gleam (M8)
By Perhaps Bry on January 18, 2026 11:59 pm
M8 Render, no samples. Refurbished version of one of my original M8 test tracks from back in the beta unit days. The song itself came from a pop melody / chord prog i had sitting in my head at the start of COVID.
This was an idea i kept iterating on based on new features added throughout the M8's development. At first the chords took up one note per channel which was a headache. Then FMSYNTH was added, so i condensed the chords into one channel. The Limiter allowed me to try to play around with the overall mix of the elements. Then I took some time replacing the sampled drums with equivalent-sounding FM drums. Then this week i tried to see if i could expand the compositional nucleus of the idea, but alas, not nearly enough time to flesh it out into a full-blown song. It had always been intended as a bit of a testbed anyway so i don't feel too bad about it being made into WB track as-is.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
