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Heavily inspired by Roni Size (obviously). Jump-up drum and bass with a jazz edge.

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Another M8 track, all synths, no gimmicks. The saw swarms made me think of basketball jams, hence the title.

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This week's track reminded me of Peridot, the Steven Universe character. The drum track is a bit wild xD

Also, it's fun how the same notes can sound very different depending on the arpeggiator settings :)

Enjoy!

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was feeling 80s-ish this week, inspired by Alexander23's new project Chandeliers

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20 minutes until deadline!! The M8 says I have 1 hour 40 minutes into this one. I like where it's headed, I just need to expand it. The patches are my own, and mostly my often-used bread & butter stuff. Sorry about the snare. Having the opening sound and that bass/kick all playing really messes things up. I got a lot of the fluttering and phase issues tamed, but some still remain because I still mostly don't know what I'm doing. The patch that opens it was done as an experiment to see if I could recreate a sound for someone else on the M8 Discord. I like to think I got close, but either way I like how it turned out.

Hoping I can shape this track into a more varied, interesting thing in the future, since it would go nicely on the space-travel-themed EP I dream about releasing sometimes.

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Traveling to Toronto, gave a little M8 tutorial to a friend and used the result for this week!

100% M8

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Recommend to play a random part of this or any other random episode simultaneous with this track.

› Production Shmoduction‹ Production ShmoductionBetween a heatwave, having spent a ton of time on last weeks track and a super busy week at work, it was hard to get motivited. I did some recordings of an old fan that sounded like a fun jumping off point, but ultimately got me nowhere. There was a moment where I thought about skipping this week, but the looming deadline finally gave enough of a push to make something. This title was on my list of song ideas and seemed like a fun idea. So I just grabbed it, went to work and built this in the last hours before the deadline.

Everything is OP-1 Field, except for the bass and ride cymbal. Bass is from the Norman Cook pack, and the ride is from the excellent Goldbaby Hotpot Vol. 1. All sampled and sequenced into M8. It's all samples, all the way down.

Some parts like the chords were played live, others like the solo and bass were programmed. The drumloop was made with the OP-1F sequencer. The chords were pretty fun to work on and figure out, could've used more of a different B section maybe. Who knows, maybe some day I'll learn to make something more in depth with more than 3 chords?

Some light mastering in Logic.

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Another week, another track done! Hooray!

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Something extended from Decaying Salvage (but not by much!) I saw Fear Factory on Friday night so I had to slip some chuggy muted guitar into something. Decaying Salvage vertical slice demo is DONE and will be going public later this month!

"EDIT" So when I exported this, I had forgotten to un-solo the guitar at the end... the majority of the track is dead silence xD BUT. It was used in the new trailer for Decaying Salvage, so, you can listen to the actual track on that :)

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I think this is a track that I should come back to and work on more in depth. This is not a statement about this being incomplete or a comment on quality, just that I think there's more that can be done with it and I've only got a limited amount of time. I can feel that something else but it hasn't been grasped yet. Maybe at some point.

I've been taunting myself with ideas of new gear all week (all the last few weeks, really, though amped up this week) but acquired nothing. I have new gear I need to develop my relationship with already, anyway!

Of my new gear, I spent a bit of time learning more about how I can use my 20% More, which finds its way in here on two almost-hard panned guitar tracks with squeals and birdsongs and occasional hard gating, run into my even newer Parting and Dark Star for air and flight, and controlled by the Conflict of Interest for birdsong/squeal melody. Seems a good combo.

Less Pulsar-23 this week, it made it in as a somewhat-hidden bass line (while the main sequenced bass pattern is Prophet 6). I've been thinking about midi and wanted to actually *play* its bass module with a keyboard, but I don't have any midi mergers so it's either sequencing or keyboard control. But I have resolved myself and decided I must get a midi router/merger/utility all-in-one magic box, and have been studying my options. This is one of my new gear ideas that has taunted me, in part as an alternative to Getting Yet Another Keyboard When I Have So Many Keyboards And There Is A Desktop Option That Costs Much Less. But utility builds on itself and becomes a monster where I say "But if I get this, then I can do this too, and then maybe I could do this, and maybe" and then one little thing gets 3x the cost added in accessories to Build the System. It will almost definitely happen.

The special guest this week is the Ensoniq ESQ-1, making the pads and ethereal bell-like sounds, which were kind of an accident - I had a pattern sequenced from ages ago that started playing that part when I started my sequencing, but it worked. It has a certain chill to it that is interesting. There seems to have been a auto-panning set in the sound that I was not expecting. So it is what it is.

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Another submission! More synth-wave, especially so in this one with the 4 on the floor halfway through. While doing these weekly beats, I feel like I sometimes lose the plot of a song halfway through, like having so many ideas of where to take it when an idea would maybe be better as two separate songs.

This was originally the case but I ended up editing it enough to be coherent. If I were to change anything, maybe the fact there isn't many chord changes and it's more the instrumentation that changes.

Thank you Hotline Miami and Katana ZERO for providing infinite inspiration

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