My first drone

Grumble

This is a recording of my first (intentional) drone.
Or is it? I mean is it a drone? When is a piece of recorded sound a drone?
Are there rules or/and standards so you might say: This is a drone and that isn't?
https://youtu.be/SszKREMydsA

PHOBoS · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:27 pm Post subject:

Not sure if I would call it a drone, but I do like the sound of it Very Happy

Almost sounds like you have something mechanical going on.

Grumble · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:46 pm Post subject:

That was one of my questions: When is a piece of music 'a drone' or why wouldn't you call this a drone?

PHOBoS · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:34 pm Post subject:

I don't think there are any real rules for it or a clear definition that everybody would agree on so I can only speak for myself.
For me personally drones are mostly about long sustained notes that slowly change over time. At least that's the basic gist
of it. For over a year I have been playing music from project "droning" by Louigi Verona every friday on the radio stream
and not all of his drones actually contain long sustained notes. Some of those I personally wouldn't call drones but there
are others that I would still consider to be "droney" which I think has to do with a certain repetition.

I think if you would slow the sequencer way down in your patch and add some long delays to it so the steps merge into
eachother it could actually make a very nice drone.

Anyway here are some drones I made which might give you an idea of what I consider to be a drone:
SunDrone
Ominous Drones
OHM
osQ
SawDrone
3D roning
Prayer Drone

Blue Hell · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:06 pm Post subject:

Oh nice!

I'd call it a noodle ... a noodle being a self playing patch.

Make 'm longer!

Blue Hell · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:08 pm Post subject:

The advantage being .. a noodle has no rules .. as long as the synth does it all.

Edit: the disadvantage being .. when you record a noodle .. its never as nice as when you just listened .. for some odd reason ...

robsol · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:48 pm Post subject:

That was very nice! I agree on making it longer. Very Happy

Grumble · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:41 pm Post subject:

I am somewhat familiar with your work, pHobos, but I thougt it was your stile of creating drones.
My thought was that a drone was a patch that uses little or no input from the performer and evolve more or less constant over time.
But thanks for clearing that out!
Come to think of it: it is analogous with playing the didgerido where you play a more or less constant tone using circular breathing. This is called the drone too Wink

edit: Ah, Jan, thanks, a noodle... Rolling Eyes

gasboss775 · Joined: Jan 02, 2016 Posts: 217 Location: Scotland

Blue Hell · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:57 am Post subject:

Grumble · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:05 am Post subject:

Quantum-mechanics says so Rolling Eyes

Grumble · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:47 am Post subject:

https://youtu.be/26_WCDsnTv8

Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 2:45 am Post subject:

Ah, weather imitations Cool

Sounds good!

Grumble · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:30 am Post subject:

Noodle hmm? Shocked

I would like to construct a drone but that doesn't seem to work out for me Confused

Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 6:15 am Post subject:

Heh, dont worry, just do your thing. Things are named only so they can be copied, no?

Grumble · Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:29 am Post subject:

a drone...

within.wav

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Download

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within.wav

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Blue Hell · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 7:45 am Post subject:

Nice track :-)

Could you, on a next occasion, post it as an mp3? or when worried about lost bits maybe as a flac file.

Grumble · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 12:53 pm Post subject:

sure can do! its big huh? Rolling Eyes

Blue Hell · Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 1:38 pm Post subject:

heh .. even on that supposedly 50 Mbit link at work it was slow .. but I guess it was actually the server bandwidth being the bottleneck.

Grumble · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:28 am Post subject:

Just a drone...

drone1442018.flac

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Drone made with my Arduino Infested Modular Synth

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drone1442018.flac

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gabbagabi · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 2:08 am Post subject:

to short! we need more!

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:12 pm Post subject:

Nice one :-)

Grumble · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:39 pm Post subject:

Thanx, was trying to save it as a mp3 but apparantly a dll is missing in audacity?

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:44 pm Post subject:

I needs Lame to do that - dont know how it is nowadays .. but it used to be a bit tricky get Lame for Audacity.

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:50 pm Post subject:

btw .. downloaded wavosaur the other day .. it is not open source, but donation ware .. I seem to like that one better than Audacity .. but I still prefer CoolEdit over everything else I've seen .. even when that one is getting a lil old and grumpy.