This week I played around with the M8's wavsynth, hypersynth, tables, and a little bit of FM. I ended up making some instruments and sounds that I really liked and after playing with the tables and some other effects, transformed what was originally a bit of a flat/boring track into something interesting (at least, in my opinion!). I wanted to mess around with vocals a bit more after kind of messing them up two weeks ago. This week I used a quote from Dune, fed word-by-word into festival to give a bit of a less natural tone/pronunciation than if I had fed the full quote in (originally trying to do something like the vocals in Gregor McMurray - What I Want, but ended up with something else). I recorded it to my M8 and chopped it up a bit to get some more glitched/skipping sounds. After dropping it into Reaper for a final render, I modified it a bunch more using Baby Audio Humanoid.

Earlier in the week I spent a lot of time trying to sample jingle bells and make a Christmas song, but gave up towards the end of the week as I was getting closer to the week 51 deadline. Every attempt at a Christmas/holiday song ended up sounding too close to other songs so I figured it wasn't worth struggling to make something that I was going to be unhappy with... there's only one more week, don't want to waste a track! As always, any and all feedback is appreciated!

The title of the track is the Esperanto word for "style.". Originally I was going to use a word for "threat" or "deadly" but those were a bit too close to some of my other track titles. The Esperanto words for "Subtlety" or "Self-control" were a bit weird to me as titles, so I went with a different spin on the quote. Basically that the "style" you use to address a situation is the deadly threat... it kinda works!

The image this week is an animation I made by generating a 50x50 matplotlib plot of random data, cycled every ~250ms and recorded using ffmpeg... kind of a weird and janky way to generate something like this.

Tags: chiptune, deadly, dune, m8 tracker, m8model02, m8tracker, selfcontrol, style, subtlety, threat, wavsynth, week 51 2024, View by:mukti