Aurora Winds (instrumental)

[WarpCanada]

This is just a bit of a learning experiment with my new toy BitWig Studio.

Arrangement as seen in this view of my project shows a very common pattern for me. Windy intro and outro, and then a kind of A/B/A repetition throughout.

The main instrument used for the entire track is the Polymer synth that comes with Bitwig.    I also added a bit of Arturia's hammond B3 emulation but you can hardly hear that. The sounds here are 99% bitwig's built in Polymer synth and effects.

[SE]

Well done in capturing an uplifting soundscape that takes  us to a better place. I was in the Scottish countryside at the weekend and this would have  fitted perfectly with the scenery, well done!!

[StephenM]

how does that work?  do you build a small piece as in those colored blocks and then set them in place? 
I gotta blow up of the photo so I could look better.  Interesting.
at just before 1 min this sounds similar to some of the sounds in "Blinded By The Light" which is an all time favorite of mine.
niece piece of instrumental experiment!

[Pete C]

Nice piece to listen too for a first experiment..will be interesting to see how you progress with BitWig !

Pete

[Ray Brookes]

Cool sounding soundscape, Warren. You will be having heaps of fun with that new toy!

[WarpCanada]

> Colored pieces

It is very much like building with lego blocks.

Bitwig does of course let you just work on a regular timeline, but like Ableton LIve it also has this live looping environment which is great.

I usually "play around" and sometimes don't even use the live loop parts in the final recording, but rather as a scratchpad.

However in my second bitwig based song "Overdrive" I absolutely went 100% loop based, even starting from a provided bass loop which I built the song around.

[DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee]

Nice soundtrack piece. That software sounds good. I enjoy messing around with soundscapes myself sometimes.

[AndyR]

Oh yeah cool sounds.

I get how this is done (I've been watching videos and live streams on PreSonus where people's stuff gets broken down and I can see how it's down in the DAW I'm using), but I'm so rooted to the "grab guitar, walk on stage" approach - even though I haven't done that for over 20 years!!! - that I just feel more comfortable doing it the "plug in and play the parts" way.

Maybe if I run out of material I'll feel motivated to start using this approach!

Mucho cool sounds.

[WarpCanada]

> Maybe if I run out of material I'll feel motivated to start using this approach!

I think I'm just trying stuff.   Definitely there are no rules only roads.