Lovely relaxing little tune. Approved!!

Lovely relaxing little tune. Approved!! <3 <3 <3

I'll be home right after I'm done listening to this cool tune, Mom! Geez!
Lovely tune. I dig the buzzy/reedy tones and its overall serene nature.

I'll be home right after I'm done listening to this cool tune, Mom! Geez! Lovely tune. I dig the buzzy/reedy tones and its overall serene nature.

Wow. This goes a lot of directions effortlessly across the duration of the track. It's a lovely journey!

Wow. This goes a lot of directions effortlessly across the duration of the track. It's a lovely journey!

Such a good track. I particularly like how it takes the sort of bouncy arp you use so well and uses them in this sort of somber atmosphere - changing it into a lovely morning wash of sound. Different from a lot of your tracks, and really really good.

Such a good track. I particularly like how it takes the sort of bouncy arp you use so well and uses them in this sort of somber atmosphere - changing it into a lovely morning wash of sound. Different from a lot of your tracks, and really really good.

Love the wind and the buzz. it goes in so many places, both relaxig, cinematic and then i was bopping away.

Love the wind and the buzz. it goes in so many places, both relaxig, cinematic and then i was bopping away.

I think this is the one during weeklymeets where I said "I feel like I was swimming with dolphins", but that again.

I think this is the one during weeklymeets where I said "I feel like I was swimming with dolphins", but that again.

Love the tune. Very chill, that was a nice listen.

I also love that you explore the possibilities of M8 and even find workarounds for some of the limitations. That's soooo coool!

Love the tune. Very chill, that was a nice listen. I also love that you explore the possibilities of M8 and even find workarounds for some of the limitations. That's soooo coool! <3

so nice, love the percussion and those exponential sort of fills. I dont have an M8 but its so cool of you to share the file, I probably will get one one day..

so nice, love the percussion and those exponential sort of fills. I dont have an M8 but its so cool of you to share the file, I probably will get one one day..

Cor anglais perhaps? ;-)

Great sounds, love the stately arp. Tangerine Dream on a faraway beach.

Cor anglais perhaps? ;-) Great sounds, love the stately arp. Tangerine Dream on a faraway beach.

That's true love right there M8!! I hope u tell her how u feel 🩵
Lovely track... U can feel the loneliness, yearning & love in it ...
Gotta be said, my wife won't even listen to my music 😂 prob best that way 🫣

That's true love right there M8!! I hope u tell her how u feel 🩵 Lovely track... U can feel the loneliness, yearning & love in it ... Gotta be said, my wife won't even listen to my music 😂 prob best that way 🫣

Sad and stupid times. But this is lovely. Melancholy, but a bit of triumphant shows through here and there.

Sad and stupid times. But this is lovely. Melancholy, but a bit of triumphant shows through here and there.

this is amazing mister. inspiring that its all m8. so much air and space in this. gets magical in parts. love it

this is amazing mister. inspiring that its all m8. so much air and space in this. gets magical in parts. love it

Lovely song!

I get you being mopey when your partner's away.
Whenever I go on tour, I feel homesick from the day I leave🤣

This makes me want to explore making something without percussion (or just very limited).
Thanks for the inspiration!

Lovely song! I get you being mopey when your partner's away. Whenever I go on tour, I feel homesick from the day I leave🤣 This makes me want to explore making something without percussion (or just very limited). Thanks for the inspiration!

Lovely watery sounds. Thinking of those liminal swimming pool pictures for some reason. Very nice.

Lovely watery sounds. Thinking of those liminal swimming pool pictures for some reason. Very nice.

great synth sounds in this

great synth sounds in this

This is inspiring me to make a zero sample track.

This is inspiring me to make a zero sample track.

that was so, so satisfying.

that was so, so satisfying.

Really cool! Amazing that you did this in so little time. I really liked the kinda portamento sound at 2 min (precisely), that part of the song has beautiful harmonies!

Really cool! Amazing that you did this in so little time. I really liked the kinda portamento sound at 2 min (precisely), that part of the song has beautiful harmonies!

So sweet, totally get the vibe of hanging around an empty house waiting for your partner to come home.
Beautiful composition and nice work doing it all with internal synths!

So sweet, totally get the vibe of hanging around an empty house waiting for your partner to come home. Beautiful composition and nice work doing it all with internal synths!

love all the sounds in this, especially how warm the background pads are! could be the soundtrack to the winter season of a cozy game

love all the sounds in this, especially how warm the background pads are! could be the soundtrack to the winter season of a cozy game

A pretty digital meadow.
- Spider

A pretty digital meadow. - Spider

That's a really impressive soundscape you pulled out of that little thing. I can hear the love that went into it!

