Congrats on running out of phrases -- how chaotic did the chains look at the end? (The good old FE/81/08/3F type chains...) Wonderful sound design & shaping here, really like the drum programming also (hats are sounding awesome particularly post-breakdown -- 3:26 moment is probably the easiest-to-appreciate).

How many instruments total in this? Really lovely sounds, just listened again not listening for drums like a nerd. I wanna call out 0:48 counterpoint & voice leading and sound design over that massive beat.

Congrats on 3/4 done

Congrats on running out of phrases -- how chaotic did the chains look at the end? (The good old FE/81/08/3F type chains...) Wonderful sound design & shaping here, really like the drum programming also (hats are sounding awesome particularly post-breakdown -- 3:26 moment is probably the easiest-to-appreciate). How many instruments total in this? Really lovely sounds, just listened again not listening for drums like a nerd. I wanna call out 0:48 counterpoint & voice leading and sound design over that massive beat. Congrats on 3/4 done <3

I see you're familiar with this problem.   Past a certain point, I think most of that chaos wouldn't be noticed by anyone else―but it started playing hob with my progress once I was forced to reclaim old phrases.

Thanks!  It looks like it must have been... over 50 instruments.

Thanks―and to you, too!

[quote=ilzxc]how chaotic did the chains look at the end? (The good old FE/81/08/3F type chains...)[/quote] I see you're familiar with this problem. :P Past a certain point, I think most of that chaos wouldn't be noticed by anyone else―but it started playing hob with my progress once I was forced to reclaim old phrases. [spoiler=M8 nerd talk]My song template has a bunch of pre-built utility phrases (things like blanks, KIL, [url=https://weeklybeats.com/noggin/]noggins[/url]' metronome, various SNG & HOP values). After a few rounds of sacrifices toward the end, I started seeing familiar numbers in the middle of melodic chains that would normally do things like "Jump forward 4 song rows" or "HOP to the next phrase after 1/8 note." Toward the end, I was reflexively double-checking practically all phrases in every chain I edited to make sure they all still did what i thought they did. I got a [i]lot[/i] of mileage out of that this-phrase-is-used-somehwere-else asterisk this time around. [/spoiler] [quote=ilzxc]How many instruments total in this? Really lovely sounds, just listened again not listening for drums like a nerd. I wanna call out 0:48 counterpoint & voice leading and sound design over that massive beat.[/quote] Thanks! It looks like it must have been... over 50 instruments. :O [spoiler=More M8 nerd talk]An .m8s reader I'd compiled for 2.6.0 got up to slot 74 and counted 45 before bombing out (probably on an FM instrument using one of the new operators). And I know practically every slot in the 7x range was full of drum hits by the end. I'm a little stunned at that number, tbh. [/spoiler] [quote=ilzxc]Congrats on 3/4 done <3[/quote] Thanks―and to you, too!

I'm not familiar with M8 so I can't participate in the M8 nerd talk, but I do like how there are a nice variety of sounds, rhythms, and feels to this.  It ends up being a mini-journey that covers a lot of ground in a relatively short time. 

I'm not familiar with M8 so I can't participate in the M8 nerd talk, but I do like how there are a nice variety of sounds, rhythms, and feels to this. It ends up being a mini-journey that covers a lot of ground in a relatively short time.

huzzah!

[img]https://media.tenor.com/images/737cbb0c8b18f9b45bb9a82f7f5e871c/tenor.gif[/img] huzzah!

Think the system glitched out when I left my last comment, but suffice to say this is at least my 3rd time comin back, and digging it even more than the previous times

Think the system glitched out when I left my last comment, but suffice to say this is at least my 3rd time comin back, and digging it even more than the previous times

Great dynamics and expression, awesome job with the sound design, sequencing & mix!

Great dynamics and expression, awesome job with the sound design, sequencing & mix!