I’m seeing a pattern here. Not making time for my music making til the day is almost done means very little time to do something.

Today, I decided to go with my Op-1. I made a four-bar drumbeat using some pre-programmed sequences in the Finger-sequencer (the monkeys drumming). And used a sample of my voice to lay down chords, melody and bass. Not really knowing if I had sung the initial note on pitch, I decided to make all instruments from the same sample.

I finished it off doing a live-take from Op-1 into a DigDugDiy Purple Rain bitcrusher/lofi comp. Playing the controls as it went along.

Considering the time spent I think I did alright. 😉

Today’s ingredients: Op-1 drum pattern (with Value-LFO + Nitro compressor) together with some pad chords sent into heavy SP-303 compression. Some rhodes with beat repeat + lame guitar picking and a stupid bass I had a hard time to make fit.

Just a stupid beat. Nothing really fits. I had hopes of doing something better. Maybe tomorrow!

I realized this morning that there are only 14 days left of May. So I figured, I can manage to make a small jam every day. Doesn’t have to be good, just showing up and making music. So, today I fear I’m acting blasphemous in the face of the funk gods. I cleaned up the worst warts, but there are plenty more.

Today’s jam got named Amadou a minute a go. I had my Boss CE-2 chorus plugged in and it immediately gave me some kind of West African vibe.