I'm Jesse from Toronto, Ontario. I make electronic music with hardware synths. I go by the artist name Hexwave, and my albums can be found everywhere. My old stuff is Chroma Surge if you're a completionist. My Instagram account is @hexwave.music. Thanks for listening!
@@ujtb Thank you!! I can say you likely wouldn't be disappointed!! I didn't have it for long just cause I needed the money for my new setup but it's the most fun sequencer I've used for sure once you learn it!
@@hexwavemusic yeah, I'm just in doubt at the moment, the music I do the lack of inspiration and then I look at the fact that it's a Euclidian with probability and random? Could I just not use a max4live device that does this at 1 10th of the price and get a midi controller for it? 🤣 I'm so conflicted at the mo.
Haha it's funny I never realized I used CTRL like the keyboard button in this thumbnail and title! You won't find a button that says that 😂 CONTROL all is done by holding the Track button!
@@Subtronik Thanks! I don't really remember but I'm sure the time changes a lot based on the current batch situation. I think it was a month or so from the preorder?
Thank you for explaining the scale feature because i wanted to know what it was about. Shame it won’t take the parameter-locked keys. But does it work if you have live played in the notes? Also I started playing Demon Souls on PS3 when it came out and have finished all of them except Elden Ring and have barely touched because I discovered making music about that time it came out haha Also haven’t finished Sekiro yet but I’ll let that one slide but love it.
No problem! Yeah I wish it would just work with everything, but maybe someday they will add that as a separate feature since enough people want it. It wouldn't work with live recorded notes, because those are essentially parameter locked (if you hold a note recorded in live you'll see the note parameter is locked to whatever note it is). The only way I'm aware of is manually changing the tuning of each note on the sample page and leaving the note parameter untouched. Excellent :) I never played Demons Souls, but I've seen most of it. The rest though I've played wayy too much of! I also didn't beat Sekiro though, got to the last boss and I got stuck and then time passed and I lost my skills for it so I gave up! Great game though.
The digitakt 2 kinda added everything I wanted that I felt like was missing in most samplers. Scale transposition really makes composing complex key changes easier without needing to bust out a midi controller and start fussing and drawing a map. Combine that with odd numbered steps and time signature changes and you can make some wild Tool-esque stuff on this thing. 128 steps makes a huge difference in my opinion too. Once I had it on the mc101 i couldn't live without it. Nice tips. I have a weird problem where I have to play each game in a series in order of release until completion before I can move on to the next game. That means I'm currently knee deep in Dark Souls 2 and haven't touched Elden Ring yet. I'll get there by 2027 probably.
I agree! Love all the new stuff they added, especially the sound destroying things. I'm currently messing with a jam which I'm diving a lot more into sound design than I did during the challenge month (since it was mostly premade things as that was the point) and having a hell of a fun time. I do wish Elektron would make less half-measures and full on let us modulate and transpose a melody in scale without quirky little workarounds though! But still pretty sweet. Thank you! Appreciate the time watching as always :D I 100% support that methodology and do the same myself! And especially with the dark souls games, even though Elden Ring is technically not related to them, they are still 100% connected in basically every way but story. And there is just too much fantastic game in those to skip them. DS2 was a good one (though divisive), my favorite is DS3 though so look forward to that! Bloodborne also fantaaaaastic but obviously locked to the PS4 and the framerate is quite bad... Still holding out hope it comes to PC one day :D Also Sekiro is the most different of the games that could be considered in the "souls" umbrella of Fromsoft, but I still fully recommend that one. A lot less customization and such but man, what a good game. Hard as nails though! But I guess they all are :D I'm going to stop typing now.
@@neonpop80 I've never used an analog four, but you can at least sort of use it that way but it sounds like it's a bit different? You can load a kit into a pattern and that fills out all the tracks, just for that pattern though. Like saving a full setup of all tracks including parameters and FX settings and routings. However, you can use it in the way you describe by using the perform kit mode, so when you toggle that on and change patterns the kit will stay the same regardless of the pattern, until you turn perform mode off.
