First Chair (Disquiet0315) by ikjoyce

This week's junto is to create one third of a piece of music - leaving room for two other performers to finish it off in subsequent juntos.

Rather than record a melody, or a bassline, I recorded an effected electric piano ostinato, with some pseudo-random twinky notes added to be used as an underlying pad for a track. It was so hard not carrying on and adding more layers to this myself!

I worked differently this week - I recorded two different midi clips in Reaper, and then used some of the MIDI effects to a) humanize the velocities and timing of the Nord piano riff and b) add random modally-related notes to the more sparse second loop that runs the D-05 for the twinkly sounds. Much of the sound design involved careful EQ, and setting up the reverb and two delays to give an interesting riff with some movement.
Tempo is 110 BPM, underlying key is F# minor (I think!)