Really chill. Great start to the year.

Really chill. Great start to the year.

happy new year napear!

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excellent start to the new year, Buddy! really strong vibe, and i love those almost ghostly leads ...
(*￣０￣)ノ

excellent start to the new year, Buddy! really strong vibe, and i love those almost ghostly leads ... (*￣０￣)ノ

Unsettling melodies! Love it

Unsettling melodies! Love it

Love the vibe of this!

Love the vibe of this!

Very chill and love that bass. Welcome back buddy!

Very chill and love that bass. Welcome back buddy!

oooh, nice work!
I'm a huge fan of the small percussivies panning around.
Emily's rain gif fits perfectly!

oooh, nice work! I'm a huge fan of the small percussivies panning around. Emily's rain gif fits perfectly!

3 hours to spare… your conscientiousness is impressive

The second half of those broken chords is so nice and smoky and then it follows with the growl I love both of those textures

3 hours to spare… your conscientiousness is impressive The second half of those broken chords is so nice and smoky and then it follows with the growl I love both of those textures

Drums sound so nice and punchy with the added percussive stereo elements.  The synths in this give it a chill contemplative feel that had me nodding.  Great to see you back!  Lets go!

Drums sound so nice and punchy with the added percussive stereo elements. The synths in this give it a chill contemplative feel that had me nodding. Great to see you back! Lets go!

another turn of the wheel let's go, nice down tempo pace to this one. Getting hardware to play together is one part frustration two parts inspiration (if it wasn't as inspiring to me as it is I certainly would have saved a pretty penny). The virus is a beast and sits as a main voice in my hardware rig as well.

another turn of the wheel let's go, nice down tempo pace to this one. Getting hardware to play together is one part frustration two parts inspiration (if it wasn't as inspiring to me as it is I certainly would have saved a pretty penny). The virus is a beast and sits as a main voice in my hardware rig as well.

Beautiful sounds, very analogue vibe! I’m getting a cozy café, escaping the cold rain and having some tea and pastries, admiring the slightly quirky but very cozy decorations, and colourful blurred lights outside

Beautiful sounds, very analogue vibe! I’m getting a cozy café, escaping the cold rain and having some tea and pastries, admiring the slightly quirky but very cozy decorations, and colourful blurred lights outside :)

emily's gif explains it perfectly: super chill rainy day tune. Very pretty, man. Loving the sounds here - the hand-pan sounding main instrument is soooo pretty!!!
Welcome back to WB, man! Looking forward to listening to your hardware explorations!!!

emily's gif explains it perfectly: super chill rainy day tune. Very pretty, man. Loving the sounds here - the hand-pan sounding main instrument is soooo pretty!!! Welcome back to WB, man! Looking forward to listening to your hardware explorations!!!

A nice chilled out and smooth vibe.  It puts me in a good headspace.

A nice chilled out and smooth vibe. It puts me in a good headspace.

Gorgeous! Love it - so spacey. Captures a feeling, which I think is the best thing a track can do.

Gorgeous! Love it - so spacey. Captures a feeling, which I think is the best thing a track can do.

Nice cozy vibe to start 2026

Nice cozy vibe to start 2026

Such wonderful contrasts. That heavy, simple beard with skittering elements above it…and then the sweet keys above ithat. Somber, maybe a little hopeful. Excellent start to the year…let’s go for ‘26!

Such wonderful contrasts. That heavy, simple beard with skittering elements above it…and then the sweet keys above ithat. Somber, maybe a little hopeful. Excellent start to the year…let’s go for ‘26!

