As i set the challenge it seems only right to post up the first entry.
For this track I sampled the wonderful Eyes On the Wall by @blakewalt and @korpinen.
I wanted to try to some new techniques (for me) here, so for the first time used a stem splitter, installed (a couple of weeks after buying) UA’s Battalion - my first software drum machine, and made the entire track in Bitwig (I normally use it to mixdown and arrange stuff from my hardware).
The only hardware I used was my P12 for the bass, as i couldn’t get the tone I wanted ITB.
I chopped up and used the vocals a lot; and also took various pad/piano sounds, which form the basis of all of the background sounds.
Batallion was used for all the drums and some vocal snippet processing - it’s a great piece of software, the variation knob is genius, but I had to keep bouncing parts down to make a progression of sorts (and cos my computer is pretty old).
I worked a couple of Bitwig synths in - I’ve not really played much with them before - for some stringy kind of sounds.
The source track is brilliant and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to it lot during this.
Now really looking forward to listening to other people’s entries.
Also, I realised after investing a couple of hours into this, that the bass sounds like a poor imitation of XYZ by Boards of Canada.