Love the guitar parts shining through, and always a fan of your M32 usage!

Love the guitar parts shining through, and always a fan of your M32 usage!

Congrats on the upload milestone! Solid upload. Loving the Moog. Great groove with both modern and retro appeal

Congrats on the upload milestone! Solid upload. Loving the Moog. Great groove with both modern and retro appeal [img]https://media.giphy.com/media/pVHtywyK1ZJRBOzwFx/giphy.gif?cid=790b76116715hudeqgb7rjvjzxhazo7j3bybbevwykf2wobo&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g[/img]

Cool experiment recreating the track. Congrats on the milestone. Dig this one. Keep em coming!

Cool experiment recreating the track. Congrats on the milestone. Dig this one. Keep em coming!

Wow the stereo pair mother 32s sound great on bass. You have me sold on another moog and a Rytm now lol.

Congrats on the victory lap! It's  great track to celebrate.

Wow the stereo pair mother 32s sound great on bass. You have me sold on another moog and a Rytm now lol. Congrats on the victory lap! It's great track to celebrate.

That bass keeps the vibe grounded, makes me feel like I'm in the future (Or in a video game like Katana Zero/Sanabi). The guitar sounds excellent in the space it fills out, and that subsequent synth solo is super tastefully written.

That bass keeps the vibe grounded, makes me feel like I'm in the future (Or in a video game like Katana Zero/Sanabi). The guitar sounds excellent in the space it fills out, and that subsequent synth solo is super tastefully written.

this is perfect music for getting me in the zone while working. very classy sound

this is perfect music for getting me in the zone while working. very classy sound

congrats on the milestone and congrats on the track. i like the noodling solo at the end, so much fun! I enjoyed the listen

congrats on the milestone and congrats on the track. i like the noodling solo at the end, so much fun! I enjoyed the listen

the beat sounds amazing, bass is phenomenal. dunno how to do this kinda drums, they feel like magic to me. the tone is great, the way they are played and also there are fills and stuff, super cool! I like the simple melody especially because the beat is busy enough that it affords a simple one like this, that maybe on its own wouldn't be anything special. cool solo at the end! now to check out the disquiet junto thing!

also very cool! I can recognize the drums, but also a lot of cool synths and glitchy elements that I like a lot! not sure what that means, maybe that you added the drums to the other guys' parts (?!? does it make sense ?!) idk but fascinating to hear both! thx for sharing!

the beat sounds amazing, bass is phenomenal. dunno how to do this kinda drums, they feel like magic to me. the tone is great, the way they are played and also there are fills and stuff, super cool! I like the simple melody especially because the beat is busy enough that it affords a simple one like this, that maybe on its own wouldn't be anything special. cool solo at the end! now to check out the disquiet junto thing! also very cool! I can recognize the drums, but also a lot of cool synths and glitchy elements that I like a lot! not sure what that means, maybe that you added the drums to the other guys' parts (?!? does it make sense ?!) idk but fascinating to hear both! thx for sharing!

Ok curiosity got the best of me and I listened to the wk1, wk2, wk3 and then your wb version again. And it's a super cool exploration! I can see how the beat evolved but then almost kind of matured, and in the last incarnation which I think is my fav, the elements are so much more coherent (the sound design somehow matches better, maybe it's more analog...?? it helps that it was made by 1 person I guess!) but they still keep a lot of the spirit of the earliest composition. Nice that you added the melodies (for both your versions) because it guides the listener thru the track, otherwise you def feel a bit lost in the wk1, wk2 (but I guess the space is very good for when you wanna build on top of it). nice work!!!

Ok curiosity got the best of me and I listened to the wk1, wk2, wk3 and then your wb version again. And it's a super cool exploration! I can see how the beat evolved but then almost kind of matured, and in the last incarnation which I think is my fav, the elements are so much more coherent (the sound design somehow matches better, maybe it's more analog...?? it helps that it was made by 1 person I guess!) but they still keep a lot of the spirit of the earliest composition. Nice that you added the melodies (for both your versions) because it guides the listener thru the track, otherwise you def feel a bit lost in the wk1, wk2 (but I guess the space is very good for when you wanna build on top of it). nice work!!! <3

I really like the drums on this track.  The high hat pattern add a lot of energy and momentum to the track without ever feeling stale.  Nice one. 

I really like the drums on this track. The high hat pattern add a lot of energy and momentum to the track without ever feeling stale. Nice one.

Love the drum work in this.  Gave me some Com Truise vibes with the kick and hats pattern.  The arpy synth has a sweet thick sound to it too.  Totally could see this in a late 90s Knight Riderish type show   Or even Street Hawk putting down the visor.  Nice work!