Super chill. Rain on the window baby

Super chill. Rain on the window baby

Nice arrangement! Very mellow and blue (if I had to give it a color association). The clicky percussive element that pans around the stereo field and tickles my brain. I'll be interested to hear your tracks this year that end up completely DAW-less! (Week 1 is a lot of pressure jump back into things, so I don't fault ya for leaning back on the DAW for this one, haha)

Nice arrangement! Very mellow and blue (if I had to give it a color association). The clicky percussive element that pans around the stereo field and tickles my brain. I'll be interested to hear your tracks this year that end up completely DAW-less! (Week 1 is a lot of pressure jump back into things, so I don't fault ya for leaning back on the DAW for this one, haha)

Thanks, it did feel like a good start, but I'm looking forward to settling into a rhythm, still 51 to go.   

（〜^∇^ )〜 Happy new year!!

( ◡‿◡ *) Thanks, lots of happy accidents from this one... interestingly, there are only 7 tracks total, 6 of which are drums... and 2 of those are kick drums... and I'm only using one layer in the Virus... so all of the harmonic and melodic info, all coming from, at most 4 notes from the Virus... but mostly only 2... and an absolute metric shit ton of effects ( ಠ‿<).  I pretty much just wrote and sequenced a chord progression, and just kept tweaking the one synth voice and adding effects until it sounded like three or four parts.

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

Thanks, I spent a few hours working out the harmonies for this one, and I found that I kind of love modulating from Dorian to relative Lydian.  Dorian already feels like it's almost a major mode, but then modulating to the brightest mode kind of highlights how minor it is I guess.  Definitely makes for a mood. 

It's funny, as I was working out the harmony, once I got all 5 sections for the pad/arp programmed in... I was like, "You know I could submit this, and I'd be ok with that"... then I started down a, typically ill fated, and overly ambitious path fraught with technical issues, and poor choices, ending with nothing but frustration to show for it... BUT... where last year I would have scrapped the project and thrown together a piano track... this year I remembered that initial thought... and was like "you know, if I put a ton of effects on the arp pad thing... I bet i can pull a texture, and maybe a bass out of it"...

Which is all to say, I'm thrilled you even heard a bass in it, because the arp, pad, bass, melodies, and most of the high clicky rhythmic parts... all the same Virus patch that is never playing more than 4 notes at once... it's amazing what a thought out harmony and just a butt load of different flavors of delay can do. 

Thanks, I'm really happy that part came together as it did... the percs were the last thing I added before I tracked the drums, and it wasn't until late in the mixing phase, I was like "this needs more movement", so I hit that perc with the E-Motion preset from MTremoloMB, and it made all the difference.

I'm glad you like it.  As I mentioned above, really there's only one synth playing for the whole thing, so all the textural elements come from effects. That growl and the like textural bed kind of sound comes from a combo of ReplicaXT using a reverby, chorusy, preset, and Transit 2 using one of the crazy Andrew Huang multi-effect presets, and then just cranking it up on the transition.

Thanks, I have really been enjoying the Syntakt as my primary drum machine... the analog machines, just sound sooooooo good, and they are so easy to do sound design with.  It's gonna be a good year.

Oh man... this track might have been more than one part frustration with the hardware... I definitely intended to have a bass part, a textural bed, and a lead... like all as separate parts... after actively fighting my modular for 2-3 hours... I just gave up and was like "what can I make with this one Virus part, some drum machine and ALL the effects?"... turns out, this track.

But yeah, I think I said this on Chasing the Beats, but the Virus TI2 is the best desktop polysynth ever made... I will die on that hill. 

Oh I love that imagery, I'm so glad it was evocative in that way.  I think that's one of the things I love most about the Dorian mode, because it sits right on that boarder between major and minor tonalities, it really allows the listener to bring their own mood to a piece.  So it delights me that you got "cozy cafe" from it. 

I'm really glad you liked the synth voice.  As mentioned above, it really ended up being the onlyest synth in the piece, so I put a TON of sound design into it.  I was really pleased with the results... maybe I will sample the patch and add it to the Community Garden. 

I'm so glad, I'm still in that space of oscillating between loving the track and hating it, so it's awesome to hear that it conjured up such chill vibes for everyone. 

Thanks, I mentioned this a bit above, but, I just love Dorian... it just kind of reflects the listeners feels back at them in a really interesting way. 

