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Delusion Intrusion

By Disposable Planet on February 13, 2022 10:34 pm

Tried something totally new this time. This track slowly evolved over the middle of the week.  I wanted to make some interesting buildups.  I decided to take the "meowing" lead that everyone liked from last week and put it in both a higher and lower register for other parts of this track.  It definitely sounds bowed with the vibrato- very slightly like an erhu (not really intentional, just sort of ended up that way).  The background arps are on channels 1, 2, and 3 - set up in a pseudo-delay for much of the track.  I wanted to set this apart from the delay on the drums, which is pure M8 global delay. The arps also switch oscillators to give the impression that it's a couple of different instruments calling and answering each other.   Some POST:AD on the lead and bass for the grimy sections.  The track is mostly wavsynth (with a few macrosyn elements for the drums + a sample or two) and a single channel dedicated to fmsynth chords.    I wish I had more time to tweak incessantly.



Made on an M8 Tracker.   Render straight out of the M8.


Again, thanks so much for listening!

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This was a nice journey. Loved the hang drum style sounds near end!

Knew I was going to like this from the first second, knew I was going to love it by the one-minute buildup, DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS UP AT

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and the subsequent snare. Really feeling the downward pitch-bends and inharmonic percussion tones at the end. Awesome!

laamaa wrote:

This was a nice journey. Loved the hang drum style sounds near end!

Thanks!   i think that part is the "Struck Drum" macrosynth with color and timbre set to free LFOs

ilzxc wrote:

Knew I was going to like this from the first second, knew I was going to love it by the one-minute buildup, DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS UP AT

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and the subsequent snare. Really feeling the downward pitch-bends and inharmonic percussion tones at the end. Awesome!

Wow I'm glad you liked it - yeah i've been trying to use weeklybeats as motivation to try new stuff and step outside my musical comfort zone and I like what I ended up with this week just wish I had more time to add sections with different and more dynamic chords.   The buildups and trying a new vibe was priority for this one so its good to hear its at least somewhat working!

I'm always amazed by what people can do with the m8!

interesting chordprogs and structure!!  sound design on that screaming bass is no slouch either

a gigantic but smooth song. Love it.

What a ride. The synths sound sooo goood

This is really really good. However, the weird metallic layer with the snare (entering at 2:42) is quite irritating to my ears...

Ipaghost wrote:

I'm always amazed by what people can do with the m8!

It is an amazing device!  Been using it for a while and am still constantly stumbling across new possibilities with it.

bryface wrote:

interesting chordprogs and structure!!  sound design on that screaming bass is no slouch either

thanks!  yeah i've been trying out some new things - this was the first time I used the fmsynth for three-note chords in a single channel and I understand now why everyone seems to prefer that method.   Makes it much easier to mess around with harmonies and ended up with some chords I may not have ended up with otherwise.

danju wrote:

What a ride. The synths sound sooo goood

Thank you!

??? wrote:

This is really really good. However, the weird metallic layer with the snare (entering at 2:42) is quite irritating to my ears...

yeah you're right that second snare is a little on the abrasive side of things.  I went back to the project file on the M8 and just switched the filter on the instrument to a slight lowpass and that seems to have glued it together a bit as well as mellowed the metal sound out a bit.  Will use if I end up revisiting the track.  Thanks for pointing that out

Love the vibe, right away, also I believe I hear that "gulp" bass I bugged you about way back, I've since incorporated the octave leap into quite a few of my basses, so thanks again. smile Great development!

ModalModule wrote:

Love the vibe, right away, also I believe I hear that "gulp" bass I bugged you about way back, I've since incorporated the octave leap into quite a few of my basses, so thanks again. smile Great development!

Oh cool!  Glad that patch is getting use!  In this track the bass is either a straight up sine with shape up all the way or that piercing distorted overdriven bass - but both are playing the same notes for the most part and there is definitely octave abuse on my part going on haha

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