New Jack Swing (OPL3)
By Snyderman on February 4, 2024 11:15 pm
The descriptions, my favorite part! Hopefully helpful notes to self when I return.
I've been listening to a lot of ghetto funk, EDM etc over the years, one that's been a big influence on me is Professor Kliq's album Entertainment System, and to a lesser extent a lot of the work by B1 aka Brad Stroud.
I've also got elements of copying myself a bit from a track I did many years ago (before I quit WB for some random life stuff I don't remember, which is why I'm back), hard to break free of old habits I guess.
https://weeklybeats.com/snyderman/music/one-synth-challenge---juceoplvsti
Goals for this week's experiment were:
- Starting to learn OPL3 chip. Most of the patches came from built-in Furnace sounds. I didn't really do much OPL3 patch building but am getting more familiar with its capabilities.
- Patch design and economy. Since you can only use 6 OPL3 sounds (and it steals the next channel over), how can I be as efficient as possible with the more limited OPL2 sounds? In fact only the bass and lead are using OPL3, everything else is OPL2. I spent an entire session patch diving for OPL3 presets, creating OPL2 patches (and reverse engineering a few sounds to be doable with 2 instead of 4 ops).
- Building on the lessons from last week on using swing, and working away from the DAW to figure out more compelling chord progressions and rhythms.
I didn't get as far as I wanted on this one, which is why it's only a minute but I can hear the potential already. I have been getting a bit faster in Furnace, which is nice but I definitely need to keep at it.
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