For week 1, I was looking for a flute sound and came across the "Vaporflute" instrument made by laamaa. It didn't work for my track that week, but I liked the loop I made, so that was the basis of this week's composition.

Originally I wanted some harder industrial drums to come in. Even recorded myself "beatboxing" what I wanted it to sound like, but then I spent too much time playing around with FM drum creation and never really got the sound I wanted. I did end up liking the more chill drums I ended up with though (which also may have been a preset someone else made. I don't remember for sure).

I also took a look at Trash80's bundle for week1 to figure out how to make a sound that "growls". I was surprised to learn he didn't use FM, but instead used the hypersynth. I used the same for my opening chords.

Overall, I had fun writing this. The first couple days came really easy and I had lots of ideas. I like the variations in the drum track and made me realize I need to plan more in future tracks for how to vary the energy throughout my songs in the future.

But at some point, I ran out of ideas. I had something I really liked that brought the energy up to a point and then the song ended. So I tried to add a middle and an ending. I tried some weird tricks I thought might work, but ultimately, I tweaked it too much and I'm not as happy with what I ended up with.

Oh well--on to week 3.

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Tags: m8tracker, week 2 2026, View by:gunnbr