Love the drum work in this. Gave me some Com Truise vibes with the kick and hats pattern. The arpy synth has a sweet thick sound to it too. Totally could see this in a late 90s Knight Riderish type show :) Or even Street Hawk putting down the visor. Nice work!

That's a great title. I like the vibe of this one. Agree with Tone Matrix references above. Drum and bass lock us in for this smooth ride, then the synths are some lovely toppings for sure. I hear you about not wanting to share the exact Junto track with other peoples work in it. As you saw I ended up doing the same thing this week. Congrats on the tying the 2022 record! Victory lap!

That's a great title. I like the vibe of this one. Agree with Tone Matrix references above. Drum and bass lock us in for this smooth ride, then the synths are some lovely toppings for sure. I hear you about not wanting to share the exact Junto track with other peoples work in it. As you saw I ended up doing the same thing this week. Congrats on the tying the 2022 record! Victory lap!

wonderful headphone listen here, nice work!

wonderful headphone listen here, nice work!

This is so smooth and polished, love the sound of it, guitar sounds very nice and mixed in very well.

This is so smooth and polished, love the sound of it, guitar sounds very nice and mixed in very well.

I really like the bass sound you are making there. This short round sound is just perfect, grounding but propulsing the track. I also agree with Horatio - that drum sound is really great, and I like the little nuances like the panning. Some live guitar is also welcome! Great track!

I really like the bass sound you are making there. This short round sound is just perfect, grounding but propulsing the track. I also agree with Horatio - that drum sound is really great, and I like the little nuances like the panning. Some live guitar is also welcome! Great track!

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Thanks! I'm admittedly a bit of a Moog fanboy. Looking nervously now at what it will become after the InMusic acquisition.

Thank you! Yeah, I'm 13/13 at the moment which is an entire Q1. Feels great!

Haha, it builds a bit of a pressure to keep delivering week by week. We'll see how I do for Week 14

Yeah, the Rytm is very playable. It's got quite a few small and not so small flaws but it makes up for them big time with the sound and the genius layout.

As for the Mother-32, you don't need two unless you want to perform those duophonic patches live. You can just record the bassline again with a small bit of variance in the knob settings, and hard pan the first recording left, and the other recording right. I do like the pair because I can just play them as a single instrument, but you can get 80% there without sporting two units!

Thank you! I'm not really a guitarist so I'm happy it's passable. Only took forever to catch a take that wasn't terrible

Haha, I will frame that. I haven't gotten this sort of compliment before. Thanks

Yes, it's noodling alright! Telling it like it is

I appreciate you went and checked out all the Disquiet Junto entries. Yeah, it's a journey! As far as the drumming goes, I don't see myself as an expert but I'm happy to share what I do. My approach is as follows.

Sequencing: The main advice is to play "like a bored drummer". This means introducing tiny bits of variety all the time while playing, as if I was a drummer playing this same song for the 1000th time, and getting a bit bored with it. It helps if the sequencing retains some human factor, so I rarely quantize to 100%, and I definitely keep velocity. I learned to finger-drum some basic patterns with the snare, both fast and slow. I can do a passable hi-hat at the same time but if we're honest I usually overdub that part so I can focus more on the "bored drummer" bit.

Sound design: Rytm is ace for this. It's the only drum machine that allows for samples to be routed through analog filters. You can also layer the samples with the analog voices, which I do to bump their respective frequency content. And then the master output is saturated with the analog distortion and compressor that Rytm provides. This already produces very punchy but clear sound. Having it all come out of the machine makes the sound glue together nicely, it sounds cohesive, like a kit. I also remember to spread out the different bits of the kit in the stereo spectrum so it's not like everything hits in the same spot. And then my final trick is to additionally route the kick drum output separately to the DAW only to use it as a side-chain source for my bass tracks. That makes the bass duck just a little when the kick hits, making it sound bigger that it would otherwise.

That's all I know. Oh, and of course, when it doubt: TR-707 samples

Thanks! I just gave Horatiu above some more information on how I make the drums.

That's very kind of you! Glad you like it.

I doubt I'll always be able to meet the high standard set by this title, but I'm trying!

Thanks, Josh!

Thank you, Jason! I'm happy to hear you say the guitar sounds good, I spent quite a bit of time agonizing over the sound of that.

Funnily enough, the short sound of the bass is sort of forced on the Mother-32 by not allowing any voltage control over the envelope. So you're either left with a snappy but short decaying sound, or with the "sustain" toggled on, in which case the full sound sustains with full force until you lift the note. In the end, I tend to disable the sustain for this reason. The basic envelope is honestly my only gripe with the Mother-32, which is otherwise a wonderful analog synthesizer.

