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Speedtrash week. Still playing catch up on commenting on other folks' song

During the paperwork-themed M8 Community Jam, I created a bunch of samples of stationery. Those samples make up every sound on this song except for the bass, which is 4-op FM. Sounds you will hear include: a rubber stamp, a hole puncher, a failing hard drive (single cycle oscillator), the tearing of a strip of paper (single cycle oscillator), a paper folder, a spiral-ring notebook, a three-ring binder, and some shuffled papers.

Very much a "throw things at the wall to see what sticks" song, but hopefully fun? Gotta go for a grocery run now

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No time or energy at all this week. This one happened in around two hours on Sunday night. Just threw some random chaos at the wall and played the mixer to give it some semblance of structure. Still... hope you enjoy! Glad I have the cover art & video process down pretty tight at this point.

Patch notes:

- Drums were my usual mix of Bohm, WMD and Shakmat modules

- Subharmonicon -> Neptune as arp voice 1

- EnOsc -> SSG -> Imagenes -> QPAS as arp voice 2

- Medusa -> VCFQ -> Minsk with the Side signal going through Belgrad dual BP as the chordy stabs

Video:

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jankyjams/this-one-is-called

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Hi!

What a tearful week! But I’m okay!

I think it’s been one of the hardest weeks of my life (looking back over the last nine years).

As for the Weekly Beat, I’ve started listening to British dubstep again—modern stuff, I mean—and I felt like giving it a try, sort of.

So here’s a track to tell the world I’m ready. The title refers to a poem I hid in the apartment I just moved out of and a nest I found there.

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Written entirely on Dirtywave M8 Tracker

Light mastering in Audacity (normalizing/limiting/compressing).

A continuation of last week's track's outro, which was the previous week's outro, which was the previous week's outro, which...

Fiddled an hour to get a loop, splayed each part every 4 patterns to get an arrangement, duplicated some, changed some, nothing much to it.

Thanks for listening anyway!

M8 bundle: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_dmIz8M2vKgSlSy74g_WVPVPY0je2UUy/view?usp=sharing

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Only 2.5 hours into this one but I like how it's shaping up. I want to add a quieter B-section with some new instruments and maybe lean into the orchestral angle more. As it is I'm still excited to keep working on it; I just don't have the time. The mix is wonky, but hopefully that's only a "for now" statement.

I approached this one as a companion to Hull Breach, since I like how that one turned out overall, and I was wondering if I could keep going in that vein. This track needs more expressive stuff going on to make it more soundtrack-y, but for less than 3 hours' work, so far so good.

We're back on the M8 this week, reusing some of my original synth patches and adding some Samples from Mars percussion. The orchestral part is something I noodled out in GarageBand just to have some of that flavour. I'd love to eventually release an all-space-themed EP or album.

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I don't know, I feel pretty demotivated about everything to be honest.

Would've been nice to rerecord guitar on top of a jam, or to write lyrics in time, or to put at least a bit more effort into it ahead of time.

I like the progression we ended up with, however. Hope I'll be able to dig myself out eventually

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Started this a while back. Catchy acapella from Defected. Built a minimal track around it on the M8. Nearly missed my first week until I dug this out... So still in the game for no missed weeks... Just 😅

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M8 + Roland S1

The s1 is such a badass little synth, if you don't own ANY synths, get yourself an s1.

I used the m8 to sequence and resample, over and over and over again. Then I added layers of those samples pitched/chopped, sprinkled a little break beat and boom it became a tasty tune. 

I also ended up with a lot of song chunks that will likely make it into next weeks track. Love it when that happens.

Take care everyone, thanks for making great tracks!

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