Second track that I made entirely on the M8. This one was fun, although I would've loved to have had more time. I basically got the ingredients made on Saturday and planned to do the arrangement on Sunday. However, several things required tending to, and so it was 9pm when I actually started arranging. And then I got a bad headache.

It's very heavy on the beats and drums and lacks a nice melody, but then again, this is called WeeklyBeats, not WeeklyMelodies, right?

The hollow, filtered noise drum pattern the song is starting with was the initial basis and inspiration. The snare that comes in next is pretty funny: Its volume is modulated by a free-running "square down" LFO with a frequency of 3 steps, which causes the rhythm to shift over the course of the pattern repeating. And the highpass-filtered riser has its cutoff modulated by another free-running LFO. I forgot to stop it after the initial rise, but then found that it's actually kinda interesting to let the cutoff return again and kind of include the riser in the rhythm, so I left it in.

The jumping whistling melody that joins in at the end also had a runaway retrigger command at one point, and I've decided to keep this in the track as well, at the very end.

All in all I'm kinda satisfied with how this one turned out. Definitely getting more confident with the M8 and looking forward to play it in combination with the Deluge soon.

Feel free to ask questions or give feedback. I'm here to learn, and that includes constructive criticism.

Tags: 102bpm, electronic, m8tracker, noise, silly, week 8 2024, View by:scy