Weeklybeats is a 52 week long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week for the entire year.
Starting December 29th 2025 GMT each participant will have one week to upload one finished composition. Any style of music or selection of instruments are welcomed and encouraged. Sign up or Login to get started or check our FAQ for any help or questions you may have.

night_cruise

By monodestroyer on January 11, 2026 10:44 pm

This week was a bit of a fail, but I've salvaged enough to still post something. I really need to learn how to build risers and sweeps on the M8. I really struggled to move this from *sketch* to *proper track* with transitions etc. Definitely something to work on.

Fun fact, I used the swing settings to increase the res to match my MPC2500 swing, but now the track BPM is 400 and all the LFOs are too fast.

Audio works licensed by author under:
Copyright All rights reserved

That was fun! Super nice bass and overall just very bouncy and enjoyable. Don't be too hard on yourself, it felt plenty complete to me.

I feel ya on the risers and sweeps thing. I'm trying to focus on doing some better transitions for next week. Good news is we've got 50 more weeks to get better smile

Groovy.

The REP and RTO commands will save you for sweeps, maybe check out PBN and PSL or go crazy with wavsynth and a ramping LFO mod. Really funky beat going even without the transitions, though!

Some real sick FM patches in this—I love that bass and those pads.

Cruising the city at night in sunglasses, very slick

Great bass patch

Very smooth groove
- Ebrit

Very smooth, great bass, awesome swing smile

porkloin wrote:

Good news is we've got 50 more weeks to get better smile


Thank you, yes, definitely something I'm looking at working on over the year!

jasonmauer wrote:

Groovy.


Thanks!

0x_colt wrote:

The REP and RTO commands will save you for sweeps


Thank you for the advice. I managed to try this out for week 3 and it works well. Very fun!


dadboy wrote:

Some real sick FM patches in this—I love that bass and those pads.


Thank you! I've been having a lot of fun building weird 90s pads. Its a lot of rendering and layering.


waziam wrote:

Great bass patch


Thank you!


DESLRV wrote:

Very smooth groove
- Ebrit


Thanks!

bobbyd wrote:

awesome swing smile


Thank you! I'd use this setting a lot more on the M8 if it wasn't so annoying to implement.

Don't you just set the groove and be done?

bobbyd wrote:

Don't you just set the groove and be done?

The groove is set to 1E,12 to increase the resolution by x4. This was to match the resolution of my MPC swing settings. But this means the track BPM is now 480bpm, so all the LFOs are 4 times slower.

monodestroyer wrote:
bobbyd wrote:

Don't you just set the groove and be done?

The groove is set to 1E,12 to increase the resolution by x4. This was to match the resolution of my MPC swing settings. But this means the track BPM is now 480bpm, so all the LFOs are 4 times slower.

Wild stuff!

You need to login to leave a comment.
Login Sign-up