Small update from my side. Really happy that so many of you liked the jam! Since it got requested, I just created a bandcamp where you can download all portable synth jam tracks if you want to! :) You can find them here: quad-rat.bandcamp.com/album/portable-synth-jams
So glad I found this. I really enjoyed the track and it looks like you've really mastered the Lemondrop and M8. So excited to see this kind of gear used to its fullest. I've been looking at getting a setup like this and you may have just pushed me over the edge.
This is amazing, I love youtube for passing things like this around. Excellent use of the lemondrop. The little tracker looks fantastic as a portable. Lovely scene but yeah it does look pretty cold!
Fantastic work, yes, trackers are so good - started my music career approx 25yrs ago on ST3 and still missing it. This work make me cry not to having M8 then. Thx a lot. BTW Lofoten are my favourite place in Norway for best climbing on silid rock.
This is crazy Good! SUBBED! 😁👊 Really love what you've done with the drum programming. 💙 Intrigued by your channel name... Is it a nod to Intellijel by chance? Oh, I see your other videos have modular - SWEET! 👍
Another amazing song, love it. Can you a bit describe how you use the lemon with the M8? All the sound of the M8 goes to the Lemon and then the Lemon goes to your recorder that's it ? Would be so cool if we could granularize per tracks with the M8
It's the other way round, Lemon goes to the M8, the sum goes to the recorder. I've tried the approach you suggested and it only really works well for ambient tracks, other than that for me needing to send all sounds through it is too limiting for me. In the song above, I use the Lemon as a standalone synth. I took a flute sample and granulized it within a very narrow window, but with a hole lot of stereo randomization and some detune. That captures the timbre of the sample in that position and turns it into a stereo pad. Additionally the position of the window is modulated by an LFO, which makes it so the timbre always changes a little bit. I love the Lemondrop in that configuration, makes it a very mighty little synth :)
The bass uses the hypersynth synth engine of the M8. It has a slight detune of the voices (swarm at 06) and quite a thick stereo image (width at 80). The overtones are mostly generated by the slight detuning in combination with slight distortion introduced by the limiter.
Hey there, that's awesome ! I didn't find anywhere to contact you but I'd need some technical help. I trying right now to make a small portable setup with a M8 and a Lemondrop too, but when both are plugded in the same external battery I got a nasty high-pitched noise/buzz. The lemondrop go into the M8 as external instrument and the buzz occur only when the lemondrop is playing. Did you have that kind of issue ? Thanks in advance, keep the groove !
Hey! Sorry, just saw your comment. What you describe sounds like a ground loop. They are very nasty with USB powered devices indeed. I solved it by using two separate power supplies for the m8 and the lemondrop. The one cable on the left, coming out of the lemondrop, goes to another power bank. The one on the right is purely for the m8
Sorry, missed your comment somehow. Yes, the recording is mastered in post. For the most part, it's just normalizing the mix. I usually record with a lot of headroom to not run into clipping, which ruined some recordings before
I write them on location, but not necessarily in the same spot (or every part of it in the exact spot of filming). Sometimes I prepare parts in advance, but always close to the actual point of filming. It depends on how well suited the equipment is for improvisation, especially menu-divy stuff can kill the inspiration, so I try to get that out of the picture to focus more on the music. For example, the Lemondrop is amazing, but can be really clunky at times and especially digging through samples takes long. Hence, I made the patch for it earlier, on the ferry ride to the Lofoten, with great view of the mountain range coming closer every minute. The vibe of the harsh landscape was already captured in that patch, so I took it as base for the jam recorded here. The main reasons for these videos is to make a some kind of audio-visual diary entry. The song captures what I felt in that moment and I just need to watch the video to be transferred back to that spot again :)
