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CRUISNGTHA50

By naught101 on January 7, 2024 11:28 am

m8 hip-hop beat with a bit of bounce

Feedback/critique/ideas welcome smile

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I'd cruise downtown with the top down in the summer with this one. I gotta install a sub in my car. Great beat.

daaaaamn. very thic bassline. leaves a lot of space in the middle, I would immediately throw down some sick piano runs in there but that's my answer to most things. in the end, I like the space, altho after like 2 minutes it feels like it should be going somewhere new.

funny ending! actually that makes me think that rather than adding solos or rapping, this beat could be a very comedic avantgarde beat with more and more outlandish sounds intertwined with the very thic bassline. anyway cool submission, thx for sharing!

head bobbing non-stop

Basstastic. Seriously fine!

love that pitch-glidey bass, adds proper bounce!

Thanks!

Yeah, this is intended as a beat for rapping over, hence the lack of long-term movement. I definitely could re-work the arrangement for a more standalone feel. I love the little rhythm trip before the one enough that I might eventually do that.

Nice track!  Had me bobbin

this was the wobble head nod i needed after 8 hours of staring at spreadsheets. the space allows the beat & bassline room to swing

Phuuuck that bassline is great!  Don't worry about not rapping―I love vocal-less beats like this.  And knowing it was done on M8 is already giving me so many ideas for abusing PVB and all its pitchy friends.

Great to see you on WB, btw; looking forward to your next 51 tracks tongue

Yeah, the pitch bend on a distorted/slightly FM'd sine bass is a fun time. This is all PSL, seems easier to control than the other pitch methods.

This came up randomly again in the WB playlist and it still stands out.  So it's in the favorites now heart


› M8 Nerd Talk

that organic bass patch is a keeper ADD TO CART

Dang love that rubbery bass, I imagine playing slow motion basketball on acid! Fills the whole spectrum, works great standalone with the very subtle other sounds and little weird vocal snips. Could have a few sections where you drop the bass or beat for a bar to mix things up perhaps and throw in a fill.

ineff wrote:

This came up randomly again in the WB playlist and it still stands out.  So it's in the favorites now heart
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Big PSL fan here, too!  I'd been thinking of PVB/PVX's ability to oscillate faster than the tick rate, but—if the wobble in this track is sliding between individual notes using PSL—does that mean the M8 tempo is running at double time, or is it done from inside a table?

Thanks! I hope I didn't set the bar to high for myself :sweatsmile:

Nope! It's all PSL05, at 86bpm. No tables, no pitch envelopes. But there are two basses playing against one another in most of it, (plus a sub in a section near the middle), perhaps they are giving the impression of faster movement?  Especially at the end of every second bar they have a trippy interaction with the drums, and I think perhaps that sounds like a pitch shift?

bryface wrote:

that organic bass patch is a keeper ADD TO CART

Been meaning to go through my tracks an extract some presets.. will make sure these are in there when I do!

impbox wrote:

Dang love that rubbery bass, I imagine playing slow motion basketball on acid! Fills the whole spectrum, works great standalone with the very subtle other sounds and little weird vocal snips. Could have a few sections where you drop the bass or beat for a bar to mix things up perhaps and throw in a fill.

Thanks! Yeah, that would usually be my inclination with a "finished" instrumental track - I'd put a few more hours into transitions, but I probably would have struggled for this submission, and I also want to use it for rap later, in which case I would re-arrange and deal with the transitions then.

You're absolutely right about dropping the bass out though, I need to get better at doing that. I often find myself liking the bass content at the end of the bar/phrase, and so deleting a bar at the end of the phrase feels ... sacreligious? I just need to do it though, it makes the incoming bass so much more punchy.

love to hear some m8 hip hop. massive bass patch!  wonder what instrument you used for it?

Great tone on that funky bass line. Nice job.

Cool.
- Devieus

bryface wrote:

that organic bass patch is a keeper ADD TO CART

ineff wrote:

if the wobble in this track is sliding between individual notes using PSL—does that mean the M8 tempo is running at double time, or is it done from inside a table?

Holzter wrote:

love to hear some m8 hip hop. massive bass patch!  wonder what instrument you used for it?

Hey all, I put the bundle up here, if you want to check out the bass patches and PSL work:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4nj0rgkhmmcagoyq29z0l/h?rlkey=to1a1vn35wv52ji4e53ubuswg&dl=0

HOPE U LIKE NOTIFICATIONS

great cruising track, love the title

great job - it was nice to listen to your "album"

congrats!  3 more albums to go lol

orangedrink wrote:

HOPE U LIKE NOTIFICATIONS

great cruising track, love the title

great job - it was nice to listen to your "album"

congrats!  3 more albums to go lol

Haha, that's a lot, I figured it was one person on a rampage. Thanks for all the comments!

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