JOHN OESTMANN MUSIC R+D

Grab it at https://johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/disk-drive-ambient … The post Disk Drive Ambient EP now released!

Audible Planets was previously used in creating times, but due to upfront perceived complexity and CPU strain, it hadn’t been brought back into the workflow up until this track.

Back in the 90s, Aphex Twin used the term “Ambient” to name an album filled with drums.

This one took longer than it might seem.

There is something about the repeated mechanical sounds of old hard drives that are surprisingly nostalgic.

Professor Hildr Raystrom welcomes me to her pitch dark arena.

_download + project: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/digichip-duel/… The post “DigiChip Duel” – Deconstructed appeared first on JOHN OESTMANN MUSIC R+D.

Nothing else matches the feeling.

Henry was my best friend growing up.

White-plate walls and pulsing neon lightlines frame the interconnected rooms of the Thunderbolt Lab.

If you liked “It’s Time to Go Home”, you’ll love “Smol Penguin!”

There are eight railrider lines in eight elemental biome directions.

Phalde must be in his late fifties, is built like brick wall, and has a streak dyed of turquoise through his graying hair and beard.

“Welcome to DigiChip Academy!”

I took a large break from the album between the previous track and this.

Data-bending is the quite cool technique of converting data of one file type into audio.

It may be unconventional, but this short album is probably the truest expression of myself so far.

The below notes were written at the time of uploading the track, whereas most of the notes on the rest of this album were written months later: This one is simply the previous track slowed down to 72%, and then some additional drums and bass from my MechS…

The below notes were written at the time of uploading the track, whereas most of the notes on the rest of this album were written months later.

The below notes were written at the time of uploading the track, whereas most of the notes on the rest of this album were written months later.

I remember the moment this track “clicked”, I was convinced it was the greatest piece of music I had created.

As with the previous two tracks, this and the remaining tracks on this album were all made through intuitive steps and destructive processes.

Unlike the other tracks on this album, where I wrote a reflection months later, the below notes were actually written at the time of upload: As scary as this is to admit, I’ve currently been trying to follow intuition as my artmaking process more.

I grew up as a Christian.

Track and Project: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/cycle-0x1c6/ 0:00 Context 5:39 Vitalium 10:20 OpenMPT 29:03 Floral Sample Toolkit… The post “CYCLE-0x1C6” – Deconstructed [Vitalium + OpenMPT + Floral Sample Toolkit] appeared first on JOHN OESTMANN MUSIC R…

I’ve always been interested in creating my own audio tools.

At time of release, I had chosen to name these first three tracks in a way that insinuated the techniques that were being used, to emphasise the nature of each track as an experiment.

Still in the realm of MIDI being passed between different software, I found that Helio is a very robust piano-roll-based MIDI sequencer.

Truth be told, I have struggled a lot to keep a consistent output of music.

I haven’t been able to make music for the last month unfortunately, but today I resurrected my Floral Music Player project – now aimed more at being web embeddable!

Hey everyone, I’ve just updated the MechSounds sample pack to include my additions since December last year.

minimal_worlds_ii is now completed, and the full album can be downloaded via the Albums Page!

It was hard to know how to follow up flight_school, especially given that it seemed to break through more than other tracks.

So I’ve learned what I needed to from my first mini-project – a tiny GBA-style mp3 player, built in Godot!

Sequenced in OpenMPT – https://openmpt.org/ I haven’t had a chance to do a breakdown video with OpenMPT yet, but I am using it for everything these days!

The announcement I just made, as on social media: “FYI: So, examining where the world is heading, I’ve decided that one of the best things I can do is upskill to develop free open-source software.

There feels like an interesting trend where my favourite track on each album ends up being the 2nd or 3rd to last one on the album.

_software: OpenMPT _download: 01-AMidnightFire.wav _project-files: 01-AMidnightFire-SOURCE.zip _samples-used: MechSounds _license: public-domain / cc0… The post A Midnight Fire appeared first on JOHN OESTMANN MUSIC R+D.

This is one of the first tracks I made using OpenMPT, which I found to be a great successor to Furnace Tracker in terms of allowing deeper mixing, and straightforward sample playback.

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Between July 2023 and January 2024, our team interviewed a range of Australian Video Game Audio professionals to get a “pulse-check” on how both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-AI Automation are affecting their practice.

One of the tricky limitations of tracker-based DAWs is that the structure disincentivizes entering chords, when compared to a piano roll.

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Support this work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnoestmannmusic Track and Project: https://johnoestmannmusic.com/tpe-boy-02/ 0:00 Context 2:19 Making Samples with Bespoke Synth 9:35 Sequencing with Furnace Tracker 13:44 Post Effects and Mixing in…

I must admit that, while I like how this track turned out, I don’t think it fits the aesthetic of the album.

Inspired by the resurgence in 90s Jungle music, and the drumming that emulates it, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to get better at drum programming.

Held in hand Digital heart Craft to guide toward creative light Forget the follows Forget the fights These designs are not just toys Machines are meant to Spark Joy. — _software: furnace-tracker _download: MSG-PAL-98.wav _project-files: MSG-PAL-98-SOURCE.…

You can get the full album from https://johnoestmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-day-in-the-workshop Or individual tracks + project files through https://johnoestmannmusic.com/albums/ … The post a_new_day_in_the_workshop Full Album released!

Likely the most ambitious track on the album, the long spacey build of layered Cardinal synthesis crescendos into an irregular drum breakdown.

proto_desertmn is more experimental, even for me, and yet it’s really not that experimental when you consider my influences.