I'm so glad cozy is the predominant energy people are getting... I have a bunch of chill focus music planned for the year, so hopefully this bodes well for those projects.

I'm so glad you called that out.  I (very loosely) based the structure off Sonata Allegro form, which I have always thought about as an exercise in establishing, blending, then re-establishing contrasting elements.  So I put some thought into how to create contrast... and given that 2 of the parts I intended to write for it never materialized, I'm just really glad that contrast still reads. 

Thanks so much, I'm hoping to maintain the chill for a lot of the tracks for this year... fingers crossed.

I'm stoked so many folks called out the perc... like they were really the last element I added, and as I mentioned above, I added all the movement very late in the process... but give how much this track depends on harmony, rhythm, and sound design those percs are kind of the rug that really ties the whole room together. 

And yeah, baby steps to the full DAWless... in all honesty, given all the snags I hit, if it wasn't for a LOT of software effects in mixing, this track would NOT be what it is... but... last year I started with a kind of sloppy solo piano jam... and ended with a pretty dialed in solo piano track... with some luck week 52 will be a lean dialed in hardware only track...

[quote=BarristerPlong]Really chill. Great start to the year.[/quote] Thanks, it did feel like a good start, but I'm looking forward to settling into a rhythm, still 51 to go. [quote=emily] happy new year napear![/quote] （〜^∇^ )〜 Happy new year!! [quote=jwh]excellent start to the new year, Buddy! really strong vibe, and i love those almost ghostly leads ... (*￣０￣)ノ [/quote] ( ◡‿◡ *) Thanks, lots of happy accidents from this one... interestingly, there are only 7 tracks total, 6 of which are drums... and 2 of those are kick drums... and I'm only using one layer in the Virus... so all of the harmonic and melodic info, all coming from, at most 4 notes from the Virus... but mostly only 2... and an absolute metric shit ton of effects ( ಠ‿<). I pretty much just wrote and sequenced a chord progression, and just kept tweaking the one synth voice and adding effects until it sounded like three or four parts. [quote=davelacorneille]Unsettling melodies! Love it[/quote] Thanks, I'm glad you like it. [quote=Huabun]Love the vibe of this! [/quote] Thanks, I spent a few hours working out the harmonies for this one, and I found that I kind of love modulating from Dorian to relative Lydian. Dorian already feels like it's [i]almost[/i] a major mode, but then modulating to the brightest mode kind of highlights how minor it is I guess. Definitely makes for a mood. [quote=neon liminal]Very chill and love that bass. Welcome back buddy![/quote] It's funny, as I was working out the harmony, once I got all 5 sections for the pad/arp programmed in... I was like, "You know I could submit this, and I'd be ok with that"... then I started down a, typically ill fated, and overly ambitious path fraught with technical issues, and poor choices, ending with nothing but frustration to show for it... BUT... where last year I would have scrapped the project and thrown together a piano track... this year I remembered that initial thought... and was like "you know, if I put a ton of effects on the arp pad thing... I bet i can pull a texture, and maybe a bass out of it"... Which is all to say, I'm thrilled you even heard a bass in it, because the arp, pad, bass, melodies, and most of the high clicky rhythmic parts... all the same Virus patch that is never playing more than 4 notes at once... it's amazing what a thought out harmony and just a butt load of different flavors of delay can do. [quote=As_Yoesual]oooh, nice work! I'm a huge fan of the small percussivies panning around. Emily's rain gif fits perfectly![/quote] Thanks, I'm really happy that part came together as it did... the percs were the last thing I added before I tracked the drums, and it wasn't until late in the mixing phase, I was like "this needs more movement", so I hit that perc with the E-Motion preset from MTremoloMB, and it made all the difference. [quote=prophisee]3 hours to spare… your conscientiousness is impressive The second half of those broken chords is so nice and smoky and then it follows with the growl I love both of those textures [/quote] I'm glad you like it. As I mentioned above, really there's only one synth playing for the whole thing, so all the textural elements come from effects. That growl and the like textural bed kind of sound comes from a combo of ReplicaXT using a reverby, chorusy, preset, and Transit 2 using one of the crazy Andrew Huang multi-effect presets, and then just cranking it up on the transition. [quote=Tone Matrix]Drums sound so nice and punchy with the added percussive stereo elements. The synths in