Thunder
By Coldsushi on March 29, 2026 7:42 pm
Is crazy 1/4 of the year already gone, time flies faster when a calendar is showing me the progress every week
This track started with a couple of sample a friend sent me of his vhikk module, that I then processed into a neurobass using the m8 power, after doing the first drop, sequencing pieces of the neurobass and using some lfo tricks to modulate it on some steps, I went ahead and made the intro with the distorted hypersynth which I really like, hard to control but very fullfilling. The melodic lead is wavsynth with some lfos and pitch slide to make it more expressive. Then I wanted to bring some chaos with the 4 on 4 section leaning towards goa/techno just to break it again into hyperflip at the very end, where I resampled part of the track to sequence it by chopping and repitching to create the new hook.
Overall this has been a nice step where I put most of the things learned so far into one production:
-neuro bass processing
-sub bass mixing
-high freq control
-lfos/envelope for sound design and sound expression
-hop command for triplets
-tables for some envelopes
-eq cleaning
-dariacore/hyperflip studies
-sidechaining bass AND snare as suggested from some of you!
-genres mashing
-loudness control (altho this one is quite distorted, but a bit louder, almost -0 for the last section)
-chords mangling with hypersynth
-one shot samples as instruments (the strings here which sounds surprisingly well, I will def use more)
I did cheat for the final master on this one: I pushed 3db on 3k with zleq2 (awesome eq if u dont know about it),and kclipzero (amazing clipper if you don't know about it), then I pushed or pulled 1 or 2 db before and after a drop to control loudness, everything is definitely achievable directly within the m8 but it was just easier to have a loudness meter and see the values other than just relying on hearing things or looking at the peaks in the m8 mixer
fun thing I also used an app called sonobus to route the audio of the m8 into the ipad and then into my phone (apparently my phone doenst allow to receive audio from usb-c) so I could hear the mix from my phone and tweak some volumes or eq live, quite useful for some sounds that I din't want to stick out as much as they were doing only when listening from the phone.
I'm super excited to hear more music from all of you, there are some insane producers here I'm glad I could know about and get inspired by your work, I have some ideas for the next 3 months and experimenting with genres that you are putting out is one of those, it would also be nice to collaborate on some tracks in the future!
Thank you so much for listening 
Produced entirely on the m8
Light master with ableton
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
I'm hearing you loud and clear on the duration aspect, I totally agree, thanks a lot for the feedback keep it coming I'm always writing down suggestions!! I will definitely do my best to write with a bit more air between sequences