Train of Thought
By jegasus on August 4, 2024 5:24 am
Welcome back! How have you been? It's been a while since we last spoke! I know things haven't all been super peachy, but I hope you've been holding up well in general.
I've been super lucky this week - I've been on a cruise ship along the Douro River in Portugal and Spain and it has been absolutely lovely. I had never done anything like this, and I feel like I've been super spoiled because this entire trip has been just perfect. The only bad part is that it's ending soon - I travel back home on Sunday morning.
This trip has also been super successful musically speaking. During my flight to Portugal I was able to finish my submission to last week's M8 Community Jam. I even got asked by someone on the plane what the M8 was, which was a great interaction. Also, after arriving here I started working on this WB submission you're listening to right now and was able to dedicate considerably more time to it than I have to my other WB suvmissions.
I started this one off by layering some organ sounds, which felt sort of meditative/religious. So I just kept building off of that, and it kept getting more and more... Intense. I also knew I wanted to do some vocal chopping, so I fell back on the reliable ScotRail samples which I've used in a previous WB submission.
I'm super proud of how this came out. I think the time signature is also a little weird, so that was super fun to make work. I haven't made that many songs with drops, but I absolutely loved how the drop in this one came together as well.
As usual, all was done on the M8. Most of the sounds are samples. I think the only one that isn't is the high pitched tingly bell sound that arpeggiates throughout, which uses one of the M8's new internal wavetable synths.
It's also worth mentioning that, since I've been on vacation mode, I've spent very little time on the WB site, so I've listened to and commented on almost no songs this week. My apologies. I'll likely get back on track on this front soon!
Looking forward to listening to everyone's stuff!!!
Peace, y'all!!!
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