That's a really impressive soundscape you pulled out of that little thing. I can hear the love that went into it!

The little birdy chirps are my favorite.

The little birdy chirps are my favorite.

Wow! This one is beautiful. The drums come in at the perfect time, and I was not expecting them. Great work!

Wow! This one is beautiful. The drums come in at the perfect time, and I was not expecting them. Great work!

Great arpeggios

It's very cinematic. I like the wave like noise tracks.

Great arpeggios It's very cinematic. I like the wave like noise tracks.

Yes, never take our loved ones for granted.  Smooth track, like what you did with the sound design, something I still struggle with, I'm more of a preset tweaker.  Maybe one day I will wrap my head around this tracker workflow and take the plunge to the M8 or something similar. 

Yes, never take our loved ones for granted. Smooth track, like what you did with the sound design, something I still struggle with, I'm more of a preset tweaker. Maybe one day I will wrap my head around this tracker workflow and take the plunge to the M8 or something similar.

The song felt like being showered by sweet sunshine and felt all the more sweet after reading the description afterwards. A very important reminder to not take our loved ones for granted, can't hear it too many times.

The song felt like being showered by sweet sunshine and felt all the more sweet after reading the description afterwards. A very important reminder to not take our loved ones for granted, can't hear it too many times.

this is so very nice and comforting

this is so very nice and comforting <3

That was relaxing; you are mastering the m8! Thanks for sharing the files.

That was relaxing; you are mastering the m8! Thanks for sharing the files.

Great work with the M8!! I like the overall melody, like a happy game!

Great work with the M8!! I like the overall melody, like a happy game!

Haha I don't mean this in a bad way, but it would really fit an 80s education tape about some new meditation technique ^^

I would hear someone giving guided meditation instructions on it

Definitely some asian flavours to it too, really nice!

Haha I don't mean this in a bad way, but it would really fit an 80s education tape about some new meditation technique ^^ I would hear someone giving guided meditation instructions on it Definitely some asian flavours to it too, really nice!

Can i hug this track, cuz i love it?

Can i hug this track, cuz i love it?

Yeah, I second that. This was great. And at least to my ears, it does indeed evoke the kind of "I miss my partner" feeling you were talking about in your post.

[quote=Wisefire]Can i hug this track, cuz i love it?[/quote] Yeah, I second that. This was great. And at least to my ears, it does indeed evoke the kind of "I miss my partner" feeling you were talking about in your post.

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love you mr dr cat, attorney at law.

the layering in here is spectacular. it has that great feeling where it's not dense/crowded, but there are still so many elements popping in to say hello. love the bird chirpy squeak. I feel like you really captured this hopefulness at the end I wasn't expecting too. things are kind of shit in the world, and at first I felt like we were really digging into that melancholy, but the end hits this high note. your person is coming back and that makes it better. rad.

love you mr dr cat, attorney at law. the layering in here is spectacular. it has that great feeling where it's not dense/crowded, but there are still so many elements popping in to say hello. love the bird chirpy squeak. I feel like you really captured this hopefulness at the end I wasn't expecting too. things are kind of shit in the world, and at first I felt like we were really digging into that melancholy, but the end hits this high note. your person is coming back and that makes it better. rad.

Yay thank you!

Awesome, thank you! It's tough for me to get a decent variety of sounds - I tend to fixate on the same timbres and types of sound, so it takes some effort not to just have variations of the same patch for everything.

I love that you used "effortlessly"! I never know if what I'm making sounds natural or not!

Thank you! I loves me some arps, and should use them more often. Bonus if I can figure out ways to use them in different moods.

Bopping is always my goal! Thank you for listening

Ha - I should do a dolphin mix where I just add some clicks and whistles. You know, for lyrics!

I think finding the workarounds and solving problems to get the result I want is one of the things that makes the M8 so attractive. It's like taking a break from music creation for a quick puzzle game.

Thanks! Percussion is always the last thing on my mind (I start with a basic beat and fluff it up after the rest of the song is sketched out). It's nice to know I'm getting there!

Oooyum - Tangerine Dream FTW. I need to go back to their catalogue for some inspiration.

Ha ha she's not going to hear this one either, but I will tell her how I feel. The funny thing is I was done with the rough version of this track when I realised why it was turning out so slow and sad. Then I leaned into it

Thanks friend! I like doing happy tracks, so it's possible I just can't help myself. Honestly though, why build a 100% sad track without something built in to contrast with it?