this give it a chill contemplative feel that had me nodding. Great to see you back! Lets go![/quote] Thanks, I have really been enjoying the Syntakt as my primary drum machine... the analog machines, just sound sooooooo good, and they are so easy to do sound design with. It's gonna be a good year. [quote=mzunguko]another turn of the wheel let's go, nice down tempo pace to this one. Getting hardware to play together is one part frustration two parts inspiration (if it wasn't as inspiring to me as it is I certainly would have saved a pretty penny). The virus is a beast and sits as a main voice in my hardware rig as well. [/quote] Oh man... this track might have been more than one part frustration with the hardware... I definitely intended to have a bass part, a textural bed, and a lead... like all as separate parts... after actively fighting my modular for 2-3 hours... I just gave up and was like "what can I make with this one Virus part, some drum machine and ALL the effects?"... turns out, this track. But yeah, I think I said this on Chasing the Beats, but the Virus TI2 is the best desktop polysynth ever made... I will die on that hill. [quote=Xjs]Beautiful sounds, very analogue vibe! I’m getting a cozy café, escaping the cold rain and having some tea and pastries, admiring the slightly quirky but very cozy decorations, and colourful blurred lights outside :)[/quote] Oh I love that imagery, I'm so glad it was evocative in that way. I think that's one of the things I love most about the Dorian mode, because it sits right on that boarder between major and minor tonalities, it really allows the listener to bring their own mood to a piece. So it delights me that you got "cozy cafe" from it. [quote=jegasus]emily's gif explains it perfectly: super chill rainy day tune. Very pretty, man. Loving the sounds here - the hand-pan sounding main instrument is soooo pretty!!! Welcome back to WB, man! Looking forward to listening to your hardware explorations!!! [/quote] I'm really glad you liked the synth voice. As mentioned above, it really ended up being the onlyest synth in the piece, so I put a TON of sound design into it. I was really pleased with the results... maybe I will sample the patch and add it to the Community Garden. [quote=Cosmic Cairns]A nice chilled out and smooth vibe. It puts me in a good headspace.[/quote] I'm so glad, I'm still in that space of oscillating between loving the track and hating it, so it's awesome to hear that it conjured up such chill vibes for everyone. [quote=hamez]Gorgeous! Love it - so spacey. Captures a feeling, which I think is the best thing a track can do. [/quote] Thanks, I mentioned this a bit above, but, I just love Dorian... it just kind of reflects the listeners feels back at them in a really interesting way. [quote=ixotli]Nice cozy vibe to start 2026[/quote] I'm so glad cozy is the predominant energy people are getting... I have a bunch of chill focus music planned for the year, so hopefully this bodes well for those projects. [quote=Paisleyfrog]Such wonderful contrasts. That heavy, simple beard with skittering elements above it…and then the sweet keys above ithat. Somber, maybe a little hopeful. Excellent start to the year…let’s go for ‘26![/quote] I'm so glad you called that out. I (very loosely) based the structure off Sonata Allegro form, which I have always thought about as an exercise in establishing, blending, then re-establishing contrasting elements. So I put some thought into how to create contrast... and given that 2 of the parts I intended to write for it never materialized, I'm just really glad that contrast still reads. [quote=Judgement Act]Super chill. Rain on the window baby[/quote] Thanks so much, I'm hoping to maintain the chill for a lot of the tracks for this year... fingers crossed. [quote=ViridianLoom]Nice arrangement! Very mellow and blue (if I had to give it a color association). The clicky percussive element that pans around the stereo field and tickles my brain. I'll be interested to hear your tracks this year that end up completely DAW-less! (Week 1 is a lot of pressure jump back into things, so I don't fault ya for leaning back on the DAW for this one, haha)[/quote] I'm stoked so many folks called out the perc... like they were really the last element I added, and as I mentioned above, I added all the movement very late in the process... but give how much this track depends on harmony, rhythm, and sound design those percs are kind of the rug that really ties the whole room together. And yeah, baby steps to the full DAWless... in all honesty, given all the snags I hit, if it wasn't for a LOT of software effects in mixing, this track would NOT be what it is... but... last year I started with a kind of sloppy solo piano jam... and ended with a pretty dialed in solo piano track... with some luck week 52 will be a lean dialed in hardware only track...

