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dreaming that i'm falling only to find that i am falling—my girlfriend rolled onto my side of the bed and pushed me out the w

By wangus on January 14, 2024 11:58 pm

(based on a true story)

week 2 !

i'm happy with this one.  unconventional.  stretched a different approach than my default, which was satisfying.

100% M8 synthesis.

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some things i'm happy I did differently:

* run with the absolute first thing that came to mind this week (bboxing the 8th-note whumpy kick and halftime woody tongue click rimshot.  in retrospect similar energy to clown car trolley problem last year, but only surface-level)
* not obsessively focused on harmony+bassline (i wouldn't say this has a bassline at all)
* much more dynamic
* wonkier sound design
* structure-wise, just let it flow.  feels natural, and I never was reaching trying to extend some section.  just progressed as it felt it should.

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sound design notes

* the whumpy bass drum took a long long time to dial in.  other than cymbals, i rarely make atonal FM patches.  there's heavy work from all four LFO/envs, and all four MODx channels, and table automation of both.
* quite happy with the clicky/clocky rimshot/block sound.  i could make exactly the sound i wanted with my mouth, and thought a lot about what my tongue was doing to figure out the pieces.
* i pursued about 5 different concepts for the main ostinato/drone before landing on the macrosynth plucked engine.  really like the lofi sound from degrade+lowpass (LP+HP?  i forget).  it gives some really cool variation in tone across the range of notes (both the variation from the macrosynth model, and different degrade aliasing).  the new tracking mod source was also clutch for some stereo.  (also surface-level similar to a track last year, pizza pants percent)
* i need to practice on FM engine cymbal synthesis.  this week i managed to get something more toward a china/ride.  vs. the 808-like cymbals that are easier to dial in.
* really like the alarm-like blares in the middle section .  throwback to 8 years ago https://soundcloud.com/anguslocke/i-cant-sleep
* complimenting that: I found if you slowly (REP) change the reverb size, you get a haunting drifting pitch effect, up or down

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collage tomorrow perhaps

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CERTIFIED BANGER

Awesome sound design!

Spectacular! Original sounds, really worth all the explorations you're doing. Big fan of the wonky snare coupled with the WHOOP sound.

I liked reading about how you lean into the sounds and keep going as long as they feel good rather than think too much about the structure and length of the song. I started consciously doing the same this year.

hope you are okay. sounds like a really horrible experience. hope you can recover from that. may the blanket be on your side.

Love the structure. Ramping up like a Chris Nolan's film, a breather, and all the energy that comes after the drop. Unexpected closure.

oh whoa wow, i really admire your command of sound design! loved the unexpected wav leads at the end also

Interesting track! Some great sounds in there. Is that w at the end of the title "window"? Sounds painful.

This song is like w
- Devieus

laser wrote:

CERTIFIED BANGER

CERTIFIED WANGER

wangus wrote:

(based on a true story

🤔


This track is classic w; sound design, rhythm, notes I will study, possibly madness.  What business does that melody at 2:39 have crossing no man’s land like that? 

excellent sound-design(haha, love that rimshot)! and it goes so many places, truly unique style to this one heart

interesting progression and cool sounds, very well done

I would never have guessed you beatboxed the percussion. Transition in the middle is nasty!

I really like that ostinato drone. What'd you do for stereo with the tracking operator, modulate panning?

horatiuromantic wrote:

Spectacular! Original sounds, really worth all the explorations you're doing. Big fan of the wonky snare coupled with the WHOOP sound.

I liked reading about how you lean into the sounds and keep going as long as they feel good rather than think too much about the structure and length of the song. I started consciously doing the same this year.

I’ve really been leaning into percussion so far this year, in all senses.  atonal bass moves, percussive basslines, physical-sounding hits.  think im gonna try to deliberately make cohesive tracks week by week this year



jimmac wrote:

Love the structure. Ramping up like a Chris Nolan's film, a breather, and all the energy that comes after the drop. Unexpected closure.

ineff wrote:
laser wrote:

CERTIFIED BANGER

CERTIFIED WANGER

wangus wrote:

(based on a true story

🤔


This track is classic w; sound design, rhythm, notes I will study, possibly madness.  What business does that melody at 2:39 have crossing no man’s land like that?

defensem3ch wrote:

oh whoa wow, i really admire your command of sound design! loved the unexpected wav leads at the end also

that melodic passage was originally gonna be brash in the heavy section, but yea it lands harder somehow where it is here.  i like just the lil hints of the 32-size triangle.  quantized triangles are so pretty

license wrote:

I would never have guessed you beatboxed the percussion. Transition in the middle is nasty!

I really like that ostinato drone. What'd you do for stereo with the tracking operator, modulate panning?

woops meant to quote this with all the others

No I didn’t mean it’s beatboxed here; i just came up with the idea beatboxing to myself, then recreated the idea in synths.
Yea, just panning tracked to note.

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