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Shíyī 十 Prime

By NickLong on June 13, 2026 12:27 pm


For this weeks weekly beats I tried to do the same trick as last week and make a track using an odd time signature while making it sound natural and fun.

Turns out 11/8 is much harder to do that with than with 5/4
I had quite limited time so this is a very simple sketch.

Synplant did an update this week so I thought I'd make it entirely with 3 instances of Synplant and one of Microtonic all by the amazing Sonic Charge.

For those not familiar Synplant is a really crazy synth that generates patches by growing them as plants using genetic algorithms. So I generated a few patches and used what I've got. I still don't really understand it, but it's really cool and I need to spend more time with it.

The name is the Japanese word for 11 with the symbol and prime for 11 being a prime number.

June 15, 2026 1:29 am

Crash Overture

It's so playful and bright!

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June 15, 2026 11:05 pm

neon liminal

I know its random but prime thought in my head was "oh wow that bass is perfect!" I am a little fixated lol. This is a really fun pretty track and Synplant is doing delightful things here, really wonderful. And the space/atmosphere is just gorgeous and open, it really feels like an immersive world. Awesome track!

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Yesterday 1:39 pm

Tone Matrix

The drums sound great and loving the twinkling synth melody over that sweet bassline.  Love how the drum groove sounds midway thru as it bounces with the bass. 11/8 sounds gewd! \m/

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Yesterday 2:16 pm

NickLong

Tone Matrix wrote:

The drums sound great and loving the twinkling synth melody over that sweet bassline.  Love how the drum groove sounds midway thru as it bounces with the bass. 11/8 sounds gewd! \m/

You pretty much can't get a bad sound out of Microtonic.

I've used it on loads of composition challenges and I almost feel embarrassed because people are always like "OMG you are so good with drum programming" and I literally just got Microtonic and tweaked a couple of knobs big_smile

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Yesterday 2:17 pm

NickLong

neon liminal wrote:

I know its random but prime thought in my head was "oh wow that bass is perfect!" I am a little fixated lol. This is a really fun pretty track and Synplant is doing delightful things here, really wonderful. And the space/atmosphere is just gorgeous and open, it really feels like an immersive world. Awesome track!

Thanks man, that means a lot from a maestro such as yourself.

If you don't know Synplant check it out, it really is quite magical and strange.

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Today 12:10 am

jwh

such a fun track, immediately hit play again once it ended. mix sounds great to my ears. and yeah, that bass is very fun

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