The way those high notes ring out to a kind of distortion (or like old speakers under stress) had me listen to this a couple of times...loved it.  To my ears it sounds like the track plays super chill but occasionally warps at the edges.  So good

The way those high notes ring out to a kind of distortion (or like old speakers under stress) had me listen to this a couple of times...loved it. To my ears it sounds like the track plays super chill but occasionally warps at the edges. So good

Yeah, there's a LOT going on to get to that sound... So the core synth patch has some modulation connecting the filter envelope with the oscillator pitch... which is creating this like wave of rising pitch with some extra upper harmonics when the notes ring out, then that's going in to a chain that goes flanger -> distortion -> OTT -> bitcrusher -> compressor -> auto pan -> phaser... and it's the interactions between those upper harmonics from the filter movement, the flanger, the distortion and the phaser that makes (what I think) your calling out.  Basically I was just like, "I'mma keep puttin' effects on this until I run out of time or it sounds like I wrote more parts"... and I kinda got lucky. 

[quote=lament.config]The way those high notes ring out to a kind of distortion (or like old speakers under stress) had me listen to this a couple of times...loved it. To my ears it sounds like the track plays super chill but occasionally warps at the edges. So good[/quote] Yeah, there's a LOT going on to get to that sound... So the core synth patch has some modulation connecting the filter envelope with the oscillator pitch... which is creating this like wave of rising pitch with some extra upper harmonics when the notes ring out, then that's going in to a chain that goes flanger -> distortion -> OTT -> bitcrusher -> compressor -> auto pan -> phaser... and it's the interactions between those upper harmonics from the filter movement, the flanger, the distortion and the phaser that makes (what I think) your calling out. Basically I was just like, "I'mma keep puttin' effects on this until I run out of time or it sounds like I wrote more parts"... and I kinda got lucky.

So many great things going on in this.

So many great things going on in this.

I love the lead sound and how it seems to be everywhere. The percussion reigns (rains?) it in nicely, giving it a solid foundation, and the pattering hats? clicks? dancing around the stereo field is PERFECT.

I love the lead sound and how it seems to be everywhere. The percussion reigns (rains?) it in nicely, giving it a solid foundation, and the pattering hats? clicks? dancing around the stereo field is PERFECT.

super chill! love that phaser (flanger?) effect happening, makes everything feels swirly and dreamy. nice work!

super chill! love that phaser (flanger?) effect happening, makes everything feels swirly and dreamy. nice work!

Really really ace work, beautiful. Special recognition for pushing Syntakt into the direction of this beautiful thing.

Really really ace work, beautiful. Special recognition for pushing Syntakt into the direction of this beautiful thing. <3

Thanks, I might sample the main synth to add to the Community Garden.

I'm glad you liked it, the perc/click sound dancing around is (mostly) the Syntakt RS Hard analog machine... but there is also a click sound from the filter of the main synth (that I planned to tweak out of it at some point, but never got to) that by some crazy happy accident, after adding an effect chain, sonically matched up with the rim shot so well that it ended up reading as a change of one instrument rather change between two.

Yeah, phaser and flanger (some chorus too), basically possible kind of delay found it's way into this effect chain at one point or another.  And thank you. 

