The Scaler Forum Band Project

jjfagot · April 11, 2021, 8:26pm

How I use Arcade
Then I play a key with chords and put a Scaler Audio on the Arcade track and extract the chords. So I can already use the Scaler and Arcade functionalities at the same time

lelek · April 11, 2021, 8:57pm

You’re doing better job selling Arcade than Output itself . I went to see videos on their website and I was underwhelmed - attitude guys and bored lady .
For me right now, anything subscription-based is a no-no but I’ll probably give it a try in couple of months. Thanks!

lelek · April 11, 2021, 9:06pm

Oh no no no no… Nice try I’m saving for that guitar plugin from MusicLab that you were testing some time ago

ClaudioPorcellana · April 11, 2021, 9:22pm

Don’t be penny-pincher!
It’s just 49 €
soldi allegri

jjfagot · April 11, 2021, 9:57pm

I’m not going to buy anything else for quite some time. My wife won’t let me

ClaudioPorcellana · April 12, 2021, 12:28pm

Hi pals

here is another possible starting point for the collaborative project, if you like so

jjfagot · April 12, 2021, 2:03pm

From Bolero Sazón I made this file in Ableton Live 10
Thinking of Mozart’s Infinite Minuet, I have programmed a random change every 16 bars and many recordable versions are available.
I hope you like it.
The complete work sequenced, with 4 Intros, 12 developments and 4 endings is at SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds
BoleroJazzpiano - YouTube

Bernd · April 12, 2021, 2:06pm

That’s amazing! And a great inspiration for the rest of us, to see what Scaler and a lot of MIDI magic is capable of creating. Beautiful music! Thanks for sharing

jjfagot · April 12, 2021, 2:08pm

Thanks to you, Bernd for creating this Band

lelek · April 12, 2021, 4:59pm

Ha ha, even the toughest, most seasoned accountant would weep in despair when reviewing my current cash-flow

lelek · April 12, 2021, 5:22pm

Beautiful and suave! I’ll elaborate a bit more later - I’m running around like Energizer bunny

[A bit later Edit]
Your track is wonderful. It’s something I could easily hear (and enjoy) on a radio. I would beg you to make it a 5 minutes song (12 minutes is a bit much) and please please please add female vocal.

Mix. The youtube version (that I listened more in detail) has 2 things that might need correction:

short trumpet bursts in the first 30s of the track are very “buried” and not loud enough,
guitar and piano are a bit too loud overall.

jjfagot · April 13, 2021, 10:04am

Following lelek’s advice, I have developed one of the random variants of the bolero and added a sensual voice.
As for the trumpets, I have raised them, but only a little. The song pretends to be sensual, and (if you notice) at the end of the performance the singer does not go with the guitarist or the pianist. She leaves with the trumpeter, who plays softly when she sings, and winks at her every time she finishes singing a phrase

ClaudioPorcellana · April 13, 2021, 10:59am

And, where did you find the singer?
Or she is a robotic one?
cyberman

jjfagot · April 13, 2021, 11:32am

Everything is robotic nowadays, Claudio
It also comes from your friends at Output, haha
But the piercing gives it a sexy touch, yes

lelek · April 13, 2021, 12:22pm

Ha ha ha! Plot thickens There you have an idea for lyrics - she is thorn between what she should do (stay with guitarist and pianist) and wants to do (leave with winking trumpeter)
On more serious note - it’s a good song and it needs real voice

ClaudioPorcellana · April 13, 2021, 5:01pm

Haha, now I understand!
When you trigger the piercing, the voice gets louder, or the pitch higher

Bernd · April 18, 2021, 1:37am

Back to the original focus of this thread, the Scaler Forum Band Project attempt at a showcase. I am ready to give it another round and was planning to integrate all contributions so far into one longer piece. From what I can see between here and the Kompoz, we have @lelek and @jjfagot 's interpretation, next to mine. Am I overlooking any other contributions? (ideally stems or midi files that I can load into my DAW, not just a link to Soundcloud or Youtube). I am going to try to be flexible in the stylistic interpretation and attempt a more medley approach, within my limited musical understanding (hey, I learn as I go). Anybody not having contributed so far is welcome to join in. Never to late to grow the Scaler Forum Band! If you just want to share Scaler XML files with your particular setting, that is cool too.

lelek · April 19, 2021, 6:40pm

Man, so much peer pressure I guess I have to double my efforts.

Anyways, JJs Bolero version Cha-Cha V03 is exposed to the sunlight at Bernd’s Kompoz.
V02 was soooooo bad, it got deleted with extreme prejudice. I decided to invest some time in actually reading Cha-Cha scores and trying to understand tumbaos, montunos, claves and all kind of rhythmic patterns for instruments. When was the last time I spent so much time reading notes? Never.
Implications are that, at this point, Scaler got reduced to idea drafting and pretty much all midis are built from the scratch.

Ok, for those that might one day want to recreate it: