it's tmi
By wangus on January 18, 2026 11:57 pm
the actual title of this track is tmi
m8 tracker. all synthesized except the ostinato sequence you hear at the start (and which is chopped up here and there).
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so i impulse bought a mvave smk-37 for $60 plus shipping on alibaba. it's not bad. the onboard synth is a dx7 emu, and the onboard distortion/echo/reverb are so charmingly shitty. i poked in a sequence and was noodling with that, sampled into the TP-7, trimmed, transferred to M8.
then i made the kick/snare, M8 FM synth. knew i wanted That kind of kick/snare, and it was going an electro direction.
i was noodling on a (proper) keyboard for harmonies and plucked the one you hear in the back half of the track, kinda odd movement for the key. took way too long to figure out how i wanted to voice it (half a page of my staff paper notebook sketching things out, only to futz with octaves on the m8). i really like the inner voice motion.
then i started hashing out some bass patches. it's basically 5 sounds: the punchy pulsing one, the resonant square wave (ZDF highpass for the smooth controlled ringing), the reverb-y donk, the fuzzy heave, and the stab that hits under the chords. plus one subby bass to fill in when the pattern is trimmed back toward the beginning.
lil chiptune plucks parrot the smk-37 ostinato.
plus some random sounds for ambience and builds.
i successfully held myself back from some wacko chords at the end, which left me time to actually finish the track.
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ok some more lil details i'm remembering
The lead melody has some fun FIN commands. i wonder if you can pick out the out-of-tune notes.
in the beginning there's an ambience noise sweeping down. it's an FM patch, includes a NLP modulated by a bass sine. the bass sweeps so low that it turns into a 16th note shaker haha.
i thought i'd have more than 2 more notes hmm.
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