@@hexwavemusic I see. So the performance kit locks the sounds “in” during pattern changes until it is toggled off. So if you toggle it on on pattern 1, then switch to pattern 2, then toggle it off, the saved sounds of pattern 2 load back? In Analog Four it’s straight forward. You have kits with sounds and saved parameters, to which can be saved alongside patterns, so that changing patterns does not affect the sound kits when switching patterns. You can make any changes to the sounds during performance and load the saved kit anytime to reset the sounds back, usually after a build up. It’s awesome for live performance
Very accurate! Thank you as always! I'll have to remember to play this if zombies ever do break in and start eating my face, maybe they'll start raving instead? 🤔
@@hexwavemusic the digitakt will make a fine weapon. It's one of my criteria in choosing a synth to buy. Right next to oscillator count and polyphony - zombie weapon effectiveness.
This one is probably my favorite one recently. I imagine this big ass Zangief looking Russian fighter in an underground fighting tournament step in slowly wearing a fur coat and there's flashing neon lights in this cyberpunk underground fight club. Get ready. There was an underground arena fight scene in the first season of Altered Carbon. This reminds me of that.
Thanks, also one of my favs for sure, maybe I'll stretch this one out into a more complete thing. I haven't seen Altered Carbon, but I'm just imagining futuristic cyber Zangief now and I like it.
@@hexwavemusic the first season of Altered Carbon is some of the best recent cyberpunk media outside of video games we've had in a minute. Season 2 is aight. But imo it's up there visually with blade runner 2049 or whatever year. It was probably in Harrison Ford's contract in that movie that he's allowed to be filmed in whatever he was wearing when he woke up, no wardrobe changes. On the flip side we got a Nicholas Cage moment out of Ryan Gosling with the freakout scene. It was a good movie overall imo. I didn't watch the cyberpunk 2077 anime, but I do have the game nestled in my steam library somewhere waiting to be played.
@@GeorgeL909 Sounds good, I'll keep it in mind! I beat most of Cyberpunk, honestly it took them over a year after release but they turned that into a pretty good game. I'll go back someday and finish and play the expansion as well. The anime actually was pretty good, better than I expected it would be. Very gory and messed up, I expected kinda watered down baby stuff since it's a game tie in. Not the best story or anything especially since it's so short and they tried to cram too much in, but worth a watch.
Loving that Stereo! Also love that pad sound that seems to flanger. Has such a cold and interesting sound to it. Very nice. Like having a drink at an ice bar that's made completely out of ice. You ever been to one of those? I was gonna go to one last time when I was in NY but it was just so filthy cold that we kinda just decided that every bar felt like an ice bar and opted for something warmer.
Thanks m'dude 🙌 I have not been to such a place but I can imagine it would be absolutely disgusting 😂 Nobody gonna clean ice. If I was more on the ball I would have responded with a stereotype of Canadians and say all bars here are made of ice, but I didn't. I could go back and change it, but I won't.
This is an awesome jam, I'm blown away with how much variety you're getting out of this setup and how quickly you're pumping these out. I love the use of the overdrive, it's heavy when you dial it in! Fantastic one.
I kinda expected like a pan flute melody and like little goat men dancing around, but instead I got more like goat shinobi ready to square off in a bamboo forest, throwing goat ninja stars and bleeting menacingly from the shadows.... Flutes. Nice jam.
I am imagining the goat ninja stars to have little beards, hehehehhehee. I feel like this song has some George in it, like a 10 second flash of a song before it changes genres and blastbeats under some reggae or something 🤷🔥
I don't speak fluent European but slagverk sounds like an insulting term for robot prostitutes who work the docks. Interestingly they are servicing robot pirates as they smuggle in illegal cargo and goods. And this song is the sound of them getting all freaky. But in reality it's just a regular loading dock with automated loading equipment. The machines think they're doing the nasty as part of a sexy criminal enterprise, but really it's just like cranes and pulleys and forklifts doing mundane tasks. There's a fat dude named Frank from Jersey who's always telling other human workers "hey guy, doesn't it kinda look like the machines are banging" and he laughs and snorts and takes a bite of his hoagie. The other workers are like "you're such a creep Frank" but maybe he's actually right... Anyways. Great jam.
