Last night, I'm sitting in front of the computer, wanting to work on some kind of music and waiting for the muse, when I decide to fire up Noatikl inside of my
DAW and fart around for a while. I've had Noatikl for a long time, and I have a love-hate relationship with it. I like using it to generate ideas and "noodles",
but I find it frustrating that its core parameters are so arcane. To me, anyway. I also find it frustrating that there seems to be such a small user-base, that file
-sharing and tip exchange is non-existent. But I digress.
So I have Noatikl fired up, and I reach for Absynth, but change my mind and instead I find myself with Drone-E loaded. I load a few more instances of Drone-
E, and off I go. I was gob-smacked:eek:! Using Noatikl to drive the drones, basically non-musical entities, seemed to free Noatikl from the usual "sameness"
that plague its output. But this, this was very cool indeed. After tweaking some parameters, I had Noatikl spewing out these incredible drones, which I
quickly recorded for future use. I am obviously going to continue working down this path, and I will post a result soon, but I am very encouraged by what
has happened. By freeing it from "musical" constraints, Noatikl has become more musical, and possibly, even useful.
DAW and fart around for a while. I've had Noatikl for a long time, and I have a love-hate relationship with it. I like using it to generate ideas and "noodles",
but I find it frustrating that its core parameters are so arcane. To me, anyway. I also find it frustrating that there seems to be such a small user-base, that file
-sharing and tip exchange is non-existent. But I digress.
So I have Noatikl fired up, and I reach for Absynth, but change my mind and instead I find myself with Drone-E loaded. I load a few more instances of Drone-
E, and off I go. I was gob-smacked:eek:! Using Noatikl to drive the drones, basically non-musical entities, seemed to free Noatikl from the usual "sameness"
that plague its output. But this, this was very cool indeed. After tweaking some parameters, I had Noatikl spewing out these incredible drones, which I
quickly recorded for future use. I am obviously going to continue working down this path, and I will post a result soon, but I am very encouraged by what
has happened. By freeing it from "musical" constraints, Noatikl has become more musical, and possibly, even useful.
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