Thanks so much, I watched an interview a while back where JakoJako was talking through one of her setups, and that started a fixation on the sounds of the Analog Rtym... which I don't have the desk space for, nor do I need the performance pads... so the Syntakt was kind of the natural ending place of that fixation... and after like almost a year of waffling back and forth, I pulled my Deluge from the drum machine roll in my main setup and dropped in the Syntakt... I have not regretted the change... it's just soooooo easy to do really interesting sound design with AND it sounds great... what's not to love.

[quote=SQF]So many great things going on in this. [/quote] Thanks, I might sample the main synth to add to the Community Garden. [quote=MRDRCAT]I love the lead sound and how it seems to be everywhere. The percussion reigns (rains?) it in nicely, giving it a solid foundation, and the pattering hats? clicks? dancing around the stereo field is PERFECT.[/quote] I'm glad you liked it, the perc/click sound dancing around is (mostly) the Syntakt RS Hard analog machine... but there is also a click sound from the filter of the main synth (that I planned to tweak out of it at some point, but never got to) that by some crazy happy accident, after adding an effect chain, sonically matched up with the rim shot so well that it ended up reading as a change of one instrument rather change between two. [quote=that_ranjit]super chill! love that phaser (flanger?) effect happening, makes everything feels swirly and dreamy. nice work![/quote] Yeah, phaser and flanger (some chorus too), basically possible kind of delay found it's way into this effect chain at one point or another. And thank you. [quote=ilzxc]Really really ace work, beautiful. Special recognition for pushing Syntakt into the direction of this beautiful thing. <3[/quote] Thanks so much, I watched an interview a while back where JakoJako was talking through one of her setups, and that started a fixation on the sounds of the Analog Rtym... which I don't have the desk space for, nor do I need the performance pads... so the Syntakt was kind of the natural ending place of that fixation... and after like almost a year of waffling back and forth, I pulled my Deluge from the drum machine roll in my main setup and dropped in the Syntakt... I have not regretted the change... it's just soooooo easy to do really interesting sound design with AND it sounds great... what's not to love.

Nice and mellow.
- Devieus

Nice and mellow. - Devieus

I like the rainy night feel of this beat. Hardware song modes are something I rarely gel with, so kudos you're going that route. There's space for a solo over the harmony you built, I imagine something acoustic (or an electric guitar perhaps?) to contrast the glassy textures. But don't get me wrong, I like it as is, too!

Glad to see you back and looking forward to what you do with hardware for the rest of the year. And don't be afraid of mixing and mastering in a DAW, that part of the process isn't in any way detrimental to what you learned composing on the hardware, but lets you present it to the world easier. So do that, given the time constraints during Weekly Beats, it's healthy not to agonize over purity.

I like the rainy night feel of this beat. Hardware song modes are something I rarely gel with, so kudos you're going that route. There's space for a solo over the harmony you built, I imagine something acoustic (or an electric guitar perhaps?) to contrast the glassy textures. But don't get me wrong, I like it as is, too! Glad to see you back and looking forward to what you do with hardware for the rest of the year. And don't be afraid of mixing and mastering in a DAW, that part of the process isn't in any way detrimental to what you learned composing on the hardware, but lets you present it to the world easier. So do that, given the time constraints during Weekly Beats, it's healthy not to agonize over purity.

What a great atmosphere in this track! The sound choose is *cheff kiss* - lush warm sounds with sharp staccato hihats, a simple kick and snare, all super well mixed. That low rubbery layer or flanger from 1:22 is a nice touch. Looking forward to more of your tracks this year!

What a great atmosphere in this track! The sound choose is *cheff kiss* - lush warm sounds with sharp staccato hihats, a simple kick and snare, all super well mixed. That low rubbery layer or flanger from 1:22 is a nice touch. Looking forward to more of your tracks this year!

Lovely pace and great to hear the Ti2 in action.  I usually do at least one Ti2 track each year.  I don't use it often but it impresses me every time I do!

