At work, Garrett was in motivational mode to inspire us to get active. I sampled a bit of it as my own way of joining the melée. Think of this as stretching before an early morning run. It’s been a long night, if I’m honest. This is gonna take some prodding.
I chopped up and isolated Garrett’s voice and focused on “I’m Running” as a potential theme. I brought these into the Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II and created several freeform beats around a minimal melody on a stock KO organ sample. The percussion and bass are also from stock KO samples.
I renditioned a lot of performances on the KOII and ultimately stripped things down to a happy place and output a track to the Tascam DP24SD, a multitrack recorder my brother, Wayne, loaned to me so I could learn and show him how to work it.
I think I’m liking this addition to my creative workflow. It allows me to get something down quickly and then offload it to the Logic Pro X DAW as individual track stems via SD card.
Using the DP24SD has prompted new recordings using the Yamaha MODX and that’s used here in I’m Running, adding a couple synth beds around the KOII performance.
I may use this as prelude to a driving track that gets out and runs. Let’s see.
