FINDING A GROOVE FOR MR. GLITCH
By LeBernd on October 20, 2024 11:12 pm
Busy week, hosting a Berlin M8 Meetup in Berlin on Saturday, followed by an almost catatonic sunday. Started this one early and therefore had tons of time for more daring sound design experiments and to figure what story these sounds wanted to tell, so to speak. The result is a little strange, quite minimalist, but I kinda like it. It has restraint, but throws a lot at you at the same time. It used to have a busy bass line that is hinted at in the last section, but I decided it was too much air away from the main attraction, which I think is the groove. If I were to revisit this some day, I'd take more time in building up the sections - but for now, I'm happy!
› Technical Bullshit
‹ Technical Bullshit
Started the main glitch sound using an FM Synth patch. Using the filtered noise operators (NHP/NLP/NBP) and messing with the feedback gives great, gnarly screeches when running into one of the POST distortion types. Abused the ARP/ARC commands and got myself the base for every idea in the track.
Also quite happy with the weird harmoy around 1:36 which I got from rendering the melody to a sample together with a bass synth (that doesn't appear anywhere else in the track), chopped it up, distorted and pitched it and played in reverse. Very colorful!
A happy accident from showing a fellow M8 user some tricks with the sampler was turning a hihat into a triangle with a high-resonance high-pass filter, cutoff turned up and tuned to the song. Using the CUT command let's you set accents!
The lead melody is being played by a WAVSYNTH patch, using one of the wavetables introduced in firmware 4.0. There are so many fun timbres to be discovered, just in one wavetable, using very small amounts of SCAN modulation, i.e. with the envelopes as I did here.
