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Something melancholy.

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MT32

Electric guitar and bass

Old crusty drum samples

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### Lore

You approach the cave entrance. Hanging sideways by just one of its two original nails, you see a sign that reads "scary monsters, beware". Is this a sign for people like you? Or for the monsters? Come to think of it now, is there really any difference? The smallest of smiles creeps up from the corner of your mouth as you grab the hilt of your sword and head into the darkness.

### Production details

Well howdy, music peeps!!! I'm submitting this song for both Weekly Beats 2026 Week 18 as well as for the M8 Community Jam #52. The theme of the M8CJ for this round was "Crunchy", so I figured sticking to exclusively WAVSYNTH instruments made a lot of sense. I typically already gravitate to them naturally, but this time I stopped myself from adding fancy LFOs and other effects like chorus and reverb. I couldn't help myself and still used some fancy stuff, like envelopes set to MULT for the base instrument on track 3 to give it that saw-like gritty crunchiness that I love so much.

I started working on this tune earlier in the week. I was just noodling around on the keyboard for a little bit and found a cool pattern where my left hand always struck the same base key and the right hand did a little upwards arpeggio up, which I then translated into tracks 1 and 2. The rest was built up around that basic 8 bar loop, trying to keep all elements audible and interesting. The M8 is showing me that I have about 1h45m of work on this bad boy.

Yet again, I used the basic structure of "bring in one or two elements at a time, go to a quiet section, then bring everything back in for a grand finale" and I'm starting to feel I don't know how to do anything else. I feel like I really need to work on breaking this mold I've built, because it's way too easy to get sonically stuck here. I feel like I've been in this same "spot" for multiple weeks now, not only using the same general song structure, but also how the base note follow each other. Typically, it's something like (root note)x2 -> (root note - 2)x2 -> (root note)x2 -> (root note + 1) -> (root note - 1 ending in fancy lead up to root note). Anyways, I want to find ways of breaking out of this pattern that my brain seems to absolutely love.

Anyways, looking forward to listening to y'all's cool stuff!!!

Peace!!!

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... the turbulence of meandering water running down the window on a rainy May night. While Beltane is primarily known as a festival of fire, the element of water plays an equally central role in purification, beauty, and fertility. Protomagia (First of May) is a hommage to the various traditions and rituals associated with the Celtic May festival (Beltane) on May 1st - celebrating the return of the godess Persephone from the underworld (Hades), the victory of the summer over the winter and the rebirth of nature.

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Some fun with putting distortion on delay and reverb sends. Two of the pads are also feeding a gated noise generator.

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and yet even more speedtrash...

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The zBrotherKnights are in mingle mode, gaining xp through mini-games stupid enough to get them hooked. And also good. Maybe tomorrow is a day for foes. Not today. Taking advantage of the natural highs of the forest the keep on until.. PfFFrzzZZtZtZZ!!!

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- PO 14 with one zbro

- Volca Sample and PO 16 with the other zbro.

- online BandLab for collab work.

- fun and commitment (!)

cheers!

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Malformed at either end, it was destined for strangeness.

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A divination

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phoning it in to maintain the streak (again)

sampled my less than dulcet falsetto into my Yamaha vss30.  then I destroyed it with my chase bliss mood, gen loss and reverb.  lots of reverb.

yeah, it's an improv drone piece.

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