Cold
By porkloin on January 4, 2026 7:11 am
Chill sketch to try to capture the mid-winter feeling. It's been super cold here (-20F to -40F) for weeks. Feels a little tedious, a little cozy, a little meh. Tried to put all that into here!
I kinda decided on a whim a few days ago to try my hand at weeklybeats again. It's been a while since I've done any M8 stuff or any electronic music at all.
One of the big things I am hoping to challenge myself with is to avoid using samples. Usually on all my prior M8 tracks I've used samples for drums, but for this one everything is all done with the internal synth engines! Drums are all FM synth. I'm pretty happy with the kick and the snare, but the hat is just OK. Bass is hypersynth, chord is FM synth, arp and lead are both macrosynth.
The arrangement isn't anything to write home about, I would have loved to add a b-part but I'm trying to just get into the habit of not being too picky about things being "done".
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