Ambient
Title: Apollo Lee - Driftwood
Date: May 11, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:00 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
Staying in the Eb Melodic minor scale allowed me to use harmonies that moved from consonance to dissonance easily.
The mod wheel effect on this patch is exotic and mysterious. Since I played this on my [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Driftwood
Date: May 02, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:42 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony lends itself to haunting dissonances and beautiful consonant soundscapes (Cm7, Ebm7, Gm7, Bbm7).
The instrument I’m using here sounds like a space organ. At first, I was going to use another patch, but now [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Corona
Date: April 17, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:24 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is really simple and I used major chords for a change (CM7, GM7, DM7, AM7).
This instrument is really lovely and I love how the fundamental of the instrument enters after the harmonic overtones.
This was [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Payette
Date: March 28, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:12 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is pretty simple and lends itself to some interesting dissonances and consonances.
The mod wheel effect is very evocative.
I got to demonstrate my technique with improvising on the PadKontrol to my friend, Jay Def.
After searching [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Palouse
Date: March 18, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:06 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
I really like the instrument with the resonance sweep.
The harmony is relatively simple (Em7 C#m13 F#m7 B7) and based on Minor Rhythm Changes.
The music is not completely overbearing and didn’t require much adjustment on the mixdown.
Chords [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Corners
Date: March 10, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:18 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The pad instrument is quite evocative.
The harmony is complex and somewhat strange. I used a Korg padKontrol, so I had 16 notes. The corners spell Cm7. The outside columns on the center two [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Belmont
Date: March 3, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:30 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The pad instrument (Blue Carpet) is beautiful and has lots of interesting potential.
The harmony is simple (Cm7 Fm7 Bbm7 Ebm7) and lends itself to lots of possibilities for different chord types, even with the 16 notes [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Iridesce
Date: February 27, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8 + Korg Legacy Collection (Digital Edition)
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:48 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
Wine Pad on the Korg M1 (and, in this case, the M1 plugin) is beautiful and floating and very evocative.
I followed a simple chord progression (Ebm/M7 Cm7b5 Fm7b9 Bb7) in [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Cerulean
Date: February 25, 2008
Software: Reason 4
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:54 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
Reason has some gorgeous instruments, evolving pads, and luscious patches and this is one of them.
I stayed in C Melodic Minor (C D Eb F G A B C). It’s an easy key to play in, [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Quiescence
Date: February 22, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:00 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
I like the harmonic stack (Am7 Dm7 Cm7 F7). It’s consonant and still has some dissonance at the same time.
There are a few deep pedal tones, especially F.
The chords mesh together easily, no matter which [...]
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