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Littlehorus

By xavier marques on May 5, 2024 11:56 pm

Hello!

I want to start by thanking everyone for the amazing feedback you've been giving me lately! I've been trying to listen to as much submissions as I can and it's amazing how talented you all are.

It's been hard to find the time to be in the studio where most of my gear is, so as usual, this week's WB was made on the M8. This little machine has changed the way I approach making music and it has enabled me to be the most productive I feel I've ever been.

Anyways, after submitting last week's WB, I wasn't fully satisfied with a few bits and decided to keep going at it. Eventually, I made a cool patch using the FM engine, which I then saved and started a new project to build this week's WB on top of it. This is the sound in the beggining and keeps going through the whole song.
I got a bit lost with some crazy chord progressions but decided to throw it all away and keep it simple.
In the end, I ran out of time and decided to connect the m8 to Ableton and do a performance with some live FX tweaking and some synths played on top.

Hope you enjoy.
See you next week!

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Pretty chill, tho I'm curious what zany progressions you can come up with with this
- Ebrit

Devieus wrote:

Pretty chill, tho I'm curious what zany progressions you can come up with with this
- Ebrit


I had all sorts of different progressions cause I was playing with the transpose command, changing the pitch on all tracks and things went a bit crazy. I tried to have a chord progression follow these changes to unify them all, but there were a ton of notes clashing so I decided to abandon the ideia and kept the song in G minor.
It could be interesting to give the transpose ideia another shot, now that all the notes should be complementing each other.

Oooh, you'll probably want some higher level music theory stuff, but an easy trick you can do is keep the bass where it is and only move the arp

dude, been loving the flow on the m8, it's been a few weeks since I've even hooked up to external gear.
How did you do the effect at the very beginning? Like an increasing speed retrig or something? I need to spend more time with the FM engine, this is sounding great.

Love the long evolution and build, nice work! Really dig this one

SQF wrote:

dude, been loving the flow on the m8, it's been a few weeks since I've even hooked up to external gear.
How did you do the effect at the very beginning? Like an increasing speed retrig or something? I need to spend more time with the FM engine, this is sounding great.

Love the long evolution and build, nice work! Really dig this one


Hey! That's me manipulating the delay fx in Ableton! It came out really cool and I've been trying to replicate something similar on the M8 by using the internal midi to have an LFO on the delay time. I've having really cool results and been re-sampling this internally and messing some more with these samples.
The m8 is crazy versatile!

xavier marques wrote:
SQF wrote:

dude, been loving the flow on the m8, it's been a few weeks since I've even hooked up to external gear.
How did you do the effect at the very beginning? Like an increasing speed retrig or something? I need to spend more time with the FM engine, this is sounding great.

Love the long evolution and build, nice work! Really dig this one


Hey! That's me manipulating the delay fx in Ableton! It came out really cool and I've been trying to replicate something similar on the M8 by using the internal midi to have an LFO on the delay time. I've having really cool results and been re-sampling this internally and messing some more with these samples.
The m8 is crazy versatile!


Very cool, thanks!

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