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Title: My attempt at synthtober
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Category: Blog
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Date: 2021-10-05
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Tags: music, october
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It's October! This year was weird, maybe even more so than 2020. The
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year felt very short, and very long at the same time to me; more so
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than I usually feel around this time of year.
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As the dark season comes around it's good to remind yourself to focus
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on the things you really care about. Make sure you get plenty of
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light, maybe change those 2700K bulbs for something 4000K+. Colour
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temperature can make a real difference whet it comes to SAD...
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Anyway, it's October, the month where everybody draws or hacks or
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drinks themselves to happiness. A friend mentioned last weekend that
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she was going to try to do _synth_-tober: creating a small song or jam or
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whatever every day. I haven't published a song on my bandcamp in
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almost (or over?) a year so it's high time I get out of my rut.
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This blog post will be updated repeatedly throughout the month. I
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doubt that I will manage to make a song every day, but I want to
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manage at least two a week.
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Some uploads will be very unpolished songs, others might just be me
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fucking around with interesting sound design. We'll see :)
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Happy October!
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## Entry 1: Uneasy
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<img src="/images/synthtober1.jpg"
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alt="A picture of the Arturia Drumbrute Impact and Novation Circuit on my desk" />
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Technically this started as a jam but then I saved the patterns and
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went to work so that technically makes it a song, right? I have been
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playing around with my
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[Octatrack](https://diode.zone/w/pFUiRDya9i45ESQPC2zkWi) a lot
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recently so I wanted to get back to basics. I grabbed my analogue
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drum machine and the Circuit and used it for drums and synths. The
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result is...eh, listen for yourself!
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<iframe width="100%" height="150" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://music.kookiejar.tech/front/embed.html?&type=track&id=3233"></iframe>
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## Entry 2: forest
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<img src="/images/synthtober2.png"
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alt="A screenshot of my DAW with an audio recording at the top, several layers of effects automations, and an effects chain at the bottom" />
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I haven't picked up my guitar in _months_. In fact, a thick layer of
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dust had collected on it. Now... my guitar is old and kinda broken.
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It only has 5 strings (like all the pros recommend), and it's internal
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wiring seems a bit shoddy with the top pick-up periodically no longer
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picking-up.
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What I put together here is an effects chain in bitwig, which I
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fiddled with a bit while and after playing some random chords and
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riffs. The layers of effects almost hide the fact that I am extremely
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out of practice at playing the guitar ;) Hope you enjoy!
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<iframe width="100%" height="150" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://music.kookiejar.tech/front/embed.html?&type=track&id=3238"></iframe>
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