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The Defibrillator​’​s Theme Song

from The Forbidden Meditation Method by 7X3=21

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This is the first beat I made trying to teach myself how to use MIDI for the first time. And, here is (edited and enhanced version of) what I initially wrote about said experience:

SO, I’ve never used MIDI before. And, even though I have been using Ableton for over 10 years, I only very recently really learned about the drum and instrument kits included, and how to use them (kind of). I simply never bothered to look past the things I was doing in Ableton, which was mainly edits and recording vocals for radio, podcast, and now also recording raps.

But, since most of the new equipment I have is MIDI-based or compatible, and I also want to maximize Ableton and this Launchkey Mini I just got, I decided to try to learn how to use it, so I sat down on the evening of Christmas 2021 to try.

This is what I came up with using all sounds from the Ableton Drum and Instrument Racks. It’s an 8 bar loop with 4 different things I captured from messing around with the pads on the Launchkey. Well, actually the “4th sound” is something I don’t really know what is happening, but my DDJ-200 DJ Controller isn’t set up for MIDI yet, or at least not intentionally, but for some reason when I touch the platters, it manipulates the MIDI sounds, so that 4th sound which is some sort of piano, is just me slapping my fingers on the platter of the controller somewhat randomly and those sounds just happened.

I’m assuming there’s a way to do an arrangement of a MIDI loop in Ableton, but I haven’t figured that out yet (except for just copying and posting and adding an arrangement that way, which is what I did here, turning a 4 bar loop into a 8 bar loop). So, I set up Izotope to record Ableton, and I did a live arrangement, clicking buttons on/of or soloing things.

This was fun. And, now that I know how to do it decently enough, I can put some time into doing better. This is the first stepping stone…

As for the title, I actually can’t remember if I do this in other instances, but for these instrumentals, I found myself picturing where I would like to hear them being played, and used that image to get the inspiration for the titles. This was a little different, and I just thought the sounds sounded like hospital machinery. And, I was picturing 80s cartoon style graphics, a la Hanna Barbera, but the subject matter was serious. Basically, a Hanna Barbera animated hospital TV drama, and this plays as we watch a nurse do their rounds, checking on patients, and looking in on various surgeries happening throughout the hospital. Yes, I have a vivid imagination…

SIDE NOTE: While messing around trying to see if there was a way I could rhyme to this, the only things that worked were pretty much all my verse from circa 1986-1988. I spent a few hours spitting like 50 (not an exaggeration) different verses from that time period to this beat.

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from The Forbidden Meditation Method, released January 1, 2022

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