My Little World
By MRDRCAT on May 3, 2026 12:07 pm
It was originally titled My Empty Room, but it's too happy for that kind of emptiness. This one started out with the opening loop getting stuck in my head, and (finally) I managed to expand it out. I'm actually happy with how it ended up. It's all M8 and all original synth patches except for the snare and kick - both of those are in the Samples From Mars essentials pack if you need them.
This one was odd - I wanted to add a second lead, something I could use for a very obvious C part, but adding it messed up the momentum of the track. It felt like I was diverting all the energy into a black hole, and I wasn't able to land it. So I pulled all those parts except for the 8 bars I used for a bridge. The project is a mess, BUT I had an idea...
Since this is one of the weeks where I would normally submit the track both to WB and the M8 Community Jam (it's a thread in the M8 Discord), I duplicated this project and substituted all the parts featuring the first lead with the stuff I had written for the second lead. Since the theme for the jam is "Crunchy", I added some bit crushing and generally dirtied it up. Apart from the lead swap, some different synths, and a couple notes adjusted in the bass line, both tracks are the same. Unfortunately, as I was working on the Jam version, I realised the "second" lead is the stronger of the two.
Anyway. At the last minute, I added the little bass solo. This meant I needed to add one to the Jam track as well, but I had already duplicated the project and started messing with it, so I just did a different bass solo for that one. Hopefully even though they are basically the same track they sound different enough to be interesting.
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