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How to release an album in 2023 // Written on a Polyend Tracker 

Stephen McLeod
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My new album 'The Glasgow Coma Scale' is out TODAY on Bandcamp - which is also Bandcamp Friday. That means I get 100% of the cash from any sales which is nice. It will land on streaming services shortly, but then I get almost zero pennies. So please do buy if you like. Otherwise, it can be found on Patreon for freebz - / allmyfriendsaresynths
cowtonguetacor...
The album was written entirely using a ‪@Polyend‬ Tracker, over the course of the past few years. I've put together talking about how it came about, and my process for doing something like this.
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I post all of the music I make, including WAV stems; sample packs; Dirtywave M8 song bundles; collections of video textures; early access to videos; and a whole pile of other stuff on Patreon. I know I know, I hate doing this as well, but if you like what I do and want to get more of it, while also helping me offset some of my ludicrous gear purchases, this is the best place to do it:
/ allmyfriendsaresynths
If you just want to hang out and chat with me or other (nice) folks, drop by the Discord: / discord
If you just want individual sample packs or downloads of video footage to use in your own projects, get them on Gumroad here: gumroad.com/al...
If you're in the market for new gear, my favourite place to find new and interesting synthesizers and other electronic music gear is Signal Sounds. They are based in Glasgow, but ship all over the place and often have stuff nobody else does. Find them at www.signalsoun...
and a whole pile of other stuff...
Instagram: / allmyfriendsaresynths
My main photo and video art blog: allmyfriendsare...
The band I play guitar and sing in: closetorgan.ban...
The band I play bass and sing in: hogwyld.bandcam...
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My occasional music blog: unexpectedbowti...
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@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Download the album at the following link: cowtonguetacorecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-glasgow-coma-scale
@dogstare
@dogstare Год назад
🕺🏻❤️
@CNTRRNDM
@CNTRRNDM Год назад
Nice one! That's also pretty much the way I approach producing songs with the PO-33...recording all the single tracks from the PO into Ableton is a pain in the neck, to be honest...but the amount of control you get over how each element sounds is totally worth it!😁
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Hell yeah. I used to do this with my Game Boy tracks. Recording each individual one... oft. That was a mission. At least it was only four tracks though!!
@mastaboog749
@mastaboog749 Год назад
sounds awesome ill check it out! I got the polyend tracker about a month and sadly haven't given it the love i have wanted yet because i got a microfreak right when the mpc started to really make sense to me. What i have done on the tracker tho is fantastic, the sampling is top notch, plus the wavetable thing is insane! I'm going to make custom wavetables for my microfreak actually, that sounds great.
@jamisondonald384
@jamisondonald384 Год назад
Thank you for this
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
No, thank YOU
@subiesojourner777
@subiesojourner777 Год назад
I appreciate your "one man band" approach to what you've done with these songs. Bravo!!!
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Thanks a lot!
@koinpusher
@koinpusher Год назад
I Love The Polyend Tracker!!
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
It's no bad!
@CatFish107
@CatFish107 Год назад
Aye, it's here. Thanks for the music and thoughts pal!
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Awesome! Thanks for listening.
@sodiumlights
@sodiumlights Год назад
Brilliant video; informative, funny, and fckin' perfecto editing (aahhh, no more micro-edits, baby!).
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
I am going to bring them back just for you :*
@sodiumlights
@sodiumlights Год назад
@@StephenMcLeod 🤣🧡aawww:)
@tweakingtuesday1743
@tweakingtuesday1743 Год назад
Well that’s all very well but what’s happened to your white glasses?
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
They're hiding
@Dsowers777
@Dsowers777 Год назад
I like these glasses better imo
@DavidDeLuge
@DavidDeLuge Год назад
I'll have a listen 😁. I have just ordered the Polyend Tracker Mini. I have the Dirtywave M8 and the Polyend Play too and really like them both. I think the creative fills, that Polyend add to their devices, along with the tracker workflow is going to make for a very immediate and creative device. I know the Tracker Mini is probably not going to be as deep as the M8, certainly from a synthesis perspective, but I suspect, like the Play, it will allow me to get results very quickly and encourage creativity.
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Nice!!! Curious to see what you make of the Mini when it arrives. I'd like to check one out at some point.
@LillySchwartz
@LillySchwartz Год назад
Well done on finishing the album! I don’t have my studio set up perfectly either, because I actually like a bit of a sweetened sound when I’m just listening to music in here for inspiration. If I get it to sound acceptable on suboptimal devices and nice on my stereo, I’m perfectly happy with that. And I also use Ozone as a starting point. I tweak and demud after that, hunting for frequencies I don’t like, and I also narrow the bass some because I usually have big reverbs on everything. If I leave that super wide it’s a huge mess. I’ve now started doing the mixing and mastering much sooner after I write my tracks because it’s really annoying to mix and master a whole album in one go, especially the last finessing stage? I’m too much of a perfectionist for that. Takes me forever, so I procrastinate indefinitely before I even get started. Got two albums finished and waiting for the mixing and mastering. Just can’t be bothered right now though 🙃
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
See... I need to do the mastering etc in one go or I find that everything is wildly different to each other ha. Now I usually do draft masters for the demo... Then when I have an album worth I go back and remaster everything, and if necessary tweak the mix on tracks. It's such a pita but has brought a bit of consistency at least ha.