Looking forward to hearing more hardware jams.

Lovely pace and great to hear the Ti2 in action. I usually do at least one Ti2 track each year. I don't use it often but it impresses me every time I do! Looking forward to hearing more hardware jams.

That's a lot of killer gear under the hood of this serenity. My hapax doesn't get the attention it deserves. Shout out to sequencers though.

Great song!

That's a lot of killer gear under the hood of this serenity. My hapax doesn't get the attention it deserves. Shout out to sequencers though. Great song!

Thanks, I'm glad mellow is the vibe.

Yeah, I agree, there is a fair bit of space that could be filled still.  My initial intention was to add textural elements (that the effect ended up doing), a bass, and a lead to it, but I just ran out of time faffing about with technical snags... I really wanted to use my Deckard's Voice to patch up an interesting CS-80 type synth voice, but for as often as I have done that in the past, it's just different when there is a ticking clock and a hard deadline.  But, it all leave room to grow right?  And yeah you're right about the "hardware purity" thing for sure... but for the end of the year goal I would like to only do the mastering working in the box.  I think forcing myself to use hardware for the mix down and the recording will unlock new skills in the DAW... or at least foster more appreciation for all my various compressor and tape emulator VSTs ꉂ (´∀｀)ʱªʱªʱª

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with how all the effects came together... more happy accidents than intentional choices really, but better lucky than good right?

It really is a great synth... like the tonal character is great, and it's built like a tank... but really for it's shear versatility, I'm hard pressed to think of anything even in the same ballpark... maybe the Iridium, but while it has 16 voices multi-timbrel... the Ti2's 16 parts are with 80 total voices... like it's just a beast. 

Oh man, that Hapax... like it really does all the things one might want from a sequencer... I do love me some sequencers... but everything else is just kinda playin' for second place for me, the Hapax is just too good.  Though I will admit coming up through the Deluge definitely primed me to appreciate it. 

[quote=DESLRV]Nice and mellow. - Devieus[/quote] Thanks, I'm glad mellow is the vibe. [quote=RPLKTR]I like the rainy night feel of this beat. Hardware song modes are something I rarely gel with, so kudos you're going that route. There's space for a solo over the harmony you built, I imagine something acoustic (or an electric guitar perhaps?) to contrast the glassy textures. But don't get me wrong, I like it as is, too! Glad to see you back and looking forward to what you do with hardware for the rest of the year. And don't be afraid of mixing and mastering in a DAW, that part of the process isn't in any way detrimental to what you learned composing on the hardware, but lets you present it to the world easier. So do that, given the time constraints during Weekly Beats, it's healthy not to agonize over purity.[/quote] Yeah, I agree, there is a fair bit of space that could be filled still. My initial intention was to add textural elements (that the effect ended up doing), a bass, and a lead to it, but I just ran out of time faffing about with technical snags... I really wanted to use my Deckard's Voice to patch up an interesting CS-80 type synth voice, but for as often as I have done that in the past, it's just different when there is a ticking clock and a hard deadline. But, it all leave room to grow right? And yeah you're right about the "hardware purity" thing for sure... but for the end of the year goal I would like to only do the mastering working in the box. I think forcing myself to use hardware for the mix down and the recording will unlock new skills in the DAW... or at least foster more appreciation for all my various compressor and tape emulator VSTs ꉂ (´∀｀)ʱªʱªʱª [quote=Kedbreak136]What a great atmosphere in this track! The sound choose is *cheff kiss* - lush warm sounds with sharp staccato hihats, a simple kick and snare, all super well mixed. That low rubbery layer or flanger from 1:22 is a nice touch. Looking forward to more of your tracks this year![/quote] Thanks, I'm pretty happy with how all the effects came together... more happy accidents than intentional choices really, but better lucky than good right? [quote=rdomain]Lovely pace and great to hear the Ti2 in action. I usually do at least one Ti2 track each year. I don't use it often but it impresses me every time I do! Looking forward to hearing more hardware jams.[/quote] It really is a great synth... like the tonal character is great, and it's built like a tank... but really for it's shear versatility, I'm hard pressed to think of anything even in the same ballpark... maybe the Iridium, but while it has 16 voices multi-timbrel... the Ti2's 16 parts are with 80 total voices... like it's just a beast. [quote=scottux]That's a lot of killer gear under the hood of this serenity. My hapax doesn't get the attention it deserves. Shout out to sequencers though. Great song![/quote] Oh man, that Hapax... like it really does all the things one might want from a sequencer... I do love me some sequencers... but everything else is just kinda playin' for second place for me, the Hapax is just too good. Though I will admit coming up through the Deluge definitely primed me to appreciate it.