Thank you so much, especially for the "air and space"! I struggle introducing space and breathing room in my tracks (for example, Week 4's track). I don't know if I'm worried people will get bored or if I just need to fill every corner with some kind of colour.

Oh sweet, yeah! I've only done a couple tracks without percussion but they always turn out better than I thought. I fully support this experiment!

Sweeeeeet. I can totally see that, and I'm enough of a liminal nerd that now I want to dig up some new analogue visuals on YouTube... Thanks!

Thank you! I was pretty happy with these. I'm still new at sound design, so it's good to know I'm improving!

Dooooo iiiiiiiittttt......
It's actually a lot of fun.

Thank you! I consider it one of my rare "grown up person" tracks

I was stupid proud of that portnamento. I needed some kind of gentle transition back to the main song and tried a few things, eventually sliding just one instrument. It was an attention-getter, so I fiddled with the other tracks to get everything sliding and had a big dumb grin on my face the whole time.

Super kind words, thank you! Very little of what I write has much forethought, so I really tried to make this one count.

I very much was going for a warm sound for this, so thank you for this. I wonder if I could actually manage a whole album of stuff like this...

YES! I can see the sunlight lighting the edges of the flower petals from behind.

Thank you! It's amazing the noise you can make with only 8 tracks

Thanks for noticing the birdy chirps! I wanted to add something like that to the track and the isolated sound is nothing like birds, but seems to work in the mix. I was happy with the atmosphere they added.

Surprise! I was worried I'd overdo the drums (I removed some more complex stuff as I went).

Thank you - cinematic is something I don't think I've been accused of yet! The noise tracks were more an exercise in sound design to avoid having to use samples, and I think they might feel more of-a-piece with the track that way.

It's hard to make the M8 sound bad, IMO. I do still use presets, but sometimes I just want to see what kind of sounds I can create from scratch. Like, if a melody or something isn't working out but I still want to create, that's when it might just be a sound design day. It's not necessarily for everyone, but I find the M8's workflow to be very simple to tackle, mostly due to the built-in ability to focus on one thing at a time.

Thanks - I wholeheartedly recommend appreciating your loved ones. It's easy to forget that they are your chosen favourite people. You just have to remind yourself why.

Thank you!

I appreciate the kind words! There's so much I still don't know or haven't tried, but that's what Weekly Beats is for, right?

Thank you! I need to work more on my melodies to get more complex. It's always so rewarding.

That would be amazing! I should do a remix where I have my friend with the very relaxing voice read meditation lines over something like this.

If you love it so much why don't you MARRY it????
HA!! I'm and adult
(but thank you Wisefire!)

Aw thanks. The feeling kinda informed the track before I realised what was happening, so that might be why it actually turned out. I'm usually emotionally disconnected from my tracks because that's how I'm wired.

There really is no place like it

I love you too, sleepunit! "Not dense" is probably the highest praise you could give me, since my stuff is usually pretty busy and a little hectic (I fear space, apparently). I definitely hear you on the state of the world, especially after the horror show this last couple of weeks. Since I can't wave a wand and make things better, I'll still try to create positive things. And to be entirely honest, the ending was a bit more twee before I dialled it back Thank you!

THANK YOU EVERYONE for taking the time to listen and comment! I appreciate you - remember to hug your loved ones (and maybe one person you hate, just to shock them and make them paranoid about what you might be up to).

