Buckeye Relief Lime Sherbet is a name of a very nice Sativa up here in North East Ohio. The dankness of the Buckeye Relief was the inspiration for this track. I started by enjoying somma dat Buckeye Relief before opening the empty DAW. It felt really really good to be back on Ableton Live for this production. For me I’m just much more fluid in my workflow in Ableton Live as compared to Logic Pro X.

 

I started in session view. I started by recording that long falling bass sound at the beginning, then just picked some synth that sounded dope and improvised until I found that intro melody, one & two & three & 4 e &. After that I just auditioned some hip-hop drum samples in the Ableton stock library and just built from there. Just improvising and adding things here and there. I had no set composition structure making this one. The arraignment just fell into place from what I was feeling. 

 

After I got the arrangement to my liking I recorded my arrangement from session view to arrangement view. I 80% finish the mix and had the synths playing the sax & flute melodies and then bounced out the mix. I then opened up a new session with the mix as a single WAV file. I could then comp sax & flute melodies  with little CPU strain until I got the takes I was going to use. Then after that I made a folder in my user library labeled the name of the project. Next I made sub folders for the sax & flute. 

 

Now I was able to save all my little chunks of audio accordingly as to be able to easily piece them back to together in the main project. After I was finished with all the recording and saved all the recorded sax & flute I opened up the main project and inserted my recordings into place in the arrangement. 

 

As for the music I am not able to say, “well I wrote this part to get this feeling or this is why this section sounds like this.” No, this can not be said because I just improvised while producing building different sections at a time. This is what came out of the DAW. No plan, no strategy just having fun adding melodies, sounds & FX. 

 

I did however have a very set strategy in my audio processing and signal routing in this production. I have been analyzing the Ocean Eyes sample project that is on Logic right now. I took what I saw going on with the plugins, plugin settings, EQ curves, sends, return channels, reverb settings and all that other music production stuff naw mean? I did my best to implement all those processes and settings into my creation. Of course I had to change settings according to my mix. It is amazing what just a little EQ, compression and audio sends to a reverb return channel can do for a mix. Stacks. Stacks on stacks on stacks. Stack that audio! I have noticed that the pro producers stack the **** out of that audio especially the vocals. Just so many stacks I tell ya.

 

I am going to stick to this improv style of production and see what else comes out of the DAW in this next year. Then it’s gonna be time to start planning a full album. This year 2022 is going to be all singles for production practice. I hope you enjoy the track as much as I did making it.