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Started playing with the new FM oscillator on MPC 3.9 and then decided that I liked the M8 FM synth better, so re-did it on the M8, & then realised there was some acid missing so out came the T-8 😁

Last minute rush this week all done today, but I won't lie, I really like what's come out of the session... Maybe a bit of variation on the FM bit & a break & more drum fills if idyhad longer but still happy with it 🙌🏻

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Early in our dating, my wife encouraged me to learn this song so we could play it together. We only performed for ourselves, in dorms or occasionally with friends, but it's still an important song to us. This cover is based on the original arrangement, which just entered the public domain this year.

For this vocal performance, my wife is using the stage name DJ Fancy Pants.

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* Main guitars are two hard-panned strats. One is neck pickup fully clean, the other is middle ++ humbucker bridge combo with some soft distortion courtesy of Audacity. Both were recorded DI

* Bass is a cheap Rogue, with some extra distortion to try to be heard over phone speakers. Also recorded DI

* Wooden egg shakers played against my legs are the only percussion

* Guitar solo is a cheap Spenser SG-500 acoustic, which is also the first guitar I ever owned

* I made lots of use of Audacity's real-time effects, particularly compression and reverb

* Happy to hear any constructive criticism on the mix or arrangement!

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Well that came out sounding a lot like Weissensee by Neu, at least in terms of composition. Oops.

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It was a weird week shifting between a lack of focus and a couple of short runs of hyperfocus. I started a d&b tune on Sunday night, got uptight about it by Tuesday, then pivoted late in the week after a friend told me that MPC received a version 3.9 update.

I doodled out the MPC drums at 130 and then brought everything into Logic for some additional flavors. The pad is a straight drop in from a sample pack. The acid patch came out of Analog Lab. The e-piano is Zenology. The vocal is from Riya's Loopmasters. The zaps and bloops and little bass stabs are all sample pack one shots. There was/is a huge amount of low end on the MPC kick. That forced the other bass (gforce SEM) into a bit of a supporting role.

Overall, this was a somewhat cliched trance/prog effort, but I liked the groove. It needs work to get a professional polish, but I am pleased with the compositional bones. It was also nice to sequence something out into a full song for once.

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This song was requested by someone else again, this week it's Asante_13, a very nice guy I don't mind calling friend. The request was "maybe something cosy?", and so that's what it became. Well over 6 minutes of cozy chipmetal.

I'm sure it can be twice as cozy and twice as long without the chipmetal, but I'm doing chipmetal, so it's cozy chipmetal.

- Valx

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Hot. Beers under the sun and kids everywhere for end of year school party. I want to sleep now.

New cycle for my music, focused on breakbeat.

See you next week!

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Happy fathers day

Notes

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Produced on Dirtywave M8 and finished in Reaper

Length: 1m27s

BPM: 77

Genre: Dungeonsynth

Samples

- Female Choir samples from Kajdum's Tower Free Dungeon Synth Sample Pack

- All other samples from Erang's tomes of free samples

FX

- Added Valhalla Supermassive to keys and choir samples

- Added Kilohearts Flanger to keys sample

- Added Kilohearts Chorus to organ sample

- Dunked the master in Arturia Tape Mellow-Fi

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Started out going for something a bit more garage than this, but it's funny how these things evolve and find their own way. The drums are still there, but thats about it.

Enjoyed using a poly-ensanble VST on this for the stringer chords, I'll probably come back to that in future.

Was going to make this one a bit more dynamic and go bigger, but it's late and not sure things would get any better dragging it on.

Wanted to get into this earlier but had a disrupted week.

Got a few now that need a little more than last min attention i'd like to get through, so guess i'll need to up the organisation.

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