[quote=ChillBitz]Lovely relaxing little tune. Approved!! <3 <3 <3[/quote] Yay thank you! [quote=jasonmauer]I'll be home right after I'm done listening to this cool tune, Mom! Geez! Lovely tune. I dig the buzzy/reedy tones and its overall serene nature.[/quote] Awesome, thank you! It's tough for me to get a decent variety of sounds - I tend to fixate on the same timbres and types of sound, so it takes some effort not to just have variations of the same patch for everything. [quote=Cakes]Wow. This goes a lot of directions effortlessly across the duration of the track. It's a lovely journey![/quote] <3 I love that you used "effortlessly"! I never know if what I'm making sounds natural or not! [quote=Paisleyfrog]Such a good track. I particularly like how it takes the sort of bouncy arp you use so well and uses them in this sort of somber atmosphere - changing it into a lovely morning wash of sound. Different from a lot of your tracks, and really really good. [/quote] Thank you! I loves me some arps, and should use them more often. Bonus if I can figure out ways to use them in different moods. [quote=Crash Overture]Love the wind and the buzz. it goes in so many places, both relaxig, cinematic and then i was bopping away. [/quote] Bopping is always my goal! Thank you for listening :) [quote=0x_colt]I think this is the one during weeklymeets where I said "I feel like I was swimming with dolphins", but that again.[/quote] Ha - I should do a dolphin mix where I just add some clicks and whistles. You know, for lyrics! [quote=dreat]Love the tune. Very chill, that was a nice listen. I also love that you explore the possibilities of M8 and even find workarounds for some of the limitations. That's soooo coool! <3[/quote] I think finding the workarounds and solving problems to get the result I want is one of the things that makes the M8 so attractive. It's like taking a break from music creation for a quick puzzle game. [quote=PieBaron]so nice, love the percussion and those exponential sort of fills. I dont have an M8 but its so cool of you to share the file, I probably will get one one day..[/quote] Thanks! Percussion is always the last thing on my mind (I start with a basic beat and fluff it up after the rest of the song is sketched out). It's nice to know I'm getting there! [quote=Hype Cycle]Cor anglais perhaps? ;-) Great sounds, love the stately arp. Tangerine Dream on a faraway beach.[/quote] Oooyum - Tangerine Dream FTW. I need to go back to their catalogue for some inspiration. [quote=Bearcage]That's true love right there M8!! I hope u tell her how u feel 🩵 Lovely track... U can feel the loneliness, yearning & love in it ... Gotta be said, my wife won't even listen to my music 😂 prob best that way 🫣[/quote] Ha ha she's not going to hear this one either, but I will tell her how I feel. The funny thing is I was done with the rough version of this track when I realised why it was turning out so slow and sad. Then I leaned into it :) [quote=deeckzeven]Sad and stupid times. But this is lovely. Melancholy, but a bit of triumphant shows through here and there.[/quote] Thanks friend! I like doing happy tracks, so it's possible I just can't help myself. Honestly though, why build a 100% sad track without something built in to contrast with it? [quote=monstret]this is amazing mister. inspiring that its all m8. so much air and space in this. gets magical in parts. love it[/quote] Thank you so much, especially for the "air and space"! I struggle introducing space and breathing room in my tracks (for example, Week 4's track). I don't know if I'm worried people will get bored or if I just need to fill every corner with some kind of colour. [quote=GregVK]Lovely song! I get you being mopey when your partner's away. Whenever I go on tour, I feel homesick from the day I leave🤣 This makes me want to explore making something without percussion (or just very limited). Thanks for the inspiration![/quote] Oh sweet, yeah! I've only done a couple tracks without percussion but they always turn out better than I thought. I fully support this experiment! [quote=2haf]Lovely watery sounds. Thinking of those liminal swimming pool pictures for some reason. Very nice.[/quote] Sweeeeeet. I can totally see that, and I'm enough of a liminal nerd that now I want to dig up some new analogue visuals on YouTube... Thanks! [quote=mnapoleon]great synth sounds in this[/quote] Thank you! I was pretty happy with these. I'm still new at sound design, so it's good to know I'm improving! [quote=BarristerPlong]This is inspiring me to make a zero sample track. [/quote] Dooooo iiiiiiiittttt...... It's actually a lot of fun. [quote=As_Yoesual]that was so, so satisfying. [/quote] Thank you! I consider it one of my rare "grown up person" tracks :) [quote=Fade Runner]Really cool! Amazing that you did this in so little time. I really liked the kinda portamento sound at 2 min (precisely), that part of the song has beautiful harmonies![/quote] I was stupid proud of that portnamento. I needed some kind of gentle transition back to the main song and tried a few things, eventually sliding just one instrument. It was an attention-getter, so I fiddled with the other tracks to get everything sliding and had a big dumb grin on my face the whole time. [quote=Dustsucker]So sweet, totally get the vibe of hanging around an empty house waiting for your partner to come home. Beautiful composition and nice work doing it all with internal synths![/quote] Super kind words, thank you! Very little of what I write has much forethought, so I really tried to make this one count. [quote=uhhuh_absolutely]love all the sounds in this, especially how warm the background pads are! could be the soundtrack to the winter season of a cozy game[/quote] I very much was going for a warm sound for this, so thank you for this. I wonder if I could actually