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By monstret on June 21, 2026 9:25 pm

short speed trash again. heavy on the arps. started on the m8 but basically remade it when I transferred it to the computer. I love the m8 but I have yet to gel with it.

hope your week was full of magic.

Makes me wanna add more bubble sounds in my music like your intro.

Nice and full, stereo-wide.
Would love to here more of these vocals if you extend the track someday, they're beautiful!
Really dig the sigh-like chant at 1:21.

Wait, listening to this again, how did you do the coming-up reverb on the vocals in the beginning?
Did you do it on the M8 or in the box?
(Should be doable on the M8, reversing the sample, adding reverb, resampling, reversing the result again? 🤔 You're inspiring me to try it.)

Uplifting feels with those heavenly arps and pads throughout. The solo melody at the end is excellent too! Well done! \m/

Drum Bender wrote:

Makes me wanna add more bubble sounds in my music like your intro.

yay bubbles (it's supposed to be a tree inspired sample that I thought sounded a little like a growing branch that is stretched like a rope). thanks for listening!

AiDeRen wrote:

Nice and full, stereo-wide.
Would love to here more of these vocals if you extend the track someday, they're beautiful!
Really dig the sigh-like chant at 1:21.

AiDeRen wrote:

Wait, listening to this again, how did you do the coming-up reverb on the vocals in the beginning?
Did you do it on the M8 or in the box?
(Should be doable on the M8, reversing the sample, adding reverb, resampling, reversing the result again? 🤔 You're inspiring me to try it.)

thanks for listening, mister!

anything with the vocal didnt work out for me in the m8 (probably the main reason I just took what I had and moved into computer). this song is a slow 106 bpm and the sample is 120ish and im not quite sure how to get that to sound right with the m8. as far as I can tell youre bound by repitching either the whole thing or slices.

so this is disappointingly just some cut and paste parts of the original samples, some of it more extreme-stretched and reversed and run through the usual reverb and delay stuff. very curious how people work with vocals on the m8 normally if you dont just want to rep itch.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Uplifting feels with those heavenly arps and pads throughout. The solo melody at the end is excellent too! Well done! \m/

thank you kindly, sir TM!

Love the vocals on this one - brief, poignant, well timed, and the reverses/reverbs are used beautifully. Also illustrates how I approach the M8 - if it's easier in DAW, it gets done in DAW lol. I mean you can do all this vocal stuff on the M8 but it's just way easier otherwise. This is a great track though, the mix is super clean, and everything is dancing around each other beautifully.

Since you mentioned being curious, things I do with vocals on the M8:
- the usual chops and glitch and pitch manipulations and general messed up stuff that a tracker does well
- exploiting the "quick render" feature on the M8 to transform vocals in weird ways that I wouldn't necessarily stumble on in a DAW (this is also really fast)
- the sample editor in the M8 is AMAZING and really intuitive and very very fast and I much prefer precision slicing/editing/etc vocals in the M8 than anywhere else
- vocal stuff where the vocal isn't going to be "lyrics", like a lead line, etc... vocals on the m8 for me are really just part of the instrumentation as opposed to a "singer"

Okay I am done filling your comments with text lol

Nice lil bop! I can relate to being a bit rough lining up recorded samples on the M8 bpm wise. neon liminal's comment is packed with great points though! I think that last point especially about treating vocals like an instrument (or in my case, a lot of times loose guitar riffs as little parts) is spot on and something I'm working on. I do tend to throw things into the sample editor and slice up to a number that seems close enough then mess around with delays and placement to get things somewhat in sync. I need to explore that quick render option more though

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