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Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Cinema Volta
John Maxwell Hobbs
Filtered harmonies
This is a pretty version of yesterday's track. 2006-02-11

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 11, 20060 min read
Harmonized chaos
This is a very simple, linear track that uses a MIDI gate and a MIDI controlled filter along with a harmonic generator and some simple patches. 2006-02-10

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 10, 20060 min read
Random control
Here's a MIDI loop piece with lots of delays, filters and reverb. 2006-02-09

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 9, 20060 min read
Wet
Still playing with filtered delays, but this time I got my didjeridoo involved. 2006-02-08

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 8, 20060 min read
Birthday Song
I used the same configuration as yesterday to record a new, dense track. By the way, it's my birthday. 2006-02-07

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 7, 20060 min read
Pushing it
I took yesterday's track and added even more delays to it. This time ones with filters. 2006-02-06 We're in the home stretch now. Only one week left. Now might be a good time to consider a donation.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 6, 20060 min read
Gone totally loopy
The danger with getting new looping software is that I will use it. In fact I'll use all of it at the same time. This is done with Augustus Loop and More Feedback Machine. 2006-02-05

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 5, 20060 min read
Further further recursion
I've added even more effects to the mix. 2006-02-04

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 4, 20060 min read
Further recursion
I've taken the setup from yesterday and added some processing on top of the signal output from the feedback machines. 2006-02-03

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 3, 20060 min read
Recursive
Back to exploring feedback. I've got two feedback machines running that are feeding into two multitap delays that have their own feedback circuits. The audio output of all this is then fed into an couple of envelope followers that control the parameters of the feedback machines. Then the result of that is also feed into the envelope followers, reinforcing the control that the machines have over themselves. 2006-02-02

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 2, 20060 min read
Grooveless
I really liked the EBow track from yesterday, so I removed it, did a bit of tweaking and now's it's its own piece. 2006-02-01

John Maxwell Hobbs
Feb 1, 20060 min read
Delayed groove
Here's another ambient groove track with my strat and EBow going into many layers of delays and loops. 2006-01-31

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 31, 20060 min read
Another pass
I added more feedback processors to yesterday's setup and this is the result. 2006-01-30 This now marks one year since the project began, but since it was suspended for two weeks following the death of my father, it has not yet reached 365 songs. So, I will continue for another 15 days to make a grand total of 366. That's a year plus one to grow on.

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 30, 20060 min read
Feeback groove
Just funnin' 2006-01-29

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 29, 20060 min read
Another step
I'm working on getting control of all the features available in Augustus Loop. This is an expanded version of yesterday's track, using the MIDI information from the voice to control the pitch of the loop, but delayed a bit. 2006-01-28

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 28, 20060 min read
First steps
I now have a shiny, brand-new copy of Augustus Loop, thanks to the kind folks over at Expert Sleepers. It's a really great software looper, with lots of tweakable parameters and realtime performance control. The thing is, it's an Audio Unit plugin and doesn't work with Cubase, which I use. However, thanks to Soundflower and RAX, I have been able to integrate it with Cubase. It took me all day to figure out how to get it working, and this little piece is the result of that w

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 27, 20060 min read
Pulse 7
And the final pulse. 2006-01-26

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 26, 20060 min read
Pulse 6
Even more pulses. 2006-01-25

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 25, 20060 min read
Pulse 5
More pulses. 2006-01-24

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 24, 20060 min read
Pulse 4
Continuing with the pulse series. 2006-01-23

John Maxwell Hobbs
Jan 23, 20060 min read
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