@LillySchwartz
@LillySchwartz Год назад
Ah, well, that’s true of course. I’m just hoping that if there is something there already then remastering isn’t such a big deal. I mean, certain frequencies will always annoy me in the same way and I’m particular about my low end. I’d think that I’d just need the finessing stage to be repeated. But then in the end I have to get it pre-mastered for YT now anyway since I started doing music stuff on my channel too. Guess I’ll be just doing it twice in the end 😬
@mcentertain
@mcentertain Год назад
great album, great video inspiring and motivating and completely non commercial intended, well there are some artists left :D tracker album is a great idea!
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Thanks a lot! I appreciate you watching.
@dogstare
@dogstare Год назад
Bought a copy mate love it also followed you on Spotify and Bandcamp under my Dogstare guise. Going to be releasing some new music myself got a few more live gigs coming up as well. Just learning the Syntakt at the moment and enjoying it tbh 😊
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Thanks a lot man! I appreciate it :) Syntakt looks cool af.
@dogstare
@dogstare Год назад
@@StephenMcLeodyeah I’m loving it mate but makes me wanna grab the other boxes, that means selling off some surplus organs! ☠️👀🕺🏻
@dogstare
@dogstare Год назад
@@StephenMcLeod there’s two new Syntakt jams on my RU-vid mate if you fancy a watch have a boss weekend 😊🕺🏻
@klankenkabaal
@klankenkabaal Год назад
Great vid, I can really relate to the mixing-mastering struggle you described. I got the audio meter from TC Electronic, that helps a bit ;)
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Ohhhh tell me more about that.
@JosuaKarlson
@JosuaKarlson Год назад
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the topic. It’s exactly my approach to release music so far. The price point is the reason why I am quite often going the Ozone mastering chain + ai generated artwork path. It still gets your touch by doing some tweaking an doing the final layout for the cover. I have to say that, when I got professionals to do mastering and artwork one time I also invested more into advertising and the money put in was definitely worth it, but I wouldn’t do that for every release, that’s for shure. Otherwise I would have to cut back on releasing music and in the end thats what matters to me. People care way to much about the looks than the actual music in my opinion. Thanks again for sharing your approach and thoughts, I really appreciate it and it’s encouraging to keep doing it that way 😊👍💾✨🤘
@wiggesobk
@wiggesobk Год назад
9:09 yes i feel that haha
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Awful.
@Nopp3
@Nopp3 Год назад
Not really into patreon so I bought the album. cheers.
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Oh nice! Thanks a lot :) I appreciate it
@Nopp3
@Nopp3 Год назад
@@StephenMcLeod Fluttering hole is the fav after first run through.
@jeffryarchambeau5441
@jeffryarchambeau5441 Год назад
I think the white glasses are your artist glasses and the black glasses are your producer glasses. I shudder to imagine what your marketing glasses look like.
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Think more... Dame Edna.
@dogstare
@dogstare Год назад
Looking forward to hearing the album mate, I’m heading to you’re Bandcamp now 😊🕺🏻
@jeffryarchambeau5441
@jeffryarchambeau5441 Год назад
@@StephenMcLeod Better Edna than Liberace. She had a 68 year run. May you be as successful!
@subiesojourner777
@subiesojourner777 Год назад
I'm gonna really date my self here (Yes, I'm an old fart but with a younger person heart) but his marketing glasses should be like the lead singer of the group, "The Lovin Spoonfull" Sort of a rectangular granny glasses. 😁
@leewightman8619
@leewightman8619 Год назад
Would love to try making music on a tracker i dont understand how they work but im pretty sure i could get the hang of them..i should have got on the Ls dj train back in the day ..never mind its a skill set im yet to require
@DavidDeLuge
@DavidDeLuge Год назад
They are actually really quite intuitive. I have the Dirtywave M8, which is very powerful, but you'd be up and running in no time at all. 😊
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
You could download a Game Boy emulator like OpenEmu for mac and get LSDJ - that way you can get a feel for it before stumping up any cash!
@leewightman8619
@leewightman8619 Год назад
​@@StephenMcLeodjust saw your video where you explain the m8 and it's starting to make sense to me now
@leewightman8619
@leewightman8619 Год назад
​@@DavidDeLugeI'd like to try it out one day
@LabRatWarfare
@LabRatWarfare Год назад
Another great behind the scenes! I love the album man and I always enjoy your track titles! hahaha The album artwork is SUPERB 🤩 and you know I feel the same as you on AI art! Wish we had a bigger budget, lol, I would commission comic book artists to do my album/single covers every time!! 😁🐀
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
I stole a few titles from the band and they are ragin
@LabRatWarfare
@LabRatWarfare Год назад
@@StephenMcLeod LMAO! 🤣 When you said that in the video, I wondered what they might think! 🤣
@Nick-yk4pq
@Nick-yk4pq Год назад
where is the album on bandcamp?
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
I guess that would have been helpful eh? cowtonguetacorecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-glasgow-coma-scale Thanks!
@omnifvck2596
@omnifvck2596 Год назад
Canada gets the shitty end of the stick. My preorder Tracker was $815.
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
USD or CAD?
@I.O.M.
@I.O.M. Год назад
100% on ai art and distrokid.
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
I for one welcome our AI overlords.
@allanroney
@allanroney Год назад
Good bit on AI art.
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Love the AI
@howarddyla9676
@howarddyla9676 Год назад
get that headphone cable out of that keyboard >:(
@StephenMcLeod
@StephenMcLeod Год назад
Well spotted!!!
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