Share your Groovebox / Electronic Creations

monquixote · June 2022

Inspired by @dindude recent Circuit Tracks creation

I know quite a few people on here have a bunch of Synths, Grooveboxes, modular kit.

Show is what you've been making with your hardware out of the box.

I'll go first:

hubobulous · June 2022

I created a thread about making an album and whilst the intention was for it to be heavily guitar driven, at the moment it seems to be more influenced with synths and electronic music.

I've finally got around to getting some guitar work in there, but this is one of the more electronic ones.........

Strangefan · June 2022

Mainly used an mpc live, but also Cubase, can't stand the vocals lol I just took them from a sample site, but they did the job at the time, the last 30 seconds is the best ha

monquixote · June 2022

Awesome work chaps, glad there are few more folks doing electronic bits.

Strangefan · June 2022

monquixote said:

Awesome work chaps, glad there are few more folks doing electronic bits.

Def need to be more lol, the thing I have always struggled with is incorporating guitar or real bass into anything electronic, I def need to get past that,

hubobulous · June 2022

Strangefan said:

monquixote said:

Awesome work chaps, glad there are few more folks doing electronic bits.

Def need to be more lol, the thing I have always struggled with is incorporating guitar or real bass into anything electronic, I def need to get past that,

I find it quite hard. My starting point has been to think about songs as if they're composed by an 80s rock band that has both guitar and synth players. So both parts combine as part of the rhythm with a guitar solo thrown in for good measure. on the odd occasion.

I'm hoping that once I've got a few sounds and settings that work in this style, it will give me a bit more confidence to make guitar just another instrument in an electronic song rather than its being predominantly a guitar track with synth chords backing it up.

Ambient guitar is probably the easiest way for me to start bringing more guitar into electronic songs.

monquixote · June 2022

hubobulous said:

Strangefan said:

monquixote said:

Awesome work chaps, glad there are few more folks doing electronic bits.

Def need to be more lol, the thing I have always struggled with is incorporating guitar or real bass into anything electronic, I def need to get past that,

I find it quite hard. My starting point has been to think about songs as if they're composed by an 80s rock band that has both guitar and synth players. So both parts combine as part of the rhythm with a guitar solo thrown in for good measure. on the odd occasion.

I'm hoping that once I've got a few sounds and settings that work in this style, it will give me a bit more confidence to make guitar just another instrument in an electronic song rather than its being predominantly a guitar track with synth chords backing it up.

Ambient guitar is probably the easiest way for me to start bringing more guitar into electronic songs.

That's really interesting

My observation from your track is that it definitely sounds like a rock / pop song using electronic instruments rather than a house / techno / breakbeat type track.

A few electronic musicians who use a lot of guitars would be: Tycho, Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb), London Grammar (They are also more conventionally song based).

hubobulous · June 2022

monquixote said:

That's really interesting

My observation from your track is that it definitely sounds like a rock / pop song using electronic instruments rather than a house / techno / breakbeat type track.

A few electronic musicians who use a lot of guitars would be: Tycho, Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb), London Grammar (They are also more conventionally song based).

I tend to make music that has a melody since that's the sort of thing I naturally navigate towards. Some electronic music is really clever in terms of the soundscapes and compositional elements, but doesn't really go anywhere for me. I never was into the club scene so some of the harder electronic music associated with that experience passed me by and doesn't have much relevance to me. Its not bad music and I totally understand why people like it. Its just not for me.

I know London Grammar, but will check out those others you mentioned.

I also currently don't have the vocal element to my songs which can be a blessing or a curse!!

IMC1980 · June 2022

Strangefan said:

monquixote said:

Awesome work chaps, glad there are few more folks doing electronic bits.

Def need to be more lol, the thing I have always struggled with is incorporating guitar or real bass into anything electronic, I def need to get past that,

I have been following this thread for a while, not knowing if the latest thing I have done would fit in. It is a kind of electro thing with guitars which does tick the box of the last few posts:

hubobulous · June 2022

@IMC1980 - that's a proper quality song. I really like the whole thing. Vocals are great and the incorporation of guitars works really well.

IMC1980 · June 2022

hubobulous said:

@IMC1980 - that's a proper quality song. I really like the whole thing. Vocals are great and the incorporation of guitars works really well.

Thanks mate, it was a break from what I usually do. The lyrics are by a guy I collaborate with from the US, he also co-produced. I did the vocals and music and recorded, mixed etc. Predominantly Slate Digital's ANA synth on the track with Cakewalk's SI Strings on the break. Guitars were a mix of HX Stomp (chorus) and Helix Native (verse).

