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Seven Dualisms

By RPLKTR on February 15, 2026 11:49 pm

I welcome all critical feedback. Can relicense if you're interested, just ask.

Seventh week, so the track's 7/4. It is composed of seven phrases of seven bars each. I'm strongly partial to the TR-707 drum sounds and that would fit the "seven" theme perfectly as well, but no! This time I remembered about the first digitally-programmable drum machine in history, the Roland CR-78 and decided to do something with that. It also happens that the Disquiet Junto ran the 737th prompt this week as well and the theme was "filling the listener with anticipation" through percussion. So now this song is my entry there, too. Lucky coincidence!

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120 BPM 7/4, E-major. Subharmonicon bass. Osmose pads. Yamaha Revstar rhythm guitar. Analog Rytm drums. No AI used in any part of the process. For this year every cover art is a photo I took.

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it fits the disquiet junto prompt well, it feels both festive and anticipatory. quite adventurous!

Love the ending build and distorted suspensions. 2:50 especially to end it. Good shit! Tasteful fadeout of interesting noise.

Beautiful. Your CR-78 kit sounds fantastic and I love that you pushed your Rhythm to emulate it, that's a practice I think too often ignored in the era of ... excessive plenty when it comes to samples and clones. Subharmonicon makes for a wonderful bass.

I love the mood and atmospheric feel of the vocals, but I feel somewhere along the way they lost some of their articulation in the upper frequencies - there's very little sibilance or phonetic transients left, I can hear the lyrics when I read along but I am hard pressed to understand them otherwise. It might also be a reverb pre delay thing? They feel a little pushed back and distant but feel like they're demanding to be more present, as they sound beautiful, and the lyrics are beautiful as well.

(on a side note: multisampled the grandmother for a mega-pad this week, as per your suggestion, thank you smile

Always love mixed meters - and you crafted the phrasing in a way that still gives a smooth flow. Also like the breaking up noise effect at the end. I do wonder how even more sub-bass would sound in the mix, since overall at least to my ear the bass spectrum feels a *tad* light in the mix - but it's easy to overdo it as well, and I wouldn't want it to make the rest less crisp.

The revstar! I'm in love with that guitar, massively on my radar atm. Not "really" the same category but its a shootout between the revstar and grestch stream liner.

Big respect working with odd time meters, especially with sequencing equipment.
Critical feedback? Why doesn't it go for 7 minutes? wink

Ooh this is a really nice one. Like how it fades into bits at the end. Cool to see vocals!

got to say ur vocals really set this off, absolutely love the harmony coming it at about 1:15ish? beautiful stuff heart i think it all blends beautifully, harmony and rhythm are superb and the bitcrush to end is :chef_kiss:

Great vocals! Love the melody change around 2.30, reminds me of some old 70s track heart

Very interesting track.

I really like the mood, I feel that the vocal reverbs might be a bit much and that it probably make the enunciation a bit harder to understand (for me that is not english speaker first language, but for sure it is a vibe and sounds good). 

Harmonies are beautiful and I really like the chorusy guitar as well.

Well done!

Enjoyed this! Groove feels good at 7/4, much respect for going 7/4! Inspiring me to try that! Vocals are great, all sounds in place and sounding good. Reminding of something I can't quite place. Yeah probably a 70s or 80s song. Enjoyed your tech notes.
I used Junto prompt for my WB this week too, very different and almost all percussion, so cool to hear yours as well.

This is the most 7 I can imagine something being (☛´∀`*)☛  I really love the vocal processing here... the layers make for a just a really great wash of color.  Very ethereal... which again... very 7.  Cool concept.

How many chords here would you say are 7 chords?

this is soooo pretty.

i think a successful use of odd meter is when the listener isn't overly aware of it. and this really does that.
really nice work. the vocals & lyrics are great. the bubbly beat has such a cool feel. and i love that guitar that comes in around :50. is so nice

Wow it's so beautiful!!

Who did the vocals? They are so spot on!!

Sounds really sci fi!!

Well done!!

woah suhweet!  the cr-78 is my fav drum machine.  Such a warm calming sound from it.  The harmonies in this are so good too.  The guitars with your vocals are so nice.  Ooooh that bitcrush at the end hail yais \m/ nice work!

Great use of 7/4 and amazing production. Well done!

Superb! I love how "modern" it sounds, but still has the old prog rock vibes (especially with vocal parts). Great job! Also amazing use of bitcrush.

And a very pro sounding submission, hard to believe it took only a week

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