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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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music for a cutscene in a retro puzzle game where you control cats trying to liberate their treats

Awesome! I can definitely hear the ghetto funk influence in this one.

Always dig a good FM new jack tune. The gritty low end seems to lend itself well to the style. Would love to hear the rest of this fleshed out at some point!

Keeping the OPL funk going hell yeah! Can never have enough of that swing. And we’re in the same wave cuz I got a (Non Fm) NJS style track in the works.

Digging this track, very cool evolution at 00'45, wouldn't have thought of this note change on the lead.
Sounds are so cool!

Nice swing! Old school jive.

Feels very right, let's see where your training goes because this is promising.
- Raioh

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