I'm gonna go through all your recent tracks that I've missed this week because it's been crazy busy and comment something stupid on all of them 😉. Until then I'm gonna leave this comment for the algorithm and a martini 🍸 and some of the T-virus from Resident Evil in case you need some 🧫🧪
LOL thanks George, you don't have to do that but I appreciate it 😂 Appreciate it! (I'm going to leave that even though I just realized I typed appreciate it twice in a row). How do you take your T? VIRUS! 🤷
@@hexwavemusic I like my t-virus in a recluse mansion backroom containing various lavish Renaissance paintings with buttons that need to be pressed in an order corresponding with an obtuse poem, preferably with a murder of crows cawing relentlessly in the background.
Man you crushed these 29 kits and they were all awesome! Can't wait to see and hear your refinements of what you learned on some new tracks! I definitely get the "something is about to go wrong" vibe on this one and I most certainly do not hate it 😎🔥
Spintastic! the high energy vibe is really enhanced by the incredibly punchy and escalating melody. A thrill listen throughout this crafted experience.
Welcome to the underground rebel resistance. Grab a beer and I'll tell you our plans to reclaim the world from our overlords. That's this track. An awesome track about futuristic espionage in a literally underground enclave of freedom fighters oppressed by a cyberpunk ruling regime.
I'm going to need to start paying you :D Thanks for the millionth cool interpretation my dude. Now you may rest, you made it through the jams (MORE IS COMING DONT RELAX TOO LONG.)
Dude this is super gritty and industrial and space sci fi esque. The new Alien Romulous is coming out soon. This could easily be on the soundtrack aboard one of those massive Weyland Yutani ships orbiting a dangerous planet. I hope Alien Romulous is good. Please... I need it to be so badly...
I also hope this, but I think we know what the reality will be 🥲 Hopefully it is, at the very least, visually cool. Also thank you :D I admit I am proud of this creepy ass atmosphere, even if it is basically cheating because it was a kit that came with the digitakt. I mean, I'm of course still MAKING the song and changing the presets here and there, but still. Soon I'll be done this cursed challenge and no longer will feel like I'm a kid with a toy keyboard pressing the demo button :D
No such thing as cheating. Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 all have some of the coolest most creative industrial soundtracks of any video game and even regular industrial/dark ambient music, and they were almost entirely composed of samples from Spectrasonics Altered Realities. Doesn't make me like it any less, and I still look up to Akira Yamaoka for putting those samples together in a way that inspired fear and awe in me as a child and adult.
@@GeorgeL909 Hah yes fair enough fair enough.. I'm just not used to slapping jams together so quickly on the digitakt, it seems wrong. But its quite fun, I will say! The whole instrumentation of Clint Eastwood (I think?) by Gorillaz was just like a demo on the Omnichord 😂
Your use of the perfourmer inspired me to make a track that was just a sampler combined with a single layered analog synth, delegating the melodies and basses to the analog, and the drums to the sampler. I went with the sp404 (because of course I did), and the Korg MS20. But I'll admit that I don't own an actual MS20, so I used the Korg iMS20 soft synth. It sounds extremely close from what I can tell though. But yeah that decision was directly inspired by jams from Jesse H. Wave.
Well isn't that just peachy, I am glad my noodles have inspired your noodles thusly 🤩 And hey, you don't do performance videos so you can [have] any hardware you want and nobody will know otherwise ;) If it sounds good, whoooo carrrres!
