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SAKURO

By mukti on April 14, 2024 5:02 pm

Still caught up in the process of moving, so another short one. Thinking about all the cherry blossom trees blooming in Philadelphia these past two weeks, I tried to make a springtime song but ended up with something a bit more mysterious. Typically with my m8, I leave the scale set to C Chromatic, but for this I switched to C Hirajoshi and played the plucked macrosynth up and down the scale. I also heavily used modified versions of the Fireflies and Rolling Bass from Mikey303's RavePack, and threw in a handful of samples.

Any and all feedback is appreciated!

I saw the Esperanto word SAKURO used a few places in place of the Japanese word Sakura. I'm not 100% sure if its a correct translation, but I went with it!

The photo is obvious given the theme - I took this on a bike ride past a Japanese garden in Philly earlier this week.

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April 15, 2024 7:36 pm

onezero

Very hypnotic! Definitely has the lightness of a spring breeze. Nicely done!

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April 15, 2024 10:25 pm

rplktr

The M8 pluck sounds pretty good here, vaguely oriental but not really any concrete instrument. Well built atmosphere on top of that core.

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April 16, 2024 12:13 am

Devieus

These plucks be plucking like mad, must have tired and sore fingers from all that.
- Raioh

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April 16, 2024 2:18 am

mukti

onezero wrote:

Very hypnotic! Definitely has the lightness of a spring breeze. Nicely done!

Thanks! I was hoping that I was still able to keep enough lightness that it had *some* springiness to it!


rplktr wrote:

The M8 pluck sounds pretty good here, vaguely oriental but not really any concrete instrument. Well built atmosphere on top of that core.

Thanks! I definitely played with it a lot. It didn't quite get to the Japanese koto or shamisen sound I originally imagined, but I was pretty happy with the end result.


Devieus wrote:

These plucks be plucking like mad, must have tired and sore fingers from all that.
- Raioh

It definitely would be a workout to actually play 😬

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