The Midnight #4
By Tomatron.Jones on May 10, 2026 11:44 pm
In anticipation of seeing The Midnight on the Saturday before this beat was due, I made yet another track with samples from The Midnight sample pack. It started with some sample chopping of a chord sample, then I made a drum kit with their drum samples and made a synthbass with Ableton and a synthbass sample. The main chopped sample kinda reminds me of Pogo. The lead synth is a very Nintendo-y sounding with Cradle Audio State Machine BitFlip synth VST. I was a bit too ambitious with some transposing / key changes on the sampler. I have a bunch of different basslines / motifs and some weird melodic key changes that are kind of interesting but ultimately I don't feel very strongly about it. I took what could have been a straightforward lofi synthwave beat and made it a bit too weird, ha. I don't really love the vibe of this track so I wonder why I kept on it. Perhaps the sunk cost fallacy? I need to have fun making stuff rather than just finish something for the sake of it.
* Synth chords and drum hits from The Midnight sample pack
* Synth bass from Ableton bass + The Midnight sample pack
* Lead synth from Cradle Audio State Machine BitFlip
* Ample use of Transit, Valhalla, RC-20 plugins
* Gullfoss and Ozone Elements for mastering
Total time: 6 hours
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