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glass city

By ddmm64 on January 30, 2022 10:47 pm

Made exclusively with "found sounds" - samples made from household objects such as wine glasses, microwave doors, wrenches and dying roombas. The samples were recorded by polyend tracker discord users for the fifth polyend tracker jam, whose deadline happened to be this week. So I'm double dipping with this one.
Most of the work went into massaging the samples into more musical sounds via copious amounts of resampling, FX, filters and volume envelopes.

Chill vibes throughout. Absolutely partial to how effective is the low-pitches glass thing as a bass in the beginning (such a nice sound). Dope tune, I should dust off my Polyend Tracker...

ilzxc wrote:

Chill vibes throughout. Absolutely partial to how effective is the low-pitches glass thing as a bass in the beginning (such a nice sound). Dope tune, I should dust off my Polyend Tracker...


Thanks, yeah, this is my second polyend tracker "found sound" jam and I am positively surprised by how cool some of them can sound - they can have a more organic texture that doesn't come easily from synths. 

Dying roombas, lol. I'd never have guessed this was entirely found sounds though. That's really cool. How much time did it take to get all the samples where you wanted them?

Wow, incredible manipulation of those samples, sounds have a unique character but still sound familiar and musical, great job!

hent03 wrote:

Dying roombas, lol. I'd never have guessed this was entirely found sounds though. That's really cool. How much time did it take to get all the samples where you wanted them?


Jason Nijjer wrote:

Wow, incredible manipulation of those samples, sounds have a unique character but still sound familiar and musical, great job!

Thank you so much! I don't know how long it took me exactly, a few hours that were spread throughout a couple of weeks (I did most of the prep work for samples before making the actual song). It was a bit easier this time around after learning some tricks the first time I did this with polyend tracker jams. Resampling with different filter/FX/envelopes and sample layering is really the key. Also for melodic sounds, I an ipad oscilloscope/spectrum visualizer app was super useful for tuning (I don't have a good ear for pitch at all smile)

Amazing! Always love a good found sample for the novelty of it but this is genuinely great sound design

This sounds really nice, and like a fun concept/challenge too. May have to try something like this some week.

Incidentally, these snares are great

Gunda wrote:

Amazing! Always love a good found sample for the novelty of it but this is genuinely great sound design

Devieus wrote:

Incidentally, these snares are great


Thank you! I am actually proud of that snare, might end up reusing it elsewhere.


zpeisman wrote:

This sounds really nice, and like a fun concept/challenge too. May have to try something like this some week.


Yeah, it could be inspuring, I ended up with some sounds and that I think I wouldn't have hit on otherwise.

okay this whole thing just works in reverse order

robot: kidnapped
robot: escapes
robot goes to glass city for freedom
robot burns the bridge to glass city so the botnappers can't catch them
robot meets babette but.....falls in love?  can robot love????
babette loves robot for robot and it doesn't matter if robot can love her back or not: no pressure

orangedrink wrote:

okay this whole thing just works in reverse order

robot: kidnapped
robot: escapes
robot goes to glass city for freedom
robot burns the bridge to glass city so the botnappers can't catch them
robot meets babette but.....falls in love?  can robot love????
babette loves robot for robot and it doesn't matter if robot can love her back or not: no pressure

LOL, this is the best comment ever ... I should definitely start weaving my songs into a concept album big_smile

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