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

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.

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.)

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/

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

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!

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.

[quote=Drum Bender]Makes me wanna add more bubble sounds in my music like your intro.[/quote] 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! [quote=AiDeRen]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.[/quote] [quote=AiDeRen]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.)[/quote] 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.

thank you kindly, sir TM!

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

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

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

Really liked this track! Just a great vibe altogether. Beautiful voice too!

Really liked this track! Just a great vibe altogether. Beautiful voice too!

lovely mix, nice and full. i dig that twinkly synth line that comes in, so effervescent!

wait - is that you singing??

lovely mix, nice and full. i dig that twinkly synth line that comes in, so effervescent! wait - is that you singing??

thank you so much for listening and the thoughtful comments and tips. ok, what you write about your own use cases on the M8 is really inspiring me to try to get deeper with that part of it. ive got to read up on the quick rendering - I know nothing about that. I was just trying to bpm match / stretch, creating some slices and got really annoyed at an artifact on one of the slices that I tried to fade out with the sample manipulator thingie.

thank you very much. yeah that level of slicing could work (each word or even smaller parts) to time it up. sounds time consuming though. with my noobishness on the m8 and the little time I have, id blow it all on correcting the timing of one line,. I bet you can get very fast and efficient at it though. I want to try that too now.

thanks a lot for listening and the comment!

thank you super-jwh. no, it's not me singing. I tend to grab some vocals from splice (not always but often) to put some more life into the tracks. lazy way to feel better about my speedtrash

[quote=neon liminal]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 [/quote] thank you so much for listening and the thoughtful comments and tips. ok, what you write about your own use cases on the M8 is really inspiring me to try to get deeper with that part of it. ive got to read up on the quick rendering - I know nothing about that. I was just trying to bpm match / stretch, creating some slices and got really annoyed at an artifact on one of the slices that I tried to fade out with the sample manipulator thingie. [quote=tired_moniker]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[/quote] thank you very much. yeah that level of slicing could work (each word or even smaller parts) to time it up. sounds time consuming though. with my noobishness on the m8 and the little time I have, id blow it all on correcting the timing of one line,. I bet you can get very fast and efficient at it though. I want to try that too now. [quote=squelette]Really liked this track! Just a great vibe altogether. Beautiful voice too! [/quote] thanks a lot for listening and the comment! [quote=jwh]lovely mix, nice and full. i dig that twinkly synth line that comes in, so effervescent! wait - is that you singing??[/quote] thank you super-jwh. no, it's not me singing. I tend to grab some vocals from splice (not always but often) to put some more life into the tracks. lazy way to feel better about my speedtrash

right on! i didn't think so at first, but one of the other comments made me wonder and i didn't want to  make assumptions 

hope the rest of your week is

right on! i didn't think so at first, but one of the other comments made me wonder and i didn't want to make assumptions :) hope the rest of your week is [img]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc.tenor.com%2Fs2KYBIAiQW4AAAAC%2Fsuper.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=3c95bc03890a96a7bf080547ee20221089fc4096a99487dac4aa9d378fc1fb0b[/img]

Quality speed treasure. Vocals add so much to a composition. Everytime I hear you use vocals there is a voice in my brain saying 'I should use vocals more'.

Quality speed treasure. Vocals add so much to a composition. Everytime I hear you use vocals there is a voice in my brain saying 'I should use vocals more'.

Very cute track! Loved the vocals I want to add some to my track as well but I still have to find a nice way to do it, worked great here!

Very cute track! Loved the vocals <3 I want to add some to my track as well but I still have to find a nice way to do it, worked great here!

ooh this is nice . Very fun and uplifting. The arps piano-ish chords are cool.

Definitely hear you on processing vocals on m8 -- I've also struggled a bit with finding a place to put them in my tracks. M8 workflow takes a while to get used to, but once you do it's a pretty neat self-contained little groovebox -- I'm a little biased though

ooh this is nice <3. Very fun and uplifting. The arps piano-ish chords are cool. Definitely hear you on processing vocals on m8 -- I've also struggled a bit with finding a place to put them in my tracks. M8 workflow takes a while to get used to, but once you do it's a pretty neat self-contained little groovebox -- I'm a little biased though :P