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Synthetic

By impbox on January 7, 2024 11:59 pm

Happy New Year!!

My first time making a track using the Octatrack, just got it recently and been busy learning how to use it.
I've always struggled with making full tracks using Elektron workflow, despite buying lots of their devices, so I thought I should force myself to just make a full track using it for WB and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Cheers to EZBOT for their amazing tutorials which helped me to understand the Octatrack.

I wanted to create something somewhat club appropriate.

I used Octatrack for drums and arrangement, Synthesizer V (Stardust) for vocals, Reface DX as the only synth.

Not very happy with the lyrics but I had lots of fun chopping up and rearranging the vocals.

Was rushing for the deadline so the mix could be a lot better as I didn't have a chance to listen before uploading, hopefully it's not too bad.

Lyrics:

How do you do it?
I wanna understand
Falling from the sky without a care
A mortal body to breathe the air

Oh It's kinda tragic
I wanna be like you
Up on the stage, fuck yeah
Sing with my real voice

Huge !!!

These are some very pretty vocals. I really love them.
- Spider

Love how lush this sounds, I really wanna do lyrical stuff too ;o;

awesome work! super vibey

ooooh love the little synth lead rolls. vocals sound lush af and the drops go hard

I hear you on the Elektron workflow, same for me... which is why I almost exclusively use that gear for live sets, I can't reall make it work when having a "song release" mindset...
I really love that distorted sound in the intense parts btw!!

Fuck yeah! Love the lyrics, made me think. Here for all the voices, real & imaginary

I'm digging the vocal processing! I'm inspired to try out Synthesizer V myself now heart

Man, greeeeat use of those vocals!!!! This sounds so fun!!!! The overall arrangement is fantastic too, really loving this! Super complex but still tight!

Loving the arrangement and lyrics! Also god damn, synthetic vocals have gotten crazy good. I gotta try that Synth V stuff myself

Nailed the nightclub vibe. Could also be a drifting in my WRX7 late at night vibe. This is a bop!

Nice work octratrack wrangling, I think you brought it together really cohesively as a song. Definitely got those late night club vibes, especially around the 4min mark. And the vocal melody was stuck repeating in my head by the end, awesome track!

Reverb tails for days. Vocals contrasting with the bass. Lovely arrangement.

hny! oh heck yeah more synth v big_smile i might have to get it fired up in the coming weeks big_smile

that's a pretty nice voice pack! i have eleanore and eleanore AI but I kinda like the stock eleanore lite better big_smile

beautiful!!

Love the vocals and progressions!

omg the little drop at 2:20 is so satisfying

Solid early Need For Speed vibes big_smile

This is grand

Nice! I need to dedicate more time to the OT, going to have to checkout synth V, as a non-vocalist I am always looking for them.

I was really excited for the tracks to drop, so I first listened to this on my phone’s internal speakers and it sounded fantastic even there. This was the first track I wanted to listen to when I got back to some real speakers! Obviously sounds even better there! I love it!

It has a strong energy with this distortion and steady beat. Nice song!

The mix is indeed, as you say, "not too bad". Cool track to start the year with!

great progression throughout, gives me some Digitalism / Simian Mobile Disco vibes

The first couple minutes felt like I'd slipped backwards into an alternate time where club music was cooler than I remember it.  Then I started reading your description.

I've heard a lot about the OT/Elektron workflow, but this is one of the odd OT tracks I've heard that actually sounds spontaneous and like an intentionally structured song.  If I had one complaint, it would be that Synthesizer V vocals sound too real now and I can't tell who the replicants are any more.

dig a stream-of-consciousness-style octatrack jam! the changeup at 3:00 is nicee.

Nice hi-energy track.

Really like the textures there.

sometimes i prefer hearing the raw mix anyway, you did a good job with everything though!

this is crazy ! so dope ! great stuff ! keen to hear more !

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