Didn't think I was going to make it to this week, had another buddy drop out as well. Thinking about stepping away as well to pursue some stop motion work, but thinking about just finishing the current week helps cut out the over thinking about opportunity cost.
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This week I took a different approach, all my previous tracks have some interesting elements, but I tend to overproduce things and in the end some of them just don't quite click as overall tracks.

I seem to have decent technical ability (working the daw, different fun sampling tricks/techniques, problem solving ways to render certain sounds and fit them), but I want to focus on cultivating my taste for a good/great track, in the hopes that it will my focus my efforts and improve my creative side of things. this week I focused on atmospheric jungle/dnb from the n64 / playstation days.

Figured this would be a good decision because I can think of a lot of tracks I love from the genre, some even that give me a euphoric / nostalgic feeling... and at the same time it's a bit oversaturated as a result of the resurgence, with a bunch of tracks that blend together. So there is many opportunities for active listening and discerning things as good, bland, bad, great.

I also kept my goalpost pretty close, assuming more of a beginner mindset -
Ethereal sounding atmospheric pads - long attack gives good tension/release, and also gives an immersive vibe.

Basic drum track using sampled breaks - I fed the amen break into a simpler and played around with midi patterns and then adding some variation to my clips without going too overboard

One discovery was that having the pad go 6 bars long, and my drum break midi 4 clips long added a ton of variation automatically, similar to a polyrhythm would. Next I want to add some lead sounds, as well as a rhythm switch up in the drums on a chord change as I also identified this as being one of my favorite parts of a good jungle song
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enjoy

Tags: dnb, jungle, vgm, week 13 2024, View by:adkaros