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Michael U

How I made the track 'Trellis'. In this one I wrote about self-remixing tracks to get out of habits, polymetric loops, using vocoders to *not* make robot voices, field recordings with contact mics...

nonwrestler.com/trellis-behind

For users who are at all interested, I have been revisiting the project files on a new machine and there aren’t so many plugins that I had to reinstall. So most of what you hear is native Bitwig (notwithstanding lots of audio from elsewhere).

Broadly delay fx, often dirty ones: Valhalla, AudioThing, Unfiltered Audio.

A few instruments: I mentioned Visco drum machine. I’ve used Spitfire’s free LABS, usually piano, guitar harmonics. I’m aware there are reasons not to in the future.

@jet Great writeup, thanks for sharing! I love the sound you got from the tower with the contact mics. I'm sure you can get more use out of that sample in the future too.

@CoralineAda Thanks! I'm enjoying writing these.

Yeah I have a bad habit of thinking I've used a recording and that's that, but that's an arbitrary constraint - and anyway in this case it's pretty thoroughly transformed!