manage a whole album of stuff like this... [quote=DESLRV]A pretty digital meadow. - Spider[/quote] YES! I can see the sunlight lighting the edges of the flower petals from behind. [quote=squelette]That's a really impressive soundscape you pulled out of that little thing. I can hear the love that went into it! [/quote] Thank you! It's amazing the noise you can make with only 8 tracks :) [quote=Tide730]The little birdy chirps are my favorite. [/quote] Thanks for noticing the birdy chirps! I wanted to add something like that to the track and the isolated sound is nothing like birds, but seems to work in the mix. I was happy with the atmosphere they added. [quote=Earp Lug]Wow! This one is beautiful. The drums come in at the perfect time, and I was not expecting them. Great work![/quote] Surprise! I was worried I'd overdo the drums (I removed some more complex stuff as I went). [quote=NickLong]Great arpeggios It's very cinematic. I like the wave like noise tracks.[/quote] Thank you - cinematic is something I don't think I've been accused of yet! The noise tracks were more an exercise in sound design to avoid having to use samples, and I think they might feel more of-a-piece with the track that way. [quote=Jason Nijjer]Yes, never take our loved ones for granted. Smooth track, like what you did with the sound design, something I still struggle with, I'm more of a preset tweaker. Maybe one day I will wrap my head around this tracker workflow and take the plunge to the M8 or something similar. [/quote] It's hard to make the M8 sound bad, IMO. I do still use presets, but sometimes I just want to see what kind of sounds I can create from scratch. Like, if a melody or something isn't working out but I still want to create, that's when it might just be a sound design day. It's not necessarily for everyone, but I find the M8's workflow to be very simple to tackle, mostly due to the built-in ability to focus on one thing at a time. [quote=Minnamari]The song felt like being showered by sweet sunshine and felt all the more sweet after reading the description afterwards. A very important reminder to not take our loved ones for granted, can't hear it too many times. [/quote] Thanks - I wholeheartedly recommend appreciating your loved ones. It's easy to forget that they are your chosen favourite people. You just have to remind yourself why. [quote=jwh]this is so very nice and comforting <3[/quote] Thank you! [quote=toaste74]That was relaxing; you are mastering the m8! Thanks for sharing the files.[/quote] I appreciate the kind words! There's so much I still don't know or haven't tried, but that's what Weekly Beats is for, right? [quote=Coldsushi]Great work with the M8!! I like the overall melody, like a happy game![/quote] Thank you! I need to work more on my melodies to get more complex. It's always so rewarding. [quote=XC3N]Haha I don't mean this in a bad way, but it would really fit an 80s education tape about some new meditation technique ^^ I would hear someone giving guided meditation instructions on it Definitely some asian flavours to it too, really nice![/quote] That would be amazing! I should do a remix where I have my friend with the very relaxing voice read meditation lines over something like this. [quote=Wisefire]Can i hug this track, cuz i love it?[/quote] If you love it so much why don't you MARRY it???? HA!! I'm and adult (but thank you Wisefire!) [quote=jegasus]This was great. And at least to my ears, it does indeed evoke the kind of "I miss my partner" feeling you were talking about in your post. [/quote] Aw thanks. The feeling kinda informed the track before I realised what was happening, so that might be why it actually turned out. I'm usually emotionally disconnected from my tracks because that's how I'm wired. [quote=emily] <3[/quote] There really is no place like it <3 [quote=sleepunit]love you mr dr cat, attorney at law. the layering in here is spectacular. it has that great feeling where it's not dense/crowded, but there are still so many elements popping in to say hello. love the bird chirpy squeak. I feel like you really captured this hopefulness at the end I wasn't expecting too. things are kind of shit in the world, and at first I felt like we were really digging into that melancholy, but the end hits this high note. your person is coming back and that makes it better. rad.[/quote] I love you too, sleepunit! "Not dense" is probably the highest praise you could give me, since my stuff is usually pretty busy and a little hectic (I fear space, apparently). I definitely hear you on the state of the world, especially after the horror show this last couple of weeks. Since I can't wave a wand and make things better, I'll still try to create positive things. And to be entirely honest, the ending was a bit more twee before I dialled it back :D Thank you! THANK YOU EVERYONE for taking the time to listen and comment! I appreciate you - remember to hug your loved ones (and maybe one person you hate, just to shock them and make them paranoid about what you might be up to).

Hug your loved ones. 🫶🫶🫶

Hug your loved ones. 🫶🫶🫶

Wow. This is so nice. Really soothing and sweet.
My partner was gone at the same time and it definitely made me blue - right there with you!

Wow. This is so nice. Really soothing and sweet. My partner was gone at the same time and it definitely made me blue - right there with you!

Love your sound selection. The synths are so weird and varied but they all come together so well.

Love your sound selection. The synths are so weird and varied but they all come together so well.

ooof love the thickness of the bassy synth.  feels like flowers blooming   peaceful and serene and an excellent outro.  well done!

ooof love the thickness of the bassy synth. feels like flowers blooming <3 peaceful and serene and an excellent outro. well done!