Maxima Compiler Track

Maxima Compiler Track is an original electronic music experimental work inspired by past electronic music pioneers who may have worked with limited resources to record their musical expressions. In this light, I have endeavoured to record a complete composition using only the resources of the Eurorack modular synthesizer system, and a small digital portastudio for the recording of the individual tracks, and to the mixing of the tracks. Here, all the major recording, insert recording and editing would be performed within the digital multitrack recorder. The computer only being used for mastering and minor dynamic touch-ups. Could an electronic music work be created just by oscillators and insert recording? This was the challenge. Six tracks were used to build up the composition. Each track was recorded, and using the “punch-in“ recording feature, to record new sounds and sound “objects“. Where a new sound was required in the work, one used the insert recording feature to manually record the