Hello peeps!
I thought I’d start my own thread, so I can ramble on about various Super Gemini related projects without feeling like I’m flooding the forum. I’m working on a patch in pure/plugdata at the moment, which should hopefully be able to give visual feedback on control settings by reading patches/performances. It won’t be a full on editor or anything like that, nor a commercial product, just something I’m making for myself that I plan on sharing if others have a use. I’ll get in touch with that sunny fellow and see if I can help fill in any gaps in their info, too, to help speed up the arrival of a proper editor (though it won’t help me ‘cos I’m resolutely GNU/Linux). Anyway, more on that in a week or so I reckon. Don’t get too excited it’s just a hacky little thing!
I thought I’d start by sharing a few soundcloud links to little things I made with the SG. These are all entries in the weekly Disquiet Junto Project. Here is a link to a FAQ on that: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet
Most of these are pretty wonky with rather shoddy playing, but they have some character I hope, which might make them more listenable. I don’t have a history with keyboards but the SG has inspired me to play more, so bit by bit I might improve. Anyway I can still has fun not-exactly-jazzing-out on them eminently pressable white keys in the meantime. Disquiet Junto projects tend to be completed in a few hours, so that’s another thing to bear in mind! I do hope to make some proper tracks with the Gemini, and share some patches/performances, but that’ll be next year at the earliest, as quite busy at the moment. I recommend checking out the Junto, it’s welcoming & interesting, good practise & plenty fun…
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^ This was a bell-themed brief, so I played around with the ring mod a bunch and layered up a couple of wonky performances.
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^ The brief for this one was to experiment with mixing dry elements with wet/reverberating elements. The Gemini is great for doing dry but still spatial!
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^ A chilled out one, the idea being to make something you could imagine waking up to.
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^ This had a kind of biological theme, exploring what we can control and what we can’t. So, along with the obligatory heartbeat-type-sound, I tried to synthesize some flatulence.
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^ This was about making music to accompany a photo from your window, with the frame in view. I treated the Gemini a bit here, tried to add some texture, first by mic-ing the room, then by exploring some Air Windows plugins. They’re really great! I’ve played around a bit with trying effects on the Gemini but have rarely felt they add anything, even really good fx! However, playing around with the Air Windows stuff I had some real “oh yeah!” moments - some of them really revealed aspects of the sound and gave me a lot of fiddly flexibility to explore… have to explore more one of these days. Had an idea of associating an fx-rack, and perhaps some midi interventions, made in puredata, with Gemini patches/performances, to give another layer to things… all takes time tho!
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^ An 8-bit themed one. I found some gameboy waves and prepared them for the SG. This was my first time loading my own waves on. Fun stuff!
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^ Lastly one based on the start of a book I was reading at the time, Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. The photo is of a young hare (Leveret) we ourselves raised a few years back, after a friend accidentally wounded them while mowing the lawn. This is a long one, me tweaking an arp on the Gemini while the Jomox AlphaBase mk2 takes care of the drums. It was a half hour session, I’d wanted to edit together the best bits but didn’t have time and so just did a live mix of the end section.
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Well, that’s more than enough from me for the meantimes! Hope you enjoy a little here or there if you listen. I’ll update the thread from time to time when I make progress with my projects. Or just feel like rambling, maybeep.
Cheeriooze!
