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Pulled a little off-beat melody from a recorded piano jam and reworked it in Polyend Tracker. Had a real meditative quality to it. Took that and ran with it. Feeling very unmoored. Maybe it's the stars.
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I love the meditative quality and lovely flow in this track. very nice.
I love the meditative quality and lovely flow in this track. very nice.
Thank you! Flowy is the name of the game 
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Are the pianos reworked to sound like cellos or strings? Very cool. I like the introduction of the percussive elements that come and go.
Are the pianos reworked to sound like cellos or strings? Very cool. I like the introduction of the percussive elements that come and go.
Yup - just using wavetable playback on the piano sample combined with some slow attack and LFOs and on the volume envelope. Ended up being very string-like, you're right! All melodic sounds are the same sample. Drums are a different sample though.
Wow, this is not a genre I normally expect to be made on a Polyend Tracker―and it sounds grand. 
From the description, it sounds like those cello-like tones started life as a piano? That's some brilliant sampling. Curious if you pre-processed the samples before loading them onto the Tracker, or if it was all done with the on-board effects.
Wow, this is not a genre I normally expect to be made on a Polyend Tracker―and it sounds grand.
Aww thanks. I really appreciate it ;; I love trying to make music on trackers that doesn't sound like tracker music.. sometimes haha. I did not pre-process the samples at all. Unless you count that the audio was ripped from a video in a text message that was originally recorded on a phone mic. Oh also it was sent from an iphone to an android so was also compressed to all hell. Is that pre-processing? Haha. Also I was wrong on the sample playback: some was wavetable but most was granular.
