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By MRDRCAT on March 31, 2024 10:52 pm

I've been wondering how people can crank out a track in 3 hours, and then I hit a creative block this past week. Suddenly this morning I had a 2-bar idea and a fully-charged M8, so here's the result. Start to finish in one battery charge. Is it great? No. Does it need some tweaking for bum notes and a bad mix? YES. But it's done and I have to get back to editing wedding photos.

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Aaawwww yeeeesss, I'm feeling this... Also, did you manage to throw in a couple of super quick key changes at around 0:45 and 0:50 (and other times throughout)? Damn, that's slick!!!

Super impressed you were able to cook this up in just a couple of hours that's awesome! Also another reason why I enjoy diddling around with the M8 so much. It's so easy to just drop on your couch, boot it up, sink in a couple of hours and already have something more than just "not ass".

Anyways, lovely tune! It gives me the vibes of the opening screen of a game about illegal midnight racing. The distorted vocals almost remind me of cops speaking into their walkie talkies trying (and failing) to catch those damn reckless kids.

jegasus wrote:

Also, did you manage to throw in a couple of super quick key changes at around 0:45 and 0:50 (and other times throughout)? Damn, that's slick!!!

Super impressed you were able to cook this up in just a couple of hours that's awesome! Also another reason why I enjoy diddling around with the M8 so much. It's so easy to just drop on your couch, boot it up, sink in a couple of hours and already have something more than just "not ass".

I guarantee that any key changes are the result of me messing up some notes and then "fixing" it by changing the wrong part.

The M8 is literally my dream machine. A handheld device with minimal controls but oodles of options for sound design, sequencing, and a robust song mode. With what I tend to create I have yet to hit any serious limits. If I didn't have the M8, I wouldn't be anywhere near as productive. Well, the Deluge comes close, and now with the community firmware Song mode seems better!

Crunchy. I am usually left with about 16 bars worth of a loop after 3h. Even with a magical device that is the M8.

jimmac wrote:

Crunchy. I am usually left with about 16 bars worth of a loop after 3h. Even with a magical device that is the M8.

This is an outlier for sure, and I'm not counting the four failed projects before I started this one. Plus, your stuff is more complex than mine! I'd probably rage quit if I found out Intrepid Dune only took you a few hours.

The tone on that pattern set the mood at the beginning, but when that sustained bass note kicked in under it? Awww yiz. Love how relentless this track is, keeps driving forward in a delightlfully aggressive 80s way. The main riff has flavors of if Crazy Train was done by a Synthwave band. Awesome.

Haha, this wins the loudness war big_smile

DOS-era game vibes sans the deep reverb and the sampled announcements. Those do remind me of some FPS games of late '90s though. A nostalgic trip then. Nice effort for a single battery charge!

Paisleyfrog wrote:

The tone on that pattern set the mood at the beginning, but when that sustained bass note kicked in under it? Awww yiz. Love how relentless this track is, keeps driving forward in a delightlfully aggressive 80s way. The main riff has flavors of if Crazy Train was done by a Synthwave band. Awesome.

Ha ha sweet! The lead and bass are the same patch (I called it "Pibble" for some reason) - it's one of two patches I designed that appeal to some part of my lizard brain, so they show up a LOT in some form or another.

rplktr wrote:

Haha, this wins the loudness war big_smile

DOS-era game vibes sans the deep reverb and the sampled announcements. Those do remind me of some FPS games of late '90s though. A nostalgic trip then. Nice effort for a single battery charge!

Thank you! Definitely a genre I'm happy to be associated with. I apologise for the levels - I didn't notice how aggressive this one was!

All hold music should sound like this.

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