Dream Deck
By Cakes on January 18, 2026 5:26 pm
This one started out as an 8 bar loop I doodled out on the MPC One back in late December. I was attempting a hip hop tune and this obviously went sideways once I started finding the blissed out soft-synths.
At the start of week 3 I exported the elements into Logic and coaxed out a basic sequence. The only other musical element I added was the simple arpeggio. That came out of the Arturia Analog Lab VST. The rest of my effort was put toward trying to figure out some engineering stuff in Pro-Q 4, adding some reverbs, and adding some mild compression on the bass. I also remembered to tag the MP3 and add some basic art this week. 
I really adore the main lead here. I may revisit the MPC patch or the sampled lead sometime in the future for something else. Overall the tune reminded me of flying in a dream which inspired the title.
Once again I had some difficulty with frequency masking. This will continue to be a trend as long as I enjoy layering corny pads and synth leads that fight for the same frequency bands. Over the course of the year I hope to learn to deal with this better and more efficiently.
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