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LONG WALK HOME

By naught101 on March 3, 2024 11:20 am

Jungle time. First time I've actually finished anything jungle, or anything with breakbeats really. Super happy with this.

Thanks for sleepunit, Orange Drink, nedsferatu, Princent Vice, and Spider for useful pre-submission feedback!

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Had a preview with the discord channel, had not much to say really as it is very good!

Love the bass and different elements.

This is great for your first jungle vibe.  I love the way the mono-bass goes on a journey later on.  Solid break chopping, great vibe.

A very brisk pace, so at least the walk isn't that long.
- Spider

This is bliss.

love this track! there is a lot of feeling here and it really goes, hard balance to nail! favorited

really dig this track. i like all the breaks and transitions. sounds are on point, very nice

love the sliding bass and the whole vibe, well done! I don't know shit about jungle but I know this sounds good!

Overall vibe is really chill and hazy in spite of the busy jungle pattern. I think the bass and verbed out koto-like synth brings that feeling to the forefront. Really nice work.

Really cool. I want to try now đŸ˜†

What are you using for the stutter and glitch FX on the break?

I am listening at a coffee shop and some folky sounding violin from their speakers mixed in and sounded cool. Thought it was part of the track at first.

Like that quick arp

cool to hear you chop up some breaks!

djippy wrote:

Had a preview with the discord channel, had not much to say really as it is very good!

Love the bass and different elements.

cTrix wrote:

This is great for your first jungle vibe.  I love the way the mono-bass goes on a journey later on.  Solid break chopping, great vibe.

Devieus wrote:

A very brisk pace, so at least the walk isn't that long.
- Spider

jimmac wrote:

This is bliss.

nedsferatu wrote:

love this track! there is a lot of feeling here and it really goes, hard balance to nail! favorited

tweidner103 wrote:

really dig this track. i like all the breaks and transitions. sounds are on point, very nice

SQF wrote:

love the sliding bass and the whole vibe, well done! I don't know shit about jungle but I know this sounds good!

Gunda wrote:

Overall vibe is really chill and hazy in spite of the busy jungle pattern. I think the bass and verbed out koto-like synth brings that feeling to the forefront. Really nice work.

Holzter wrote:

cool to hear you chop up some breaks!

Thanks y'all! Reviewing this feedback today is really helping my mood. Glad you enjoyed it smile

prophisee wrote:

Really cool. I want to try now đŸ˜†

What are you using for the stutter and glitch FX on the break?

I am listening at a coffee shop and some folky sounding violin from their speakers mixed in and sounded cool. Thought it was part of the track at first.

Like that quick arp

This is all done on the dirtywave m8, so breaks are sliced and sampled at different slice points for the changing rhythms. I think the only effects are RET (retrigger, like a ratchet), DEG (Degrade - samplerate reduction), and some pitch edits. There might also be a reverse play in there somewhere. And a couple of hits with extra reverb or delay. So nothing particularly complex.

I think the main process is just: Make a loop. Then duplicate it, and mess with parts of it. Then duplicate that and mess with more of it. Do that lots until you have heaps of loops, and then pull out the best ones into a track. And then duplicate those and mess with them more. As long as you're always working on copies, you don't need to worry about destructive editing, which frees you up to experiment more, I think.

Excited to have gotten a shoutout and then I forgot to check the finished product!

This is HOT and I can't wait to learn Octatrack enough to jungle it.  One of the main reasons I got the thing smile

this is so good. damn. been slowly exploring jungle just listening but love a good breakbeat overall. the tempo matched (16th notes?) dancing with the breakbeat was dope. great effort great track!

Jeez, how did I miss this before?  I love the breaks, bass, and the "string" instrument—and the fact you did everything in the box on the M8 is really impressive.  There are some really cool melodic and rhythmic choices; I'm making a note to try the heap-of-loops approach in a future track (although maybe not in time for WB2024)

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