W23 - 6_7_26 FMS_6726 (GBA)
By ENC_ on June 7, 2026 10:07 am
Repaired miyoo mini failure for AL. OS needed to be re-installed. Spent majority of the week working on sound design and horror music demos for indie video game project. Still talking. Hoping to share pitch on Monday. Editing together over game footage. Having a lot of fun. Knocked out 3 songs and about half of the sounds I'd like to get done. Feels good enough for the pitch and very much was a fun challenge to shake up music process. Thinking about work for the summer while waiting for school year to start. New local farmers market. Picked up an abundance of fruit for cheap.
Went to local art studio collective w/ AL. Made some Acid Dummy riso prints and she made her own poster for her boothing and art projects. Read some zines and literature on cycling, anarchism, and W. E. B. Du Bois in their library. Ran into a fellow local performer printing summer camp posters. Chatted about the change in music scene post pandemic and about mutual friends. Chiptune and punk scenes comparison. Old punks realizing there is "life after 30", was a fun one. Also who imagined living past it and what to do when you do. After, went to a couple of fabric stores and grabbed lunch at an out of town market. Prepping for B-day. Have a plan just need to send out invites. Mind too focused on game project to do anything else. Passed on tracks for new netlabel w/ LT. Sitting on a couple of tracks before submitting to the other. Thinking about old personal design project and website.
Media Consumed: Johnny Mnemonic (1995), The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell, Disaster Peace - It Follows, Boards of Canada - Inferno, Sinoia Caves - Beyond the Black Rainbow, Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Annihilation - Ex Machina, AFX - Analog Bubble bath, Hizmi - Drum Daemon - New Power, Surgeon - Shell~Wave, Patric C. - Toytone, Ec8or, MachineDrum - Fade Away,1*,2,3,4*, 5, 6, 7, 8,
Gear Used:
Game Boy Advanced SP
Tascam DR-40
Software Used:
FMS 1.21
Izotope RX10 De-Noise & De-Hum
Izotope Ozone 10
Patterns made at the beginning of the week. Been busy making other things for potential work. Decided to quickly jam out parts early sunday morning. Combined parts used while exploring new updates and trying to figure out a comfortable workflow. I am strong at writing and producing but not improvising so working with out a song mode is outside my typical wheelhouse. Very different from the planning I normally put into live sets and production. Both freeing and frustrating. Wish I had invested more time into playing more instead of just production. All things considered, I think it came out fine. Happy with it as a one take session. Direct Stereo recording into the DR-40 and just a bit of background sound clean up from the noisy gameboy output. Short on time w/ current projects.
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It'll be a good summer project. Good to have some new creative work to do again.
I am quite happy with how the 808-ish BD came out. FMS does some interesting stereo things with the echos. They've been really nice to work with compared to other gameboy based programs I've used in the past. Much easier to get spatial and stereo results. Ess knocked it out of the park. FMS feels like a minor miracle.