@@hexwavemusic yeah but if I ever catch the attention of someone like Megan Thee Stallion, or another famous beautiful music artist, and they decide to come over my apartment and do a little collab, and they're like "So where's your patched up MS20, handsome? Let's see some of your... *Hard*ware" And I'm like "well, um achtually 🥸 I was just using the plugin version. And also my 2600 is actually a Behringer, heu heu" She'll be like "Oh... You're not who I thought you were George L! Shame!" And she'll storm out and not collab and fall in love with me and marry me. So I'm probably better off being honest about what I used in the track to avoid this very situation.
@@GeorgeL909 Nonono you just say it's out for repair, until the vows are exchanged. Then, use the money you receive from wedding guests (or the large amount of money you have access to by being married to MTS) to buy the real, hardware Korg, and hide the box, rough it up a little, and Bob's your uncle. (Bob is actually my uncle)
Dude this one is so cool, it's got some tasty industrial ambiance. Excellent 👌👍👉👌👉👌 Dude I dunno if you like captured some kind of muse creature and imprisoned it to get so much inspiration to make such cool stuff, but you gotta let that creature go. Muses are dangerous and lead to obsession and curses. Also they attract crazed wizards who want to kidnap your muses, and it's not like the heroes are gonna help you if they learn you imprisoned a beautiful muse creature.
I WILL NEVER FREE CHAD THE KOBOLD HE IS MINE. It's why I usually have dark lighting in my jams, I need to convince him it's a cave and he's chill. Btw end game is capturing one or several wizards using the kobold as bait, so I can use them for dark purposes (making me magical breakfasts). This jam sucks, but I'm glad you enjoyed something in it LOL!
@@hexwavemusic I actually really liked this one, but dude I know how it feels to dislike your own work. I hate the track "Sunlight". It was a nightmare to mix and I feel like my vocals just did not work and it just didn't come out the way in intended it to sound. But you really ended up liking that one for some reason! 😂 Nuts how that works.
Hell yeah! Are you brave enough to venture into the perilous Orc camp? Will you eat and drink ale with the savage orcs and learn their customs? Or will they just kill and eat you? It's a risk I'm willing to take. That's what this track makes me think of. It's a great track.
Turns out meat was, in fact, back on the menu (boys). RIP George 2024. Thank you again, greatly appreciate you setting 3 days aside to catch up on my obscene level of uploads!
If this has a music video it would probably be a drone camera flying through a city that kinda looks like the city from Terminator Salvation. Post machine apocalypse, but kinda Serene. Terminator Salvation was not a great film, but it had a beautiful post apocalypse cityscape. I could've written a better movie though. Based on Gilgamesh. The Gilgamesh character is a human, the Enkidu character is a machine. They work together, but the machine one has to sacrifice himself to save the human one, but the human one has grown emotionally attached and goes on a journey into the dangerous machine city against all odds to revive his fallen machine brother. Just like Gilgamesh. It freaking writes itself *glares angrily at writers for the Terminator sequels*
I feel like enough movie contracts are thrown about willy-nilly that you can at least get in with Netflix and get some of these ideas in motion 😉Just say "I'm George, from the internet" and they should handle the rest. Thanks dude, hopefully my next jam reminds you of a movie you actually like 😂
Ah yes, Krille, famous sidekick and friend of Gok from the famous Drago Ba Z series. This one is very cool, has an underwater with God rays piercing the water and floating seaweed feel. But also there's ruins a little deeper down containing precious loot and eels that could be friendly as long as you're nice to them. Krille...
LOL you made me exhale air through my nose at a faster than normal rate, very good. Thats a good description, I like it more now. Good. The problem is knowing what the eels want, so you can get their sweet dubloons...
I suspect that one click of voicing is one voicing above/below the last. So if a block chord was 1-3-5, the next voicing up would be 3-5-1. So it's one note of the selected note cluster moved up/down by octave. Notice that when you have the 5th in the root, for example, you have what's considered a 6-4 chord, which can be resolved by step to it's dominant. I believe harmony on the other hand is one note in an interval or a cluster shifted up/down by step. Things like this explain how some of these range and voice positions create movement and lines
