Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Featuring: Stepic & Transit!
Many Miles puts you on road with cruise control on a clear night! This is another multi-Stepic (@devicemeister ) track that also makes creative use of Andrew Huang's new plugin Transit.
I also enjoyed making the music video that goes with it, and I'm happy with the result!
This is my first track with @andrewhuang's (🙌) new plugin Transit. Although it's intended to be used as an effect for builds and transitions, I used it for almost the opposite! I had the effect knob engaged by default that was ducked down whenever the instrument was used, giving the instrument a long tail that was only audible when there weren't any new notes coming in.
The motif instruments are all powered by a three layers of Stepic, which join the patterns together rhythmically. Here I did a bit of complex processing using a modulator to detect when there's been silence for more than a few seconds, then it opens the gate which then randomizes which instrument is active, and its parameters. When the motif starts playing again, the gate closes and everything stays locked in until there is silence again.
Process Notes:
The work making my use of Stepic more sophisticated continues in this track, and to add an extra challenge I used only Bitwig native instruments and XO for the drums.
- The bass is a Polysynth with a multi-tap delay, and then Thermal gives it a bit of bass growl
- The main arps (or are they ostinati?) are 3 layers of Polymer that I randomly switch between, with a delay and Transit adding a legato tail to the track
I chose B-minor as the key for the track but it really made a lot of things more difficult because of how low everything goes - the kick is being rolled off at B-1 (31Hz) and to make space for it around the kick, the bass was moved from B1 to the fifth (F#1).
TIL, keep B for the low dark tunes and I'll go back to my usual D, E, and F!
Music created in Bitwig Studio, using:
- Arturia's Rev-LX24, DIST Tube-Culture
- Arturia's COMP TUBE-STA, COMP FET-76
- Baby Audio's Transit
- Unfiltered Audio's SILO
- Native Instruments' Vari-Comp
- Valhalla's Vintage Verb
- @devicemeister 's Stepic
- Minimal Audio's Cluster Delay
- Fabfilter's Pro-Q 3, Pro-C 2, Pro-L 2, Pro-MB, Volcano-3
- XLN's RC-20, XO
- iZotope's Ozone 10, Tonal Balance Control
- TBProAudio's dpMeter 5
Video created with:
- DaVinci Resolve 18.5
- Affinity Photo 2 for the Artifonica device/logo, cover art, and other photo touching up
- Magic Animate, by @MrAlexTech
Keywords:
Music for meditation, ambient, chill, chillout, relax, relaxing, relaxation, unwind, sleep, dreams, dreaming, soundscape, background, mood, moody, peace, peaceful, ambience, sequencer, sequenced ambient, Berlin school
Featuring: Stepic & Transit!
Many Miles puts you on road with cruise control on a clear night! This is another multi-Stepic (@devicemeister ) track that also makes creative use of Andrew Huang's new plugin Transit.
I also enjoyed making the music video that goes with it, and I'm happy with the result!
This is my first track with @andrewhuang's (🙌) new plugin Transit. Although it's intended to be used as an effect for builds and transitions, I used it for almost the opposite! I had the effect knob engaged by default that was ducked down whenever the instrument was used, giving the instrument a long tail that was only audible when there weren't any new notes coming in.
The motif instruments are all powered by a three layers of Stepic, which join the patterns together rhythmically. Here I did a bit of complex processing using a modulator to detect when there's been silence for more than a few seconds, then it opens the gate which then randomizes which instrument is active, and its parameters. When the motif starts playing again, the gate closes and everything stays locked in until there is silence again.
Process Notes:
The work making my use of Stepic more sophisticated continues in this track, and to add an extra challenge I used only Bitwig native instruments and XO for the drums.
- The bass is a Polysynth with a multi-tap delay, and then Thermal gives it a bit of bass growl
- The main arps (or are they ostinati?) are 3 layers of Polymer that I randomly switch between, with a delay and Transit adding a legato tail to the track
I chose B-minor as the key for the track but it really made a lot of things more difficult because of how low everything goes - the kick is being rolled off at B-1 (31Hz) and to make space for it around the kick, the bass was moved from B1 to the fifth (F#1).
TIL, keep B for the low dark tunes and I'll go back to my usual D, E, and F!
Music created in Bitwig Studio, using:
- Arturia's Rev-LX24, DIST Tube-Culture
- Arturia's COMP TUBE-STA, COMP FET-76
- Baby Audio's Transit
- Unfiltered Audio's SILO
- Native Instruments' Vari-Comp
- Valhalla's Vintage Verb
- @devicemeister 's Stepic
- Minimal Audio's Cluster Delay
- Fabfilter's Pro-Q 3, Pro-C 2, Pro-L 2, Pro-MB, Volcano-3
- XLN's RC-20, XO
- iZotope's Ozone 10, Tonal Balance Control
- TBProAudio's dpMeter 5
Video created with:
- DaVinci Resolve 18.5
- Affinity Photo 2 for the Artifonica device/logo, cover art, and other photo touching up
- Magic Animate, by @MrAlexTech
Keywords:
Music for meditation, ambient, chill, chillout, relax, relaxing, relaxation, unwind, sleep, dreams, dreaming, soundscape, background, mood, moody, peace, peaceful, ambience, sequencer, sequenced ambient, Berlin school