really chill, relaxing vibe :3

really chill, relaxing vibe :3

Glad you’re back, this is great.

And I just found out there’s a WB discord, maybe I should get on that.

Glad you’re back, this is great. And I just found out there’s a WB discord, maybe I should get on that.

This song is so chill. I really dig your percussion sounds. Love it!

This song is so chill. I really dig your percussion sounds. Love it!

Welcome back! Glad you're here! Lovely chill track to start. I feel like floating away on a cloud. Perfect title!

Welcome back! Glad you're here! Lovely chill track to start. I feel like floating away on a cloud. Perfect title!

lol your music, combined with your avatar is always like

"Shucks, I hope y'all like this song!"

the percussion plucks really did feel like hollow rain.  nice start to the year!

lol your music, combined with your avatar is always like "Shucks, I hope y'all like this song!" the percussion plucks really did feel like hollow rain. nice start to the year!

Thanks, I'm finding that this is one of those tracks that growing on me, like I enjoy it more today, than when I made it by quite a lot.

There's loads of good things happening there, so hopefully you find your way there at some point.

Thanks, I have totally fallen in love with the Syntakt... like it just makes sound design for drums SO intuitive... very much my favorite drum machine to work with. 

I'm glad you dig it, I was worried when I made it that it was too minimal, but I'm finding on listening back after a couple weeks, that there more in there than I was giving it credit for.

Lol, thanks!  And yeah, the name came from a comment my partner for feedback.  She was trying to describe one of the sounds, and she said "... the one that kind of sounds like rain drops in an empty shed"... and I was like "well... definitely using that for the title"

[quote=XC3N]really chill, relaxing vibe :3[/quote] Thanks, I'm finding that this is one of those tracks that growing on me, like I enjoy it more today, than when I made it by quite a lot. [quote=Sodabelly]Glad you’re back, this is great. And I just found out there’s a WB discord, maybe I should get on that.[/quote] There's loads of good things happening there, so hopefully you find your way there at some point. [quote=DenaWoods]This song is so chill. I really dig your percussion sounds. Love it![/quote] Thanks, I have totally fallen in love with the Syntakt... like it just makes sound design for drums SO intuitive... very much my favorite drum machine to work with. [quote=miraclemiles]Welcome back! Glad you're here! Lovely chill track to start. I feel like floating away on a cloud. Perfect title! [/quote] I'm glad you dig it, I was worried when I made it that it was too minimal, but I'm finding on listening back after a couple weeks, that there more in there than I was giving it credit for. [quote=orangedrink]lol your music, combined with your avatar is always like "Shucks, I hope y'all like this song!" the percussion plucks really did feel like hollow rain. nice start to the year![/quote] Lol, thanks! And yeah, the name came from a comment my partner for feedback. She was trying to describe one of the sounds, and she said "... the one that kind of sounds like rain drops in an empty shed"... and I was like "well... definitely using that for the title"

cave story chill exploring vibes. did a rewind on this to give another listen 🫶🫶🫶

[img]https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/520499125399504147/82584AED6C95302D79A5486EB45997B1F14B1494/[/img] cave story chill exploring vibes. did a rewind on this to give another listen 🫶🫶🫶