The Pirate's Janky Heartbeat
By jegasus on January 18, 2026 9:58 pm
### Lore
The legend says that whoever holds Captain Blue Beard's heart will be able to divine the future. The lesser known part of the legend is that when seeing into the future, the user's heart stops beating and lends his pulse to the Captain's cold dead heart, the squishy thing coming back to life and pulsing a loud and resounding "THUMP".
### Production details
Howdy folks! I'm submitting this song both for Weekly Beats Week 3 as well as for the M8 Community Jam #47. I was really struggling this week to get something I liked down and kept switching between several projects, thoroughly undecided about which one to ultimately complete.
Then Sunday arrived and I noticed my deadline was cut two hours short because of a Dungeons and Dragons session my wife and I had booked with friends. With just 1.5h to spare, I picked up one of the songs I had been working on throughout the week and polished it up, adding a few new sections and working a little bit on each voice to try and make sure everything sounded how I wanted it to.
As usual, this was all made on the Dirtywave M8 Tracker. Almost all of the sounds you hear here are part of the M8's internal synths, specifically the WAVSYNTH engine. The only odd one out is the kick sound, which is a sample that I've used many, many times before.
Looking forward to hear what y'all made this round!
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)
haha
