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Frost Petal

By Tone Matrix on October 30, 2022 7:21 pm

Last couple of weeks I've been listening to my older tracks from earlier WBs on random.  I even did a smart playlist so it only plays tracks I haven't listened to in 5 years. It was kind of interesting because I found myself liking a lot of the ideas and sounds from the early years that I had sort of pushed away for being too electronic.  A few years ago I was trying to do more film score type stuff but I realized this year that isn't really what I make sometimes and tends to restrict the creativity.  So liking the older material again and rediscovering all those presets from the Massive synth plugin, I started going thru all the old projects.  The only tedious thing is having to locate all of the sample files etc..  So I ended up procrastinating big time and getting distracted by other things (as usual). But it was a nice distraction from everything else flooding my brain.  So here's a bit of a speed trash noodle using one of my fav Massive sounds. 
Hopefully this will keep the creative spark going for the remaining weeks.  Hope you are all well heart

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Nice! It's great to be able to go back to old tracks and found new inspiration, rediscover old loves, and find old alleys that we had forgotten about. I like those Massive tracks. Ipaghost's gif is perfect for this. It feels like this track grows organically, like a mysterious structure. The sparse drums sounds are also a good touch in this track.

I'm curious to see what you'll do with your ancient wisdom, in the meantime, this is very pleasing, just in time for the colder days ahead.
- Devieus


nice frosty ambient you are playing with. well done.

Tis a lovely crisp sounding track.  Probably due to the percussive elements and the synth tone isn't some lush piano.  Hehe.   It's interesting going back and listening to older WB tracks.  Hell, even ones from the start of the year because I find I almost forgot some of them and it's awesome when you listen back and actually really enjoy what you've done.  smile

Do you do much of your own patch creations?  I find that can be inspiring and kind of fun too!

The sound palette totally suggests coldness while the music has a joyous quality to it that makes me thing of the excitement of the first snowfall of the year.

I remember your older tracks, they were always some of my favourites from weeklybeats, I’m glad you revisited some of those (obviously I still enjoy your current stuff

Not sure why all my comment didn’t post, but wanted to add this combo of beats, delicate melodies and soothing pads always sounds great to my ears.

Wow, this is an amazing track. Love all the percussion pairing with the cold synths- actually got a little chilly listening to this. Great effect/transition around 1:55...

this is really neat - i like the sound space - interested to hear where the change in direction/realization leads the music - hope you can let yourself have fun/explore/play - this piece sounds like making space for that - i dig!

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

Ipaghost wrote:

Kedbreak136 wrote:

Nice! It's great to be able to go back to old tracks and found new inspiration, rediscover old loves, and find old alleys that we had forgotten about. I like those Massive tracks. Ipaghost's gif is perfect for this. It feels like this track grows organically, like a mysterious structure. The sparse drums sounds are also a good touch in this track.


Devieus wrote:

I'm curious to see what you'll do with your ancient wisdom, in the meantime, this is very pleasing, just in time for the colder days ahead.
- Devieus

Q-Rosh wrote:


nice frosty ambient you are playing with. well done.


rdomain wrote:

Tis a lovely crisp sounding track.  Probably due to the percussive elements and the synth tone isn't some lush piano.  Hehe.   It's interesting going back and listening to older WB tracks.  Hell, even ones from the start of the year because I find I almost forgot some of them and it's awesome when you listen back and actually really enjoy what you've done.  smile

Do you do much of your own patch creations?  I find that can be inspiring and kind of fun too!

CosmicCairns wrote:

The sound palette totally suggests coldness while the music has a joyous quality to it that makes me thing of the excitement of the first snowfall of the year.

Jason Nijjer wrote:

I remember your older tracks, they were always some of my favourites from weeklybeats, I’m glad you revisited some of those (obviously I still enjoy your current stuff

dr0ptpacket wrote:

Wow, this is an amazing track. Love all the percussion pairing with the cold synths- actually got a little chilly listening to this. Great effect/transition around 1:55...

emily wrote:

this is really neat - i like the sound space - interested to hear where the change in direction/realization leads the music - hope you can let yourself have fun/explore/play - this piece sounds like making space for that - i dig!


Thanks everyone I appreciate the nice comments.  As far as presets and sound patch creation sadly I will say that I mostly stick to presets.  I will def edit them to tailor a bit but as far as from scratch that I'm not so good with.  I usually end up frustrated and feeling like I lost time on making the music rather than fiddling with all the (soft) knobs.  I should prob take the year off as time to work on some of that.  But yea I tend to get easily inspired by a preset and then go from there smile  thanks for reading my ramble!

dang this is so good

really great idea to revisit old works/sounds with a new sensibility.  it'd be neat to hear you try two versions of the same song, the "film score" version and the "electronic" version.

I would guess the film score would have less beats and be slower to evolve, the other would have louder beats/percussion and maybe more "verse/chorus" feel.

and then in the middle: The Social Network soundtrack smile

the sad little guy at 1:55 was incredible

Love the beats in this one and the panning in the reverb. Big spacious sound.

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