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Sleep, Wake, Walk

By Tone Matrix on January 14, 2024 4:43 pm

This week's track wouldn't sound the way it does with out the generous help of jwh.  I had a few questions regarding volume and getting things to sound loud enough compared to most tracks.  AKA Mastering. yikes   Without his and Emily's generous help I would have a very quiet ambient noodle this week.  I can easily say I have a better understanding of the process now and even a new plugin to get me excited for that final process. Also it is fun to say LUFS... This week though the track was thankfully finalized by him as well. Thank you Josh!
A quick thing about this week's track.  It sorta sounds in the same ballpark as last week.  Meaning I literally used last week's track as a template for what overall sounds and instruments I used. It does help as far as getting things going quicker.  Rather than fumbling between "which sound/instrument/plugin should i use?".  Just play! The downtempo drumloop was also resampled a bit and I've been using this max4live device (in Ableton) called MDD SNAKE that sort of lets you get these random glitchy percussion patterns based on 16 values when you have it set to a drum rack of percussive samples.  So it's been cool having a tiny bit of beats in my first 2 tracks and not just lonely noodles smile
Although I do love a good spicy noodle...
I promised a sentence last week.  w h 0 0 p s!

ps i hope i pasted my image code correctly gosh.
ps2 thanks for listenin!

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Really enjoyed this!

Very lush and dreary stuff. The obscured beat adds some nice texture too. Beautiful work!

Let's hear it for Weekly Beats teamwork!  The beats are definitely meshing well with your always top-notch piano work.


sounds beautiful!

Very lovely piece and the percussive elements add to it for sure.  And yay, the image link worked!  Haha.

love the somber piano melody

The mix feels very airy and light, cold and warm at the same time. Absolutely no complaints.

as i said elsewhere - your playing always seems to calm and center me in the moment. well done, Friend!
and glad i could be of a little help. feel like i know just enough to be dangerous  smile

Oh man, that accentuated shuffle around 2:00 is amazing.  Looking forward to some more of this in 2024.

The treatment of the beat and the way you get the pad to ebb and flow like waves makes this whole track feel alive, as if it were a large organism slowly breathing. The subtle piano on top are like little flashes of starlight above all this. Nice soundscape!

This tune is really relaxing while also catching my ear with the piano melody and percussive flourishes. I dig the gradual build up, exploring the mood smile

what a great listen, very cinematic!

Yoooo, this is so true: "Rather than fumbling between "which sound/instrument/plugin should i use?".  Just play!"
Awesome cinematic scape. I like all the textures and pads a lot. The mix is great, cool you got help from jwh, he seems like he really knows his stuff! I'm learning mixing and mastering slowly slowly, rather than spending too much time on that usually I just get something close and move along, but always good to level up.

Those pads and noodling are brilliant.  Listening on headphones the mix sounds very good, everything is well balanced and punches when it needs to.  The plugin to add the ratcheting to the percussion works really well with this, not overdone but subtle.

A good beat to feel lazy by
- Ebrit

i love the shades of filter over the beat, it transforms the overlying piano in phases of mystery slowly growing in and out of exposure.

good mixing to keep the washies washy but the drums front and center but the main twinkles are on top.  that all made 100% sense.


emily wrote:


jwh wrote:

jwt + em are the best, are they not??

orangedrink wrote:

jwt + em are the best, are they not??

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