Strangefan · June 2022

IMC1980 said:

Strangefan said:

monquixote said:

Awesome work chaps, glad there are few more folks doing electronic bits.

Def need to be more lol, the thing I have always struggled with is incorporating guitar or real bass into anything electronic, I def need to get past that,

I have been following this thread for a while, not knowing if the latest thing I have done would fit in. It is a kind of electro thing with guitars which does tick the box of the last few posts:

That's really good!

Kebabkid · July 2022

Some good and creative stuff here.

Nice one chaps

hubobulous · July 2022

This song was originally inspired by watching my son, who utterly idolises his older sister, having to get used to her choosing other friends over him in some situations when it came to playing games or just spending social time. Its still hard for him, (he's only 5), but that journey has started and he'll find it easier as he gets older. They still spend more than enough quality time together.

It then morphed a bit into a reflective tune about how we all lose friends or family as we move through life, or perhaps when relationships end. I struggled a bit with the tune until I added the vocal samples, which took a lot of manipulation to suit the vibe I was going for.

hubobulous · October 2022

Another one written about my love of mogul skiing. Its quite hard to put this into music so I leaned a little into the idea of what would be a good soundtrack to a video of me skiing the bumps.

Sporky · October 2022

I did this ages ago. I was seeing how little I could do to make something I liked, and I think I ended up with just eight patterns, two instruments (harp and NSKit7) and too much DBlue Glitch.

Mesons Are Both Strange And Charming

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/music/mabsac.mp3

Snap · October 2022

good thread!
I listen to electronic stuff most of the time really, and most of the stuff I try to create is electronic. Here's a couple of things:

I think most of this has been posted in other threads a while ago, but anyway:

and some other electronic stuff I did a few years ago

Snap · October 2022

and one from quite a while ago, when I was messing about with film audio samples

monquixote · October 2022

Great work @Snap ;

It's good to know I'm not the only one who dabbles in the electronic dark side

Snap · October 2022

thanks mate.
I'm doing another electronic thing for the latest composition thread, but it's more cinematic in vibe, rather than say EDM or similar.

GavRichList · October 2022

my latest bit of throw-away fuckaroundary

monquixote · November 2022

Another bit of Elektronauts hiphop challenge fun

monquixote · December 2022

My latest creation. First proper track created in Bitwig.

hubobulous · December 2022

I got some vocal samples and came up with a few new songs. Its an odd way of creating music in that the words aren't your own and the melody is provided so you have to work the whole song around that. But I really enjoy it and its refreshing to hear songs that I've created with words in seeing as everything else up to this point has been instrumental only.

monquixote · December 2022

hubobulous said:

I got some vocal samples and came up with a few new songs. Its an odd way of creating music in that the words aren't your own and the melody is provided so you have to work the whole song around that. But I really enjoy it and its refreshing to hear songs that I've created with words in seeing as everything else up to this point has been instrumental only.

Very cool.

Where did you get the vocal samples from?

hubobulous · December 2022

I got them from Ghosthack. There are some other songs out there with these samples in, so its interesting to see how others have interpreted them and used a different style.

monquixote · December 2022

That would be a really nice challenge to see what a few people came up with using the same acapella.

personalnadir · December 2022

Had a bit of fun last month trying to make a simple track using only a single synth (add effects)

horse · December 2022

This isn't groovebox, but might qualify as.electronic maybe - ambient type track played live with a single patch I made on my rev2 a few years back (eg nothing added / tracked in one pass). I find it quite relaxing:

monquixote · January 2023

This was my attempt to make something outside of 4/4

It's in 10/8 or 5/4 depending on how you want to count it inspired by Radiohead using four 8th notes and then four dotted 8th notes.

Ut;s all done in Bitwig using Arturia V Collection Synth plugins.

dindude · January 2023

monquixote said:

This was my attempt to make something outside of 4/4

It's in 10/8 or 5/4 depending on how you want to count it inspired by Radiohead using four 8th notes and then four dotted 8th notes.

Ut;s all done in Bitwig using Arturia V Collection Synth plugins.

I like that a lot. Sounds super clean and punchy too. Interesting that you’ve done it all “in the box”, have you turned away from hardware groovebox approach?

Interestingly I’m experimenting with Korg Gadget on the iPad. I’m liking having more options and visibility even though I do like my Circuit Tracks.

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