ohoho i have discovered the secret to uploading a WB submission at least an hour before the deadline!  forget that DST changed.

anyway, i had an off week last one.  work has been very tiring.  i got the first sketches of this last week but couldn't drive to finish it.
it was still a push this week, but i knew that two weeks off in a row would really throw off the routine.

I wanted to make an intro track.  something atmospheric, foreboding.  started with the low C bass drone stab, with the mellow 6 chord on top.  and a mid-range simple melody.

fleshing it out, i knew i wanted some more droning ambience.  beehive fit.  i ran it through the a4mkii for contour and fx.   i watched half of tenet last night (hate the dialog lmao but the soundtrack is sweet) so that was probably subconsciously infuencing.

then decided 0-coast to replace (/bolster) the bass that was originally just a saw swarm on M8.  and woh the liquidity when that's through the Lossy.

then one live take.  all i needed really.

signal chain:
( (beehive > mixer A) > a4 + 0coast > Lossy ) > mixer B > m8 .  mpc1000 does a lil bit of midi routing utility.

the beehive has 2 channels hardpanned into mixer A, and the other 5 center mixed.  i started with a vaguely Cmin cluster, but then figured out the tone i wanted with the 2 hardpanned channels mostly on C.

the A4 is taking that stereo from mixer A and mainly just doing a sawtooth filter/amplitude/overdrive LFO.  there's 1 perf knob that interacts with the LFO depths to kind of invert the shape, and 1 that closes the lowpass filters.  each L/R channel has its own track+instrument, and i tweaked the settings between them for width.  then they do the a4's beautiful chorus/reverb .  an LFO modulates the reverb pre-delay, which has a haunting pitch modulating effect on the reverb.  a second LFO randomly modulates the rate of that LFO, for chaos.

when I superseded the m8 saw swarm with the 0-coast, i needed some slow modulation to preserve the swarmy effect.  the slope cycles slowly, routed to MULT.  i used my korg NTS-2 as an aux oscillator, into the lin FM input on the 0-coast.  nominally tuned also to C, but naturally it's not exact so that's another layer of low-freq beating. 

so that was a cool sound, but the Lossy was a huge immediate twist.  it turned the edgy wavefolding into liquid, so good.

m8 filled out the rest.  simple chords, lil melody, lil ride-ish cymbal-ish.  the last chord changes to a C7 to lead into a subsequent track in F.

Tags: 0 coast, analog four, beehive, lossy, m8 tracker, week 10 2024, View by:wangus