above progress on BTTB, I've not had a chance to look into mixing the 2nd volume of Jabun's Lost Tracks just yet, but the current plan is finish off an initial mix for the BTTB album, then rest my ears of that and take a Jabun detour so they're both ready for mastering at similar times! Still lots to go, but it's sounding REALLY nice (IMHO) and I think you're going to love it! For those of you who are $10 patrons, I'm giving you a sneak peek demo mix for the first quarter of the full show (a whole 15 minutes) in your rewards this month! Check that out below and I hope you enjoy it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-10-160026586/ While we're on the topic of BTTB, the recent Newgrounds based video game Ally's New Life (which features BTTB's Side Character In My Own Life) is now available for PC (Windows) download! Check out the download page below and a big thanks again to Some-Crappy-Edits for featuring my music in the project! https://some-crappy-edits.itch.io/allys-new-life-lucky-day Finally for this month and back to my own projects and explorations, after finishing reading the first of the Patch & Tweak books on semi-modular synthesis I received for my birthday last month (KORG one is finished, Moog one is about 20% through at the moment), my drive to explore my own KORG Volca Modular system (as heard on Jabun's June22 and Tides albums) was kicked into 5th gear! During my own experiments I stumbled upon some interesting curiosities as well as a MAJOR epiphany/discovery of an unintentional but crazy powerful undocumented feature which I honesty think is going to blow some peoples minds and open some massive doors on this synth! last week I made 2 detailed videos exploring those concepts and put them up on YouTube for the community to expand their knowledge and learn from. You'd think after 7 years of this synth being released that all the features would have been explored by now, but then you find something and it's like you opened the gate to a new world! Special thanks to ChrisLody for the inspiration for the first of these techniques and I hope you enjoy the explorations! I'll let the videos speak for themselves below! On top of that, I FINALLY got around to sharing something I've been meaning to for a long time for another of my synths, the Roland J-6! This one's less revolutionary, more just helpful, but in short to compensate for a lack of detail in the user manual I created a sheet detailing the preset sounds on the synth and how best to edit them for crafting your own sounds! The sheet is available as a free download with optional donation on the JabunAudio website and has a brief accompanying video to explain it too! I hope you synth nerds out there get a kick out of these 3 new videos (+ download) and check them out below:
Playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEmqIhrNPvQTBoOjZdKLgL4ecTvLz6sm Roland J-6 Preset Sounds Sheet: https://www.jabunaudio.com/news/roland-aira-compact-j-6-comprehensive-preset-sounds-patch-sheet-free-download-or-donation I do have 2 more videos I'd like to make over the next week or so as well so stay tuned and subscribe and all that jazz for more synthy stuff coming soon! That about wraps things up for this post! Following the current flow, I'm aiming to start by getting these 2 synth videos done and out, then get back to finishing an initial first mix going all the way through the entire 70+ minute Better Than The Book gig (6 tracks left to do) before getting around to mixing the latest batch of 8 Jabun Lost Tracks (Vol. 2) There's a lot to do, so we'll see how fast and how long it takes to get done, but it's certainly exciting times to come! Until the next post, thanks as always for supporting my music on Patreon and however you can and I look forward to checking back in in July! Take care and have fun (and happy synthing if applicable)! $1 Rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157961376 $10 Rewards: https://www.patreon.com/posts/160026586 Reward Archives: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50344842 Find out more: https://www.patreon.com/NickStanding
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