a remix/b-side of last weeks's tune.  listen back-to-back!  discoelasticity

As soon as I finished last week's, I knew I wanted to revisit it.  kind of like loch ness - talk less a while back.

Today rolled around and I hadn't really started (or, I had laid down a sketch I didn't end up using, involving slowing and heavy overdriving the "discoelasticity" bass).  So I decided to pivot to some other lighter idea, and set out on this b-side idea next week or whatever.

I started with some keyboard noodling to find a melodic/harmonic riff I liked.  Originally had that tracked out to the A4 as a poly box like the other week.  A sawtooth patch with some noise and drive for grit.
Then I went to make an FM percussion patch I heard in my head, a [A>B + C>D] algorithm mixing a simple bass drum and a cymbal sort of sound, with the new FM engine noise operator types.  Mapped the FMx parameters to the key controls of the [CLK>SIN + NOI>NLP] operators.  It turned out super fun to sequence?  lot of dynamic potential.

Then I realized I was making something with a lot of similarities to last week's tune...  Gritty sawtooth chords, dynamic bass drum pattern, wavesynth SIN+MULT+WARP counterbass, downtempo groove.  And while this track was a different key, last week's melody even happened to be compatible without transposing, a cool reharmonization.

I took some samples from last week (new song-selection render feature is awesome, and combined with the instant song saving/loading, the workflow was super fast). Layered them on, wasn't inspired, was about to toss out the idea again, till I tried a 16th note offset that totally landed the groove.

So I had all the pieces for the track, but less than two hours remaining to arrange it out...
The structure I scraped together doesn't feel super compelling to me, and the mix could use some work.
but that's weeklybeats!

aaand imma just drop this here...

Tags: b side, m8 tracker, remix, week 27 2022, View by:wangus