Jamming to the digital piano's drum preset with delay pedal and timbre mangling in Audacity
Channel: Gizzy Dillespee
Date: 2023-04-06

The title tells it. I layered the vibraphone and stage EP presets on the Yamaha P-115, and turned on one of the drum presets. I ran that combo out thru a delay pedal (Ventris as a delay), and tuned my mixer recorder (Zoom Livetrak L12) ping-pong delay so that it would ring out around the low fundamental of what I was playing.

But the real timbre transformation (turning my lower notes into an interrupted drone bass, among other things) came from pitching it down a little bit, and then doubling it an octave up, using Audacity audio editing software afterwards. I also leaned into the already weird panning, turning up the already louder but muddier right side, and advancing the brighter left side by 3 samples. I raised the tempo and lowered it down again, which also changed the timbre a bit. I used some compression to raise the volume of the soft bits, such as the pitchmod in the tails of the Ventris fx. I cut a few sections out from this jam (it was a few minutes longer in total), and crossfaded around the splices. I just can't help experimenting in that type of way, in Audacity or wherever else. It's pretty cool what you can do with your jams. I barely even scratch the surface of that stuff.