Press Check
By Cakes on May 17, 2026 4:42 pm
Here's another 160 bpm deep d&b thing.
I haven't been super content with these drums. I was originally attempting to put something together from scratch with my DMX VST and finally got something acceptable dialed in this morning. That was after I added some compression on the snare. There's a sampled break layer sitting on top of the DMX hits that also finally got things a bit more cohesive and added some forward motion. I still hear a lot of mud though. The track title is an homage to the break sample source.
I had a lot more fun with the other elements this week. The arpping doodle in the middle of the tune needs some tweaki,ng but the general framework I was going for is there. I was farting around with erratic playing then tightening up with quantize to mimic faint memories of an 80s era Casio keyboard. Overall this needs more engineering to get some separation between the elements. I'm not sure If I love this enough to put the work in for that though. TBD. More importantly, week 20 is complete.
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