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The No Beat Challenge

By RawTicks on February 15, 2014 6:27 pm

Failed.

I intended to do a track without beat to work on melody only. Then I lost my focus.
I'm not exactly sure what's happening here, I feel a little bit confused about the whole track TBH. At first it was supposed to have different melodic parts, then it became kind of a collage of unrelated things assembled together in Live. The synths are Analog 4, the voice is a sample I found in a sound bank and the beat is a sliced break that I mangled with automation and random LFOs of some Live FX parameters.

I think that the mix could use a little tweaking. It's a bit too busy in the mid frequencies. Definitely have to work on that in the coming weeks.

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Tags: analog 4, beat, failed, glitch, week 7 2014, View by:RawTicks

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February 17, 2014 1:30 am

I like the synth melody. Fun beat fx!

February 17, 2014 5:10 pm

nice mangling! Doing without the drums would be a pitty! Very well done.

February 17, 2014 6:43 pm

I think we are most critical of our own tracks, so I def understand but I disagree on the "failed" part. The beat gives the track a whole new feel and the melody itself a sort of time to reflect. I liked how that voice was used. It was like little fairies singing to me (yes I'm sober atm) I liked it! no_fail

February 18, 2014 9:10 am

*D*i*a*g*o*n*a*l*

This would be super fun to sing on. I only listened on my computer speakers, but nothing sounded off in the frequency department to me! Great work RawTicks.

February 18, 2014 8:20 pm

Cheers everyone for the comments. Still, next week is looking more interesting for me!

February 19, 2014 4:20 am

You failed dismally! on not doing cool beats.

February 19, 2014 5:03 pm

I dig it. Cool vibe and I like the vocal sample.

February 19, 2014 9:53 pm

Ha the beat is great!

February 19, 2014 9:53 pm

I think it's my fave track from week 7 so far.

February 20, 2014 7:49 am

Reminds me of Plone a lot - great stuff

February 21, 2014 12:38 am

Favourited! Mad stuff, I love the open/free feeling that withdrawing a drum beat has.

February 23, 2014 8:04 pm

Keep on with the No Beat Challenge! The resulting beat is sick and beautiful!

February 23, 2014 10:01 pm

Thanks everybody for your kind comments. I'm glad that you liked the track!

February 24, 2014 1:58 am

The midsection with the vocally-bit is truly haunting - I love how the beat comes in and acts quite playful in the midst of the creepy chord bed. This is a gorgeous track!

February 24, 2014 1:58 am

Tone Matrix wrote:

I think we are most critical of our own tracks, so I def understand but I disagree on the "failed" part. The beat gives the track a whole new feel and the melody itself a sort of time to reflect. I liked how that voice was used. It was like little fairies singing to me (yes I'm sober atm) I liked it! no_fail

+1000

February 24, 2014 1:02 pm

Great beat programming, very much liked!

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