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