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I think I will do HavingARestuary next ! Actually I’m beta testing at the moment so that will be a nice change 🤔

@@geotony well... my youtube home page feels empty now that I can't have my daily dose of new geotony...

Thanks for the listen and comment, I’m a big fan of saxophones in churches so I enjoyed doing this one 😊

Thanks Joseph. This was a last minute track as I couldn’t make the one I planned to do work. I’ll have to revisit that one. The sound at 1:20 is Motorlab, Dream States preset.

No Piano Motifs were hurt in the production of this tune… actually it was ChordJam this time 😊

Nice one 👍

Cheers Andy. I was pleased with how this one came out… I’m also pleased and very surprised that you’ve learned something from one of my videos 😊

Thanks Andy, I think perhaps it’s got more (possibly too much?) of that honky, nasally sound that makes the oboe so distinctive. Funnily enough I’ve just posted a video using the SWAM English Horn.

Hi, not 100% sure which software you mean but everything is running on an iPad. AUM is the host / container that everything else is running in. The drone is supplied by several SWAM (Audio Modelling) instruments going through some effects, specifically Velvet Machine and Mood Units Loch Awe Filter. The flute is the GeoBassFlute which is an instrument within GeoShred which is also the playing surface. Ask away if you need anymore info !

Many thanks… I think it’s the Fretless Vibrato bass that does it 👍

My beards not as photogenic as Jordan Rudess‘s !

I guess at the end of the day it’s a series of more or less random notes put through some nice sounding apps so I can’t disagree too much 🤔 Wait till tomorrows which will be even more random 😊

Thanks Colin, don’t use the Bass Flute often but I think it’s one of the better Geo instruments 🙂

I put the mistakes in on purpose to prove that I’m not an AI construct 🤖

@@geotony that is exactly what an AI construct would say…

Hold on… give me a minute… it’s coming to me… 🤔

Thanks Colin, I guess my default track is a sort of droney sax concoction but I enjoy them so what the hell 😊

Cheers Colin. I was happy with this one. Some issues with levels to begin with I think but in general it all worked out ok 👍

Thanks Joseph. Recording the midi is absolutely possible. GeoShred is no different to any other app in that respect. I use AUM but again it’s possible to record midi and edit. I never do that however as my way of removing glitches is just to play the whole thing again ‘live’. By doing this I get better at playing (theoretically 😊). In the case of this track, time was getting on and we were frazzled after looking after two nephews so in the spirit of Jamuary I posted this version. When I get round to posting on SoundCloud I might do another take as I enjoyed this one.

Thanks Mac, there’s something about this one that just didn’t work for me but I do like a nice flugel 😊

Cheers Joseph, I was happy with the tune but that’s about it with this one. Just couldn’t get it to a point where I was happy with it. There’s always todays, tomorrows etc etc…

I let them out of their tank once a year whether they need it or not !

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Do you mean the owner of the local kebab shop ? 😊

Thanks Mac. Waverley is another sole developer set of apps where he, Rob, has moved onto other things. As well as producing a track a day I’m also trying to use every app I have so it’s doubly challenging but fun 🤔

Fair point Colin, listening to it again I think a little more would have been better 👍

Very kind of you to say Joseph 🙏

Thanks Fernando. Something about the chord progression inspires this sort of playing I think.

Thanks Steve. Very bad acoustic guitar player in teens and twenties. Then arthritis knackered my hands. Then I found GeoShred 4.5 years ago. First couple of years I just practiced, treating it like a ‘real’ instrument. I’m now a far better GeoShred player than I ever was a guitar player 😊

Yes I noticed that on your video. As far as I can measure on my iPad Pro, opening Jazz Drummer takes the DSP from about 30 something to 50 something so I guess it’s quite substantial.

Ta, the free version is pretty good. It’s actually a pretty clever app but not worth the subscription for me.

Cheers Colin, it was a spur of the moment thing but worked out ok !

Thanks Colin, no idea what most of them are 😊

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Hiya, the DS sounds are Flute&Violin by Jon Meyer, Woven Strings, Korg Phase 8 and Metal Desk Lamp. The violin is SWAM Violin set to play the 2nd harmonic.

Thanks Joseph, I hadn’t thought of that in the context of the ‘instrument’… listening to it again I tend to agree… no Piano Motifs though so I’m making progress but not sure for how long 😊

Thanks Mac, it’s a bit primitive and not particularly well played but there’s the basis of a nice tune in there somewhere !

Thanks Fernando. My tune / chord improvisation is not that good so this was planned out beforehand 😊

Thanks Fernando 🙏

Cheers Colin. Decent Sampler does have some great sounds 👍

Thanks Colin

You’re a hard man to please 😊but I do appreciate the listening and the comments. I admit to a slight Piano Motif addiction! I’m genuinely interested in what it is you dislike about it so that 1) I can try and come up with something better and 2) I have a good relationship with the developer and I could potentially feed something back to him. DM me via the forum if you want to.

1 out of 2 ain’t bad 😊 I treat it very much as somebody who throws new pieces of music at me and says ‘what can you do with that?’

Many thanks. I was very happy with this one.

GS comes with 100s of scales and this was the default one for the Duduk. It’s an incredibly deep app the more you dig into it.

Thanks Joseph, it was a bit rambling I’m trying to keep them as jams rather then carefully constructed pieces 😊

True… very true !

You’re too kind Mac… I’m gradually getting better at producing something musical rather than just playing scales up and down (I think). I’m a big fan of guitarists like John Mcglaughlin, Al Di Meola, Terje Rypdal and the like… not sure who your heroes are ?

@geotony Al Di Meola was one. I wore the grooves out of my friend's copy of Casino. Frank Gambale was another in the fusion genre. I lean more towards neo-classical metal but I appreciate the great players regardless of the genre

@@madeofwax3489 Do you have an examples I can listen to ? It’s not an area I’m that familiar with.

@@geotony @geotony The most well known would be Ynwgwie Malmsteen ruclips.net/video/e7F3FoCgFvU/видео.htmlsi=12s_DnwasAKXHbQ5 but people accused him of "just playing scales up and down". Tony MacAlpine ruclips.net/video/OBgaksTijkQ/видео.htmlsi=qDt7CK7GVuaThOo9 and Vinnie Moore ruclips.net/video/T1hRsHv1bJQ/видео.htmlsi=sdnGV-6lxR7xEyex are some others.

Thanks Colin. I was happy with the tune, it came to me a couple of minutes before recording this so I was very pleased. Playing could be better but I always think that 😊

Hi, it runs on iPhone and iPad allowing it to be played via the screen. It also now runs on Macs where you can use it in a DAW and use say a keyboard to play it or optionally control it via an iPhone or iPad via the screen again.