I haven't been around much lately... was procrastinating about music because I was frustrated with my process. Doing all the sequencing with hardware is a nice idea, but in practice I've found it really limits what I can do. So I finally broke down and tried a DAW seriously for the first time. I'm basically just using it to record and arrange clips from hardware... no VSTs or effects or anything.
This is my first song in Reaper. It uses my "Atmegabrute" thing for the bass and guitar parts, which are literally all the melodic parts except for some backing chords. And I had the Atmegatron turned up relatively high (to put it mildly), so it's contributing most of the sound in this particular mix.
It's not a pure Atmegetron sound, since I put it through a resonant filter and four different stages of overdrive... once on the Microbrute's input level, once with the "brute" knob, and at two gain stages on my cheap analog mixer. But still. Most of this song is
technically coming from a Soulsby synth. The 'brute doesn't sound anywhere near as nice without the Atmegatron screaming into it.
"Four Chords Explored"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oG4doeghA
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