Trust the process! That's what I'll be reminding myself after this track, because it's now 2 weeks in a row that I haven't been happy a couple of days before the deadline, only for a decent session on the Saturday to be the turnaround. All the elements were there - they just required some reordering, some fine tuning, and... yes... 'trusting' that everything would turn out OK.

'Last Badbye' is another M8 track. As most people reading this entry will know, it's such an amazing device because it's portable enough to take anywhere and start making music when you have only a bit of free time. I tend to noodle about to create a couple of song rows, or as far as I can go in a very short session, and then come back to it weeks later for Weekly Beats purposes to see if the initial idea is strong enough to sustain a whole song. This one is my usual routine - some internal M8 synths, some drum samples, and at the end there's a fake-time stretched FX thing that's based on a Loopmasters sample. Most tracks have an LFO set to volume (in various incarnations) to create subtle volume changes, which I think is important in loop-based music.

I still haven't really delved into the M8's tables or grooves or any advanced functionality, so I hope to progress to that stuff eventually! But for now I'm just enjoying making and finishing songs, and I hope you're liking them too.

Tags: dark, electronic, week 5 2024, View by:ARiotAtParties