[quote=alterationx10]Love the guitar parts shining through, and always a fan of your M32 usage![/quote] Thanks! I'm admittedly a bit of a Moog fanboy. Looking nervously now at what it will become after the InMusic acquisition. [quote=littlebigmosaic]Congrats on the upload milestone! Solid upload. Loving the Moog. Great groove with both modern and retro appeal[/quote] Thank you! Yeah, I'm 13/13 at the moment which is an entire Q1. Feels great! [quote=SQF]Dig this one. Keep em coming![/quote] Haha, it builds a bit of a pressure to keep delivering week by week. We'll see how I do for Week 14 :D [quote=neon liminal]Wow the stereo pair mother 32s sound great on bass. You have me sold on another moog and a Rytm now lol.[/quote] Yeah, the Rytm is very playable. It's got quite a few small and not so small flaws but it makes up for them big time with the sound and the genius layout. As for the Mother-32, you don't need two unless you want to perform those duophonic patches live. You can just record the bassline again with a small bit of variance in the knob settings, and hard pan the first recording left, and the other recording right. I do like the pair because I can just play them as a single instrument, but you can get 80% there without sporting two units! [quote=ViridianLoom]The guitar sounds excellent in the space it fills out, and that subsequent synth solo is super tastefully written.[/quote] Thank you! I'm not really a guitarist so I'm happy it's passable. Only took forever to catch a take that wasn't terrible :D [quote=underground Luau]very classy sound[/quote] Haha, I will frame that. I haven't gotten this sort of compliment before. Thanks :D [quote=nedsferatu]i like the noodling solo at the end, so much fun! I enjoyed the listen[/quote] Yes, it's noodling alright! Telling it like it is :D [quote=horatiuromantic]dunno how to do this kinda drums, they feel like magic to me. the tone is great, the way they are played and also there are fills and stuff, super cool![/quote] I appreciate you went and checked out all the Disquiet Junto entries. Yeah, it's a journey! As far as the drumming goes, I don't see myself as an expert but I'm happy to share what I do. My approach is as follows. Sequencing: The main advice is to play "like a bored drummer". This means introducing tiny bits of variety all the time while playing, as if I was a drummer playing this same song for the 1000th time, and getting a bit bored with it. It helps if the sequencing retains some human factor, so I rarely quantize to 100%, and I definitely keep velocity. I learned to finger-drum some basic patterns with the snare, both fast and slow. I can do a passable hi-hat at the same time but if we're honest I usually overdub that part so I can focus more on the "bored drummer" bit. Sound design: Rytm is ace for this. It's the only drum machine that allows for samples to be routed through analog filters. You can also layer the samples with the analog voices, which I do to bump their respective frequency content. And then the master output is saturated with the analog distortion and compressor that Rytm provides. This already produces very punchy but clear sound. Having it all come out of the machine makes the sound glue together nicely, it sounds cohesive, like a kit. I also remember to spread out the different bits of the kit in the stereo spectrum so it's not like everything hits in the same spot. And then my final trick is to additionally route the kick drum output separately to the DAW only to use it as a side-chain source for my bass tracks. That makes the bass duck [i]just a little[/i] when the kick hits, making it sound bigger that it would otherwise. That's all I know. Oh, and of course, when it doubt: TR-707 samples :D [quote=Napear]I really like the drums on this track.[/quote] Thanks! I just gave Horatiu above some more information on how I make the drums. [quote=Tone Matrix] Gave me some Com Truise vibes with the kick and hats pattern. (...) Totally could see this in a late 90s Knight Riderish type show[/quote] That's very kind of you! Glad you like it. [quote=miraclemiles]That's a great title.[/quote] I doubt I'll always be able to meet the high standard set by this title, but I'm trying! :D [quote=jwh]wonderful headphone listen here, nice work![/quote] Thanks, Josh! [quote=Jason Nijjer]This is so smooth and polished, love the sound of it, guitar sounds very nice and mixed in very well.[/quote] Thank you, Jason! I'm happy to hear you say the guitar sounds good, I spent quite a bit of time agonizing over the sound of that. [quote=Kedbreak136]I really like the bass sound you are making there. This short round sound is just perfect, grounding but propulsing the track.[/quote] Funnily enough, the short sound of the bass is sort of forced on the Mother-32 by not allowing any voltage control over the envelope. So you're either left with a snappy but short decaying sound, or with the "sustain" toggled on, in which case the full sound sustains with full force until you lift the note. In the end, I tend to disable the sustain for this reason. The basic envelope is honestly my only gripe with the Mother-32, which is otherwise a wonderful analog synthesizer.