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Stimulus/Response

By rplktr on February 18, 2024 11:01 pm

The singing prosody of the infinite manifests in the here and now.

I welcome all critical feedback.

After last week's 303 action, I wanted to do a bass-oriented piece with my Moog Mother-32s. It's definitely there but once I started layering the drums, keys, and most importantly the glitchy pulsewave arp, the track transformed into something else.

126 BPM 4/4, C-minor. Analog Rytm with a minimalistic analog kit, stereo bass with a pair of Moog Mother-32s, Iridium provides the stabs, Opsix the rest.

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I love the motion on the arp!
It makes me want to play some shmup shooting at demonic space monsters.

Great stuffs!

The squelch sounds and the amount of reverb on the pluck are both great, solid sound design. And yeah, it *does* feel like it progresses a lot like some shmup soundtrack.

There's some funky stuff happening here, the bass is doing amazing work at the start and the synth at the minute mark is so tasty, definitely wouldn't mind way more of that, same with the one at the 2 minute mark
- Ebrit

Gosh I love those moog filter swells and arps, it's that sound that always makes me want more moogs. I am a little jealous of your twin mothers lol. And the opsix sounds great too, really well integrated track, lots of movement!

sound design & feel on point here, thank you

I like this song a lot.. don't know why hah. Even I'm a pop-rock musician, I like some pieces (and bands) of electronic music, I don't know enough about electronic music how to analyze it and provide a valuable feedback but this piece transmits me a good vibe. I really like on min 1:01 when the sound opens and from 1:17 when the lead start changing the pitch or whatever is changing there haha (don't know how that effect is called). Another think I like from your songs is that they feel like songs, they have sense. They aren't just a few fragments of beats attached one each other.

beautiful and rich sounds throughout. great acid line. what's not to love! great track, congrats

Seems like there are a lot of Moog Sound Studio ensemble members making strong showings this week... Great sound design in this track. The arp that rises up in the mix around 1:20... is that Opsix? If so, I had no idea the filters on them were so juicy. 

As_Yoesual wrote:

I love the motion on the arp!

Glad you like it!

Jazzaria wrote:

The squelch sounds and the amount of reverb on the pluck are both great, solid sound design.

I appreciate the kind words!

Devieus wrote:

the synth at the minute mark is so tasty, definitely wouldn't mind way more of that, same with the one at the 2 minute mark
- Ebrit

I love those timbres, too! Those are some Roland D-50 style sounds from the Opsix. They sound vaguely late '80s, right?

neon liminal wrote:

Gosh I love those moog filter swells and arps, it's that sound that always makes me want more moogs.

I own four of their semimodular boxes: two M-32s, a Subharmonicon, and a Spectravox I built at Moogfest 2019. So yes, I agree with "more Moogs"!

jwh wrote:

sound design & feel on point here, thank you

Thanks!

Zatelite wrote:

I really like on min 1:01 when the sound opens and from 1:17 when the lead start changing the pitch or whatever is changing there haha (don't know how that effect is called). Another thing I like from your songs is that they feel like songs, they have sense. They aren't just a few fragments of beats attached one each other.

Wow, thank you for the compliment. I'm trying to structure my tracks so that they go somewhere. I'm happy it works and that you noticed. As for the effect from 1:17, that's a "filter cutoff sweep". More details below in the answer to Napear.

nedsferatu wrote:

beautiful and rich sounds throughout. great acid line. what's not to love! great track, congrats

Haha, this track looks like a winner so far based on the feedback. Thanks!

Napear wrote:

The arp that rises up in the mix around 1:20... is that Opsix? If so, I had no idea the filters on them were so juicy.

Nope smile That's a pair of Moog Mother-32s playing in unison. One is panned hard left, and the other hard right. You can hear a very similar bass line from 0:30 only in that part of the song the filter resonance is turned all the way down. From 1:20 the resonance there is turned very high and there's overdrive on the output of the Moogs so the filter sweep sounds pretty crunchy. There's still some of that stereo chorus effect because the Mother-32s aren't exactly in tune with each other.

Juicy and delicious thanks for the tasty pick me up.

Love the transition about 1:30 in. I also love how balanced the integration of all the instruments is - nothing feels out of place or overpowering.

The colder synths that come in at 1:01 are SO GOOD... They fit the mood so well here. This is awesome! Love the complexity and the super acid-y vibes. Great job!!!


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Great drum programming, love the introduction of different synth sounds throughout, and of course the acid goodness that squeezes itself onto the track

Really fun tune, love the synth toms and sounds you’ve used overall. Nice tight production.

Reminds me a bit of some YMO! (which I love)

Banging track, really kept me hooked the whole way. love that bitcrushy percussive sound (I guess that's the glitchy arp?) and also the bell lead at 1:10, definitely 80s. 

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