The bass and drums are good! I'm less of a fan of the repeating 'whaa'-pad-ish sound. To me that's the bit that is lacking variation. Just does more or less the same thing the whole time. Which can be highly effective, if it introduces tension. Yours does not. I think it'd already would help if you started with filter closed, and slowly opened it up. But I would recommend also looking at the actual pitches. When it steps down, it dissipates all the tension. What if instead, you step up to a note that clashes with the previous one in an interesting way. Non-diatonic notes are your friends, btw. That way you are building friction and movement. Keeping it open, feeling unstable. In short giving it momentum. Not that I think your tune really needs that sound. The groove underneath it is more than good enough to be a track on its own. So good job on that!

The bass and drums are good! I'm less of a fan of the repeating 'whaa'-pad-ish sound. To me that's the bit that is lacking variation. Just does more or less the same thing the whole time. Which can be highly effective, if it introduces tension. Yours does not. I think it'd already would help if you started with filter closed, and slowly opened it up. But I would recommend also looking at the actual pitches. When it steps down, it dissipates all the tension. What if instead, you step up to a note that clashes with the previous one in an interesting way. Non-diatonic notes are your friends, btw. That way you are building friction and movement. Keeping it open, feeling unstable. In short giving it momentum. Not that I think your tune really needs that sound. The groove underneath it is more than good enough to be a track on its own. So good job on that!

Haha, fair enough. I have to admit it was more the result of me just wanting to try the chord feature of fms; not much more than that. There's not really a filter on the fms, although the equivalent would be to level down the modulation or feedback. Might be a challenge to have it slowly open up though. I guess you could do that at least in a more stepped way by setting different modulation / feedback settings for different patterns. It would not be a smooth transition, however. Thanks for the kind comments on the drum, bass and groove!

[quote=electronic_tiger]The bass and drums are good! I'm less of a fan of the repeating 'whaa'-pad-ish sound. To me that's the bit that is lacking variation. Just does more or less the same thing the whole time. Which can be highly effective, if it introduces tension. Yours does not. I think it'd already would help if you started with filter closed, and slowly opened it up. But I would recommend also looking at the actual pitches. When it steps down, it dissipates all the tension. What if instead, you step up to a note that clashes with the previous one in an interesting way. Non-diatonic notes are your friends, btw. That way you are building friction and movement. Keeping it open, feeling unstable. In short giving it momentum. Not that I think your tune really needs that sound. The groove underneath it is more than good enough to be a track on its own. So good job on that![/quote] Haha, fair enough. I have to admit it was more the result of me just wanting to try the chord feature of fms; not much more than that. There's not really a filter on the fms, although the equivalent would be to level down the modulation or feedback. Might be a challenge to have it slowly open up though. I guess you could do that at least in a more stepped way by setting different modulation / feedback settings for different patterns. It would not be a smooth transition, however. Thanks for the kind comments on the drum, bass and groove!

Ah, right. FMS is the GameBoy Advance FM synth. Having a filter on an FM synth kind of defeats the point of it being FM, indeed. lol

Stepped transitions in filters can be way more interesting than smooth motion. After all, parameter locking is what makes the Elektron boxes so interesting.

Anyway, FMS seems like a fun instrument!

Ah, right. FMS is the GameBoy Advance FM synth. Having a filter on an FM synth kind of defeats the point of it being FM, indeed. lol Stepped transitions in filters can be way more interesting than smooth motion. After all, parameter locking is what makes the Elektron boxes so interesting. Anyway, FMS seems like a fun instrument!

Excellent, had my head bobbing along all throughout the track~
Amazed how simplicity still gives a sense of fullness, it "just" works.
Also, the stereo spread really adds to the fun!

Excellent, had my head bobbing along all throughout the track~ Amazed how simplicity still gives a sense of fullness, it "just" works. Also, the stereo spread really adds to the fun!