Serendipity

Serendipity “The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way”.

It’s probably my favorite word, and it was the inspiration for this instrument. I recorded a lot of things, and processed them all in different ways. I used my old farmhouse Wurlitzer piano from 1930, Tibetan bowls, a toy Glockenspiel, Fender Rhodes,Guitar harmonics, a Kalimba, Bass, and ran them through pedals, amps, a 4 track, Tremolo, Ring Mod and other things I’m probably forgetting! I then used a random no repeat script, so that every instrument was triggered individually. I wanted an instrument that spontaneously orchestrated the different parts, and always changed randomly, to keep it fresh, unpredictable and hopefully inspiring.
I also included “Serendipity Clusters”, a swarm like pad.

A special thanks to Dave Hilowitz for providing the script for me to accomplish what I was wanting to do! He’s a Kontakt Ninja, and was super helpful!

Note: When recording this instrument, you may want to aux out to an audio track to capture the performance you recorded. Obviously being random, the next midi performance will be different than one you heard while recording the last time. If you want other takes on it you can always track commit to audio and hear other versions of what you played, and or comp one together!