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Night Driver

By gunnbr on February 19, 2022 10:06 pm

I started out this week planning to make a synthwave song. I didn't immediately find any good samples with license terms I liked, so I tried to make my own instruments to simulate the 80s sounds. I definitely didn't get the drums right, which was especially obvious after going back to hear the synthwave tracks by laamaa (week 1), Trash80 (week 2) and Avrilcadabra (week 3). So I don't really have the full synthwave vibe going on here, but I am actually fairly happy with the results no matter what genre it is. I'll probably try synthwave again another week after I get some more skills with both instrument and song design.

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big_smile sounds like a great start! I think it's kinda hard to synthesize synthwavey drums, except maybe toms and hihats. For the kicks and snares you almost certainly want to use acoustic samples!

got a meticulous minimalism to it(reminds me of Neu), dope

First off, love the intro noise, and think it's a very effective and cinematic sound that contextualizes the title flawlessly. More importantly, very nice to see you working w/ sections that focus on different leads, a very nice timbral approach to having form: strings / toms / percussive bell-like lead. In future work, consider what would occur if these sounds would coexist: would the bell be prolonged by the string or would the string slide away from the bell? Does the tom and the bell share the same rhythmic pulse, or not? Does a combination of the two have any effect on the bass? There's no wrong answers as to what the sounds do together, but by reasoning about some kind of a rule / pattern / relationship, it becomes much easier to reason about what else can be possible given some finite number of instruments.

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