the fungus overpowers my treasured beef
By wangus on February 12, 2024 12:01 am
finishing what I started (and didn't upload) last week. it's not 2022, i'm not trying to prove myself or anything with a perfect streak..
I super like so many things about this one. it didn't quite come together like i imagined, but it's time to move on.
* the kick/snare are some of the best i've ever synthesized on the m8. kick is an FM patch; snare is a macrosynth switching between two engines for a more complex structure sound (the "impact" and the "body")
* the bass is also sick. Using the FM trick where you modulate a NPB operator with a bass sine wave, making noise that's kind of pulsing at bass rates. Layer with another operator doing the ordinary subby bass, and you get a fat sound that's reminiscent of a heavily saturated noisy sub (where the noise gets squashed out every peak of the bass wave)
* the lead solo is an FM patch with a new trick I thought of: use a TRACKING mod _inversely_ on an operator's pitch. if you dial in the range right, the mod cancels out the normal pitch from the note, making a constant-frequency operator. Can get some gnarsty atonal action (or surprisingly tonal sometimes, with subharmonic tones popping out sometimes)
* The woopy lead/chords use NPB operators set to quite resonant, so it's a ghostly sine-ish but noisy tone. It's a (A > B) + (C > D) algo patch, where C/D have MOD1 to PITCH, so I get duophony. So with 2 tracks, i can get 4 voices.
* Had to dig up WB2022 week 25 to remember a sequencing trick, to make the one-step-early bassline groove easier to handle. With the right alternate grooves, you can make it so that it starts with all the other tracks anywhere, but after 1 phrase is switched to having step 00 hit one step early. (oh, coincidentally that 2022 track also used the NLP/NBP sub trick)
› copypasta from there
BUT the centerpiece of this track is my TX81Z MIDI-sequenced by the M8 live, piped through my new Chase Bliss Lossy. (the TX81Z patch is a basic clav-like sound). The mp3-kind-of compression makes a sick fluttering tone to the chords I sequenced. You'll be hearing a lot more of Lossy this year. It's unfamiliar territory, filters/levels/registers behaving unintuitively through the lossy algorithm.
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